B65H 5/305
Comprising rotary means for opening the folded sheets
Official title: {comprising rotary means for opening the folded sheets (B65H5/308 takes precedence)}
B65H5/305 (Comprising rotary means for opening the folded sheets) appears on 73 US grants and 33 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
- 73
- Published applications
- 33
- Assignees
- 21
- Inventors
- 72
- Latest grant
- 24 Mar 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Image reading apparatus24 Mar 2026US 12,587,604 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Sheet processing device, sheet laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system10 Feb 2026US 12,545,020 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Sheet processing apparatus, laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system1 Oct 2024US 12,105,465 B1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Sheet processing device, sheet laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system14 May 2024US 11,981,525 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Image reading apparatus14 May 2024US 11,985,283 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Sheet processing device, sheet laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system17 Oct 2024US 2024/0343034 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Image reading apparatus1 Aug 2024US 2024/0259512 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Image reading apparatus5 Oct 2023US 2023/0319210 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Sheet separation device, laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system19 Jan 2023US 2023/0019928 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Image reading apparatus30 Jun 2022US 2022/0210289 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Joining together of printed partial products32US 5,137,409 AFerag AG · 1992
- Apparatus and method for individually printing signatures during delivery to a binding line conveyor22US 5,005,815 AR. R. Donnelley & Sons Company · 1991
- Apparatus for gathering folded sheets in bookbinding machines20US 4,085,927 AGrapha-Holding AG · 1978
- Apparatus for opening folded sheets using accelerating and deaccelerating spreader elements19US 4,491,311 AGrapha-Holding AG · 1985
- Joining printed partial products together18US 5,193,851 AFerag AG · 1993