Patents by Inventor Eugene A. Wirth

Eugene A. Wirth 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: 4976419
    Abstract: A buckle chute folder for folding a plurality of paper sheets. The folder includes: a buckle chute; a pair of folding rollers downstream of the buckle chute; a curved paper guide downstream and adjacent the folding rollers for changing the direction of the folded sheets as they exit the folding rollers; and a pair of exit rollers downstream of the paper guide. One of the exit rollers has a fluorinated ethylene propylene sleeve whereby neither of the exit rollers feeds a paper sheet forming a part of the plurality of paper sheets ahead of any other of the paper sheets forming the plurality of paper sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Bartoes, Eugene A. Wirth
  • Patent number: 4402594
    Abstract: A fire extinguishing device for use with a heat fusing apparatus in an electrophotocopying machine, including a roller movably mounted above a copy paper conveyor associated with and located downstream of the heat fusing apparatus, a moving device for moving the roller into rolling contact with the conveyor when an abnormality is detected in the fusing apparatus during the copying operation, and a device for maintaining the roller out of rolling contact with the conveyor when no abnormality in the fusing apparatus is detected during the copying operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick J. Pelda, Eugene A. Wirth
  • Patent number: 4341945
    Abstract: A fire extinguishing device for use with a heat fusing apparatus in an electrophotocopying machine, comprising a roller movably mounted above a copy paper conveyor associated with and located downstream of the heat fusing apparatus, means for moving the roller into rolling contact with the conveyor when an abnormality is detected in the fusing apparatus during the copying operation, and means for maintaining the roller out of rolling contact with the conveyor when no abnormality in the fusing apparatus is detected during the copying operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1982
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick J. Pelda, Eugene A. Wirth