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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2005

Filed:

Nov. 12, 2001
Applicants:

Hartmut Karl Sauer, Himmelstadt, DE;

Johannes Georg Schaede, Würzburg, DE;

Inventors:

Hartmut Karl Sauer, Himmelstadt, DE;

Johannes Georg Schaede, Würzburg, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F013/56 ; B65H033/14 ; B65H043/04 ; B65H029/62 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Faulty useful units printed on a sheet of useful units are separated from the acceptable useful units. A first cutting device cuts the sheet into a plurality of longitudinal strips, each of which contains several of the useful units. A quality control device detects the faulty useful units prior to a second cutting device that cuts the strips into individual units. A filtering unit is placed between the two cutting units and filters out strips with one or more faulty units. Strips with no faulty units replace the filtered out faulty unit strips. This simplifies further processing of the strips.


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