Patents by Inventor Edward A. Zumbiel
Edward A. Zumbiel 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).
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Patent number: 11396155Abstract: A cutting and/or creasing rule is produced on a 3D printing machine which may be mounted on a board for use is a die for cutting and/or creasing a sheet of paperboard or other material into a blank for a carton. With the advent of additive manufacturing, i.e. 3D printing, it is now possible to eliminate traditional slotted die boards with generally rectangular steel cutting and creasing rules and replace same with surface printed boards with three-dimensional creasing and cutting rules.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Publication number: 20210307426Abstract: A face shield to protect an individual from being spayed in the face and against inhaling germs and other foreign bodies is also disposable after use. The face shield is adapted to be mounted on the head of a user and provides sufficient space for the user to don eyeglasses and a mask. The face shield may be made of a disposable sheet of relatively thin paperboard and includes a window for viewing by the user. The face shield can be inexpensively and quickly manufactured in significant quantities. This enables the face shield to be removed and discarded after a single use and replaced by an identical face shield.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Patent number: 10619307Abstract: A support system for holding a sheet of material being cut by a laser has a base and a number of needles extending upwardly from the base. A vacuum generator or suction mechanism is in communication with a lumen in each needle to hold the sheet atop the bed of needles and spaced from the base so as to avoid scorching the sheet by the laser.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventor: Edward A. Zumbiel
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Patent number: 10315376Abstract: A method and system for digitally scoring a substrate prior to completing a carton blank is disclosed. After digitally printing a substrate, it is processed through a series of scoring wheels, male on top, female wheel on bottom. The scoring wheels (and transfer belts which help move the substrate through the wheels) are controlled from the same computer file used to create the graphic image. Subsequent to the first scoring sequence, the substrate is turned 90 degrees and a second scoring sequence takes place. After the scoring sequences have been performed, the substrate continues to the laser die cutter where the same computer or digital file determines where to physically cut the sheet into a carton blank.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventor: Edward A. Zumbiel
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Publication number: 20180154602Abstract: A cutting and/or creasing rule is produced on a 3D printing machine which may be mounted on a board for use is a die for cutting and/or creasing a sheet of paperboard or other material into a blank for a carton. With the advent of additive manufacturing, i.e. 3D printing, it is now possible to eliminate traditional slotted die boards with generally rectangular steel cutting and creasing rules and replace same with surface printed boards with three-dimensional creasing and cutting rules.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Publication number: 20170231344Abstract: The invention relates to paperboard smartphone cases and paperboard containers, and more particularly, to do-it yourself paperboard smartphone cases and paperboard containers manufactured to enable households and small businesses to produce custom smartphone cases and product containers using inexpensive, readily available inkjet printing equipment and associated methods/systems for doing so.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventor: Edward A. Zumbiel
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Publication number: 20160361781Abstract: A support system for holding a sheet of material being cut by a laser has a base and a number of needles extending upwardly from the base. A vacuum generator or suction mechanism is in communication with a lumen in each needle to hold the sheet atop the bed of needles and spaced from the base so as to avoid scorching the sheet by the laser.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2016Publication date: December 15, 2016Applicant: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventor: Edward A. Zumbiel
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Patent number: 9403615Abstract: A carton blank is assembled into a carton for beverage containers, the blank having a number of panels including a top panel, a bottom panel and a pair of side panels each joined by a fold line to an adjacent one of the panels. A number of end flaps are each joined by an end flap fold line to one of the panels and the end flaps are adapted to be folded upon selected other end flaps to form composite end panels of the carton. A carrying handle is formed in a selected one of the panels and adapted to be grasped by a user to carry the erected carton filled with the beverage containers. The blank includes a primary reinforcing panel joined to one of the panels such that the primary reinforcing panel may be folded into face to face juxtaposition with the selected one of the panels.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Publication number: 20140128238Abstract: A method and system for digitally scoring a substrate prior to completing a carton blank is disclosed. After digitally printing a substrate, it is processed through a series of scoring wheels, male on top, female wheel on bottom. The scoring wheels (and transfer belts which help move the substrate through the wheels) are controlled from the same computer file used to create the graphic image. Subsequent to the first scoring sequence, the substrate is turned 90 degrees and a second scoring sequence takes place. After the scoring sequences have been performed, the substrate continues to the laser die cutter where the same computer or digital file determines where to physically cut the sheet into a carton blank.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: THE C.W. ZUMBIEL COMPANYInventor: Edward A. Zumbiel
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Publication number: 20110233091Abstract: A carton blank is assembled into a carton for beverage containers, the blank having a number of panels including a top panel, a bottom panel and a pair of side panels each joined by a fold line to an adjacent one of the panels. A number of end flaps are each joined by an end flap fold line to one of the panels and the end flaps are adapted to be folded upon selected other end flaps to form composite end panels of the carton. A carrying handle is formed in a selected one of the panels and adapted to be grasped by a user to carry the erected carton filled with the beverage containers. The blank includes a primary reinforcing panel joined to one of the panels such that the primary reinforcing panel may be folded into face to face juxtaposition with the selected one of the panels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: THE C.W. ZUMBIEL COMPANYInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Publication number: 20050160700Abstract: A standard printed paperboard beverage carton is replaced with a generically printed or blank paperboard carton which is later over-wrapped with a printed film that may be applied in the customer's bottling plant after filled cans are inserted therein and the paperboard carton erected. The over wrap concept of this invention allows for a reduction in paperboard consumption for the production of the cartons and the requirements for each individual carton while still providing appropriate coverage and concealment of the containers within the carton. Once the carton has been over-wrapped with the film, the customer must still be able to penetrate the over wrap to utilize a handle formed in the die-cut paperboard carton. This is accomplished by perforating the over wrap film in registration and after it is applied to the filled carton.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2004Publication date: July 28, 2005Applicant: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Edward Zumbiel, Kevin Hawk
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Patent number: 6632163Abstract: A carton blank is etched with a laser to remove at least a portion of a coating material on a glue panel area of the carton blank. The laser-etching process allows the use of cold-resin or other standard glue in manufacturing a carton from the carton blank, instead of a more expensive specialized glue which would be otherwise required to provide an adequate bond for the carton. The laser-etching process is controlled as a function of the coating material required to be removed from the glue panel of the carton blank, the speed of the carton blank as it is processed through the system, and the dispersion characteristics of the laser beam.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2001Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel Co.Inventor: Edward A. Zumbiel
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Publication number: 20020142904Abstract: A carton blank is etched with a laser to remove at least a portion of a coating material on a glue panel area of the carton blank. The laser-etching process allows the use of cold-resin or other standard glue in manufacturing a carton from the carton blank, instead of a more expensive specialized glue which would be otherwise required to provide an adequate bond for the carton. The laser-etching process is controlled as a function of the coating material required to be removed from the glue panel of the carton blank, the speed of the carton blank as it is processed through the system, and the dispersion characteristics of the laser beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2001Publication date: October 3, 2002Applicant: The C.W. Zumbiel Co.Inventor: Edward A. Zumbiel
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Patent number: D926834Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Patent number: D926835Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Patent number: D926836Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Patent number: D926837Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Patent number: D926838Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Patent number: D926839Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel
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Patent number: D947264Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: The C.W. Zumbiel CompanyInventors: Steven J. Block, Edward A. Zumbiel