Patents by Inventor Jonathan H. Ripper

Jonathan H. Ripper 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).

  • Processing paper and other webs
    Patent number: 5042788
    Abstract: A printing apparatus has an array of cartridges for printing a web of e.g. paper passing through the array, and one or more units containing printing medium. The cartridges each are capable of transferring the printing medium from the unit(s) to the web. The unit(s) and the cartridges of the array are relatively movable, to allow the unit(s) to interact successively with at least two of the cartridges. In this way it is possible to change printing from one cartridge to another, allowing changes to be made to what is printed, without halting the movement of web significantly. The present invention also proposes that the cartridges may have printing cylinders of different sizes, and furthermore that a mobile unwind stand may be used to move web material to the printing apparatus, and the web output from the printing apparatus processed by sheet folding techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Strachan Henshaw Machinery Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Bowman, Roger F. Maslin, David Godden, Jonathan H. Ripper
  • Processing paper and other webs
    Patent number: 4831926
    Abstract: A printing apparatus has an array of cartridges for printing a web of e.g. paper passing through the array, and one or more units containing printing medium. The cartridges each are capable of transferring the printing medium from the unit(s) to the web. The unit(s) and the cartridges of the array are relatively movable, to allow the unit(s) to interact successively with at least two of the cartridges. In this way it is possible to change printing from one cartridge to another, allowing changes to be made to what is printed, without halting the movement of web significantly. The present invention also proposes that the cartridges may have printing cylinders of different sizes, and furthermore that a mobile unwind stand may be used to move web material to the printing apparatus, and the web output from the printing apparatus processed by sheet folding techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: DRG (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Bowman, Roger F. Maslin, David Godden, Jonathan H. Ripper
  • Processing paper and other webs
    Patent number: RE34483
    Abstract: A printing apparatus has an array of cartridges for printing a web of e.g. paper passing through the array, and one or more units containing printing medium. The cartridges each are capable of transferring the printing medium from the unit(s) to the web. The unit(s) and the cartridges of the array are relatively movable, to allow the unit(s) to interact successively with at least two of the cartridges. In this way it is possible to change printing from one cartridge to another, allowing changes to be made to what is printed, without halting the movement of web significantly. The present invention also proposes that the cartridges may have printing cylinders of different sizes, and furthermore that a mobile unwind stand may be used to move web material to the printing apparatus, and the web output from the printing apparatus processed by sheet folding techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Strachan Henshaw Machinery Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Bowman, Roger F. Maslin, David Godden, Jonathan H. Ripper