Patents by Inventor Heinz Botschi

Heinz Botschi 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: 10807402
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the thread-stitching of folded signatures, for which individual folded signatures which are successively lined up along their flat sides are sewn together with at least one sewing needle and at least one hook needle to form a book block. Prior to penetrating the fold of the signature to be sewn from the inside to the outside and before penetrating the eyelet of the previously sewn signature, the hook needle is rotated in such a way around its longitudinal axis that its hook is positioned in a vertical symmetry axis of the eyelet, on a side of the hook needle that faces the previously sewn signature. The hook needle can be rotated for this at an optional angle (?) around its longitudinal axis and the hook can be positioned at an optional rotational position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: MÜLLER MARTINI HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Matthias Wulf, Dirk Waldmann, Melanie Link, Heinz Bötschi
  • Publication number: 20190135014
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the thread-stitching of folded signatures, for which individual folded signatures which are successively lined up along their flat sides are sewn together with at least one sewing needle and at least one hook needle to form a book block. Prior to penetrating the fold of the signature to be sewn from the inside to the outside and before penetrating the eyelet of the previously sewn signature, the hook needle is rotated in such a way around its longitudinal axis that its hook is positioned in a vertical symmetry axis of the eyelet, on a side of the hook needle that faces the previously sewn signature. The hook needle can be rotated for this at an optional angle (a) around its longitudinal axis and the hook can be positioned at an optional rotational position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: MÜLLER MARTINI HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Matthias WULF, Dirk WALDMANN, Melanie LINK, Heinz BÖTSCHI
  • Publication number: 20090060683
    Abstract: A method for producing adhesive-bound book blocks from gathered signatures for which the individual signatures forming a non-bound book block are supplied while positioned on the spine on a transfer section to an opened conveying clamp on a perfect binder and are subsequently held while clamped in by the closed conveying clamp along the flat outer surfaces. The gathered signatures of a book block are released in an additional conveying section from the conveying clamp in order to be aligned while guided. Prior to leaving the conveying section for aligning the signatures, the signatures are clamped in once more by the conveying clamps along the flat outer surfaces, so that they can be conveyed to further processing locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Muller Martini Holding AG
    Inventors: Theo Hug, Peter Fischer, Heinz Botschi
  • Patent number: 5887863
    Abstract: In order to recognize the open position of printed sheets supplied one after the other astride on a transfer apparatus to a sewing apparatus of a thread stitching machine, the printed sheets are guided in straddled position on at least one of the sides forming the inner fold edge of a printed sheet past a checking apparatus carrying out checks by way of the print images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Grapha-Holding AG
    Inventors: Hans Hollenstein, Heinz Botschi
  • Patent number: 5887532
    Abstract: During manufacture of thread-sewn book blocks (11) from a stack of flat sequentially juxtaposed signatures (3) which are sewn together by way of a double-stranded binding thread (9) which penetrates the folds (4) from the outside and extends in sections along the inside edge of the folds and is pulled out again, the binding thread sections (16, 17) which are inserted by a first sewing needle (5) between the legs (14) of the signatures (3) are captured by a gas jet and conveyed in form of a loop (21) to the adjacent second sewing needle (6) which pulls the loop (21) out of the signature (3) through a return stroke motion using a hook (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Grapha-Holding AG
    Inventors: Hans Hollenstein, Heinz Botschi, Marcel Stolz
  • Patent number: 5507524
    Abstract: A method and an article are disclosed pertaining to the production of book blocks comprising a stack of signatures each having a fold and which together form a spine of the book block, the signatures being aligned with one another on their flat sides and stitched together by means of a binding thread with at least two spaced transverse seams formed of a double strand of binding thread passing through each of the folds of the signatures from a location outside of the signatures and extending along an inner edge of each of the folds to an exit point in each of the folds, a first one of the at least two spaced transverse seams being formed by chaining together loop-like binding thread sections pulled successively out of the folds of the signature. The chained transverse seam is interrupted after a stack section determining the size of the book block has been formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1996
    Assignee: Grapha-Holding AG
    Inventors: Heinz Botschi, Hans Hollenstein