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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1980
Filed:
May. 01, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
William P Cathers, Allison Park, PA (US);
Assignee:
PPG Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271236 ; 198486 ; 271195 ; 271185 ; 294 65 ; 414 72 ; 414104 ;
Abstract
A frame has (1) a pair of arms parallel to one another and normal to a third arm, each arm having a movable dog for orienting a sheet and (2) a plurality of arms each having cups through which a vacuum is pulled to secure the oriented sheet to the frame and through which pressurized fluid is moved to bias the sheet away from the frame.