B65H 2404/261
Arrangement of belts, or belt / roller facing each other for forming
Official title: Arrangement of belts, or belt(s) / roller(s) facing each other for forming a transport nip
B65H2404/261 (Arrangement of belts, or belt / roller facing each other for forming) appears on 514 US grants and 320 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 514
- Published applications
- 320
- Assignees
- 249
- Inventors
- 907
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2002 | 10 | 7 |
| 2003 | 13 | 9 |
| 2004 | 7 | 18 |
| 2005 | 13 | 23 |
| 2006 | 9 | 9 |
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| 2022 | 10 | 17 |
| 2023 | 7 | 8 |
| 2024 | 14 | 10 |
| 2025 | 7 | 8 |
| 2026 | 4 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65H 2404/2614Means for engaging or disengaging belts into or out of contact withIndexing code120
- B65H 2404/2613Means for changing the transport pathIndexing code65
- B65H 2404/2615Arranged on a movable frameIndexing code39
- B65H 2404/2611Forming curved transport pathIndexing code33
- B65H 2404/2612Forming serpentine transport pathIndexing code8
Recent patents
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- Surface rewinder with center assist and belt and winding drum forming a winding nest14 Apr 2026US 12,600,590 B2BW Converting, Inc.
- Upper conveyor deck having at least one diverted belt section and a scrap deflector at the diverted belt section and conveyor including the upper conveyor deck31 Mar 2026US 12,589,960 B2A. G. Stacker Inc.
- Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus18 Nov 2025US 12,473,161 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Conveyor belt6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225340 A1Sprick GmbH Bielefelder Papier- und Wellpappenwerke & Co.
- Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus19 Feb 2026US 2026/0048953 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- A banknote stack transport arrangement and a cash handling machine8 Jan 2026US 2026/0008644 A1Scan Coin AB
- Sheet conveyance device18 Sep 2025US 2025/0289677 A1Riso Kagaku Corporation
- Apparatus and method for converting a sheet into a continuous strip28 Aug 2025US 2025/0269549 A1Vmi Holland B .V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Two belt bill facing mechanism171US 6,371,303 B1Cummins-Allison Corp. · 2002
- Two belt bill facing mechanism130US 6,705,470 B2Cummins-Allison Corp. · 2004
- Loading mechanism for a modular commercial printer114US 6,386,535 B1Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd · 2002
- Apparatus for alternating the folded and open edges of a succession of folded pads102US 4,307,800 A1981
- Apparatus and method for mail sorting95US 7,138,596 B22006