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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:
Mar. 16, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Allan J Rood, Longmont, CO (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H / ; B65H / ; B65H / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
271184 ; 271194 ; 271236 ; 271287 ; 271314 ; 414 36 ;
Abstract
A device for aligning sheets in a stack relative to at least one reference surface of a support tray. The device includes at least one movable alignment arm extending into the tray and a mechanism for transporting the arm to contact a sheet periodically and to move said sheet in a direction perpendicular to the reference surface for alignment.