Patents by Inventor Gerard Bladie

Gerard Bladie 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: 5832825
    Abstract: Safety device for an infeed site of a web of material into a roller nip in a processing device on a printing press includes cover elements movably mounted on the processing device for nearly completely covering the infeed rollers in operating positions of the processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignees: Hiedelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg Harris, S.A.
    Inventors: Gerard Bladie, Pascal Jaulin, Henry Herve
  • Patent number: 5458557
    Abstract: A quarter fold folding device is described, having a quarter fold blade suspended by two opposite ends from two pivots, which are free to rotate with respect to the blade and are securely fastened to two connecting rods at one of their ends. The connecting rods are, at their opposite ends, rotationally driven in opposite directions, respectively, by means of two horizontal shafts rotating about their longitudinal axis. The rotating shafts are simultaneously rotationally driven in opposite directions respectively about two horizontal and parallel central axes, so that when the two rotating shafts perform a complete revolution about the parallel central axes, the two opposite ends of the folding blade driven by the connecting rods describe two parallel vertical segments of a straight line between a bottom position and a top position of the quarter fold blade. The quarter fold blade in the bottom position engages a signature between two folding cylinders, so as to form a longitudinal fold in the signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Gerard Bladie, Eddie Smelten