Patents by Inventor Gerald Rogers
Gerald Rogers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9302875Abstract: An apparatus for transporting signatures is provided which includes a moving transport surface for transporting signatures; a pair of eccentric guide rollers, rotatable about respective axes, the pair of guide rollers positioned opposite one another to receive signatures therebetween from the moving transport surface; and a diverter positioned downstream of the guide rollers. The diverter is movable between a first position to divert signatures received from the guide rollers to a first downstream moving transport surface and a second position to divert signatures received from the guide rollers to a second downstream moving transport surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: David Elliott Whitten, Joseph Adrian St Ours, Gerald Roger Douillard
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Patent number: 9302882Abstract: A folder superstructure includes a former, a first top of former roll located upstream of the former and having a compressible outer layer and a second top of former roll forming a nip with the first top of former roll. A method for operating a printing press is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2009Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Roger Douillard, Douglas Joseph Dawley, Daniel Matthew Perdue, Brian Robert Elkinson
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Patent number: 9229895Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with integrated circuits (IC) or system-on-chips (SOC) are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a multi-core IC may include a number of central processing units (CPUs), and a number of input/output (I/O) resources. The IC may further include a switch fabric configured to couple the CPUs with the I/O resources, and a register to be selectively configured to exclusively couple one of the CPUs with one of the I/O resources to form a logical domain that computationally isolates the one CPU and the one I/O resource from other CPUs and other I/O. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: James A. Coleman, Durgesh Srivastava, Gerald Rogers, Scott M. Oehrlein
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Publication number: 20140187404Abstract: A folding device is provided for folding n sheet comprises a jaw cylinder, a folding cylinder, a paper guide, and an actuator. The jaw cylinder has a jaw, and the folding cylinder has a hold down element and a folding blade. The folding blade is movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The folding blade is in the extended positron to transfer one or more sheets to the jaw cylinder during a fold off operation, and the folding blade is in the retracted position during a collect operation. The paper guide is positioned between the folding cylinder and the jaw cylinder. The paper guide includes a static guide element and a reciprocating guide element connected to the static guide element, the reciprocating guide element movable between a retracted position and an extended position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: David Clark Pollock, John James Sposato, JR., Gerald Roger Douillard
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Publication number: 20140075082Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with integrated circuits (IC) or system-on-chips (SOC) are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a multi-core IC may include a number of central processing units (CPUs), and a number of input/output (I/O) resources. The IC may further include a switch fabric configured to couple the CPUs with the I/O resources, and a register to be selectively configured to exclusively couple one of the CPUs with one of the I/O resources to form a logical domain that computationally isolates the one CPU and the one I/O resource from other CPUs and other I/O. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Inventors: James A. Coleman, Durgesh Srivastava, Gerald Rogers, Scott M. Oehrlein
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Publication number: 20130260168Abstract: A method of treating a hole in a metallic component includes the following steps in sequence: forming an hole having a first diameter in the component; expanding the hole to a second diameter using a cold expansion process, so as to induce residual compressive stresses in the material surrounding the hole; shot peening the hole; and final machining the hole to a finished diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2012Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Donald Charles Slavik, Bernard Harold Lawless, Robert Hugh Van Stone, Gerald Roger Geverdt
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Patent number: 8506466Abstract: An apparatus for transporting folded signatures is provided which includes a first roller and a second roller forming a first nip with the first roller. The first and second rollers each have a compressible outer layer, and are rotatable about respective axes. Preferably, the compressible outer later comprises a microcellular foam. The apparatus also includes a plurality of first transport tapes passing through the first nip and a plurality of second transport tapes passing through the first nip. The plurality of second transport tapes are wrapped at least partially around the second roller so that a signature transported between the first and second transport tapes between the first nip undergoes a change in transport direction as it is transported at least partially around the second roller. Preferably, the signatures enter the first nip perpendicular to a plane passing through the axes of the first and second rollers.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Roger Douillard, David Elliot Whitten, David Clarke Pollock
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Publication number: 20120322643Abstract: An apparatus for transporting folded signatures is provided which includes a first roller and a second roller forming a first nip with the first roller. The first and second rollers each have a compressible outer layer, and are rotatable about respective axes. Preferably, the compressible outer later comprises a microcellular foam. The apparatus also includes a plurality of first transport tapes passing through the first nip and a plurality of second transport tapes passing through the first nip. The plurality of second transport tapes are wrapped at least partially around the second roller so that a signature transported between the first and second transport tapes between the first nip undergoes a change in transport direction as it is transported at least partially around the second roller. Preferably, the signatures enter the first nip perpendicular to a plane passing through the axes of the first and second rollers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: Goss International Americas, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Roger Douillard, David Elliot Whitten, David Clarke Pollock
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Publication number: 20120211936Abstract: An apparatus for transporting signatures is provided which includes a moving transport surface for transporting signatures; a pair of eccentric guide rollers, rotatable about respective axes, the pair of guide rollers positioned opposite one another to receive signatures therebetween from the moving transport surface; and a diverter positioned downstream of the guide rollers. The diverter is movable between a first position to divert signatures received from the guide rollers to a first downstream moving transport surface and a second position to divert signatures received from the guide rollers to a second downstream moving transport surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: GOSS INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS INCInventors: David Elliot Whitten, Joseph Adrian St. Ours, Gerald Roger Douillard
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Publication number: 20110088578Abstract: A folder superstructure includes a former, a first top of former roll located upstream of the former and having a compressible outer layer and a second top of former roll forming a nip with the first top of former roll. A method for operating a printing press is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Applicant: Gross International Americas, Inc.Inventors: Gerald Roger Douillard, Douglas Joseph Dawley, Daniel Matthew Perdue, Brian Robert Elkinson
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Publication number: 20080126019Abstract: A method which broadly comprises the following steps: (a) submitting to a tool data library a request which includes the basic tool parameters to generate tool specification parameters; (b) generating tool specification parameters from the tool data library based on the submitted basic tool parameters; (c) importing the generated tool specification parameters into a parametric tool template; and (d) processing the imported tool specification parameters and parametric tool template using a CAD software program to create a tool specification, wherein the tool specification comprises a representation of a three-dimensional model of the tool and associated drawing specifications for the tool. Also disclosed is a system which broadly comprises: a requester workstation; a tool data library; a source of parametric tool templates modifiable with imported tool parameters; and a source of a CAD software program for processing the parametric tool templates and imported tool parameters to create tool specifications.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2006Publication date: May 29, 2008Inventors: James Andrew Lanzarotta, Roy Dean Meece, Leonard Joseph Hermann, James Allen Baird, Gerald Roger Geverdt, Leon Eliot Hughes, Nick Fanelli
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Patent number: 6902360Abstract: A hole of a hole size is cut in a composite material workpiece by selecting a milling cutter having an effective cutter size less than the hole size, mounting the composite material workpiece in operable relation to the milling cutter, rotating the milling cutter about an axis of rotation, and advancing the milling cutter longitudinally into the composite material workpiece parallel to the axis of rotation at a rate of longitudinal advance, while laterally moving the milling cutter perpendicular to the axis of rotation to interpolate the hole. The rate of longitudinal advance is controlled such that the hole remains substantially a flat-bottomed hole as it is cut. The composite material workpiece is desirably affixed to a backing fixture with an adhesive material during the cutting of the hole.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Roy Dean Meece, Jeffrey Kevin Back, Roger John Tuchfarber, Gerald Roger Geverdt, Michael Jay Brunck
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Patent number: 6780089Abstract: A system and method of removing a predetermined amount of material from a bottom portion of a dovetail slot in a gas turbine engine disk, including the steps of configuring a designated flow path through the dovetail slot and providing a flow of abrasive media through the flow path a designated number of cycles so that a substantially uniform amount of material is removed from the dovetail slot bottom portion. The method also includes the step of sealing a pressure surface of the dovetail slot to prevent the abrasive media from flowing thereagainst.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2002Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul Yin-Pu Pan, Gerald Roger Geverdt, Michael Jay Brunck
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Publication number: 20040106365Abstract: A device for defining a designated flow path through a dovetail slot in a gas turbine engine disk, wherein a longitudinal axis extends through the dovetail slot. The device includes a first portion having a bottom section contoured to form the flow path in conjunction with a surface of a bottom portion of the dovetail slot and a second portion shaped to be removably retained in a pressure surface portion of the dovetail slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2002Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventors: Paul Yin-Pu Pan, Gerald Roger Geverdt, Michael Jay Brunck
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Publication number: 20040106359Abstract: A system and method of removing a predetermined amount of material from a bottom portion of a dovetail slot in a gas turbine engine disk, including the steps of configuring a designated flow path through the dovetail slot and providing a flow of abrasive media through the flow path a designated number of cycles so that a substantially uniform amount of material is removed from the dovetail slot bottom portion. The method also includes the step of sealing a pressure surface of the dovetail slot to prevent the abrasive media from flowing thereagainst.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2002Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventors: Paul Yin-Pu Pan, Gerald Roger Geverdt, Michael Jay Brunck
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Patent number: 6736706Abstract: A device for defining a designated flow path through a dovetail slot in a gas turbine engine disk, wherein a longitudinal axis extends through the dovetail slot. The device includes a first portion having a bottom section contoured to form the flow path in conjunction with a surface of a bottom portion of the dovetail slot and a second portion shaped to be removably retained in a pressure surface portion of the dovetail slot.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2002Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul Yin-Pu Pan, Gerald Roger Geverdt, Michael Jay Brunck
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Patent number: 6705219Abstract: The web-fed rotary offset printing machine utilizes a blanket belt onto which two or more colors are offset and which prints the two or more colors at once onto a material web. The blanket belt travels about guide rollers which have a lesser mass and/or a lesser diameter than the form cylinders which offset the colors onto the blanket belt. If several impression nips—blanket to web nips—are formed along the travel path of the material web, they are located so close to one another that fan out register errors cannot occur.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2001Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Gerald Roger Douillard, Eric Michael Lapine, Michael Robert Lemelin
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Patent number: 6615726Abstract: A method for identifying a lateral position of a vibrator roll geared to a plate cylinder in a printing press includes the steps of sensing a reference lateral position of a vibrator roll, setting a counter to a setting corresponding to the reference lateral position of the vibrator roll and rotating a plate cylinder. The lateral position of the vibrator roll changes as a result of the rotating of the plate cylinder and the counter changes as a function of the rotating of the plate cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Gerald Roger Douillard, Mark Bernard Dumais, Michael Thomas Woroniak, John Allan Manley, John Antonios Panteleos, Charles Francis Svenson
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Publication number: 20030152432Abstract: A hole of a hole size is cut in a composite material workpiece by selecting a milling cutter having an effective cutter size less than the hole size, mounting the composite material workpiece in operable relation to the milling cutter, rotating the milling cutter about an axis of rotation, and advancing the milling cutter longitudinally into the composite material workpiece parallel to the axis of rotation at a rate of longitudinal advance, while laterally moving the milling cutter perpendicular to the axis of rotation to interpolate the hole. The rate of longitudinal advance is controlled such that the hole remains substantially a flat-bottomed hole as it is cut. The composite material workpiece is desirably affixed to a backing fixture with an adhesive material during the cutting of the hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2002Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventors: Roy Dean Meece, Jeffrey Kevin Back, Roger John Tuchfarber, Gerald Roger Geverdt, Michael Jay Brunck
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Patent number: 6547495Abstract: A method for reaming a hole in a metal substrate that minimizes the tendency of long and stringy metal chips to be formed that can surround the reamer with a “steel wool-like” mesh or mass of material, as well as an improved reamer for carrying out this method. The reaming method involves longitudinally advancing the chamfered end of the reamer into the hole at an increased rate of at least about 5 mils (0.13 mm) per cutting edge as the hole is reamed during rotation of the reamer. For holes or bores having a length (L) that is at least about 3 times the cutting diameter (D) of the reamer, a preferred subsequent step is to momentarily reduce the rate of advance of the chamfered end into the hole to about 1 mil (0.025 mm) or less per cutting edge for from about 1 to about 5 rotations of the reamer.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Roy Dean Meece, Gerald Roger Geverdt, James Allen Baird, Jr.