Patents by Inventor Christoph Alfons Schmitt

Christoph Alfons Schmitt 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: 8127671
    Abstract: A printing unit of a printing machine is configured having at least two frame parts, a spacing between which can be modified. Several form cylinders and several transfer cylinders, which cooperate to print a web, are located on each of the at least two frame parts. The distance between the two frame parts is less when the printing unit is closed than it is when the printing unit is open. The printing unit includes at least two web guiding elements. A first tangent is established by a transfer cylinder of a stationary one of the frame parts. A second tangent is established by the at least two web guiding elements. The first tangent and the second tangent are spaced from each other at a distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Christoph Alfons Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20110126728
    Abstract: A printing unit of a printing machine is configured having at least two frame parts, a spacing between which can be modified. Several forme cylinders and several transfer cylinders, which cooperate to print a web, are located on each of the at least two frame parts. The distance between the two frame parts is less when the printing unit is closed than it is when the printing unit is open. The printing unit includes at least two web guiding elements. A first tangent is established by a transfer cylinder of a stationary one of the frame parts. A second tangent is established by the at least two web guiding elements. The first tangent and the second tangent are spaced from each other at a distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventor: Christoph Alfons Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20100107910
    Abstract: A printing tower is comprised of at least two superimposed printing groups and at least two lateral frames A distance between the two lateral frames can be varied in a horizontal direction. Each of these two lateral frames accommodates at least two of the superimposed printing groups. At least one of the two lateral frames can be moved horizontally between a functional position, in which the lateral frames adjoin each other; and an open position in which the two lateral frames are spaced apart from each other. An elevating platform is situated between the two lateral frames when they are in their open position. The elevating platform can be lowered into a bottom resting position so that the two frame sets can be moved into their closed functional position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Christian Arnold, Christoph Alfons Schmitt
  • Patent number: 6601681
    Abstract: A drive mechanism for a rotating component of a printing machine uses a drive motor. The drive motor is connected to the rotating component by a coupling and is supported for axial displacement between coupled and uncoupled positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erich Max Karl Gerner, Christoph Alfons Schmitt