Patents by Inventor Franck Roland

Franck Roland 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: 7543531
    Abstract: A transport device for sleeve-shaped covers for cylinders in printing units of a printing press includes a translation element and a number of carrier elements for sleeve-shaped covers. The carrier elements are received on the translation element. A movement of the translation element causes at least a group of carrier elements to be positioned in the vicinity of cylinders of the printing press such that sleeve-shaped covers received on the carrier elements of the group are transferable directly from the carrier elements to the cylinders or that sleeve-shaped covers received on the cylinders are transferable directly to the carrier elements of the group. In the method of changing sleeve-shaped covers, groups of carrier elements are positioned in front of the cylinders so that the sleeve-shaped covers are taken off the cylinders and transferred directly to carrier elements or are transferred and mounted from carrier elements directly to cylinders and are mounted thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Goss International Montataire SA
    Inventors: Alain Blanchard, Franck Roland
  • Publication number: 20070289469
    Abstract: A sleeve-like cover for a cylinder in a press for holding a plate-like printing form, having a slit which runs substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the cover, it being possible for edges of a printing form to be fixed in the slit by means of at least one retaining force element. Sleeve-like covers with different external diameters for a cylinder in a press are used in order to vary the printing length of the press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: Goss International Montataire S.A.
    Inventors: Franck Roland, Alain Blanchard
  • Publication number: 20070181017
    Abstract: A transport device for sleeve-shaped covers for cylinders in printing units of a printing press includes a translation element and a number of carrier elements for sleeve-shaped covers. The carrier elements are received on the translation element. A movement of the translation element causes at least a group of carrier elements to be positioned in the vicinity of cylinders of the printing press such that sleeve-shaped covers received on the carrier elements of the group are transferable directly from the carrier elements to the cylinders or that sleeve-shaped covers received on the cylinders are transferable directly to the carrier elements of the group. In the method of changing sleeve-shaped covers, groups of carrier elements are positioned in front of the cylinders so that the sleeve-shaped covers are taken off the cylinders and transferred directly to carrier elements or are transferred and mounted from carrier elements directly to cylinders and are mounted thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: GOSS INTERNATIONAL MINTATAIRE S.A.
    Inventors: Alain Blanchard, Franck Roland
  • Publication number: 20070068410
    Abstract: The invention provides an inking roller for an inking unit of an offset printing press. The inking roller has a number of zones arranged in the direction of the axis of rotation and at least one ink reservoir in the interior of the inking roller. The at least one ink reservoir in each of the number of zones is connected to at least one ink exit in the circumferential surface of the inking roller. Each zone in the interior of the inking roller is assigned at least one pumping element for conveying ink from the ink reservoir to the circumferential surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: GOSS INTERNATIONAL MONTATAIRE SA
    Inventor: Franck Roland
  • Patent number: 6085651
    Abstract: A device for engaging and disengaging or throwing-off printing unit cylinders in a printing entity of a rotary printing press for printing a web of material, the printing entity including a lower and an upper printing unit, and one of the printing unit cylinders having a stationary mounting support in one of the printing units of the rotary printing press, includes a first adjusting unit for adjusting printing unit cylinders of the printing entity which are formed as printing form cylinders, and a second and eccentric adjusting unit for adjusting one of two of the printing unit cylinders of the printing entity which are formed as transfer cylinders, so that the printing unit cylinders of each of the lower and the upper printing units, respectively, are in mutual engagement, while the transfer cylinders of the respective lower and upper printing units are disengaged from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Serge Defrance, Franck Roland
  • Patent number: 5901648
    Abstract: Device for adjusting printing-unit cylinders in a printing unit of a rotary printing press for printing on both sides of a material web, the printing-unit cylinders including printing-form cylinders with exchangeable printing forms, one of the printing-unit cylinders being held stationary in the printing unit, includes an auxiliary adjusting unit for maintaining a gap traversible by the material web, the gap being formed between outer cylindrical surfaces of two of the printing-unit cylinders disposed adjacent to a path of the material web through the printing unit, the gap being maintainable by the auxiliary adjusting unit independently of adjusted positions of others of the printing-unit cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Franck Roland, Franck Bausela