Includes Roller Conveyor For Delivering Patents (Class 414/794.8)
  • Publication number: 20150002869
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a discharge mechanism including a drive roller rotatable in a normal direction to discharge a medium and in a reverse direction reversed to the normal direction, and a driven roller in contact with the drive roller and configured to be rotated by the rotation of the drive roller. The apparatus also includes a stacker on which the medium discharged from the discharge mechanism is to be stacked. The driven roller is movable in position depending on the rotation of the drive roller in the normal direction or the reverse direction, such that the driven roller is located at a first position in the vicinity of the stacker when the drive roller is rotating in the normal direction, and the driven roller is located at a second position further away from the stacker than the first position when the drive roller is rotating in the reverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Koji OSAKI
  • Publication number: 20130343856
    Abstract: Provided is a card raising/lowering device capable of appropriately raising and lowering cards by a simple configuration. In concrete, a card raising/lowering device (6) is provided with a card housing section (3) in which cards (2) are housed in a stacked state, and a raising/lowering mechanism (11) for raising and lowering the cards (2) housed in the card housing section (3). The raising/lowering mechanism (11) is provided with a mounting table (12) on which the cards (2) housed in the card housing section (3) are mounted, and a biasing member (13) for biasing the mounting table (12) upward. The spring constant of the biasing member (13) is approximately equal to the weight per unit thickness of the card (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Chisato HIYAMA, Keiji OHTA, Takeki WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20110236172
    Abstract: A card elevating/lowering device for use with cards may include a card storage part in which the cards are stacked and accommodated, and an elevating/lowering mechanism by which the cards accommodated in the card storage part are elevated and lowered. The elevating/lowering mechanism may be provided with a placing table on which the cards accommodated in the card storage part are placed and an urging member which urges the placing table in an upper direction, and a spring constant of the urging member may be substantially equal to a weight per unit thickness of the card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chisato Hiyama, Keiji Ohta, Takeki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20080199296
    Abstract: A system for bundling long ferrous products comprises a roller table for delivering the products longitudinally to a receiving station. A cradle is spaced laterally from the receiving station and is constructed and arranged to receive and accumulate the products in bundle form. A stacker is positioned between the receiving station and the cradle, and a pre-stacker is positioned between the stacker and the receiving station. A transport system laterally advances products from the receiving station to the pre-stacker, and the pre-stacker operates in concert with the transport system to pre-stack multiple layers of the products into sub-bundles and to transfer the sub-bundles to the stacker, which then operates to deposit the sub-bundles in the cradle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Pradip K. Ghosh, Bruno Maggioni
  • Patent number: 7210280
    Abstract: A machining system and unit, especially a welding cell, is provided for use for the machining of workpieces (2), especially body parts of vehicles. The machining system has one or more machining stations (15, 16) with robots (18, 19, 20) and at least one rotation or turning station (5), which has at least two work stations (6, 7) for carrying out different operations simultaneously. The turning station (5) has at least two multiaxially movable turning units (8, 9) arranged next to one another with said gripping tools (11, 12, 13). The working areas (10) intersect each other at the work stations (6, 7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: KUKA InnoTec GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Cottone, Florian Simons
  • Patent number: 7159862
    Abstract: A roller turning force generator is connected to a driving gear which is mounted on a shaft. The shaft is connected to offset roller assemblies disposed in an offset mechanism via connecting gears. The offset roller assemblies rotatably supported inside the offset mechanism are turned by a driving force transmitted from the roller turning force generator to discharge individual sheets of a printing medium in a sheet transport direction. The offset mechanism is linked to an offsetting force generator so that the offset mechanism can be shifted along a direction perpendicular to the sheet transport direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Matsutomo, Yoshiaki Hiramoto, Susumu Murakami, Hideshi Izumi, Yoshie Iwakura, Motokazu Nakao, Yoshiyuki Nagai, Shigeru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7007946
    Abstract: Apparatus for depositing sheets on a stack, which permits essentially free access to the stack and can be implemented with a low outlay of materials and costs. The apparatus includes on the side of the stack (1) that faces a machine, tongues (5, 6) with which frictional elements (3, 4) can be brought into and out of contact and which can be moved in the conveying direction (10) of the sheets (2) and in the opposite direction, and can be lowered onto the stack (1), and wherein on the side of the stack (1) that faces the machine, at least one hold-down (7) is provided which can be moved in the conveying direction (10) of the sheets (2) and in the opposite direction, and can be lowered onto the stack (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dirk Dobrindt, Lutz Rebetge
  • Patent number: 6827545
    Abstract: An anti-inertia stacker for stacking products and especially suited for products which are prone to dislodgment on or from a substrate during processing movement is provided. The anti-inertia stacker comprises a traveling pallet which is mounted for movement. The traveling pallet receives a product or product laden substrate from a conveyor while traveling at substantially the same speed as the conveyor. The traveling pallet includes a moveable conveying surface. The conveying surface, moving in the direction opposite to the direction of travel of the product or product laden substrate, decelerates the received item. The product or product laden substrate can then be stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Inventor: Lawrence A. Ward
  • Patent number: 6786479
    Abstract: A banknote store comprises a rotatable structure such as a drum which has a number of banknote storage regions arranged around its periphery. Each stores a stack of banknotes, the stacks growing inwardly as banknotes are added. The drum can be rotated to bring each storage region into proximity to means for delivering banknotes to and/or retrieving banknotes from the store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Mars Incorporated
    Inventors: Andre Gerlier, Roberto Polidoro
  • Patent number: 6699005
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a booklet stacking apparatus and method. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a booklet stacking mechanism. In one arrangement, the booklet stacking mechanism comprises a gate that is adapted to be placed adjacent an output area, the gate being position able in a closed position and an open position, a delivery path along which booklets can be delivered when the gate is in the open position, and a flipping mechanism that is adapted to receive booklets, invert them, and deposit them in a output bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Javier Pena Askins
  • Patent number: 6691874
    Abstract: A sheet stacking device, comprised of a sheet support bed having a plurality of side-by-side rollers that are freely rotatable about an associated roller axis. A drive assembly moves the sheet support bed in a predetermined direction along a closed path. The path has a horizontal upper run and a horizontal lower run, and is dimensioned such that a space exists between the first end and the second end of the sheet support bed as the sheet support bed moves along the path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Nikko Materials USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Hermann Wursthorn
  • Publication number: 20020150462
    Abstract: A device for stacking folding-box tubes demonstrates a vertically-adjustable elevating platform. First temporary bearing means, which can be pulled out of or advanced into the stacking well, are located above the elevating platform. Another set of temporary bearing means can be pulled out of the stacking well as well as moved downward within the stacking well. The second bearing means also press a completed stack together in order to be able to thread it between a conveying device of a holding-down appliance. The first temporary bearing means provide for uninterrupted stacking within the stacking well while the elevating platform, together with the second bearing device, are busy carrying the stack away.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventor: Stefan Furthmuller
  • Publication number: 20020088742
    Abstract: A sheet stacking device, comprised of a sheet support bed having a plurality of side-by-side rollers that are freely rotatable about an associated roller axis. A drive assembly moves the sheet support bed in a predetermined direction along a closed path. The path has a horizontal upper run and a horizontal lower run, and is dimensioned such that a space exists between the first end and the second end of the sheet support bed as the sheet support bed moves along the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Applicant: Gould Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hermann Wursthorn
  • Patent number: 6341698
    Abstract: A sheet stacking device comprised of a sheet support bed having a first end and a second end. The sheet support bed is comprised of a plurality of side-by-side rollers, each of the rollers being freely rotatable about an associated roller axis. A drive assembly moves the sheet support bed in a predetermined direction along a closed path, the path having a horizontal upper run and a horizontal lower run, and is dimensioned such that a space exists between the first end and the second end of the sheet support bed as the sheet support bed moves along the path. A roller control assembly for selectively and sequentially controlling rotation of select ones of the rollers at select intervals during a stacking operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Ga-Tek Inc.
    Inventor: Hermann Wursthorn