Patents by Inventor Lothar Franz Hohmann

Lothar Franz Hohmann 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: 8219235
    Abstract: Rolls of prepared, and of unprepared materials, for use in a web-processing machine, are stored in a warehouse. Information that is used to anticipate consumption data for an impending production period, or anticipated consumption data, is supplied to a material flow system that includes implemented logic. A warehousing strategy is defined in a sub-process which uses the anticipated consumption data and a current inventory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Harald Karl Gretsch, Lothar Franz Hohmann, Erwin Paul Josef Lehrieder, Josef Herbert Olbort
  • Patent number: 7765925
    Abstract: A web-fed rotary printing press includes a printing unit which has a specific width for printing a web with six adjacent vertical printed pages in a first newspaper format. A longitudinal cutting device is used to divide the web into three partial webs, each of which having a width corresponding to two of the newspaper pages. A folding assembly includes a group of three fold formers which are located next to each other on a machine plane. The three formers are disposed in the web-fed rotary press in such a that the two distances between the folding planes of two of the formers, which are placed next to each other in pairs, can be modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Günther Oskar Eckert, Burkard Otto Herbert, Lothar Franz Hohmann, Bernd Kurt Masuch, Kurt Johannes Weschenfelder
  • Patent number: 7721646
    Abstract: An offset printing group is part of a printing machine which is used for printing newspapers. The offset printing group includes a printing cylinder and a transfer cylinder. The length of the transfer cylinder corresponds to at least six widths of newspaper pages. Two blankets are arranged adjacent each other on the peripheral surface of the transfer cylinder. A width of each of these blankets in the axial direction of the transfer cylinder corresponds to three widths of newspaper pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Burkard Otto Herbert, Lothar Franz Hohmann, Bernd Kurt Masuch, Kurt Johannes Weschenfelder
  • Patent number: 7707934
    Abstract: The invention relates to a printing form (19) to be used in a printing unit of a printing press. Said printing form (19) is embodied as a panoramic printing form (19) and supports side by side printed images of a specific number n (n>1) of printed pages having a specific format (F1, F2). The printing form (19) has a width that substantially corresponds to a number of n=3 vertical printed pages in newspaper format (F1, F2) and supports side by side printed images of n=3 pages in newspaper format (F1, F2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Burkard Otto Herbert, Lothar Franz Hohmann, Bernd Kurt Masuch, Kurt Johannes Weschenfelder
  • Patent number: 7559731
    Abstract: A depot or a storage facility for a plurality of material rolls, which rolls are intended for further processing in a processing machine, includes two outer shelving blocks in addition to at least one inner shelving block that is situated between the two outer shelving blocks. A storage location of the inner shelving block can be loaded or unloaded by a retrieval device which can access the shelving block from both longitudinal sides of the shelving block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Harald Karl Gretsch, Lothar Franz Hohmann, Erwin Paul Josef Lehrieder, Josef Herbert Olbort
  • Publication number: 20080257182
    Abstract: A web-fed rotary printing press includes a printing unit which has a specific width for printing a web with six adjacent vertical printed pages in a first newspaper format. A longitudinal cutting device is used to divide the web into three partial webs, each of which having a width corresponding to two of the newspaper pages. A folding assembly includes a group of three fold formers which are located next to each other on a machine plane. The three formers are disposed in the web-fed rotary press in such a that the two distances between the folding planes of two of the formers, which are placed next to each other in pairs, can be modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Gunther Oskar Eckert, Burkard Otto Herbert, Lothar Franz Hohmann, Bernd Kurt Masuch, Kurt Johannes Weschenfelder
  • Patent number: 7094015
    Abstract: A device is used to convey empty rolls that have been removed by at least one roll changer of a web-fed rotary printing press. At least one empty roll receptacle can be displaced between the roll changer, where the empty rolls are held by the receptacle after they are removed by the roll changer, and an emptying station where the empty rolls are removed from the receptacle. A collection receptacle is provided at the emptying station. The empty rolls are emptied from the empty roll receptacle to the collection receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Lothar Franz Hohmann, Klaus Walter Röder