B65H 29/02
Delivering or advancing articles from machines: by mechanical grippers engaging the leading
Official title: by mechanical grippers engaging the leading edge only of the articles
B65H29/02 (Delivering or advancing articles from machines: by mechanical grippers engaging the leading) appears on 480 US grants and 322 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Gripping apparatus for transporting a panel of adhesive material299US 4,995,778 AKrupp Maschinentechnik Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung · 1991
- Document sorting apparatus149US 5,054,621 AHybrid Systems Corporation · 1991
- Apparatus for the individual conveying of printed products arriving in an imbricated product stream79US 4,201,286 AFerag AG · 1980
- Gripper mechanism66US 6,592,324 B2Irm LLC · 2003
- Device for guiding sheets printed on one or both sides42US 4,572,071 AMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · 1986