Patents by Inventor H. William Gray

H. William Gray 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: 5265864
    Abstract: A tri-roll inverter for use in machines requiring copy sheet inversion for collated copy set output includes input and output nips. All sheets entering the input nip of the inverter are corrugated by a corrugation system as they enter a spring loaded inversion channel. The corrugation system includes an idler roll, a steel driver roll, and two plastic driver rolls on opposite sides of the steel driver roll. The spring and corrugation system urge the sheets back out of the inversion channel into engagement with the output nip for feeding back into a machine for further processing. The plastic rolls enable each sheet to reach zero velocity quickly and invert at a fast rate without stalling or jamming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Mary A. Roux, Donald R. Fess, Gary L. Dent, Sr., H. William Gray
  • Patent number: 4994864
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a copy sheet skew adjustment device. The copy sheet adjustment device is a pivotable baffle positioned between transfer and copy sheet registration stations of the printer and hinged at one end. At the other end, the baffle is connected to a screw and a nut such that when the nut is rotated it pivots the baffle further either into or out of the path of the copy sheets. This shortens or lengthens the distance the copy sheets have to travel to the transfer station and in doing so skews the copy sheets to the proper alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Schieck, Don S. Walker, Vincent S. Carrozzi, H. William Gray
  • Patent number: 4597571
    Abstract: An apparatus in which successive flexible sheets are advanced from a stack. One edge of the stack of sheets is supported rollably in a substantially vertical orientation. Successive outermost sheets are fed from one side of the stack. The stack of sheets moves toward a sheet feeder so as to position successive outermost sheets of one side thereof in a feeding relationship therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1986
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas P. Redding, H. William Gray