Patents by Inventor Kenneth C. Clifton

Kenneth C. Clifton 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: 4334673
    Abstract: Apparatus for delivering business forms and the like selectably in a "face up" or "face down" position, which incorporates a set of creels and a delivery conveyor that can be selectably positioned for receiving individual forms from a separator conveyor and then shingling the forms in either a "face up" or "face down" position. The creels and one end of the delivery conveyor are mounted on rotatable plates which permit either the creels or the one end of the delivery conveyor to be positioned adjacent the separator conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1982
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth C. Clifton
  • Patent number: 4223603
    Abstract: A planetary inker for an offset printing press which uses only a single ink form roller but is substantially ghost free. A unique arrangement of distributor rollers operably associated with the form roller are present in sufficient number and of relative diameters with respect to each other and to the form roller to assure complete smoothing out of ink supplied to the form roller in conjunction with total elimination of all plate-derived latent images on the surface of the form roller before recontacting the plate on the plate cylinder. Especially efficient transfer of ink from the supply fountain to a drum roller in rolling contact with the form roller ahead of the distributor rollers is obtained in a preferred embodiment by the use of a pair of ink transfer ductors which are alternately intermittently shifted into engagement with the fountain ink ball and then the form roller vibrator. The relative time of engagement of the ductors with the ball and the vibrator may be selectively varied by the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1980
    Assignee: Didde-Glaser, Inc.
    Inventors: Terry N. Faddis, Kenneth C. Clifton, Robert A. Sweet
  • Patent number: 4114869
    Abstract: A highly efficient, shear-cutting, multiple die apparatus and method for interlocking elongated, multiple-sheet glued webs such as business forms or computer print out paper during fabrication thereof is provided which positively locks the web sheets against relative shifting as can occur when the web is zigzag folded, in order to prevent "tenting", or permanent, glue-set misalignment between respective web plies at the fold lines thereof. The preferred apparatus includes individual, mated pairs of rotatably mounted, transversely oriented, multiple-blade, pointed, web-shearing and deforming dies which are rotated to cooperatively engage, shear-penetrate and deform a moving web to produce a series of transversely extending, side-by-side, marginal, alternately displaced interlocking strips which effectively prevent significant relative longitudinal shifting between the web plies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Didde-Glaser, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean E. Gladow, Kenneth C. Clifton