Patents by Inventor Jacobus Arnoldus Peter Berkers

Jacobus Arnoldus Peter Berkers 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: 5957598
    Abstract: A printing device for duplex printing of a sheet, comprising a feed path for feeding an unprinted sheet and a return path for returning a sheet printed on one side in an inverted orientation to a part of the feed path which is provided with an aligning station for aligning a supplied unprinted sheet and a returned sheet printed on one side. The aligning station comprises two aligning mechanisms which are disposed in spaced relationship in the feed direction and which each comprise two activatable transport nips which, as considered in a direction transversely of the feed direction, are situated a short distance apart so that a sheet fed between the nips can be aligned against one of each of the two transport nips by lateral transport and turning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: OCE-Technologies, B.V.
    Inventors: Jacobus Arnoldus Peter Berkers, Lodewijk Tarcisius Holtman, Andreas Theodorus Heijnen, Martinus Peter Hendrikus Hermans
  • Patent number: 5746424
    Abstract: A device with a collecting station collects copy sheets which can be provided with a Z-fold in a folding station. The folding station is situated in a transport path for unfolded copy sheets which leads to the collecting station. The folding station is formed by a first pair of folding rollers, the folding nip of which is situated in the transport path, and a second pair of folding rollers, the folding nip of which is situated in a folding path branching off from the transport path. The direction of rotation of the folding rollers is reversible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Oce-Nederland B.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik Gerard Jozef Rutten, Jacobus Arnoldus Peter Berkers, Gert Vegter