Patents by Inventor Eddie Smelten

Eddie Smelten 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).

  • Method for transferring an end of a material web
    Patent number: 6251053
    Abstract: A folder for a rotary printing press, having at least one copy-guiding cylinder and, on the one copy-guiding cylinder, gripping devices for gripping one end of a copy, includes a cutting cylinder cooperating with the one copy-guiding cylinder, and copy-guiding devices provided on the cutting cylinder, the gripping devices of the one copy-guiding cylinder and the copy-guiding devices of the cutting cylinder being retractably and extensibly movable substantially parallel to normals to axes of rotation of the one copy-guiding cylinder and the cutting cylinder; and a method of operating the folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Serge Lanvin, Eddie Smelten, Thierry Vauchelle
  • Folder having a cylinder with retractable grippers and a cooperating cylinder with retractable copy guiding devices
    Patent number: 6159138
    Abstract: A folder for a rotary printing press, having at least one copy-guiding cylinder and, on the one copy-guiding cylinder, gripping devices for gripping one end of a copy, includes a cutting cylinder cooperating with the one copy-guiding cylinder, and copy-guiding devices provided on the cutting cylinder, the gripping devices of the one copy-guiding cylinder and the copy-guiding devices of the cutting cylinder being retractably and extensibly movable substantially parallel to normals to axes of rotation of the one copy-guiding cylinder and the cutting cylinder; and a method of operating the folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Serge Lanvin, Eddie Smelten, Thierry Vauchelle
  • Quarter fold folding device having a balancing system
    Patent number: 5458557
    Abstract: A quarter fold folding device is described, having a quarter fold blade suspended by two opposite ends from two pivots, which are free to rotate with respect to the blade and are securely fastened to two connecting rods at one of their ends. The connecting rods are, at their opposite ends, rotationally driven in opposite directions, respectively, by means of two horizontal shafts rotating about their longitudinal axis. The rotating shafts are simultaneously rotationally driven in opposite directions respectively about two horizontal and parallel central axes, so that when the two rotating shafts perform a complete revolution about the parallel central axes, the two opposite ends of the folding blade driven by the connecting rods describe two parallel vertical segments of a straight line between a bottom position and a top position of the quarter fold blade. The quarter fold blade in the bottom position engages a signature between two folding cylinders, so as to form a longitudinal fold in the signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Gerard Bladie, Eddie Smelten