Abstract: At least one paper web is drawn into a web-fed rotary printing press. A draw-in device is provided with permanently fixed pointed bars or spikes. These can be moved or oriented so that they penetrate the paper web only during drawing in of the web into the printing press.

Abstract: A method and work material for making embossed blanks for sample packages and other free-standing three dimensional display items from a sheet-type work material includes a printer for printing a graphic image on the work material, and a processing mechanism for performing work operations on the work material. The sheet-type work material has a top layer of sheet material, an intermediate layer of sheet material, and a carrier layer of sheet material, with a first layer of adhesive material bonding the top and intermediate layers of sheet material together, and a second layer of adhesive material bonding the intermediate and carrier layers of sheet material together. Any, all, or a combination of the top, intermediate, or carrier layers of sheet material may have shape retaining deformability characteristics to aid in holding an embossed design in the work material.

Abstract: There is provided buffer circuitry that can include a data output circuit for connecting a first power supply to its output terminal when a data applied thereto is at a HIGH level, or connecting a ground to the output terminal when the data is at a LOW level, a comparator for comparing the frequency of a clock signal applied thereto with a reference frequency, and a driving capability changing circuit for, only if the comparator outputs a comparison result indicating that the frequency of the clock signal is greater than the reference frequency, connecting a second power supply to the output terminal when the data is at a HIGH level, or connecting a ground to the output terminal when the data is at a LOW level.

Abstract: A telecine scanner, with which the horizontal picture steadiness errors are reduced by the film guidance in the area of the film gate 5, includes a first guiding element 11 supporting one of the longitudinal edges of the film 4 at at least two points in the film gate 5 in the area of the radiation path 6. In addition, two guiding elements 12 are provided, which are spaced substantially centrically apart from the first guiding element 11 and engage the other longitudinal edge of the film 4.

Abstract: In a system for processing a plastic web plural work stations are disposed on an elongated beam. The web is provided with positioning holes cooperating with complementary pins in at least one work station. As the distance spacing allocated holes may vary due to shrinking, the beam may be bent about a transverse axis into a ring sector shape thereby adapting the pin distances to the actual hole distances.

Abstract: Apparatus for transporting a material web having lateral depressions (25, 27) arranged at regular distances from one another. For the transport of a material web (10, 35) of this type in the correct position, the web bears on a conveying drum (28) which has elevations (29, 30) for positive penetration into the depressions (25, 27). In a material web (10, 35) consisting of partially prepunched blanks (11), the conveying drum (28) serves, in cooperation with an auxilary drum (51), for forming bending points (49, 50), the material web (10, 35) being capable of being grasped by suction bores (52, 53), offset relative to one another in the circumferential direction, of the conveying drum (28), on the one hand, and of the auxiliary drum (51), on the other hand.

Abstract: An improved film gate for a continuous motion or real-time motion picture telecine. A housing supports and transports a film in continuous motion past a frame aperture. A precision milled entry guide roller receives the film from a feed spool, edge-stabilizes the film, and directs the film to a precision milled first entry sprocket. The entry sprocket is positioned prior to the frame aperture, pin registers the film, and directs the film across the frame aperture. A precision milled exit sprocket positioned subsequent to the frame aperture receives the film after it passes across the frame aperture and pin registers the film. A precision milled exit guide roller receives the film from the exit sprocket, edge stabilizes the film, and guides the film to a drive capstan and take up reel. The precision sprockets and rollers serve as film stabilizing means. A floating guide means positioned at the frame aperture provides additional edge stabilization of the film as it is guided past the frame aperture.

Abstract: A film transport device for a film with two uniformly distributed rows of holes. Transport is accomplished with a film transport sprocket with a series of teeth disposed in spaced array along a cylindrical tooth circle, which teeth engage the holes in the film and whose tooth circle is driven by a drive motor. A pressure skid brings the holes in the film into engagement with the teeth of the film transport sprocket. Each sprocket tooth has a root portion that merges with the cylindrical tooth circle structure. A base portion adjacent the root portion directly abuts the root portion and has a film support surface at a height relative to the surface of that tooth circle structure that corresponds to the thickness of the film.

Abstract: A sheet conveyor for conveying a sheet by engaging an engaging member with openings formed in a sheet and conveying the sheet by displacement of the engaging member. The conveyor includes a holding device for holding the engaging member so as to be movable between an operative position and a retracted position retracted from the operative position, a device deformable to move the engaging member provided on the holding device between the operative position and the retracted position, and a drive device for driving the holding device to displace the engaging member.

Abstract: The drive assembly for a form feeding tractor has a flexible endless belt comprising an endless band member of synthetic resin with a generrally planar outer surface and metallic drive pins spaced about its circumference. The band member has a series of spaced apart drive sections each with a plurality of drive teeth extending transversely thereof on its inner surface, and the metallic drive pins are disposed in the spaces between the drive sections. The pins have a base section which extends through the band member with a circumferential groove intermediate its length and into which the band member extends, and the band member has platform portions on its inner surface which extend about the base portions on the pins.

Abstract: A device for the feeding or advancement of an edgeperforated paper web (1) in a dot-matrix printer or the like includes a pair of drive belts (3) transversely spaced apart proximate opposite transverse edges of the web, each belt carrying on its upper surface (6) a series of pins (7) for releasable engagement with the edge-disposed web perforations (11). To provide an increase in friction between the paper web (1) and the drive belts (3) during transport of the web, and thereby assure enhanced accuracy and precision in operatively advancing the web, a plurality of upstanding or outwardly-protruding projections (17, 17a, 17b, 17c) are defined on the upper belt surface (6). These projections are located at least in the flat sections (16) of the belt between adjacently or successively-disposed ones of the pins (7) and, in another form of the invention, additionally at and coincident with the locations of the pins (7) which interrupt the transversely-oriented projections.

Abstract: A web for being fed by a pair of sprockets, each sprocket provided with a plurality of standard feed pins and one or more pairs of additional pins with one additional pin of each pair of additional pins located on either side of one or more of the standard feed pins, the web having a pair of longitudinally extending side edge portions with each side edge portion provided with a plurality of standard feed holes for receiving the standard feed pins of one of the sprockets and each longitudinally extending side edge portion also provided with a plurality of pairs of additional holes equal in number to the plurality of standard feed holes, one additional hole of one pair of additional holes provided on either side of each of the standard feed holes to permit the pairs of additional holes to receive the one or more pairs of additional pins regardless of the circumferential location of the one or more pairs of additional pins on the sprockets.

Abstract: An apparatus for feeding a material web includes a four-winged driving reel for intermittently feeding the material web in the forward direction. The four wings include two longer wings and two shorter wings. The distance between the free ends of adjacent wings is substantially equal to the distance between crease lines on the material web.

Abstract: A feed mechanism for transporting paper has an endless band with transport pins for insertion into the perforations in circular perforations in the paper. The feed pins are part of drive elements attached through perforations in an endless flexible band to gear teeth which are engaged by grooves in a drive pulley. The transport pins have a cap portion on top of a base portion. The cap portion is tapered in the shape of a circular involute and extends from the top of the truncated circular conical base portion. The perforations in the band have the shape of an ellipse with the major axis thereof aligned in the direction of movement of the band. The band can be either thin flexible steel or polymer and the pin portion and gear portion of the drive elements can be integral and molded from an elastomer material through the elliptical perforations in the band.

Abstract: A web having its longitudinally extending side edge portions provided with a plurality of standard feed holes uniformly spaced from each other for receiving standard feed pins provided on feed sprockets and which side edge portions are also provided with a plurality of auxiliary holes larger than the standard feed holes and wherein one auxiliary hole is located intermediate each pair of adjacent feed holes to permit the auxiliary holes to receive the additional pin during feeding of the web regardless of the circumferential location of the additional pin on the sprockets and wherein the auxiliary holes are sufficiently large to receive the additional pin provided between a pair of adjacent standard feed pins on the sprocket regardless of the circumferential location of the additional pin between the pair of adjacent standard feed pins.

Abstract: A web loading and feeding system comprises an elongated web and a web loading and feeding machine. The web is fed longitudinally of itself through the machine by a pair of drive sprockets having pins which cooperate with holes in side edge portion of the web. The hole arrangement in the web and the pin arrangement on the sprockets readily enable a machine operator to visually determine how to properly load the web onto the sprockets.

Abstract: A web feed tractor mechanism 10 is illustrated in the drawings for moving a web material in a longitudinal direction in which the web material has perforations along edge sections 16 and 18 for enabling precision movement of the web particularly for use in computer output printing. The web tractor mechanism has two parallel tractors 34 and 36 that support and drive tractor drive belts 54 and 56. The belts 54 and 56 have drive pins 70 and 72 respectively for engaging the perforations along the opposite side edge section 16 and 18. Preferably the pins 70 have a reduced cross-section that is both longitudinally and laterally symmetrical, with lateral and longitudinal dimensions that are substantially equal. The surfaces of the pins 70 engage the inside edge of the perforations and drive the web forward while preventing lateral movement of the edge section 16 to provide lateral stability.

Abstract: A web loading and feeding system comprises an elongated web and a web loading and feeding machine. The web is fed longitudinally of itself through the machine by a pair of drive sprockets having pins which cooperate with holes in side edge portion of the web. The hole arrangement in the web and the pin arrangement on the sprockets readily enable a machine operator to visually determine how to properly load the web onto the sprockets.

Abstract: A retractable pin sprocket drive for feeding paper employs free floating, radially moving, cam actuated sprocket pins in axially spaced sprocket hubs forming sprocket wheels. The pins are slidably fitted in equally angularly spaced radial slots in each sprocket hub. The sprocket wheels are each journalled in a sprocket wheel housing and the sprocket pins are moved radially only by a stationary cam track in each sprocket housing as the sprocket wheels rotate. Insertion of paper having perforated edges is facilitated by means providing for the precise axial spacing of the sprocket wheels and angular positioning of the sprocket wheels and pins in relation to the perforations or holes along the edges of the paper, together with transparent sprocket wheel housings and openings therethrough permitting viewing of the sprocket pins and the holes in the paper as they come together, to permit precise sprocket pin insertion into the holes in the paper.

Abstract: A feed device for a long and narrow strip of continuous package wherein the continuous package includes a plurality of wrapped articles connected together by a connecting part and the rigidity of the wrapped articles is different than the rigidity of the connecting part. The feed device is further characterized by a rotatable member in contact with the continuous package and a plurality of ridge parts provided in parallel to each other on the rotatable member and a tension device for applying sufficient tension to draw the connecting part over the ridged parts but insufficient to draw the wrapped articles over the ridged parts.

Abstract: In the processing of a material web provided with crease lines a reel is used frequently for registry. The reel comprises one or more axial rules, the distance between these being adapted to the distance between transverse crease lines of the material web. To ensure a correct engagement with the crease lines, the rules are relatively sharp which may cause damage to the material web. Supporting elements are provided at the end of the rules so that any material extending beyond the ends is not folded or broken. The reel moreover comprises adjustment facilities for adapting it to varying distances between the transverse crease lines of the material web.

Abstract: An apparatus for feeding an elongate surface tape or a strip of piled, plushed or tufted textile along a predetermined path has a drive roller which has a multiplicity of wire bristles planted in its surface for releasable engagement with the strip. Disposed upstream of the drive roller with respect to a predetermined traveling direction of the strip, an idler roller is also provided with a multiplicity of wire bristles for releasable engagement with the strip. The idler roller is constantly braked to hold the strip under tension as it extends over the two rollers. The wire bristles on the rollers may be either straight or bent and may either extend radially of the rollers or be inclined in prescribed directions with respect to the traveling direction of the strip.

Abstract: A more space-effective method and device for the feeding of a material web (1) is obtained by making use of a web feeding unit (2) for feeding as well as correction of register. The web feeding unit (2) is provided for this purpose with two driving devices (14,15) which during operation are used alternately for feeding and register correction respectively of the material web.

Abstract: Apparatus for sensing distance between a pair of indicia on a surface moving relative to the apparatus has an interval detector, a sensor and a scale device. The interval detector can respond to movement of the surface. The detector can produce an interval signal signifying the time elapsing during the passage of an interval on the surface of a predetermined length. The sensor is positioned alongside the surface for sensing the arrival times of the pair of indicia at the sensor. The scale device responds to the interval detector and sensor device for producing a distance signal signifying the ratio of the time difference in arrival of the pair to the interval signal.

Abstract: A pin feed mechanism (10) for transporting continuous stationery (11) having perforations (46) at both longitudinal edges thereof, in which transport pins (38) are arranged to engage with the perforations (46) and move the stationery (11) past a printing station. The pins (38) each have a tapered end to facilitate insertion of the pins (38) into the perforations (46). The tapered end of each pin (38) is shaped to have biconvex cross section, so that the curvature of its paper engaging surfaces has a constant radius of curvature along the length of the pin (38).

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a forms feed tractor mechanism having a belt with pins and driving elements extending threrethrough. The pins are adapted to engage perforated holes along the edge of a recorded medium. Driver means are provided for rotating the belt and pins and thereby rotate the engaged medium. Also, there is provided a spring tensioner for maintaining tension on the belt. The tractor includes a door which is rotatably snapped fitted into the housing of the tractor and maintained above the plane of the record medium by an extension on the lower surface thereof. The belt and pins are constructed by molding the pins around the belt side so that the belt is below the feeding surface of the tractor mechanism upon which the paper rests.

Abstract: An apparatus advances and registers web material relative to a cutting mechanism. The cutting mechanism cuts the web material transverse to the direction of material advance. The apparatus comprises a guide for guiding the web material to the cutting mechanism. A rotating cylinder is spaced from the cutting mechanism and adjacent the guide. Projecting elements are carried on the rotating cylinder and spaced circumferentially on the rotating cylinder a distance substantially equal to the distance between cut lines in the web material. The projecting elements have a surface portion which engages at least a portion of the web material adjacent the cut line and forces a portion of the web material out of the plane of the web material. The projecting elements further have a surface portion for engaging the web material and pushing the web material through the guide and to the cutting mechanism.

Abstract: A tractor 10 is disclosed for engaging and advancing a web of paper 20 by engaging a series of holes 21 along an edge of the paper 20. The tractor 10 includes a pair of parallel side plates 12, 14 and an elongated guide member 32 defining a continuous guide track 34. The guide member 32 is positioned between the side plates 12, 14 so as to define a continuous guide channel 36 in cooperation with the guide plates 12, 14. The tractor 10 also includes a drive belt assembly 22 comprising a continuous belt 62 carrying a plurality of spaced drive members 38 adapted to engage the holes 21 along the edge of the paper 20. A drive sprocket 33 located at one end of the guide channel 36 engages the drive members 38. Each guide member 38 has a hemicylindrically shaped base 64 with a notch 66 therein, thereby defining two parallel edges 67 which ride along the guide track 34. Additionally, each drive member 38 includes a drive pin 80, the profile of the surface of the drive pin 80 has the shape of a segment of an involute.

Abstract: Mesh distribution wheel for handling seine lines or like net materials. The wheel is provided with a series of pins directed radially outwards which are adapted to engage respective meshes in a series of meshes in the seine line or like materials. The pins are arranged in series with a mutual pitch corresponding to the number of divisions of the series of meshes at a definite degree of mesh inlay. At any rate when regarded in the one lateral direction, the pins have a saw-toothed course from foot portion to outer portion. Adjacent their root portions, each pin has a definite cross-section or one defined together with a neighboring pin which corresponds to the area of a mesh opening in a mesh having a definite mesh size and definite mesh form.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved strip label printer and especially to a shuttle mechanism therefor that advances the label strip in incremental fashion and, in addition, functions to actuate the printing head during the time the shuttle is returning to its original position preparatory to starting another label-advancing stroke. This shuttle mechanism is characterized by a specially-shaped slide block that includes label-engaging ears working through slots in a bedplate over which the label strip moves and also a hump-like fulcrum between these ears that engages the underside of the bedplate and functions to tilt the slide block in a direction as to elevate the ears into operative position during the forward stroke lowering them into inoperative position beneath the strip on the return stroke when shuttled back and forth by the crank and pitman drive therefor.

Abstract: A warp-knit elongate structure is provided which has a pair of spaced warp-knit elongate webs and a plurality of transverse thread portions spaced longitudinally of and interconnecting the warp-knit elongate webs. The shape of the warp-knit structure is corrected into a ladder-like structure and then is introduced into an elongate mold cavity, in which synthetic resin is molded around the portion of the warp-knit webs and the transverse thread portion which are disposed in the mold cavity. A molded product that constitutes a portion of a coupling element assembly is separated from the mold cavity, and is bent about its transverse central axis into the shape of a U. A guide drum is disposed adjacent to a molding wheel for guiding the warp-knit structure onto the molding wheel and for rectifying the shape of the warp-knit structure into a ladder-like structure.

Abstract: A pin feed apparatus is provided for a printing machine of the type including a main frame and a printing station. The pin feed apparatus is capable of feeding marginally punched record material past the printing station and includes a shaft rotatably mounted to the main frame, a platen mounted about the shaft for rotation therewith, and a pin wheel feeding device for feeding marginally punched record material disposed about the platen past the printing station. The pin wheel feeding device includes a housing coupled to the shaft adjacent an end of the platen for rotation therewith. The housing has a plurality of openings formed therein and the pin wheel feeding device further includes a cam member fixed in position relative to the housing and a plurality of pins disposed within the housing in respective alignment with the plurality of openings.

Abstract: A web drive mechanism to advance the print medium of a line or serial printer apparatus including a first stationary guide track for guiding the print medium along a defined path intermediate a medium supply position and a printing position, a platen about the printing position for receiving the medium, at least one rotor drive member having a rotor positioned adjacent to the guide track along the defined path intermediate the supply position and the platen with the outer peripheral surface of the rotor being adjacent to at least a portion of the arcuate path of the guide track to permit the print medium to travel intermediate the guide track and the rotor, the rotor drive member including a first medium gate for urging the print medium in engagement with the peripheral surface of the rotor as the medium advances intermediate the supply position and the platen, and a second medium gate for holding the print medium as it advances intermediate the platen and a medium take-up position, and a drive means engaging

Abstract: A continuous form pinwheel, having pins and a platen formed of a durable plastic material, the pins being closely fitted in their seats for the exclusion of foreign matter, having a unique cam follower and radiused at their lower end. The tips of the pins may be formed of steel, thereby eliminating wear on the two major wear areas of the pin. The plastic material contributes to a low coefficient of friction and thus long life.

Abstract: A paper transport device utilizing pins for indexing with paper having perforated margins. Pin carrying rings are eccentrically mounted at the ends of a platen and project radially through circumferentially spaced slots in platen end portions with the pins projecting beyond the platen surface for only a portion of the platen's circumference.

Abstract: A document feeder capable of handling continuous length document materials such as computer fanfold, the feeder having spaced belts with angled projections thereon adapted to engage perforations in the document material to cause the document material to ride up on the projections during a feed cycle to lift the document material from the copy platen of the machine and prevent scrubbing of the document thereon.

Abstract: A continuous form pinwheel, having pins of a durable plastic material, the pins being closely fitted in their seats for the exclusion of foreign matter, having a unique cam follower and radiused at their lower end, all of which factors lead to decreased friction and an increased life of the pins.

Abstract: A pin wheel feeding device includes a housing capable of being rotated about an axis. A plurality of substantially identical pins are disposed within the housing in respective alignment with a plurality of openings. Each pin includes a pair of opposing guide members. A cam member disposed within the housing is capable of being fixed in position relative to the housing. The cam member has a track formed thereon with which each of the pins is engaged with the pair of guide members thereof being located on either side of the track. The width of the track at first, second and third segments thereof is substantially coextensive with the locus of points traced by the closest adjacent points on the pair of guide members of each pin during movement of the pins along the first, second and third segments of the track.

Abstract: An improved pin feed platen providing a positive pulling force on a print medium in a forward and reverse direction at the forward and reverse exit locations of a platen work station and affording easy initial loading of the medium to be transported.A platen pin feed assembly includes housing means mounted for rotation with a platen and having a plurality of radially extending feed pin bores distributed about the axis of rotation, a plurality of feed pins each radially translatably received in a different one of the feed pin bores and each having an inner end, a tapered outer end and a camming slot located therebetween, and a camming member non-rotationally mounted with respect to the housing means.

Abstract: An apparatus for accurately positioning a flexible strip, having lateral perforations, with respect to an image. The apparatus includes two supports, a stud member attached to the movable support and an intercepting arm attached to the fixed support. The stud member includes a working section for engagement of the lateral perforation and alignment of the strip and a biased sleeve for position maintenance of the strip. The intercepting arm stays action of the sleeve until alignment is substantially achieved.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for removing excess coating material from chain link fabric during the manufacture of the fabric. A gang of sprocket members are arranged side-by-side on a shaft for rotation about the shaft axis. Each of the sprocket members includes a plurality of radially outwardly extending teeth having notches formed along the length thereof. Chain link fabric is passed over the gang of sprockets such that the teeth engage through respective openings formed by the wire or other members of the fabric. When the fabric is removed from the sprockets, the notches in the teeth cause intermittent hitching and release of the fabric which vibrates the fabric to remove excess molten coated material from the fabric. The gang of sprockets is arranged intermediate a coating tank and a cooling tank for the chain link fabric such that the coating material is in the molten state when it passes over the sprockets.