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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. 13, 2004
Filed:
May. 07, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jürgen Sahlmann, Ellerdorf, DE;
Assignee:
NexPress Solutions LLC, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65H 9/00 ;
Abstract
An aligning unit ( ) for sheet like material ( ), such sheet-like material being aligned by rotation elements ( ), ( ) with respect to the conveying direction ( ) through a machine processing such sheet-like material ( ) before the passage to a conveying plane ( ). The sheet-like material ( ) is contacted, on at least one side, by the rotation elements ( ), ( ). The rotation elements include segmented rollers respectively having a roller core ( ), and a ring-shaped coating ( ). The area of contact ( ), ( ) between the sheet-like material ( ) and the segmented rollers ( ) is minimized.