Patents by Inventor Burton C. Polglase

Burton C. Polglase 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).

  • Patent number: 4159823
    Abstract: A multiple product folder in a high speed rotary web printing machine for the production of signatures with various folds has a plurality of various operating cylinders, such as a pair of web cutting cylinders, a signature collecting cylinder, signature transfer and folding cylinders for one transversal and for a second parallel fold and signature delivering cylinders, wherein certain cylinders are driven by gear trains for accomplishing more than one slow-down speed, which gear trains have shiftable couplings for changing the speed of the transfer cylinders from a full speed to a slow-down speed according to the requirements of forwarding and delivering of certain signatures, whereas a shifting from a slow-down to a full speed can be performed for a certain folding action and the slow-down delivery yet can be maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1979
    Assignee: Wood Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Bryer, Dominick Padalino, Burton C. Polglase