Abstract: This invention pertains to pins carried by and in a retainer head member with the pins actuated when and as the head member and an associated contact member reaches the outermost portion of a paperboard member whereat the pins are caused to move obliquely to this surface and penetrate the paperboard sufficiently to engage and retain the paperboard. These pin ends by latch members are maintained in the desired penetrating position during transfer. This latch is actuated to release the projected pins when transfer is completed. The paperboard is conventionally of corrugated paperboard construction and the extent of pin end protrusion is carefully controlled so that the pin ends in the penetrating position do not protrude and penetrate the rear panel or wall of the paperboard so that only one penetrated paperboard member is transferred. The embodiments shown are adapted for use with paperboard which is not supple or flexible as is cloth or leather.

Abstract: A rotating inverter mechanism includes a drive shaft and dual primary and secondary rollers mounted within a set of collars such that the drive shaft is adapted to provide rotation to the primary rollers in a clockwise direction while the secondary rollers which are initially in an out of sheet contact position are driven by the primary rollers in a counterclockwise direction. A sheet passing through the inverter in a clockwise direction actuates a first sensor which in turn actuates a solenoid linked to one of the collars. The solenoid pulls the collar through a predetermined angle and thereby places the corresponding secondary roller in contact with the sheet. Since the secondary roller is rotating in a direction opposite to the incoming sheet direction and opposite to the other primary roller, the sheet will be rotated. A chute is positioned to deflect the sheet downward as it is rotated so that the rotation can be accomplished in a distance no wider than the width of the sheet.

Abstract: For removing printed products out of their composite product formation or arrangement the grippers of a conveyor device which grippingly retain such printed products are opened by means of a release device. Viewed in the product conveying direction, the printed products are bent in a substantially saddle-shaped fashion forwardly of the release device, so that these folded or bent printed products are stiffened and, following the release thereof, they can drop downwardly along a substantially straight fall path into a stacking chute. For appropriately kinking or bending the printed products there is provided a saddle-shaped support member at which come to bear the printed products at the region of their trailing edges, such printed products being grippingly retained at their leading edges by the grippers approximately at the central region thereof.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus including an air flow sheet separation mechanism for feeding individual sheets of paper from a stack of sheets slanted slightly from the vertical. A flow of air established through a plurality of resiliently surfaced feed wheels draws individual sheets seriatim from the nearly vertical stack of sheets into driving contact with feed rollers located adjacent the upper edge of the stack of sheets and mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis. Each sheet is then drawn upwardly by frictional contact with the feed rollers into the nip of a pair of opposed feed rolls which are mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis parallel to the feed wheel axis. The sheet is then delivered by conveyors to a sorting mechanism or other sheet fed device.

Abstract: A paddle wheel feeder includes a paddle wheel having a foam hub with at least three blades molded therein. The paddle wheel is mounted to be rotatably driven by a shaft having a Geneva mechanism attached thereto which causes the paddle wheel to stop just before one of the blades contacts the top sheet in a stack and then accelerate to drive the sheet forward. For normal force optimization, internal springs are located inside each paddle of the wheel is one embodiment and a thick bladed foam paddle wheel is utilized in another embodiment with each blade having a coating of high friction material.

Abstract: The device has a feed roller with a high friction rubber segment which picks notes one at a time for each roller revolution or cycle. A counter-rotating separator roller normally prevents picking doubles. A cooperative doubles detector detects doubles when picked and returns the doubles to the note supply stack. The picker mechanism has a biasing lever which holds the note stack out of contact with the feed roller against stack pressure until the friction segment is in note separating and picking position.

Abstract: The present invention features a sub or secondary weather strip which also functions as a rain gutter. The upper portion which extends along roof side rail is open to receive rain water while that portion which extends down along the front pillar is hollow and adapted to essentially fill the space defined between the front pillar and the sash of the door.

Abstract: A sheet feeding and separating apparatus includes a multiple piece entrance guide located between a stack from which sheets are to be fed and a retard nip. The guide includes a polycarbonate base member and a high friction urethane retard member. The urethane is ground on the leading edge to an exact angle to promote shingling of sheets and the breaking up of slugs prior to entering the retard nip.

Abstract: Deflector device with clamping device for a safety belt in motor vehicles in which the deflector is mounted on slider movable back and forth. The clamping device has a stationary jaw and a space swivelable jaw movable toward the stationary jaw to clamp the belt passing up between the jaws and then over the deflector surface. A spring normally urges the swivelable jaw away from the stationary jaw. An end of slider is disposed adjacent the swivelable jaw such that a belt pull sufficient to overcome the spring force will move the deflector device and attached slide causing the swivelable clamping jaw to swivel and move toward the stationary jaw clamping the belt therebetween.

Abstract: A method of feeding material to be scanned to, and ejecting such material from, a scanning system is provided. The scanning system receives, ejects and transports carrying material to be scanned. Two such transports are provided, to permit material to be scanned on one transport while the material on the other transport is changed and/or modified. The transports are fed into the scanning system from a bed and are received from the system on rails. The rails are above the bed. The bed and rails are in one vertical position when transports are fed from the bed into the scanning system and at another vertical position when a transport is ejected from the scanning system onto the rails. A transport may be dropped from the rails to the bed.

Abstract: A scanning system receives and ejects material to be scanned in a given plane. There are first and second transports, each for holding material to be scanned. A table has a bed capable of holding one of the transports. Rails above the bed hold the other transport. These rails may be operated to drop any transport that is on the rails onto the bed. The bed and rails may be raised and lowered so that any transport, on the bed, is in the given plane when a transport is to be fed into the scanning system, and so that any transport ejected from the scanning system will be received on the rails. With this apparatus the two transports may be scanned alternately, with the material on one being changed while the other is being scanned. The transports are moved by rollers and pushing devices.

Abstract: An automatic feeding apparatus is disclosed which includes an arm having at one end a hand for holding a workpiece and which is pivotally mounted at the other end in a vertically movable manner, a swinging member that is swung by a swinging mechanism driven by a single motor and which is swung to move the other end of the arm vertically, and a guide member that is shifted along a guide groove in conjunction with the swinging motion of the swinging member to control the movement of the one end of the arm holding the workpiece. The guide groove consists of a curved area that controls a horizontal movement of the one end of the arm and straight areas that control the vertical movements of the one end of the arm at each extremity of the horizontal movement. The swinging action of the swinging member causes the hand to move horizontally between the feed position and working position of the workpiece and to move vertically by a predetermined distance at each position.

Abstract: An arrangement for transporting a sheet-like data carrier with reversing its direction of movement and at the same time maintaining its original orientation has first and second transporting paths and a reversing path, a turnable lever located between the first and second transporting paths and having a length and a mounting point selected so that one of the supporting rollers arranged on the lever can be brought to abutment against one transporting roller of the second transporting path and simultaneously the other supporting roller of the lever comes to a position below the first transporting path, a sensing element arranged at the reversing path and operative for sensing a front edge of the data carrier, and a controlling element operative to control the movement of transporting rollers of the reversing path and the turnable lever in response to the sensing by the sensing means, so that reversing of transporting direction of the transporting rollers of the reversing path and turning of the turnable lever t

Abstract: Disclosed is a sheet handling device comprising an unprocessed sheet material storage box, a processed sheet material storage box located therebelow, and a suction device which may be telescopically moved between the sheet material storage boxes and a work table onto and from which the sheet material is to be fed and taken out by means of suction cups provided on the lower surface of the suction device. To keep the state of the sheet material in transit under control, a plurality of nozzles are provided along the suction cups for blowing air along the sheet material. Since the two sheet material storage boxes are arranged one over the other and there is no rail extending over the work table, very little floor space is taken up and the work performed on the work table is not hindered by the sheet handling device.

Abstract: A grasping device for workpieces arranged in a stack which includes a support bracket pivotably attached to a spindle that is mounted for vertical movement in a block that is adapted to engage the upper workpiece in the stack. The end of the support bracket opposite its point of attachment to the spindle has a roller rotatably mounted thereon which has a covering of material possessing a high coefficient of friction. A ratchet device operatively interconnects the roller with the support bracket and serves to permit the roller to rotate only in one direction. When the spindle is lowered, the roller rolls on the upper workpiece away from the block and when the spindle is raised the roller unable to rotate is pulled across the upper workpiece toward the block and forms a bunch or fold in the upper workpiece intermediate the block and roller which facilitates manual removal of the workpiece upon lifting the device clear of the stack.

Abstract: A variable-width friction-feed paper handling apparatus includes a rotatable drive shaft and a stabilizing shaft spaced therefrom and parallel thereto. Two carriage assemblies bridge the drive shaft and stabilizing shaft and are supported thereby and are adapted for sliding movement longitudinally therealong for accommodating varying widths of paper therebetween. Each carriage assembly includes a drive roller coaxial with the drive shaft for rotation thereby and a pivoting gate which rotatably carries a pressure roller, the gate being movable between a loading position accommodating placement of paper between the carriage assemblies and a feeding position wherein the pressure roller is in parallel cooperation with the drive roller frictionally to feed paper therebetween. Over-center springs hold the gate in its two positions and leaf springs resiliently mount the pressure roller. Each carriage assembly carries paper guide device.

Abstract: A position control system in a copying apparatus keeps an original positioned properly during multiple passes of the original through a transport path, for making multiple copies, by detecting the position of an edge of the original in the first pass, when the original is fed into the apparatus; setting a reference condition corresponding to the then existent side edge position; and in each subsequent pass of the original detecting its position and in the event of a deviation of the detected position from the position represented by the reference condition activating a position correcting device to displace the original to the latter position.

Abstract: A rear window structure of an automotive vehicle has a rear spoiler fin formed integrally with a weatherstrip for mounting a rear windshield to the vehicle body. The rear spoiler fin with the weatherstrip is conveniently equipped to the rear window and does not require any additional fastening structure. Thus, the rear window structure will improve traction of the vehicle without causing any difficulty in assembling.

Abstract: A retard feeder and separator apparatus adapted to sense the threat of a misfeed or multifeed and adjust the stack normal force of a feed belt against a stack of sheets accordingly. The apparatus includes a movable frame on which is mounted a sheet separating feed belt, a retard roll that forms a retard nip with the separating feed belt, and a stack force relief sensor. The sensor detects the lead edge of a sheet fed from a stack as it reaches the retard nip and causes a solenoid connected to the frame to trigger and move the frame slightly. The frame movement relieves the stack normal force of the feed belt against the stack from a high value to a low value while the sheet continues to be fed from the stack by the force in the retard nip and the lessened stack normal force. Alternatively, if the sensor does not sense a sheet within a predetermined period of time, the stack normal force will be increased to the original high value.

Abstract: A canvas tarpaulin having dimensions sufficient to cover the top of an open truck box has one edge affixed to one longitudinal edge of the truck box top. The opposite edge of the tarpaulin is affixed to a tube which extends for the length of the box. The rear of the tube contains an extension attached to a universal joint. A crank handle is also attached to the joint so that the tube can be rolled transversely across the top to roll up the tarpaulin thereon. A downward cantilevered lip is attached to the opposite longitudinal edge of the box top. When the tarp is unrolled, the tube rolls over a free edge of the lip and can be wound in the opposite direction rolling up a small portion of the tarpaulin under the free edge. The crank handle is then moved against the rear of the truck body thus locking the universal joint thereby holding the tarp tightly upon the box top. The crank handle is then secured against the rear of the box.