Patents by Inventor Gunther O. Eckert

Gunther O. Eckert 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).

  • Turning bar with selectively openable air discharge openings
    Patent number: 5520317
    Abstract: An adjustable turning bar for a material web is provided with an adjustably positionable tube that has a plurality of compressed air discharge openings. A slide tube is disposed within the turning bar tube and is also provided with a plurality of air openings. The slide tube is shiftable axially within the turning bar tube to align selected ones of the slide tube's air openings with the appropriate compressed air discharge openings on the turning bar. Air openings not being used will be closed off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunther O. Eckert, Heinrich K. Grosshauser
  • Material web turning bar assembly
    Patent number: 5357859
    Abstract: A material web turning bar assembly utilizes one fixed lead screw and support spindle and one shiftable lead screw and support spindle to support opposite ends of a turning bar. The shiftable lead screw and spindle are supported for movement in a longitudinal direction as the end of the bar that they support is shifted in a lateral direction. The ends of the bar are supported by hinge joints and the bar itself is rotatable about its own longitudinal axis as it is shifted laterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Gunther O. Eckert
  • Paper web folder with laterally shiftable formers
    Patent number: 5328437
    Abstract: A paper web folder for a rotary web-fed press uses two laterally shiftable formers and folding roller pairs on a first level and a stationary former and folder on a second level to provide the capability of forming and folding various full width paper webs into two or three equal part web width ribbons. These ribbons can then be associated with each other to form various products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1994
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Edgar Maylander, Gunther O. Eckert, Burkard O. Herbert
  • Roller chain for paper infeed device
    Patent number: 5201269
    Abstract: A roller chain for a paper infeed device of a web-fed rotary printing machine utilizes a plurality of fork shaped butt straps which are arranged in sequential inverted order. Fork ends of adjacent butt straps are carried by a roller axle bolt. Base portions of adjacent butt straps are connected by a hinge pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Gunther O. Eckert