B65H 9/103
Acting by friction or suction on the article for pushing or pulling
Official title: {acting by friction or suction on the article for pushing or pulling it into registered position, e.g. against a stop}
B65H9/103 (Acting by friction or suction on the article for pushing or pulling) appears on 322 US grants and 226 published applications in this corpus.
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- Sheet registration device and an image forming apparatus having the same67US 6,273,418 B1Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. · 2001
- Sheet aligning device64US 4,657,239 ARicoh Company, Ltd. · 1987
- Controlled cilia for object manipulation60US 5,979,892 AXerox Corporation · 1999
- Sensor array and method to correct top edge misregistration42US 6,137,989 AXerox Corporation · 2000
- Sheet processing device with stack alignment42US 6,561,503 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2003