Patents by Inventor Eric Herrou

Eric Herrou 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: 6644186
    Abstract: A device for guiding copies severed from a material web in a folder by a cutting-cylinder pair includes revolving transport tapes for picking up the copies after they have passed through a copy guide arranged in an outlet wedge of the cutting-cylinder pair, the copy guide extending at least partly over the width of the material web, and being formed of copy guide sections which are automatically adjustable, both with respect to the width of the copies to be guided and with respect to a passage cross section for the copies to be guided; a folder including the copy-guiding device; and a web-processing rotary printing machine including at least one folder with at least one device according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Eric Herrou, Alain Maresse, Thierra Melon
  • Publication number: 20020059877
    Abstract: A device for guiding copies severed from a material web in a folder by a cutting-cylinder pair includes revolving transport tapes for picking up the copies after they have passed through a copy guide arranged in an outlet wedge of the cutting-cylinder pair, the copy guide extending at least partly over the width of the material web, and being formed of copy guide sections which are automatically adjustable, both with respect to the width of the copies to be guided and with respect to a passage cross section for the copies to be guided; a folder including the copy-guiding device; and a web-processing rotary printing machine including at least one folder with at least one device according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Inventors: Eric Herrou, Alain Maresse, Thierra Melon
  • Patent number: 6126586
    Abstract: A folder having at least one folding unit with at least two mutually cooperating product-carrying cylinders, the folder having further folding attachments, and devices for increasing cutting accuracy, includes retaining elements engageable with at least one material web for retaining the web, and a rotating support surface assigned to one of the product-carrying cylinders within a transfer region, the rotating support surface serving to support the web when it is engaged by the retaining elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Eric Herrou, Franck Bausela