Patents by Inventor Alexander BLANK

Alexander BLANK 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).

  • Publication number: 20240328133
    Abstract: A tank for a pressure-assist toilet flush system includes a base having an outlet configured for discharging water from the tank and a cover connected to the base, such that the cover and the base define a cavity to hold water to be discharged through the outlet. The tank may have a wall having a passage therethrough and extending upward from the bottom of the base and at least partially surrounding the outlet. The tank may also have a tray engaged with the base within the cavity and spaced upward from the bottom of the base. The tank may further have an air inducer assembly including a housing having a chamber and an outlet connected to the tank, a water inlet, and an air inlet, with a tube extending into the chamber and toward the outlet. The tube has a passage extending from the water inlet through the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Jasris Jasnie, Alexander Blank, Timothy J. Simpson
  • Publication number: 20240068217
    Abstract: An air inducer assembly includes a housing having a chamber, an outlet located downstream from the chamber for connection to an inlet of a flush tank, a water inlet and an air inlet in communication with the chamber, and a tube extending into the chamber and toward the outlet. The tube has a passage therethrough extending from the air inlet through the tube to place the air inlet in communication with the outlet, and air is drawn from the air inlet through the tube and into the outlet by a flow of the water past a distal end of the tube. The assembly further includes features such one or more ribs extending from the tube to the wall(s) defining the chamber and spaced around a periphery of the tube and/or the tube having a distal end that extends out of the chamber and into the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander Blank, Jasris Jasnie, Timothy J. Simpson
  • Patent number: 10279607
    Abstract: A printing assembly has at least one transport direction defined by a transport path provided for the transport of printing material through the printing assembly. The printing assembly has at least one first support body on which at least one first image-generating device is arranged and which at least one first support body extends both in the transport direction and in a transverse direction that is oriented horizontally and orthogonally to the transport direction. The printing assembly has at least one first temperature-control device for the targeted generation of a temperature difference between a first point of the at least one first support body and at least one second point of the at least one first support body. That second point is spaced apart from the first point, at least in the transport direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AG
    Inventors: Thomas Baumeister, Alexander Blank, Klaus Förtig, Andreas Rumpel, Christian Schlund, Patrick Walter
  • Publication number: 20180361764
    Abstract: A printing assembly has at least one transport direction defined by a transport path provided for the transport of printing material through the printing assembly. The printing assembly has at least one first support body on which at least one first image-generating device is arranged and which at least one first support body extends both in the transport direction and in a transverse direction that is oriented horizontally and orthogonally to the transport direction. The printing assembly has at least one first temperature-control device for the targeted generation of a temperature difference between a first point of the at least one first support body and at least one second point of the at least one first support body. That second point is spaced apart from the first point, at least in the transport direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas BAUMEISTER, Alexander BLANK, Klaus FÖRTIG, Andreas RUMPEL, Christian SCHLUND, Patrick WALTER
  • Patent number: 9875434
    Abstract: A method for printing a strip-shaped material to be printed uses a printing unit of a roller printer. Output data for actuating at least one printing machine printing unit component, which determines the shape of printing images, is generated from stored template image data of a complete printing image in order to generate a printed complete printing image. The complete printing image is determined or described in a primary data packet, and the dimensions of the complete image, which dimensions are measured in a template direction, are assigned to the complete printing image in the template image data or the primary data packet. The dimensions of the complete image are compared with a threshold, and if the threshold is exceeded, the complete printing image is divided into a plurality of sections with respect to the template direction, with the plurality of sections being determined or described in a plurality of secondary data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AG
    Inventors: Alexander Blank, Frank Huppmann, Christian Jank
  • Publication number: 20160155030
    Abstract: A method for printing a strip-shaped material to be printed uses a printing unit of a roller printer. Output data for actuating at least one printing machine printing unit component, which determines the shape of printing images, is generated from stored template image data of a complete printing image in order to generate a printed complete printing image. The complete printing image is determined or described in a primary data packet, and the dimensions of the complete image, which dimensions are measured in a template direction, are assigned to the complete printing image in the template image data or the primary data packet. The dimensions of the complete image are compared with a threshold, and if the threshold is exceeded, the complete printing image is divided into a plurality of sections with respect to the template direction, with the plurality of sections being determined or described in a plurality of secondary data packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Alexander BLANK, Frank HUPPMANN, Christian JANK