B65H 3/66
Article guides or smoothers
Official title: Article guides or smoothers, e.g. movable in operation
B65H3/66 (Article guides or smoothers) appears on 274 US grants and 289 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 274
- Published applications
- 289
- Assignees
- 85
- Inventors
- 528
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2008 | 2 | 6 |
| 2009 | 0 | 16 |
| 2010 | 12 | 14 |
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| 2012 | 11 | 6 |
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| 2015 | 12 | 20 |
| 2016 | 15 | 26 |
| 2017 | 29 | 24 |
| 2018 | 20 | 21 |
| 2019 | 22 | 16 |
| 2020 | 6 | 18 |
| 2021 | 15 | 14 |
| 2022 | 10 | 16 |
| 2023 | 10 | 16 |
| 2024 | 15 | 15 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 |
| 2026 | 11 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Trading card identification and inventory management systems, and related methods of use15 Sep 2026US 12,735,292 B2Rymac Technical Solutions Inc.
- Paper feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus1 Sep 2026US 12,722,919 B2Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Medium conveyance device18 Aug 2026US 12,709,503 B2Pfu Limited
- Medium feeding apparatus and image reading apparatus11 Aug 2026US 12,703,593 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus26 May 2026US 12,637,310 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus27 Aug 2026US 2026/0252017 A1Etria Co., Ltd.
- Paper feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233955 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Medium conveyance device9 Jul 2026US 2026/0193045 A1Pfu Limited
- Media deflector for a roof plate of an automated teller machine2 Jul 2026US 2026/0184528 A1Cardtronics USA, Inc.
- Storage unit for blanks and related method12 Mar 2026US 2026/0070750 A1G. D S.p.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for selectively feeding cut sheets in a recording machine31US 4,966,356 AFujitsu Limited · 1990
- Sheet separator dam with inset friction element26US 5,899,450 ALexmark International, Inc. · 1999
- Sheet conveying apparatus, printing apparatus, and processing apparatus23US 8,807,556 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2014
- Automatic paper feed device20US 4,928,951 AMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha · 1990
- Sheet supplying apparatus19US 6,131,899 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2000