| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 270520020 | With control indicia (e.g., barcode) | 10 |
| 20080265482 | Method of processing and printing print job portions for enabling bindery efficiencies - A method is provided for processing and printing print job portions. The method includes providing an output related attribute, and using the attribute to divide a portion of one or more print jobs into a first section (including a first print output stack) and a second section (including a second print output stack). When the portion of the one or more print jobs is printed, an output stack processing instruction is used to separate the first output stack from the second print output stack along a boundary defined by the instruction. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20110084437 | VALIDATION OF MAILPIECE COMPOSITION COMPLETENESS - A method and system for validating the completeness of a document collation includes obtaining information concerning a document having a first page and a last page, and processing the obtained information. The processed information is employed to apply a marking on the document that may be readable through an enclosure that visually obscures the marking. The marking may provide information regarding the completeness of the document collation within the enclosure. The processed information may be employed in a manner such that the applied marking includes a first page mark on the first page of the document collation and a last page mark in the last page of the document collation. The marks may be applied in respective predetermined zones on the first page and the last page. The first page zone and the last page zone may have a predetermined relationship for a document collation. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110095468 | RECONFIGURABLE STITCHER FOR BINDING CONSECUTIVE VARIABLE THICKNESS COLLATIONS - A stitcher for binding variable thickness collations including a means for determining the thickness of a multi-sheet collation, a stitch head operative to drive a stitch through the multi-sheet collation, an anvil operative to clinch the stitch to bind the sheets of the collation and a plurality of actuators operative to displace forming elements of the stitch head to form the stitch, position the stitch head and anvil against opposite surfaces of the multi-sheet collation, drive the stitch through the collation and clinch the ends of the stitch. A processor, responsive to the thickness value signal, controls the actuators to form the stitch and bind the collation. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110156334 | METHOD FOR HANDLING PAPER SHEETS - When handling paper sheets, the paper sheet present at the uppermost or lowest part of each batch of the paper sheets is assigned as a designated paper sheet, and then intrinsic information on this designated paper sheet is associated with transaction information corresponding to the batch of the paper sheets. Thereafter, a plurality of batches of the paper sheets are stacked, one on another, in a certain number corresponding to transactions, while the intrinsic information on each designated paper sheet is already associated with the corresponding transaction information. Then, such stacked batches of the paper sheets are handled, collectively, by a paper sheet handling system. Thereafter, each recognition result on the plurality of batches of the paper sheets, respectively handled by the paper sheet handling system, is separated by utilizing each designated paper sheet. As such, information on the association between each recognition result on the paper sheets and the transaction information can be obtained. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120306142 | METHOD FOR MAKING A Z-FOLD SIGNATURE - Methods for forming a signature are provided. In one aspect an automatic z-folding system is used to cause a signature print to fold across a width proximate to z-fold locations spaced along a length of the signature print and to form a z-folded stack of sheets of the signature print and the z-folded stack is bound across a width of the stack proximate to a saddle fold location between the z-folds; saddle folding the z-folded stack at the saddle fold location to dispose the z-folds along a common face of the saddle folded stack, and, separating the signature print at at least one of the z-folds. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20140353899 | INITIATING AN ALIGNMENT CORRECTION CYCLE - In an embodiment, a processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to receive sheet length data for two paper sheets of a same standard dimension passing consecutively through a printing device. The processor calculates a length difference between the two paper sheets, and when the length difference exceeds a two-sheet threshold, it initiates an alignment correction cycle in a paper finishing device. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20150356808 | MEDIUM PROCESSING DEVICE - A banknote deposit and withdrawal apparatus causes a control section to function as an inserted medium counting unit, a normal medium counting unit and an abnormal mediums number calculation unit. The normal medium counting unit again feeds out and conveys banknotes from the banknote deposit and withdrawal section to the verification section in a quantity corresponding to the number of inserted banknotes, conveys abnormal banknotes that are verified as abnormal by the verification section to the banknote deposit and withdrawal section together with following banknotes but conveys normal banknotes that are verified as normal by the verification section to the temporary holding section and retains the normal banknotes therein, and counts a number of normal banknotes. The abnormal mediums number calculation unit subtracts the number of normal banknotes from the number of inserted banknotes to calculate an abnormal banknotes number. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160016744 | SHEET NUMBERING PROCESS AND SHEET-PROCESSING MACHINE FOR CARRYING OUT THE SAME - There is described a sheet numbering process involving feeding of individual sheets (S) in succession, which individual sheets (S) each carry a plurality of imprints (P) that are arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and providing unique serial numbers to multiple ones of the plurality of imprints (P) carried by the individual sheets (S). The sheet numbering process comprises numbering of at least some of the individual sheets (S), wherein numbering of the individual sheets (S) is selectively commutable between a first numbering scheme (N | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160159602 | DELIVERY PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DELIVERY PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a delivery processing apparatus includes a plurality of stackers configured to stack delivery objects; a conveyer configured to transport the delivery objects to a designated stacker out of the plurality of stackers; a first detector configured to detect that a monitored stacker out of the plurality of stackers is in an overflow state in which more than a predetermined amount of delivery objects have accumulated; a second detector configured to detect that a monitored stacker out of the plurality of stackers is in an empty state in which all delivery objects have been retrieved from the stacker; and a main controller configured to specify a regular stacker that is a stacker out of the plurality of stackers and serving as a sort destination of the delivery object, based on address information that is obtained from the delivery object and, control the conveyer such that the delivery object is transported to the regular stacker serving as the sort destination, out of the plurality of regular stackers, that is specified, wherein, if the stacker serving as the sort destination specified is in the overflow state, then the main controller stops the transport of delivery objects to the regular stacker serving as the sort destination that has gone into the overflow state and assigns a backup stacker that is a stacker out of the plurality of stackers not correlated with any address information as a sort destination substituting for the sort destination that has gone into the overflow state, and after assigning the substitute sort destination, when a regular stacker that had gone into the overflow state goes into the empty state, the main controller stops transport of delivery objects to the backup stacker that has been assigned as the substitute sort destination, and resumes the transport of delivery objects to the regular stacker that has gone into the empty state. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160200135 | METHOD FOR SUPPLYING DOCUMENT SETS AND INSERTING DOCUMENT SETS INTO ASSOCIATED ENVELOPES AND ENVELOPING SYSTEM | 07-14-2016 |
