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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:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2000
Robert L. Baan, Wallkill, NY (US);
Richard J. Cassidy, Newburgh, NY (US);
John R. Lankard, Jr., Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Gerald Henry Leino, Walden, NY (US);
Raymond H. Turcotte, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
James Utter, Fishkill, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a flexible sheet handling apparatus including a frame having a vacuum passage located around the periphery of the frame. There is also a porous, polymeric plug which covers the vacuum passage. When a vacuum is applied to the vacuum passage and the porous, polymeric plug, a flexible sheet in contact with the porous, polymeric plug is uniformly held only around the periphery of the flexible sheet by the applied vacuum.
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