Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Taylor & Aust, P.C.
  • Method and apparatus for transferring a paper web
    Patent number: 7089839
    Abstract: A method of, and apparatus for, transferring a web, in particular a paper web or cardboard web or an insertion tail severed from the web, from a web-discharging web-guiding surface, via a web conveying apparatus, to the next structural unit of a machine for producing and/or handling the continuous paper web or cardboard web, the insertion tail is detached from the web-guiding surface by way of at least one brief high-energy air jet. The present invention provides that in the case of a web of high grammage, immediately once the tail has been detached from the web-guiding surface, the tail, which has been severed at least on a preliminary basis, is completely severed by an additional mechanical severing arrangement and, by way of its newly formed start, gripped, and passed on, by way of the web conveying apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Allan Broom
  • Media detack from an intermediate printing member
    Patent number: 7086713
    Abstract: An inkjet printer for printing on a print medium having an obverse side and a reverse side, including a rotating intermediate transfer member for receiving a print image and transferring the print image to the obverse side of the print medium and a rotating drag force applicator located proximate to and defining a nip with the intermediate transfer member, the drag force applicator being configured for applying a drag force to the reverse side of the print medium in the nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward Lynn Triplett
  • Method and apparatus for adjusting the rate of vaporization
    Patent number: 7085481
    Abstract: A vaporization device including a housing, a wick, at least one heating element and a rotational coupling. The wick is partially contained within the housing and extends from the housing. The at least one heating element being proximate the wick. The rotational coupling interconnects the heating element with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Dekko Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron L. Hooks, Robert G. Cox
  • Velocity head compensated valve assembly
    Patent number: 7077158
    Abstract: A valve assembly includes a valve body configured to define a chamber forming a primary flowpath between an inlet port and a discharge port, an isolator disposed inside said chamber, and a poppet having a bore. The isolator is defined by a skirt and a stem, with the stem coupled to the valve body, and the skirt affixed to the stem. The poppet is disposed inside the chamber, and the bore is slidably received over the skirt. The isolator is configured to guide the poppet relative to the valve body, and the skirt is configured to shield the bore and isolate the poppet from substantially all of a dynamic pressure component of pressurized fluid when pressurized fluid flows from the inlet port past a portion of the poppet and then through the discharge port of the valve assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Valcor Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: Yuri Vladimirovich Gerasimov
  • Next connect electrical receptacle assembly
    Patent number: 7075769
    Abstract: An electrical assembly including a plurality of electrical modules, each of the plurality of electrical modules being sequentially electrically connected to at least one other of the plurality of electrical modules. Each of the plurality of electrical modules including a coding circuit, each of the coding circuits interacting to identify a number of the plurality of electrical modules that are sequentially electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Pent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian K. Rupert, Gavin L. Replogle
  • Sensor with alignment self compensation
    Patent number: 7071480
    Abstract: A material web attribute detection system with the material web having a first side and a second side. The system includes a radiation source located proximate to the first side of the material web and emitting radiation toward the material web, and a radiation detection array located proximate to the second side of the material web and producing a plurality of signals based on the radiation detected from the radiation source. A processor is included which utilizes the plurality of signals to determine a lateral offset and a gap size of the radiation detection array relative to the radiation source. The processor can then compensate for the radiation detection array and radiation source relative misalignment using the plurality of signals, the lateral offset and the gap size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Pekka Typpo
  • Twin wire former
    Patent number: 7067042
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a twin wire former in a machine for the production of a fiber web, especially a paper or cardboard web from at least one fiber stock suspension, including a vertical twin wire segment having two wires running over a peripheral area of a turning element, especially a guide roll whose surface is preferably not equipped with suction and is smooth or substantially smooth; and in that at least one separation element, such as a transfer suction box is provided indirectly or immediately following the guide roll that separates the top wire from the bottom wire on which the fibrous web is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Moser, Volker Schmidt-Rohr
  • Imaging apparatus and method for facilitating printing
    Patent number: 7063399
    Abstract: A method for facilitating printing includes the steps of providing to a consumer a first printer containing a fixed amount of imaging substance; receiving back from the consumer the first printer after a substantial portion of the imaging substance has been used; and exchanging the first printer with an exchange printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Jon Eade
  • System having a carrier substrate and a Ti/P or A1/P coating
    Patent number: 7063658
    Abstract: The invention refers to a system having a substrate as carrier and a coating deposited on the substrate. The invention is characterized in that the coating comprises at least the elements titanium (Ti) or aluminum (Al), respectively, and phosphorus (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Inventors: Udo Grabowy, Heinz Werner Busch
  • Method and apparatus for the production and treatment of a material web
    Patent number: 7059066
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the production and processing of a material web, specifically a paper or cardboard web are described, whereby the material web is first wound and subsequently unwound for a subsequent finishing process and whereby the material web after being wound and prior to the finishing process is remoistened so that its moisture immediately prior to the finishing process is higher than that immediately prior to winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Joerg Maurer
  • Catheter with concentric balloons for radiogas delivery and booster radiosources for use therewith
    Patent number: 7056274
    Abstract: A catheter assembly for use in radiation therapy of a patient by insertion into a vessel, passageway or cavity to deliver radioactive material to a treatment site within the patient. The distal end of the catheter assembly (10) includes a noncompliant inner balloon (18) therearound that is inflatable with a non-radioactive fluid (such as CO2 or saline or contrast medium), and an outer balloon (16) therearound that is inflated with radioactive fluid (such as radiogas like xenon-133 ) and is noncompliant to conform the vessel wall to the balloon's shape at the treatment site for optimal distribution of dose. The inner balloon allows reduction in volume of the amount of radioactive fluid necessary to achieve a desired dose. The inner and outer balloons (112,108) may be affixed to inner and outer catheters (104,102), respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Inventors: Marc G. Apple, William D. Voorhees, III
  • Media type sensing method for an imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 7049620
    Abstract: A method of correcting for sensitivity variation of media sensors includes determining a first signal level corresponding to a first calibration media having a first glossiness; determining a second signal level corresponding to a second calibration media having a second glossiness, the second glossiness being greater than the first glossiness; and determining a corrected normalized signal level ratio of an unknown media based on the first signal level of the first calibration media and the second signal level of the second calibration media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: John Philip Bolash, Mahesan Chelvayohan, Patrick Laurence Kroger
  • Orthopaedic retractor
    Patent number: D522140
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Nemcomed
    Inventors: Greg Stalcup, Troy Knapp
  • Wireless animal receiver collar
    Patent number: D522187
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Innotek, Inc.
    Inventors: John W. Nottingham, Nick E. Stanca, Craig Saunders, Duane Gerig
  • Male plug configuration
    Patent number: D522462
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Pent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Shawn J. Kondas
  • Trailer
    Patent number: D522921
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Tailgator Concepts, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald F. Rugh, Brian L. Rugh
  • Orthopaedic retractor
    Patent number: D523142
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Nemcomed
    Inventors: Greg Stalcup, Troy Knapp
  • Wireless animal training transmitter
    Patent number: D523768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Innotek, Inc.
    Inventors: William E. Kaufman, Todd A. Spiegelberg
  • Wireless collar mounted animal receiver unit
    Patent number: D523998
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Innotek, Inc.
    Inventors: John W. Nottingham, Nick E. Stanca, Craig Saunders, Duane Gerig
  • Clamshell dental cassette
    Patent number: D526064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Symmetry Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy E. Wood