Additional-sheet Associating Patents (Class 270/17)
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Patent number: 11565906Abstract: The present invention is to provide a sheet conveying apparatus capable of reliably detecting a full-load state of a storage section for storing sheets discharged from a sheet conveyance path when an abnormality such as multi feed is detected, a sheet feed apparatus is provided with a multi feed sheet storage section disposed below a common conveyance path to store multi-fed sheets with multi feed detected, and a flap member rotating between a first rotation position for supporting a sheet in the common conveyance path to be able to convey to the downstream side in a conveyance direction, and a second rotation position for guiding to the multi feed sheet storage section, and determines that the multi feed sheet storage section is in a full-load state in detecting that the flap member does not return to the first rotation position.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: CANON FINETECH NISCA INC.Inventor: Motoi Ariga
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Patent number: 8833750Abstract: A device and a method for folding a print substrate web is disclosed. The device has devices for quarter folding and for cross-cutting the print substrate web for severing individual products as well as devices for cross folding. As viewed in the transport direction of the products, an arrangement for dividing the product stream is provided after a second quarter folding device, the arrangement conveying the successive products to a first and a second conveyor belt in an alternating manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: manroland web systems GmbHInventors: Peter Knauer, Hubert Schalk
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Patent number: 8616671Abstract: A multi-channel image is printed on a web receiver by a plurality of printing modules. The receiver is entrained around a take-up roll on a movable transport. During printing, the transport moves past the printing modules while the take-up roll holds the receiver in position with respect to the transport, and then the transport comes to a stop and the take-up roll draws the receiver across the transport. A cutter downstream of the take-up roll cuts off the printed portion of the web receiver to provide a printed sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joel Sherwood Lawther, David James Cornell
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Patent number: 8308152Abstract: A method and system of making a book formed of a plurality of booklets having a plurality of sheets including receiving a paper value from an input device which corresponds to a sheet thickness. A maximum number of sheets per booklet based on the paper value is determined. The minimum number of sheets which will contain all pages of the book pages and the least number of booklets required responsive to the maximum number of sheets required are determined. The number of sheets in each booklet is determined and is stored. The sheets are distributed among the number of booklets. The creep for each sheet based on the paper value is determined. An image transfer device is controlled responsive to the determination of the creep.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: John Powers, Somi Ruwan Budhagoda Arachchige
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Patent number: 8047521Abstract: A method of making magazine formats in the form of signatures that include a flat 3-D piece that is die-cut from a web on a web press, which produces a plurality of such identical signatures as part of a high speed operation. The flat 3-D piece is located at the upper edge of one sheet and is freed from the remainder of the page on which it is die-cut when the lateral edges of the folded signature are trimmed.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Inventor: John K. Volkert
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Patent number: 8020845Abstract: A single level web conversion apparatus is provided. The single level web conversion apparatus includes a web guiding apparatus guiding a web, a former longitudinally folding the web downstream of the web guiding apparatus and a cutting apparatus cutting the folded web into a first signature and a second signature. The web guiding apparatus includes rolls having axes of rotation aligned with a vertical direction that guide the web in a vertical on-edge orientation. The former receives the web in a vertical on-edge orientation and folding the web such that the folded web has a horizontal orientation and travels in a horizontal plane. The first and second signature each travel in the horizontal plane. A method of producing and delivering printed products is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2009Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventor: Douglas Joseph Dawley
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Patent number: 7891647Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a winding unit configured to wind a continuous sheet, a binding unit configured to bind the continuous sheet that is wound and stacked by the winding unit, and a first cutting unit configured to cut the continuous sheet that is bound by the binding unit in a state that the continuous sheet is wound by the winding unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2008Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshimitsu Nakane, Yuji Yamanaka, Wataru Kawata, Seiichiro Adachi
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Patent number: 7878494Abstract: A method of making magazine formats in the form of signatures that include a flat 3-D piece that is die-cut from a web on a web press, which produces a plurality of such identical signatures as part of a high speed operation. The flat 3-D piece is located at the upper edge of one sheet and is freed from the remainder of the page on which it is die-cut when the lateral edges of the folded signature are trimmed.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Inventor: John K. Volkert
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Patent number: 7862016Abstract: A receiving member for receiving the leading end of sheet on a sheet placing table is disposed movably along the upper surface of the sheet placing table within a specified range including a first position located at the other end of the sheet placing table and distanced from a carry-in opening at least by the length of the sheet, and an operation control unit causes the receiving member to move to a second position where the trailing end of the sheet received by the receiving member slips under the carry-in opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2006Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Kyocera Mita CorporationInventors: Mitsutoshi Takemoto, Sachio Izumichi
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Patent number: 7775509Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a digitally printed product that includes at least one section of sequentially printed sheets folded approximately in the center. The sequentially printed sheets are conveyed one after another on a conveying device and folded inside a folding apparatus to form a first fold. The folded sheets are gathered in a gathering station to form a section which is fed to a work station where the section is folded approximately in the center to form a second fold.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2006Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Mueller Martini Holdings AGInventors: Daniel Langenegger, Heinz Boss
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Patent number: 7654512Abstract: Image forming system including at least one image forming apparatus for forming images on sheets on the basis of image data. At least one temporary containing apparatus is disposed downstream of the image forming apparatus for temporarily containing therein the sheets on which the images have been formed. A separating and conveying apparatus separates and conveys the sheets contained in the temporary containing apparatus one by one. A sheet post-processing apparatus conveys the sheets conveyed by the separating and conveying apparatus and the sheets on which the images have been formed by the image forming apparatus and which bypass the temporary containing apparatus in an arbitrary order, in order to effect a set post-process on the conveyed sheets.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2005Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Wataru Kawata, Akihiro Sato
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Patent number: 7523925Abstract: A device is used for at least one of treating and conveying a strip of material in one of a treating and processing machine. The device includes at least one strip-treating tool which is embodied in the form of a folding cone, and one strip-treating tool which is provided as a knife. The knife and the folding cone are both transversely displaceable in the direction of travel of the strip of material by the operation of a regulating element.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2003Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Burkard Otto Herbert, Stefan Wander
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Patent number: 6908078Abstract: A sheet processing device has a sheet conveying section for conveying sheets to a sheet processing section. The sheet conveying section has a sheet standby unit including a stacking device for stacking a predetermined number of sheets in a linear state, and a bundle conveying device for conveying the sheet bundle stacked in a linear state, whereby the predetermined number of sheets are conveyed to the sheet processing section after having been stacked in a linear state.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2003Date of Patent: June 21, 2005Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshimasa Suzuki, Wataru Kawata
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Patent number: 6893016Abstract: A combined insert feeder and printer is employed such that blank inserts are stored in its hopper. The blank inserts are then fed by a transporter to a printer. The printer prints onto the insert to create a printed insert which is transported into a moving pocket.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2002Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Graphic Management Associates, Inc.Inventors: Darrell E. Pav, Randy R. Seidel, Michael White
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Publication number: 20030214091Abstract: A sheet processing device has a sheet conveying section for conveying sheets to a sheet processing section. The sheet conveying section has a sheet standby unit including a stacking device for stacking a predetermined number of sheets in a linear state, and a bundle conveying device for conveying the sheet bundle stacked in a linear state, whereby the predetermined number of sheets are conveyed to the sheet processing section after having been stacked in a linear state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2003Publication date: November 20, 2003Applicant: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshimasa Suzuki, Wataru Kawata
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Patent number: 5730056Abstract: Rotary printing press having a product delivery unit including a conveyor system revolving in a conveyor path, and a further-processing unit disposed downline therefrom and having a product-guiding cylinder for conveying incoming products through the further-processing unit, includes folding modules disposed downline from the delivery unit for performing folding operations on the conveyed products during the conveyance thereof, at least one of the folding modules being integrated with the conveyor system.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1996Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventor: Karlheinz Schmitt
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Patent number: 5493367Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling copy sets of a first or principal copy job including a plural number of identical copies of an original document of one or more pages with a supplemental copy job including a like plural number of copy sheets. The first copy job is reproduced in either a first mode wherein the copies are made of the original document last page first to first page last copy order or a second mode wherein copies are made of the original document first page first to last page last copy order. Copy sheets of each copied page of the original document are sorted into a like number of collating bins wherein the copy sheets are stored in collated order.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1994Date of Patent: February 20, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Frederick E. Altrieth, III, Alfred Gonnella
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Patent number: 5421567Abstract: Two or more web-fed rotary printing press sections of a web-fed rotary printing press with usual printing units, reel stands, web-leads produce synchronously signatures with longitudinal and cross fold which are supplied to an inserting device of the web-fed rotary printing press for being gathered there to a printed product of many pages and then delivered to a transporting system.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1994Date of Patent: June 6, 1995Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Schunemann