Patents by Inventor Gregory Mercurio
Gregory Mercurio 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).
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Publication number: 20230391574Abstract: This invention provides web-cutting mechanism that can be mounted in line at an appropriate location between the web-handling peripheral (printer) and a web roll. The cutting mechanism operates before the available storage in the winder festoon has been exhausted, and decouples the roll's energy from the web. The cutting mechanism can employ a blade that is drawn through the web solely by the movement of the web itself. The blade is mounted at a (e.g.) 45-degree angle to web travel, causing it to be pulled through the web. A negator spring assembly and associated cable drives the blade into the side edge of the web when a slide-mounted blade shuttle assembly is released by a latching pawl of a solenoid assembly. The solenoid is triggered by a signal indicating an emergency stop condition, such as an upstream jam.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Stephen E. Silva, Gregory Mercurio
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Patent number: 11667487Abstract: This invention provides web-cutting mechanism that can be mounted in line at an appropriate location between the web-handling peripheral (printer) and a web roll. The cutting mechanism operates before the available storage in the winder festoon has been exhausted, and decouples the roll's energy from the web. The cutting mechanism can employ a blade that is drawn through the web solely by the movement of the web itself. The blade is mounted at a (e.g.) 45-degree angle to web travel, causing it to be pulled through the web. A negator spring assembly and associated cable drives the blade into the side edge of the web when a slide-mounted blade shuttle assembly is released by a latching pawl of a solenoid assembly. The solenoid is triggered by a signal indicating an emergency stop condition, such as an upstream jam.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Tecnau, Inc.Inventors: Stephen E. Silva, Gregory Mercurio
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Publication number: 20210323784Abstract: This invention provides web-cutting mechanism that can be mounted in line at an appropriate location between the web-handling peripheral (printer) and a web roll. The cutting mechanism operates before the available storage in the winder festoon has been exhausted, and decouples the roll's energy from the web. The cutting mechanism can employ a blade that is drawn through the web solely by the movement of the web itself. The blade is mounted at a (e.g.) 45-degree angle to web travel, causing it to be pulled through the web. A negator spring assembly and associated cable drives the blade into the side edge of the web when a slide-mounted blade shuttle assembly is released by a latching pawl of a solenoid assembly. The solenoid is triggered by a signal indicating an emergency stop condition, such as an upstream jam.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Stephen E. Silva, Gregory Mercurio
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Patent number: 10968065Abstract: This invention provides web-cutting mechanism that can be mounted in line at an appropriate location between the web-handling peripheral (printer) and a web roll. The cutting mechanism operates before the available storage in the winder festoon has been exhausted, and decouples the roll's energy from the web. The cutting mechanism can employ a blade that is drawn through the web solely by the movement of the web itself. The blade is mounted at a (e.g.) 45-degree angle to web travel, causing it to be pulled through the web. A negator spring assembly and associated cable drives the blade into the side edge of the web when a slide-mounted blade shuttle assembly is released by a latching pawl of a solenoid assembly. The solenoid is triggered by a signal indicating an emergency stop condition, such as an upstream jam.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Tecnau, Inc.Inventors: Stephen E. Silva, Gregory Mercurio
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Publication number: 20200115182Abstract: This invention provides web-cutting mechanism that can be mounted in line at an appropriate location between the web-handling peripheral (printer) and a web roll. The cutting mechanism operates before the available storage in the winder festoon has been exhausted, and decouples the roll's energy from the web. The cutting mechanism can employ a blade that is drawn through the web solely by the movement of the web itself. The blade is mounted at a (e.g.) 45-degree angle to web travel, causing it to be pulled through the web. A negator spring assembly and associated cable drives the blade into the side edge of the web when a slide-mounted blade shuttle assembly is released by a latching pawl of a solenoid assembly. The solenoid is triggered by a signal indicating an emergency stop condition, such as an upstream jam.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Stephen E. Silva, Gregory Mercurio
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Patent number: 10464769Abstract: This invention provides web-cutting mechanism that can be mounted in line at an appropriate location between the web-handling peripheral (printer) and a web roll. The cutting mechanism operates before the available storage in the winder festoon has been exhausted, and decouples the roll's energy from the web. The cutting mechanism can employ a blade that is drawn through the web solely by the movement of the web itself. The blade is mounted at a (e.g.) 45-degree angle to web travel, causing it to be pulled through the web. A negator spring assembly and associated cable drives the blade into the side edge of the web when a slide-mounted blade shuttle assembly is released by a latching pawl of a solenoid assembly. The solenoid is triggered by a signal indicating an emergency stop condition, such as an upstream jam.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Tecnau, Inc.Inventors: Stephen E. Silva, Gregory Mercurio
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Publication number: 20180229957Abstract: This invention provides web-cutting mechanism that can be mounted in line at an appropriate location between the web-handling peripheral (printer) and a web roll. The cutting mechanism operates before the available storage in the winder festoon has been exhausted, and decouples the roll's energy from the web. The cutting mechanism can employ a blade that is drawn through the web solely by the movement of the web itself. The blade is mounted at a (e.g.) 45-degree angle to web travel, causing it to be pulled through the web. A negator spring assembly and associated cable drives the blade into the side edge of the web when a slide-mounted blade shuttle assembly is released by a latching pawl of a solenoid assembly. The solenoid is triggered by a signal indicating an emergency stop condition, such as an upstream jam.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Stephen E. Silva, Gregory Mercurio
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Publication number: 20180071572Abstract: A rehabilitation and exercise device having patient engagement members on opposite sides of a rotary member. The device includes a motor connected to the rotary member by a clutch linked to the motor. The motor is configured to desirably rotate the rotary member so that the device may serve to move the feet/legs or other extremities of a patient through a range of motion, but do not require any application of muscle force by the patient. The clutch is also operable to disconnect the motor so that the only force applied to rotary member is the muscle force of the patient. The clutch is also advantageously operable to provide continuous passive motion and enable powered movement of a desired and adjustable amount provided by the motor, yet enable desired participation by the patient in application of muscle force.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Sanford Gomberg, Peter Arn, Michael Bissonnette, Gregory A. Mercurio, JR.
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Patent number: 7404349Abstract: A system and method for cutting continuous web that provides a simplified and direct feed path during loading, and thereafter a more-complex serpentine feed path at an infeed unit for reliable infeed of the web, arranged as either a free loop or a moderately tensioned configuration. Downstream, an indexing drive intermittently pauses the web for the cutter knife to operate. The indexing drive and infeed unit's drive are synchronized by a controller to produce a small horizontally disposed buffer loop therebetween. The buffer loop is maintained within a predetermined range using a sensor, operatively with the controller, that measures the location of the end of the loop, modulating the drives to maintain the buffer loop's (returning) end within a predetermined location about the sensor's sensing field. The system includes an adjustment drive motor for moving a plurality of edge guide sets toward and away from each other in synchronization.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Roll Systems, Inc.Inventors: John M. Fiske, James R. Mazur, Tamas Hetenyi, Edward J. Zanchi, William F. Bolza, Gregory Mercurio
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Patent number: 6176716Abstract: An interchangeable electrical connector includes a connector body and an adapter body. The connector body includes electrical contact means, such as a banana plug tip, for engaging an electrical terminal. The connector body includes a conical portion and a threaded portion which is coaxial with the conical portion. The adapter body includes a conical portion which is shaped for co-operative engagement with the conical portion of the connector body, and a threaded portion which is coaxial to the conical portion of the adapter body. The threaded portion of the adapter body is for cooperative engagement with the threaded portion of the connector body, such that cooperative rotation of the connector body relative to the adapter body draws the conical portion of the connector body into engagement with the conical portion of the adapter body. The wedging action of the two conical portions frictionally engages the connector body to the adapter body.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1999Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Monster Cable Products, Inc.Inventors: Gregory A. Mercurio, Richard N. Marsh, Demian T. Martin
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Patent number: 6129568Abstract: An interchangeable electrical connector includes a connector body and an adapter body. The connector body includes electrical contact means, such as a banana plug tip, for engaging an electrical terminal. The connector body includes a conical portion and a threaded portion which is coaxial with the conical portion. The adapter body includes a conical portion which is shaped for co-operative engagement with the conical portion of the connector body, and a threaded portion which is coaxial to the conical portion of the adapter body. The threaded portion of the adapter body is for cooperative engagement with the threaded portion of the connector body, such that cooperative rotation of the connector body relative to the adapter body draws the conical portion of the connector body into engagement with the conical portion of the adapter body. The wedging action of the two conical portions frictionally engages the connector body to the adapter body.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1997Date of Patent: October 10, 2000Assignee: Monster Cable Products, Inc.Inventors: Gregory A. Mercurio, Richard N. Marsh, Demian T. Martin