Cutting Patents (Class 270/5.02)
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Patent number: 10782642Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a continuous transfer medium based on a job; a controller configured to control the image forming unit, the controller having a function to cause the image forming unit to print information indicating a position mark which represents a position at least in a longitudinal direction of the continuous transfer medium on the continuous transfer medium and a function to acquire a result of reading of an image on the continuous transfer medium and determine a quality of the image on the continuous transfer medium based on the result of reading, wherein when an image is determined to be defective on the transfer medium having the position mark printed thereon, information on the position mark of the image determined to be defective is notified.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Eiichi Narimatu
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Patent number: 10737820Abstract: A method and apparatus for packing products into containers is described herein. More particularly, the method and apparatus are directed to packaging sheets of packages such as pouches or sachets that are joined together end-to-end. The apparatus may include a folding mechanism and a collection receptacle. The method and apparatus may perform one or more steps simultaneously so that the folding and packing of such sheets into containers can be carried out without the flow of incoming sheets being interrupted.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: The Procter and Gamble CompanyInventors: Runheng Zhou, Fumin Liu, Gaspar Andres, Yong Qing Ye, Dale Francis Bittner, Philippe Elie Benros, Poe Zhao
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Patent number: 9852571Abstract: This paper sheet processing device is provided with a casing (10), an intake unit (20), an identification unit (60), a second transportation unit (50) for transporting sheets of paper substantially horizontally, a plurality of collection units (80, 90) for collecting the sheets of paper transported by the second transportation unit (50), and vaned rollers (81, 91) provided correspondingly with respect to the collection units (80, 90). With regards to any two of the collection units (80, 90) that are adjacent to one another, the direction of rotation of the vaned roller (81) corresponding to one of the collection units (80, 90) and the direction of rotation of the vaned roller (91) corresponding to the other collection unit (80, 90) are opposite each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: GLORY, LTD.Inventor: Tsuyoshi Hodatsu
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Patent number: 8960659Abstract: In a first step, in a printed material web (1) moved in a feed direction, a first material web part (5) which is formed by a material web section (1a)is folded against the rest of the material web (6) that is formed from two material web portions (1b, 1c)).In the region of a connecting line (2b) extending between neighbouring material web sections (1b, 1c) the two material web parts (5,6) are connected to one another by a means of a bonding adhesive. In a subsequent step the material web (1) is folded again along a line (2b) extending between two neighbouring material web sections. (1b, 1c)All material web sections (1a, 1b, 1c) lie above one another. Subsequently, multi-page sub-products (11), the pages (12a, 12b, 12c) of which are connected to one another in the region of the spine (13) of the sub-product, are separated from the twice-folded material web (1).Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Hunkeler AGInventors: Franz Hunkeler, Kurt Graber
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Publication number: 20140265103Abstract: There is provided a medical printer including a main body that accommodates a roll sheet, a movable section capable of being opened and closed with respect to the main body, a first cutting section in the main body, the first cutting section being configured to cut the roll sheet ejected from an ejection port, the ejection port being formed by the main body and the movable section, and a second cutting section on the movable section, the second cutting section being configured to cut the roll sheet ejected from the ejection port. The second cutting section includes a cutter blade at at least one of two ends of the ejection port in a width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Masakazu Sone, Hideo Nakamura
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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: 8757609Abstract: An integrated apparatus comprises a sheet supply maintaining cut sheets of media and a printing device positioned to receive the cut sheets of media from the sheet supply. The sheet supply may comprise a plurality of sheet feeders. The printing device places markings on the cut sheets of media. Further, this apparatus includes an adhesive applicator positioned to apply adhesive to one side of the sheets to produce labels; and a roll apparatus maintaining a continuous supply roll of backing media. The roll apparatus is positioned to receive the labels from the adhesive applicator, and the backing media is positioned within the roll apparatus to contact the adhesive-applied side of the labels.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Edul N. Dalal, Barry P. Mandel
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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: 8608149Abstract: A method for making a tabloid printed product is provided. At least one first web of material is printed, the at least one first web of material is slit to define a first ribbon bundle and a second ribbon bundle. The first ribbon bundle is then folded longitudinally. The first ribbon bundle is cut into defined lengths. The second ribbon bundle is cut unfolded into the defined lengths. The first and second ribbon bundles are combined with the first ribbon bundles being folded and the second ribbon bundles being unfolded. The second ribbon bundle is longitudinally folded over the first folded bundle after the combining step to form a sectioned tabloid newspaper. Tabloid printing presses are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventor: Laura Schuler Cossette
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Patent number: 8480068Abstract: Provided is a newspaper production apparatus which can make the processing mechanisms after digital printing small-scaled and which can quite easily obtain a favorably stacked state of sheets. The newspaper production apparatus includes: a paper feeding unit which feeds a continuous paper; ink jet printing units; and a folding unit which cuts and folds the continuous paper after being printed. The folding unit is configured as a rotary folding unit provided with a folding cylinder including: a retaining mechanism which retains a sheet on an outer circumferential surface of the folding cylinder; and a folding blade mechanism which projects the retained sheet radially outward. The rotary folding unit is capable of collect run by which sheets retained by the retaining mechanism are folded at each plural number of turns of the folding cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo Kikai SeisakushoInventors: Noboru Fujio, Hiroki Sezaki, Hisashi Goto
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Patent number: 8444131Abstract: The sheet transporting device of the invention includes: a transferring device (64) adapted to transfer a sheet (30), a conveying device (66; 66A) for conveying a sheet transferred from the transferring device (64) onto the conveying device, and a controlling means (76) adapted to control the speed of the conveying device (66; 66A) and defining a transfer cycle (CT). The controlling means (76) is adapted to slow down the conveying device (66) when a sheet is conveyed by the related conveying device and to accelerate the conveying device when no sheet is present on said conveying device. The invention can be used for the cutting devices of rotary printing machines.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2009Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignees: Goss International Montataire SA, Vits Print GmbHInventors: François Poiret, Christophe Noiret, Alain Blanchard, Jean-François Robert, François Vidaillac, Nicolas Rousseau, Eric Pierda, Detlef Milkereit
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Patent number: 8353505Abstract: An apparatus for making a booklet-like product comprises a paper feeding part; a superposing part for superposing a plurality of continuous webs of paper fed to travel from the paper feeding part, whereby a layered continuous sheet of paper is prepared; a cutting part for cutting the layered continuous sheet into successive separate layered sheets of paper; a conveyance passage; and a stacking and ejection part for causing the separate layered sheets traveling along the conveyance passage to be piled every predetermined number thereof and to be ejected in the form of piles of sheets, each to form the booklet-like product. The superposing part is provided with a paste nozzle for applying paste to one of two adjacent such continuous webs of paper on its one side and a further paste nozzle for applying paste to the upper surface of the layered continuous sheet.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Miyakoshi Printing Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isamu Kaneko, Hiroshi Yasuzawa, Tetsu Ohno, Kou Kusume
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Patent number: 8302949Abstract: An apparatus for producing book blocks includes a station to dispense a sheet web that moves in longitudinal direction and can be imprinted. A printing station has two cylinders that rotate with a circumferential speed corresponding to the movement speed of the web and function to support in a contacting manner the web with their circumferential surfaces over a specified angle. Contactless printing heads are assigned to each cylinder, arranged at a distance to the circumferential surface of the associated cylinder, and positioned side by side and at least essentially transverse to the circumferential and rotational direction of the associated cylinder. The printing head faces are oriented substantially tangential to the associated cylinder and the center lines of the printing heads are oriented to project substantially radially to the circumferential surface of the associated cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: E.C.H. Will GmbHInventors: Frank Herpell, Thomas Hitscher, Rainer Koetzer
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Patent number: 8123665Abstract: Interfolding machine of sheet material for making a stack of interfolded sheets (1) equipped with cutting and transferring means, including, for example, a cutting roller 2 that operates the division of the web (10) into sheets (11) of determined length. The cut sheets (11), all having the same length, are carried along the machine up to a transfer roller (3) that transfers them to an “overlap” roller (4). In particular the cutting roller (2) has peripherally a first series of cutting blades (21a)-(21d) arranged at a first angular distance equal to 90° and a second plurality of cutting blades (21?a)-(21?c) arranged at a second angular distance equal to 120°. The length of sheets 11 is therefore achieved by the angular distance existing between the blades (21). In order to adjust the length of the sheets, or cut-off length, one selects the blades on the cutting roller (2) located at an angular distance corresponding to the desired sheet length.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: MTC-Macchine Trasformazione Carta S.R.L.Inventor: Alessandro De Matteis
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Patent number: 8104755Abstract: An adjustable delivery web conversion apparatus is provided. The adjustable delivery web conversion apparatus includes a variable cutting apparatus cutting a printed web into a first signature and a second signature, a first assembly receiving the first signature and a second assembly downstream of the first assembly receiving the second signature. Also included are a first delivery section for receiving the first signature from the first assembly, a second delivery section for receiving the second signature from the second assembly and a stack receiving conveyor for receiving the first signature and the second signature. The first delivery section is movable between a first delivery and a first non-delivery position. The second delivery section is movable between a second delivery position and a second non-delivery position. The stacking receiving conveyor is movable between a conveying position and a non-conveying position. A method of producing and delivering signatures is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2011Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: Douglas Joseph Dawley, Kent Dirksen Kasper, Daniel Matthew Perdue, Kyle Albert Sandahl
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Patent number: 8079582Abstract: A method for arranging pages of a print product on fold sheets that are subsequently combined into an imposition scheme on print sheets and for representing the production process and the product it produces is disclosed. The print sheets are initially imprinted with the pages and then cut into the fold sheets. The fold sheets are folded and cut and collated into the print products. To make the determination of the imposition schemes more flexible, the pages are initially assigned to partitions of the print products. Pages of a print product that are included in a partition are either not separated from each other, or are only separated from each other by a last cut of the print product.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: Hiflex Software GesmbHInventor: Dieter Reichhart
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Patent number: 8075211Abstract: A printing system includes a printing unit that, after printing information across plural pages, prints print result relevant information about printing of the plural pages on continuous forms paper following the plural pages; a holder unit that receives and holds the continuous forms paper printed by the printing unit in the same order in which the paper has been printed by the printing unit; a paper feeding unit that feeds the printed continuous forms paper which has been held in the holder unit in reverse order to the order in which the paper has been printed by the printing unit; a reading unit that reads the print result relevant information printed on the continuous forms paper fed by the paper feeding unit; and a post-processing unit that post-processes the continuous forms paper fed by the paper feeding unit, based on the print result relevant information read by the reading unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2007Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshikazu Yamamoto
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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: 7980541Abstract: A device for distributing successive products of a product flow, particularly the successive folding products produced by a cross cutting device by dividing a material web, to two branch flows, with a wedge arrangement which is arranged in a stationary manner in the transporting plane of the product flow and which engages between two cam rollers which flank it and which are arranged symmetrically with respect to the center working plane. The device is characterized in that the wedge arrangement engages between two guide plates which flank it and which, together with the wedge arrangement, define a path fork. The guide plates have slots through which they are alternately penetrated by cams of the respective adjacent cam roller which are associated with the slots, so that the penetrating cams and the guide plate which is not penetrated form a feed for a belt guide associated with a branch flow.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: manroland AGInventors: Helmut Schnell, Urban Spatz
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Patent number: 7950640Abstract: A rotary printing press is usable for producing a newspaper product in tabloid format. The printing press has at least one printing unit which is configured so that it prints a web with printed pages in a horizontal tabloid format. A part web, which is formed by slitting a web, is provided with a fold by a plough folder and that is arranged in the path of travel of the web. The web is folded with a first edge region, which is printed with a narrow printed image section, as a folded portion, along a first folding line by the plough folder. A fold former is arranged after the plough folder. The part web is printed with only one horizontal page in tabloid format and is also printed with a narrow printed section on an adjacent edge region. The part web and the fold former are arranged in the partial web travel direction so that the part web, which is folded along one side by the plough folder, runs into the folding former offset.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Claus August Bolza-Schünemann, Günther Oskar Eckert
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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: 7862018Abstract: In an apparatus for cutting to length sections of a spine insert (1) that is unwound from a supply reel and for bringing together the spine inserts with infed cover boards (8) in a roller applicator (5, 6) for the mechanized production of book cases, the invention proposes that the pair of cut length transport rollers (3.1) for drawing forward a defined drawing-off length (L) of the spine insert (1) and for positioning the spine insert in the cutting device (9) and the pairs of feed rollers (4.1, 4.2, 4.3) for transporting the cut-to-length spine inserts (1) into the roller applicator (5, 6) through a transport channel (2) can be driven independently of one another, wherein the pairs of feed rollers (4.1, 4.2, 4.3) can be intermittently driven in a cyclic fashion with a constant stroke (HZ) while the pair of cut length transport rollers (3.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2007Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Kolbus GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Frank Tautz
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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: 7726640Abstract: A sheet cutting apparatus, including: a cutting knife for cutting a sheet bundle including a plurality of sheets; a sub-waste box capable of temporally receiving cutting wastage of a sheet bundle which has been cut; and a main waste box capable of receiving the cutting wastage received in the sub-waste box, in which the main waste box is constructed so that a wastage disposal operation of the cutting wastage received in the main waste box can be made while the sub-waste box temporally receives the cutting wastage.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2008Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Canon Finetech, Inc.Inventors: Toshiaki Nochi, Hiroki Hommochi
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Publication number: 20100066003Abstract: A newspaper is provided. The newspaper includes printed materials. The printed materials have an off-center cross-fold which defines a longer part and a shorter part and an outermost page and an innermost page of the newspaper. The newspaper also includes an adhesive closure for securing the off-center cross-fold. The adhesive closure contacts a short part of the outermost page of the newspaper and a long part of the innermost page of the newspaper. A method for producing a newspaper is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: Goss Inhternational, Inc.Inventors: John Sheridan RICHARDS, Heiner LUXEM
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Patent number: 7631857Abstract: For the production of different types of newspapers, the material web printed in a digital printing system (2) passes through a further processing system (3), whose most important structural units are a side edge cutting station (4), a longitudinal cutting station (5), a crosscutting station (6), a first collecting station (8), a crossfolding station (10), a longitudinal folding station (11), a stitching station (12), a second collecting station (13) and a delivery station (14). The sheets separated from the material web in the crosscutting station (6) are placed on one another in the first collecting station (8) to form sections. These sections are folded transversely with respect to the direction of movement (Y) in the crossfolding station (10). In the longitudinal folding station (11), the sections are folded in their direction of movement (Y). In the stitching station (12), the sheets of a section are joined to one another along the longitudinal fold.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2006Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Hunkeler AGInventors: Franz Hunkeler, Dominik Scheidegger
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Publication number: 20090295058Abstract: A device for distributing successive products of a product flow, particularly the successive folding products produced by a cross cutting device by dividing a material web, to two branch flows, with a wedge arrangement which is arranged in a stationary manner in the transporting plane of the product flow and which engages between two cam rollers which flank it and which are arranged symmetrically with respect to the center working plane. The device is characterized in that the wedge arrangement engages between two guide plates which flank it and which, together with the wedge arrangement, define a path fork. The guide plates have slots through which they are alternately penetrated by cams of the respective adjacent cam roller which are associated with the slots, so that the penetrating cams and the guide plate which is not penetrated form a feed for a belt guide associated with a branch flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: manroland AGInventors: Helmut Schnell, Urban Spatz
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Publication number: 20090289406Abstract: A method and apparatus of moving printed material web includes two processing arrangements arranged one above the other that are optional in operation. A material web is processed either in the upper, first processing arrangement or in the lower, second processing arrangement. In the processing section belonging to the first processing arrangement, the material web is folded about a line parallel to its advancement direction. In the processing section belonging to the second processing arrangement, the material web is separated, along a line parallel to its advancement direction, into two material-web strands, which are then positioned one above the other. The two processing sections having in common a pair of braking rollers and a pair of drawing rollers and also a longitudinal-cutter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: HUNKELER AGInventors: Jakob Gerhard, Martin Gfeller
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Patent number: 7611133Abstract: An improved inserter input system and method for transversely cutting a web of printed material into separate sheets, the web including a plurality of separated side-by-side sheets. A set of sheets on the web is transported to the cutting device. One or more of the sheets in the set belongs to a new collation for which sheets have not previously been cut. The system determines whether sufficient collation parking spots exist to accommodate a new collation. If there are no available collation parking spots, and if all of the sheets in the set belong to the new collation, then transverse cutting is delayed until an open collation parking spot becomes available. If there are no available collation parking spots, and if a subset of sheets belong to a prior collation, then the web is partially cut to separate only the sheet, or sheets, that belong to the prior collation. The cutting of the other sheet(s) is delayed until the open collation parking spot becomes available.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2006Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.Inventors: John W. Sussmeier, Gregory P. Skinger
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Patent number: 7575228Abstract: A sheet combining device includes at least one former, at least one longitudinal cutter, and at least two partial web guide routes. A respective partial sheet of partial cut webs can be conveyed on each of the at least two partial web guide routes. These sheets can be combined to form a principal sheet at an exit of the sheet combining device. A stapler is provided on one of the at least two partial web guide routes and is used to staple the partial sheet which is conveyed on that guide route.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Burkard Otto Herbert, Stefan Wander
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Publication number: 20090194926Abstract: A printing system includes a first sheet media source dispensing a length of sheet media and a second sheet media source dispensing pre-cut sheets of media. A merging unit is operative to receive the length of sheet media and position pre-cut sheets of media along the same. A marking unit receives and marks images on the length of sheet media as well as the pre-cut sheets positioned thereon. A separating unit is adapted to separate the pre-cut sheets from the length of sheet media. A cutting unit is adapted to divide the length of sheet media into marked and unmarked sheets of media. A sheet receiving unit is operative to receive the marked sheets of media and the pre-cut sheets of media. A method of printing on continuous feed and pre-cut sheet media is also included.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2008Publication date: August 6, 2009Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: Barry P. Mandel
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Patent number: 7540481Abstract: A system for producing removable portions for mass-distributable packets by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the original paper. Alternatively, the multi-ply ribbon can be created by gluing together multiple ribbons, or by a combination of folding ribbons and gluing together ribbons. The multi-ply ribbon is die cut into an inside portion and an outside portion and married to the other ribbon, after which the outside portion is removed, leaving the inner portion as removable portions. Alternatively, the folded ribbon can be kiss cut after it has been married to the other ribbon. The removable portions can be UV-coated to simulate plastic and printed with information personalized for the advertiser or for the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2006Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: Lehigh Press, Inc.Inventors: John Romita, William Castillo
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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: 7469887Abstract: A system for producing removable portions for mass-distributable packets by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the original paper. Alternatively, the multi-ply ribbon can be created by gluing together multiple ribbons, or by a combination of folding ribbons and gluing together ribbons. The multi-ply ribbon is die cut into an inside portion and an outside portion and married to the other ribbon, after which the outside portion is removed, leaving the inner portion as removable portions. Alternatively, the folded ribbon can be kiss cut after it has been married to the other ribbon. The removable portions can be UV-coated to simulate plastic and printed with information personalized for the advertiser or for the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2006Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Lehigh Press, Inc.Inventors: John Romita, William Castillo
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Patent number: 7464920Abstract: A small booklet binding machine is presented for use in financial institutions to produce onsite, in an economical and expedient fashion, bound booklets for use as checkbooks, loan coupon books, or other forms of small booklets. A user places paper stock to be processed by the machine into an input tray. The user then places backer cards into the machine. The machine automatically advances the paper stock through a pair of rollers, which substantially slit the paper stock into a plurality of checks which are collated in a collector tray. When the machine has advanced and slit all of the paper stock in the input tray, the collector tray rotates to allow a stapler to secure the plurality of checks to the backer cards. The collector tray then rotates to allow a user to remove the bound checks from the machine. Operationally, the machine produces bound checkbooks, or loan coupon books, without user intervention, other than supplying the machine with backer cards.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2005Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: MICR Prime Services, Inc.Inventors: Carol Joan Romig, Elizabeth Sarah Romig, James Clair Romig
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Patent number: 7461836Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming individual insert assemblies using an inline printing press comprising forming from a web at least one first ribbon defining an insert; forming from the web at least one second ribbon defining an advertising panel; applying repositionable or stick once glue to the advertising panel; and attaching the advertising panel to the advertising insert by the repositionable or stick once glue, thereby creating an insert having a removably attached advertising panel.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2006Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Inventor: Kenneth E. Moring
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Publication number: 20080290578Abstract: This is an image recording apparatus for cutting a continuous sheet by a sheet cutting unit after recording images on the continuous sheet, which comprises: a defect detecting unit for detecting a defective image recorded on the continuous sheet; and a sheet cutting position control unit for modifying cutting conditions and enabling the sheet cutting unit to cut the continuous sheet, based on a detection result of the defect detecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: Olympus CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki EBIHARA
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Publication number: 20080258372Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshimitsu Nakane, Yuji Yamanaka, Wataru Kawata, Seiichiro Adachi
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Patent number: 7434795Abstract: A system for producing removable portions for mass-distributable packets by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the original paper. Alternatively, the multi-ply ribbon can be created by gluing together multiple ribbons, or by a combination of folding ribbons and gluing together ribbons. The multi-ply ribbon is die cut into an inside portion and an outside portion and married to the other ribbon, after which the outside portion is removed, leaving the inner portion as removable portions. Alternatively, the folded ribbon can be kiss cut after it has been married to the other ribbon. The removable portions can be UV-coated to simulate plastic and printed with information personalized for the advertiser or for the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2006Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Lehigh Press, Inc.Inventors: John Romita, William Castillo
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Publication number: 20080150208Abstract: A folder superstructure includes a former, a first nip roll located downstream of the former and having a compressible outer layer, and a second nip roll forming a nip with the first nip roll. A nip roll for nipping a plurality of superimposed printed ribbons or webs is also disclosed, the nip roll including a roll body and a compressible layer disposed about the roll body. A method for operating a printing press is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: Brian Robert Elkinson, Daniel Matthew Perdue, Lawrence Edward Zagar
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Publication number: 20080122156Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus which enable users to easily set the cutting amount of sheets according to the intended purpose of use. A folding unit folds the sheets. A cutting unit cuts off ends of the folded sheets. A setting unit sets details of processing of the sheets to be executed at least by the center-folding unit and the cutting unit. The setting unit is capable of selecting a first cutting amount-setting mode in which a cutting amount is set using a cutting width of the at least one end, and a second cutting amount-setting mode in which the cutting amount is set using a sheet size which the sheets should have after being cut. The setting unit sets the cutting amount in a selected one of the first cutting amount-setting mode and the second cutting amount-setting mode, when setting details of processing of the sheets to be executed by the cutting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takayuki Fujii, Tsuyoshi Moriyama
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Patent number: 7364148Abstract: A sheet combining device includes at least one former, at least one longitudinal cutter, and at least two partial web guide routes. A respective partial sheet of partial cut webs can be conveyed on each of the at least two partial web guide routes. These sheets can be combined to form a principal sheet at an exit of the sheet combining device. A stapler is provided on one of the at least two partial web guide routes and is used to staple the partial sheet which is conveyed on that guide route.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2003Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Burkard Otto Herbert, Stefan Wander
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Patent number: 7182007Abstract: A substrate to be cut and/or scored is pre-printed with graphics, at least first and second registration marks, and optional encoded-to-print instructions, bar-encoded data, as well as ordinary graphics. The registration marks are sensed as the substrate is automatically transported to a cutting table station that defines a cutting reference plane. Sensed detection of location of the registration marks relative to the reference plane enable the cutting plan for the substrate to be amended for precise location of the graphics on the substrate relative to the reference plane. Automated cutting according to the amended cutting plan occurs. As the registration marks were printed simultaneously with and in known relationship to the graphics, the cut line will be precise relative to the graphics. Machine readable encoded-to-print instructions optionally printed on the substrate can further amend the cutting plan.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2004Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Esko-Graphics A/SInventors: John Berge, Martin Reggestad
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Patent number: 7017899Abstract: A system for producing removable portions for mass-distributable packets by single-pass manufacturing, in which a printed web is slit into two ribbons, one of which is then folded upon itself to create a multi-ply ribbon that appears to be of heavier stock than the original paper. Alternatively, the multi-ply ribbon can be created by gluing together multiple ribbons, or by a combination of folding ribbons and gluing together ribbons. The multi-ply ribbon is die cut into an inside portion and an outside portion and married to the other ribbon, after which the outside portion is removed, leaving the inner portion as removable portions. Alternatively, the folded ribbon can be kiss cut after it has been married to the other ribbon. The removable portions can be UV-coated to simulate plastic and printed with information personalized for the advertiser or for the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2004Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Lehigh Press, Inc.Inventors: John Romita, William Castillo
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Patent number: 6941862Abstract: A folder includes a cutter for cutting a web of material into signatures, a folding device for producing at least one fold in a signature cut from the web of material, at least one delivery and one conveyor path for directly feeding the cut signatures to the delivery device while avoiding the folding device. The signatures can be guided either by the conveyor path or through the folding device. A signature switch of the conveyor path distributes the signatures to two flies or paddle wheels that deliver to conveyor belt devices that are arranged in parallel to the rotational axes of the paddle wheels.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2002Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Gerd Weiler
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Patent number: 6923436Abstract: The process is based on printing, in an electronic printing machine, the various bodies of text of the pages with symmetrical distribution with respect to the center of symmetry of the sheet being printed and likewise symmetrically with respect to one or both axes of symmetry of the initial sheet which pass through the center of symmetry thereof and which are parallel with its outer edges, the extent of the body of text varying for each page in accordance with the dimensions provided therefor and the sheet receiving the print subsequently being reversed in order to print the bodies of text corresponding to the reverse faces of the printed sheets.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2001Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: Digital Internet Transport System S.I.Inventor: Domingo Figueras Payas
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Patent number: 6913256Abstract: A former roller, which is driven for rotation, is located at the intake of a former for a folding unit. A controller unit is utilized to control the rotation of the motor, which drives the former roller, in such a way that the former roller exerts a tensile force on a material web that is fed to the former roller.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2002Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Gerold Emil Dornbusch
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Patent number: 6896250Abstract: A printed product is produced on a web-fed rotary newspaper printing press. The dimensions of the resultant printed product can be varied. Paper webs of constant and preselected widths are combined with sub-paper webs of preselected and somewhat smaller widths. These webs are combined and are brought together.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2002Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Bernd Anton Hillebrand