Patents by Inventor Gérard Platel

Gérard Platel 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).

  • Printing machine
    Patent number: 7997192
    Abstract: A printing machine includes a conveyor for at least one item to be printed, a print station and a transfer device including at least one bucket for conveying the item and an element for driving the conveyor bucket, which element is capable of displacing the conveyor bucket between a position for taking up or depositing the item on the conveyor and a position for taking up or depositing the item at the print station. The transfer device further includes an element for adjusting the path of displacement of the conveyor bucket, which element is capable of controlling the drive element in order to displace the position for taking up or depositing the item at the print station without displacing the position for taking up or depositing the item on the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Machines Dubuit
    Inventors: Maurice Billet, Gérard Platel, Vincent Baillon, Fabien Gavet
  • PRINTING MACHINE
    Publication number: 20070289458
    Abstract: A printing machine includes a conveyor for at least one item to be printed, a print station and a transfer device including at least one bucket for conveying the item and an element for driving the conveyor bucket, which element is capable of displacing the conveyor bucket between a position for taking up or depositing the item on the conveyor and a position for taking up or depositing the item at the print station. The transfer device further includes an element for adjusting the path of displacement of the conveyor bucket, which element is capable of controlling the drive element in order to displace the position for taking up or depositing the item at the print station without displacing the position for taking up or depositing the item on the conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: MACHINES DUBUIT
    Inventors: Maurice BILLET, Gerard PLATEL, Vincent BAILLON, Fabian GAVET
  • Stack support transfer system and a printing machine including the system
    Patent number: 6845711
    Abstract: A system for transferring supports for objects which can be stacked and unstacked between a conveyor and a machine for printing the objects, characterized in that it includes: a mobile transfer table which has two locations each adapted to receive an object support and which is adapted to occupy a plurality of positions, first drive elements adapted to drive the transfer table vertically up and down, and second drive elements adapted to advance or withdraw the transfer table horizontally and simultaneously to transfer a support containing objects and an empty support or to withdraw the empty transfer table to a position awaiting a new support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Les Machines Dubuit
    Inventors: Gérard Platel, Henri Peltier, Maurice Billet, André Monnin, Thierry Couval, Christophe Nayrac
  • Stack support transfer system and a printing machine including the system
    Publication number: 20030019371
    Abstract: A system for transferring supports for objects which can be stacked and unstacked between a conveyor and a machine for printing the objects, characterized in that it includes:
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Gerard Platel, Henri Peltier, Maurice Billet, Andre Monnin, Thierry Couval, Christophe Nayrac