Patents by Inventor Joseph F. Zuzick, Jr.
Joseph F. Zuzick, Jr. 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).
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Patent number: 7887050Abstract: A Right Angle Turn (RAT) module for processing multi-sheet collations includes opposed belt segments defining a conveyance channel for capturing multi-sheet collations therebetween and for conveying multi-sheet collations from an input and to an output end of the conveyance channel. The opposed belt segments define a first re-directing bend, a second re-directing bend, and a twist section disposed therebetween. The first re-directing bend includes a rolling element for re-directing the opposed belt segments about a first axis of rotation while the second re-directing bend includes a rolling element for re-directing the opposed belt segments about a second axis of rotation. The first and second axes of rotation are orthogonal to each other so as to effect a twist section therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2008Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Inventors: Joseph A. Trudeau, Michael R. Ifkovits, Edward M. Ifkovits, Joseph F. Zuzick, Jr.
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Publication number: 20100032894Abstract: A Right Angle Turn (RAT) module for processing multi-sheet collations includes opposed belt segments defining a conveyance channel for capturing multi-sheet collations therebetween and for conveying multi-sheet collations from an input and to an output end of the conveyance channel. The opposed belt segments define a first re-directing bend, a second re-directing bend, and a twist section disposed therebetween. The first re-directing bend includes a rolling element for re-directing the opposed belt segments about a first axis of rotation while the second re-directing bend includes a rolling element for re-directing the opposed belt segments about a second axis of rotation. The first and second axes of rotation are orthogonal to each other so as to effect a twist section therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2008Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: PITNEY BOWES INC.Inventors: Joseph A. Trudeau, Michael R. Ifkovits, Edward M. Ifkovits, Joseph F. Zuzick, JR.
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Patent number: 6443447Abstract: A method and device for improving the stacking efficiency in a sheet accumulation system using a continuous web cutter for cutting a web of material into sheets and a plurality of right angle turn-over modules for changing the direction of the sheets and causing overlapping between adjacent sheets. Different movement mechanisms are used to move the sheets with different moving speeds from the web cutter toward the right angle turn-over modules for increasing the overlapped amount.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.Inventors: Edward M Ifkovits, Joseph F. Zuzick, Jr., Douglas P. Sprenger
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Patent number: 6164640Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for receiving at least one sheet from a first upstream direction and feeding the at least one sheet in either a second mainstream direction or a third disposal direction. Conventionally, this invention may be used to reorient a sheet, or an accumulation of sheets, from landscape to portrait or vice versa, and to dispose of an incorrect accumulation of sheets into an out-sort station.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1997Date of Patent: December 26, 2000Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.Inventors: Richard F Stengl, Joseph F Zuzick, Jr., Edward M Ifkovits
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Patent number: 5833232Abstract: An apparatus for accumulating sheets from a secondary source and changing their conveyance direction 90.degree.. The accumulator is a group of vertically stacked bins that discharge batchwise and are loaded from the secondary source alternately by way of a diverter. Discharge is synchronous with a directionally constant primary sheet source.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1996Date of Patent: November 10, 1998Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.Inventors: Edward M. Ifkovits, Karel J. Janatka, Richard F. Stengl, Joseph F. Zuzick, Jr.
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Patent number: 5584425Abstract: A self contained gas powered endoscopic surgical apparatus is provided for placing lateral lines of surgical fasteners into body tissue. The apparatus includes an anvil member and a surgical fastener cartridge member mounted to the distal end of an elongated endoscopic portion. A tubular collar of the endoscopic portion moves distally to engage the anvil member and bias the anvil member and the cartridge member into cooperative alignment, thereby clamping body tissue to be fastened between the anvil member and the cartridge member. A self contained pneumatic system is disposed in the surgical apparatus and is actuable to eject and/or form the surgical fasteners in the clamped body tissue. The apparatus further comprises a locking mechanism for preventing approximation of the anvil member and the cartridge. In one embodiment a clamping interlock is shown which prevents approximation of the jaws when the jaws are either misaligned or improperly inserted into the instrument.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1995Date of Patent: December 17, 1996Assignee: United States Surgical CorporationInventors: Robert C. Savage, Paul M. Kasarauskas, Joseph F. Zuzick, Jr., Jeffrey J. Blewett
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Patent number: 5573232Abstract: Apparatus for folding paper sheets of different length or into different folding patterns and for combining the folded sheets into a single collation. The apparatus includes: a first, right angle paper path for folding paper sheets s of a given size; and a second, straight paper path for folding paper sheets either of a different size than the paper sheets in the first path or in a different folding pattern than the paper sheets in the first path.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1995Date of Patent: November 12, 1996Inventors: Edward M. Ifkovits, Karel J. Janatka, Joseph F. Zuzick, Jr.
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Patent number: 5472132Abstract: A self contained gas powered endoscopic surgical apparatus is provided for placing lateral lines of surgical fasteners into body tissue. The apparatus includes an anvil member and a surgical fastener cartridge member mounted to the distal end of an elongated endoscopic portion. A tubular collar of the endoscopic portion moves distally to engage the anvil member and bias the anvil member and the cartridge member into cooperative alignment, thereby clamping body tissue to be fastened between the anvil member and the cartridge member. A self contained pneumatic system is disposed in the surgical apparatus and is actuable to eject and/or form the surgical fasteners in the clamped body tissue. The apparatus further comprises a locking mechanism for preventing approximation of the anvil member and the cartridge. In one embodiment, a clamping interlock is shown which prevents approximation of the jaws when the jaws are either misaligned or improperly inserted into the instrument.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 1994Date of Patent: December 5, 1995Assignee: United States Surgical CorporationInventors: Robert C. Savage, Paul M. Kasarauskas, Joseph F. Zuzick, Jr., Jeffrey J. Blewett
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Patent number: 5397046Abstract: A self contained gas powered endoscopic surgical apparatus is provided for placing lateral lines of surgical fasteners into body tissue. The apparatus includes an anvil member and a surgical fastener cartridge member mounted to the distal end of an elongated endoscopic portion. A tubular collar of the endoscopic portion moves distally to engage the anvil member and bias the anvil member and the cartridge member into cooperative alignment, thereby clamping body tissue to be fastened between the anvil member and the cartridge member. A self contained pneumatic system is disposed in the surgical apparatus and is actuable to eject and/or form the surgical fasteners in the clamped body tissue. The apparatus further comprises a locking member for preventing approximation of the anvil member and the cartridge. In one embodiment a clamping interlock is shown which prevents approximation of the jaws when the jaws are either misaligned or improperly inserted into the instrument.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1993Date of Patent: March 14, 1995Assignee: United States Surgical CorporationInventors: Robert C. Savage, Paul M. Kasarauskas, Joseph F. Zuzick, Jr., Jeffrey J. Blewett