B65H 29/20
Delivering or advancing articles from machines: by contact with rotating friction members
Official title: by contact with rotating friction members, e.g. rollers, brushes, or cylinders {(with suction rollers B65H29/243)}
B65H29/20 (Delivering or advancing articles from machines: by contact with rotating friction members) appears on 432 US grants and 343 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 432
- Published applications
- 343
- Assignees
- 182
- Inventors
- 879
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2023 | 15 | 15 |
| 2024 | 14 | 22 |
| 2025 | 16 | 14 |
| 2026 | 9 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Sheet conveyance apparatus28 Jul 2026US 12,692,116 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Driving device7 Jul 2026US 12,673,840 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Sheet discharge device, and sheet postprocessing device, image forming apparatus, plus image forming system each including the sheet discharge device27 Jan 2026US 12,533,895 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Medium processing apparatus, image forming system, and non-transitory recording medium10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267273 A1Etria Co., Ltd.
- Recording medium processing device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202786 A1Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Bookbinding processing apparatus, and image forming system including bookbinding processing apparatus2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184532 A1Canon Finetech Nisca Inc.
- Apparatus and methods for constructing an electrochemical cell25 Jun 2026US 2026/0176097 A1G. D S.p.A.
- Medium processing apparatus and image forming system4 Jun 2026US 2026/0152360 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Evenly retractable and self-leveling nips sheets ejection system128US 5,884,910 AXerox Corporation · 1999
- Paper currency receiving control assembly for currency-coin exchange machine115US 6,375,185 B1Gamemax Corporation · 2002
- Sheet processing apparatus and method therefor98US 6,145,825 ARicoh Company, Ltd. · 2000
- Intermittent drive mechanism for copy stacking57US 4,898,374 AImagitek · 1990
- Large document restacking system56US 4,469,319 AXerox Corporation · 1984