With Means To Skip Or Stop Feed Patents (Class 271/136)
  • Patent number: 10427892
    Abstract: A method of supplying mosaic tile to an automated mosaic tile setter includes automatically loading a variety of mosaic tiles selected from mosaic tiles of at least two different colors, textures, patterns, or other visual or tactile characteristics into a plurality of hoppers. The automatic loading includes controlling a first pick-and-place robot to pick each of the mosaic tiles from a source of the mosaic tiles and place each respective mosaic tile into a respective one of the plurality of hoppers based on one of a last-in, first-out basis, or a last-in, last-out basis, and a desired pattern of a mosaic tile arrangement for installation at a work site. Each respective one of the loaded mosaic tiles is picked from a hopper using a second pick-and-place robot and placed onto one of a plurality of sheets of underlayment material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: David Wurmfeld, Kevin Osborn
  • Patent number: 8699040
    Abstract: A paper-feeding device and a multi-functional printer are provided. The paper-feeding device includes a base, a driving axle, a position-limiting element and a retaining element. The base has a first assembling portion. The driving axle, the position-limiting and the retaining elements are all in the base. The position-limiting element has a second assembling portion and two position-limiting portions on radial directions of the second assembling portion between the inserting portion and the body. The retaining element includes a swing frame, a paper-separating element and a spring. The body of the swing frame is located between the two position-limiting portions. The first and second pivoting portions coaxial and connect the body are pivoted respectively to the first and second assembling portions. The inserting portion of the paper-separating element is sheathed by the body and the separating element leans against the driving axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignees: Kinpo Electronics, Inc., Cal-Comp Electronics & Communications Company Limited
    Inventors: Shih-Jer Din, Ken-Hua Chang
  • Patent number: 8134723
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus which controls a host-based printer includes a determination portion which determines designation of feed from a feed unit or manual feed port, a display control portion which, when it is determined that feed from the manual feed port is designated, causes a display portion to display a display to prompt the operator to insert a print medium into the manual feed port, an identification portion which identifies compressed-image data transfer permission corresponding a user instruction, and a transfer portion which transfers compressed image data of one page to the host-based printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaaki Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7914216
    Abstract: A method of interrupting a printing operation in a continuous transport process in which a first roller and a second roller transports plural printing mediums including a first medium on a tray in a transport direction to a printing area at which the printing operation is performed to each printing medium, the second roller is arranged at a downstream side of the first roller in the transport direction, and a third roller comes in contact with the first roller at a contact point to transport the printing mediums together with the first roller and is separated from the first roller not to transport the printing mediums, the method includes: separating the third roller from the first roller, when a trailing end edge of the first medium at least apart of which is disposed in the printing area is located at an upstream side of a predetermined point in the transport direction, and driving the second roller to transport the first medium after the third roller is separated from the first roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Yasue, Jun Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20040056412
    Abstract: Stacks of flexible sheets, such as printed slotted and scored corrugated paperboard box blanks, are inverted during travel along a sheet stacker. A plurality of sheet inverter fingers, each with a friction enhancing surface on a free end, are interdigitated between the belts of the sheet stacker. These fingers engage the leading ends of the stacks and invert the stacks during continued forward travel of the stacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: SEBRING CONTAINER CORP.
    Inventor: Richard W. Smith
  • Patent number: 5923441
    Abstract: A printer which records an image on a cut paper sheet must normally assure a margin region at the trailing end side of a record paper sheet in terms of the mechanism of the printer. Conventionally, the margin has a considerably large size. However, this invention aims at reducing the margin size as much as possible and increasing the image record region as much as possible.When a printer of this invention is used in a facsimile apparatus, a problem experienced with a conventional printer, which has a narrow image record region on a record paper sheet, can be prevented. Conventionally, when an image is recorded on a record paper sheet having the same size as that of a received original, the received image is determined as an elongated original image and is divisionally recorded on two record paper sheets, or is recorded on a record paper sheet larger than the received original. This invention prevents this problem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuo Komada, Katsutoshi Ushida
  • Patent number: 5110402
    Abstract: This invention relates to a label box for a label stack in a labelling station. The label box has a front part, which is designed as a slide which can move forward and backward in relation to the other part. If a label is not to be extracted from the stack, this front part is moved back, compressing the label stack, so that the front end surface of the label stack is in an idle position, in which the pickup surface of the extractor element for the labels can no longer make contact against the end surface of the label stack as it rolls past.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1992
    Assignee: Holstein und Kappert AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Zodrow, Rainer Buchholz
  • Patent number: 5009411
    Abstract: An input hopper (20) for inputting card members to card processing modules (14) includes a tray (22) for storing the cards which are maintained in a stack by a pusher mechanism (30) having a plate (23) biasing the card stack toward a first end of the tray (22). A notched cam (42) at the first end of the tray (22) rotates and engages the edge of a lead card to separate it from the stack. Rollers (50,52,54) engage the separated card and deliver the card from the input hopper (20). The cam (42) and main roller (50) are driven by a motor (60) and drive linkage (61) including a coiled spring (70) to provide an override to the drive linkage (61) in the event of jamming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1991
    Assignee: DataCard Corporation
    Inventors: Donald J. Manderfeld, Robert A. Sells
  • Patent number: 4643413
    Abstract: A sheet feeder for corrugated paperboard sheets utilizing timed intermittently rotatable belts against which either the top or bottom sheet, depending on the configuration chosen, of a stack is brought into contact to feed such sheet in synchronism with adjacent processing machinery and utilizing continuously applied negative atmospheric pressure to hold such sheet against the belts without the need for valving or otherwise breaking the suction pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignee: The Ward Machinery Company
    Inventors: William F. Ward, Sr., John B. West
  • Patent number: 4457801
    Abstract: An improvement in a labeling station for bottles having pivoting extractors 2, 3, 4 with convex pickup surfaces, means for applying adhesive to the extractors and means for rolling the extractors over a stack of labels so as to pick up the front-most label which is thereafter supplied to a gripping cylinder, all in conventional manner. In accordance with the invention the labels are present as stacks in a magazine which can be moved from operative to inoperative position by holders which are activated only in the intervals between label removals so that the magazine can be moved to inoperative position when there is a gap in the supply of bottles going through the station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Jagenberg Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rudolf Zodrow
  • Patent number: 4439262
    Abstract: In a labeling station that is intended for articles like bottles, that has at least one revolving or pivoting label grasper-applicator with a capture-and-release surface for taking a label from a stack and applying it to an article to be labeled, and that has holders that hold the edge of the stack of labels, the improvement which comprises controls for the holders (41, 42) or supplementary holders (45, 46) that hold the edge of the stack so that the retentive force the holders exert on the labels can be adjusted to be made greater than the attractive force exerted by the capture-and-release surface of the grasper-applicator (2, 3, 4) and, when the stack is held in a moving magazine, than the inertia exerted by the stack of labels on the stack holders as the magazine (6) moves backwards, the controls having a detector that scans the series of articles to be labeled and actuates the controls and the holders (41, 42 or 45, 46) when it senses a condition calling for a label not to be applied, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: Jagenberg AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Zodrow, Egon Hoveler, Heinz-Jurgen Rosenberg
  • Patent number: 4273321
    Abstract: Conductor plates are fed to a conductor plate tester from a stack by a reciprocating feeder which removes the lowermost plate only of the stack and propels it forwardly to a transport path. The transport path is inclined downwardly toward said tester, the feeder is also inclined at the same angle, with the stack perpendicular thereto. As a result, the conductor plates are moved along the transport path by the force of gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignees: Luther & Maelzer GmbH, Limited-Liability Company
    Inventors: Erich Luther, Martin Maelzer
  • Patent number: 4171129
    Abstract: A document transport for a document scanning device has an elevator for locating a stack of documents to be fed automatically into position to be scanned. The top document is removed from the stack by a feed roller. Other documents which may become entrained with the top document are returned to the stack by separation rollers. The top document is driven into the scanning device against an alignment gate and this action eliminates any skew in the position of the document. At a read or scan station beyond the gate, which is reached by the document once the alignment gate has been withdrawn, the data on the document is scanned as the document is moved by read rollers in a controlled fashion. As the document leaves the read station it is trapped between the two single opposing belts in a buffer unit, which move the document at the spped of the scanning rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1979
    Assignee: Scan-Optics, Inc.
    Inventors: William C. Daley, Andrew Hall, Arthur M. Sikes
  • Patent number: 4004797
    Abstract: Slabs of gum stacked in a top-loaded magazine and successively fed from the bottom of the magazine by a reciprocable pusher mechanism are advanced by line pressure along a generally predetermined first path to a rotary trimming and scoring mechanism which trims, scores and further advances each successive slab. Another pusher mechanism receives each slab advanced by the trimming and scoring mechanism and transfers it to a conveyor which carries it along another path generally normal to the first path and to a breaker and an associated wrapping machine. Each mechanism which advances the slab is driven in timed relation with the wrapping machine. The magazine is supported to pivot to a inactive position to facilitate access to the trimming and scoring mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Assignee: Package Machinery Company
    Inventor: Lawrence W. Schoppee
  • Patent number: 3994490
    Abstract: A mechanism for feeding blanks or corrugated cardboard and the like into a printing and container forming machine. The feeding mechanism includes a perforated suction head for moving individual sheets from a stack of sheets into the machine. The suction head is mounted on a hollow reciprocating shuttle. A valve connects the shuttle to an evacuator and is actuable by a cam contoured such that the valve may be actuated each time the suction head cycles, during alternate suction head cycles or may remain inactive by varying the angular orientation of the cam and the cam follower coupled to the valve. In an alternate embodiment these variations of vacuum application to suction head cycling are provided by a valve having rotating members wherein the relative speed of the members may be adjusted to provide the control functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1976
    Assignee: Uniplex, Inc.
    Inventor: Ralmond J. Smiltneek