Patents Assigned to R. R. Donnelley & Sons
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Patent number: 6192608Abstract: In order to create interest in advertising pieces in a consumer, a pop-up advertising piece includes a booklet-shaped advertiser movable from a closed position to an open position. An anchoring strip is in vertical confronting relation to a normally inwardly facing surface of one of the cover portions and has top and bottom edges secured to the normally inwardly facing surface in general proximity to top and bottom edges thereof. An internal substrate has one vertical edge secured to the one of the cover portions opposite the anchoring strip and the other vertical edge is secured to the anchoring strip. A first fold line is provided on the internal substrate in spaced relation to a generally vertical fold line of the booklet-shaped advertiser when it is in the closed position. The internal substrate also has a second fold line on the side of the anchoring strip opposite the first fold line.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventor: Bruce D. Williams
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Patent number: 6189028Abstract: A binding line system includes a marquee, a line controller arranged to control a binding line, and an auxiliary controller interfaced with the line controller. The line controller is arranged to provide line controller events according to a first protocol, and the auxiliary controller is arranged to provide auxiliary controller events according to a second protocol, wherein the first and second protocols are different. The binding line system includes a first database specific to the first protocol, and a second database specific to the second protocol. A marquee controller accesses the first database in response to a line controller event in order to retrieve a line controller display message having a database format in order to direct the line controller display message to the display device.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1998Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: R.R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventor: Brice Alan Bucher
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Patent number: 6175846Abstract: Pages described in a PostScript® file are interpreted by an interpreter and imposed and rendered on a flat by a raster output device. The PostScript® showpage operator is redefined (by redefining the EndPage and BeginPage procedures) to select the pages from the PostScript® file to be rendered on the flat and to properly position the selected pages on the flat. Non-selected pages in the PostScript® file (which will not be rendered on the flat) are interpreted by specifying the raster output device as a “pseudo null device,” which dictates that all graphics and font information from the non-selected pages will be processed without effectively transmitting the non-selected pages to a raster memory for rendering.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1998Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventor: J. Thomas Shively
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Patent number: 6170231Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a carton from a blank sheet of material, in line, and wrapping it about articles of a predetermined size including cutting and scoring blades which are automatically preset according to parameters previously stored, for these particular articles, in a programmable controller.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1998Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventor: Donald E. Detterman
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Patent number: 6155775Abstract: An apparatus and method feeding, destacking and orienting books for subsequent operation such as a jacket wrapping operation. This is achieved by feeding stacks of books forwardly on a conveyor into a destacking station. The books are stripped one at a time from a stack at a stacking station and fed forwardly. A sensor senses the orientation of the book and controls a selectively turning, usually of alternating books, to have all the book backbones facing in the same direction while they are traveling forwardly.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1999Date of Patent: December 5, 2000Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventors: Paul E. Depinet, Carolyn S. Lambert, Donald E. Detterman
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Patent number: 6123285Abstract: A device for mounting a roll of material that includes a fiber core around which the material is placed. The device includes a lightweight, polymeric collett that is inserted into the fiber core. The polymeric collett has a plurality of individual segments that expand radially with respect to a central axis of the roll of material. Each of the plurality of individual segments includes an inner wall and an outer wall. The inner walls of the plurality of individual segments define a cavity. The outer walls engage an interior surface of the fiber core. An arbor engages the inner walls of the plurality of individual segments and forces them outwardly to place the outer walls into tight, frictional engagement with the interior surface of the fiber core.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1997Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventors: Jerry K. Border, Daryl L. Overmeyer
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Patent number: 6098063Abstract: A device and method that determine conditions under which a break in a web of a printing system is more likely to occur store data pertaining to one or more attributes associated with the manufacture of each web used in a plurality of printing runs. The device and method then implement a correlation analysis, such as a decision-tree induction analysis, using the stored data to determine if there is a correlation between the one or more web manufacturing attributes and the occurrence of a web break. The device and method may store web manufacturing data indicating one or more of a mill site, a web manufacturing machine, a date, a reel number, a reel set, a log position, any auxiliary web manufacturing equipment, a web tensile strength, a web moisture content and/or a coefficient of friction associated with the manufacture of the webs used in the plurality of printing runs.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1997Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & SonsInventors: Zhenhua Xie, Did Bun Wong, Robert Evans
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Patent number: 6093279Abstract: A machine for attaching a book cover to endsheets within an adhesive is set forth. The adhesive is applied while it is within a predetermined temperature range. The machine includes a housing, an application roller journalled within the housing, and a metering roller journalled within the housing. The metering roll is axially parallel to the application roller and nearly contacts the application roller at a nip. The region above the nip defined by the application and metering rollers, and two internal seals with the housing is an adhesive reservoir. The adhesive remains in this reservoir before it is applied by the application roller. The machine also includes a level detector which detects the level of the adhesive in the adhesive reservoir. The level detector is coupled to a controller and produces a low level signal when the level of the adhesive is below a predetermined level threshold.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 1998Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventors: Don E. Detterman, Carolyn S. Lambert, Jerald P. Danhoff, Jeffrey D. Habegger
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Patent number: 6088710Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for assembling fulfillment pieces with custom documents in an efficient manner. The fulfillment pieces, which may have fixed and/or variable information, are produced in line on the same press as the custom documents. This "on demand" fulfillment is accomplished through the manipulation of an original database containing document recipient information. The database manipulation includes adding records (rows) or columns to the original database to represent the custom document and the fulfillment pieces. The modified databases are used to create press command files, which are combined according to the configuration of the database to produce ordered output from a press.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 1997Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: R.R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventors: Mark G. Dreyer, James L. Warmus
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Patent number: 6068117Abstract: A book insert CD carrier device is provided that allows for the unitary packaging and thus marketing of books and compact disks or other similar media. The carrier device is constructed of a single sheet of paper board that is easily assembled into a carrier that holds compact disks and that is easily secured to the inner or outer surface of the front or back cover of a book. Due to the configuration of the paper board sheet, which includes a plurality of panels that are divided by a plurality of hinge lines, the assembly process involves folding specified panels and securing the panels as necessary to create a pocket within which the compact disks are stored. The carrier further includes a cover that features a tear strip seal for enclosing the CDs within the pocket. A set of panels cooperate to form a sturdy base by which the carrier is secured to the cover of the book.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & SonsInventor: Annalee Koehn
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Patent number: 6069601Abstract: A display for soft proofing an image to be reproduced using a set of selected printing colors includes a plurality of display elements each for displaying a color substantially spectrally matched to one of a set of printing colors.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 1997Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Assignees: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Graphic Arts Technical FoundationInventors: John T. Lind, Donald N. Reeves, Richard D. Warner
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Patent number: 6059316Abstract: In order to economically and effectively be capable of marketing a product with a book, an insert to be bound into the book comprises an envelope for carrying the product. The envelope has a first edge to be bound into the book and a sealed opening along a second edge for removing the product. The insert includes a barrier for isolating the product from the edge to be bound into the book. Also, a book having a plurality of pages bound into a cover along a spine edge can include the insert wherein the first edge is bound into the cover along with the pages. Further, a method of forming a book having the insert includes the step of providing the envelope along with a plurality of signatures each comprising a different plurality of pages. The signatures and the envelope are fed in a preselected order to a collating conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1997Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventor: John L. Whittington
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Patent number: 6056492Abstract: In order to provide a bookmark for a book, a method of making a book includes the step of applying a releasing adhesive to an inner surface of a front or rear cover having an initially greater width. The outer portion of this cover is then folded inwardly along a fold line so as to be in generally confronting relation with the inner surface of that cover to cause the width after folding to generally correspond to the width of the other cover. The outer portion of that cover is folded along the fold line so as to place the releasing adhesive in adhesive contact with confronting surfaces of both the folded outer portion and the remainder of that cover to adhesively secure them together after they have been folded into confronting relation.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 1998Date of Patent: May 2, 2000Assignee: R.R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventor: David William Hudson
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Patent number: 6048446Abstract: The present invention provides several methods for engraving gravure cylinders much more rapidly and at a higher resolution while, at the same time, reducing the engraving cost. The present invention employs a resist that is deposited onto the surface of a gravure cylinder. The resist is capable of being physically and/or chemically changed in response to being exposed to a form of actinic energy, such as a laser beam. The exposed areas of resist allow a material, such as chromium, to be plated onto the surface of the gravure cylinder to form walls that define cells therebetween. In use, the cells contain ink for printing the desired patterns of text and/or images.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1998Date of Patent: April 11, 2000Assignee: R.R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventor: A. John Michaelis
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Patent number: 6030330Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for producing a signature having a backbone fold defining a closed end and an intermediate fold transverse to the backbone fold using a reduced width of paper coming from a roll. The method and apparatus reduce gusset wrinkles adjacent the folds by slitting ribbons formed from the paper web along a trail edge and a lead edge of a closed end forming the signature. Preferably, the slitting operation leaves an uncut portion of the closed end of the signature extending across the intermediate fold from a side edge to the trail edge to stabilize the ribbon at the area to receive the intermediate fold. The lead edge and trail edge are slit very substantially to expose long areas of fibers for gluing to form a book backbone.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1998Date of Patent: February 29, 2000Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventor: Lawrence A. Diehl
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Patent number: 6009421Abstract: A device and a method use a decision-tree induction analysis to determine a web tension ratio range for which web breaks are less likely to occur within a printing system based on web tension data collected from a plurality of previous runs of the printing system. The device and method also measure two are more web tensions during operation of the printing system, calculate a web tension ratio and compare that calculated web tension ratio with the determined web tension ratio range. When the calculated web tension ratio falls outside of the determined web tension ratio range, the device and method alert a user to the fact that a condition leading to a web break is present and/or control the measured web tensions to drive the calculated web tension ratio to be within the determined web tension ratio range.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1997Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventors: Zhenhua Xie, Did Bun Wong, Robert Evans
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Patent number: 5987461Abstract: A press controller for operating an electronic press to produce a plurality of diverse publications from data stored in associated publication databases establishes a job database having data from the publication databases stored therein and controls the electronic press in accordance with the data in the job database. The present invention allows books of diverse publications to be co-mailed and thereby obtain postal discounts.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1996Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: R.R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventors: Mark G. Dreyer, James L. Warmus
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Patent number: 5963968Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling an electronic press develops first and second sets of template data representing associated first and second template pages, respectively. Each set of template data includes master data representing fixed information to be printed and area data representing an area of a page in which variable information is to be printed. A database is developed having a number of entries, each of which represents variable printed information. An electronic press is responsive to sets of template data and the database to print the first and second template pages with selected variable printed information.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1998Date of Patent: October 5, 1999Assignee: R.R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventors: James L. Warmus, Mark G. Dreyer
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Patent number: 5918729Abstract: A bindery gathering chain and conveyor apparatus with a first and second idling sprocket mounted in fixed relation to one another to define first and second fixed reference points and an endless conveyor chain which rides on the first and second idling sprockets and a moveable support located relative to the first and second fixed reference points. A third sprocket is attached to the moveable support and also has the endless conveyor chain riding on it. There is an actuator moving the moveable support and the third sprocket to apply a first force to the moveable support for a high chain-tensioning mode of operation during start or stop for a predetermined period and also to move the moveable support and the third sprocket to provide a second, lower force for a lower chain-tensioning mode of operation during other operating modes.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: July 6, 1999Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventor: Bobby Chang
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Patent number: D424435Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1999Date of Patent: May 9, 2000Assignee: R. R. Donnelley & Sons CompanyInventor: Annalee Koehn
