B65H 3/32
Separating articles from piles: by elements
Official title: by elements, e.g. fingers, plates, rollers, inserted or traversed between articles to be separated and remainder of the pile (such elements acting only as supplementary devices to assist separation or prevent double feed B65H3/50)
B65H3/32 (Separating articles from piles: by elements) appears on 158 US grants and 99 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Method for gripping and transferring at least one individual unit, and use of a system9 Apr 2026US 2026/0097514 A1Haver & Boecker Ohg
- Device and method for unstacking a stack26 Mar 2026US 2026/0084908 A1Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
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- Unstacking apparatus for removing a partial stack from a stack of sheets115US 5,102,293 AIngenieurburo Willi Schneider · 1992
- Method of breaking up stacks of paper sheets or the like111US 4,662,816 AWomako Maschinenkonstruktionen GmbH · 1987
- Device for lifting at least one material stack89US 4,911,608 AB. A. T. Cigarettenfabriken · 1990
- Method for producing a mass distributable printed packet69US 4,939,888 AWebcraft Technologies, Inc. · 1990