Patents by Inventor MARCEL WEISS

MARCEL WEISS 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).

  • Method and apparatus for thread-stitching of book blocks, and a book production line equipped with such an apparatus
    Patent number: 8967061
    Abstract: An apparatus for thread-stitching a book block includes a thread tensioning device configured to store and tension a binding thread. A single actuator, including a servo drive, drives the thread tensioning device. The method includes storing a length of binding thread; in a separate step, tensioning the binding thread; and thread-stitching the book block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Mueller Martini Holding AG
    Inventor: Marcel Weiss
  • Stitching machine for variable size sheets
    Patent number: 8876098
    Abstract: A thread stitching machine to process signatures into book blocks includes a transport system for the signatures including a transport section on which the signatures are straddling for supply to a stitching station. The transport section includes an auxiliary saddle and a driven, continuously moving conveying chain to drive the auxiliary saddle. The conveying chain has spaced-apart, integrated pusher elements. A downstream installed stitching station includes a freely moving stitching saddle immediately following the auxiliary saddle. The stitching saddle includes a separate conveying device for the signatures, operated by a drive. A detection device is arranged at a transition between the auxiliary saddle and the stitching saddle to detect a position of the signature and a time which the signature passes by. The conveying chain is operated with a change in speed that depends on different sheet lengths following each other directly in a sequence of signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mueller Martini Holding AG
    Inventors: Holger Arendt, Dirk Waldmann, Marcel Weiss, Franz Mezger
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THREAD-STITCHING OF BOOK BLOCKS, AND A BOOK PRODUCTION LINE EQUIPPED WITH SUCH AN APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20130263768
    Abstract: An apparatus for thread-stitching a book block includes a thread tensioning device configured to store and tension a binding thread. A single actuator, including a servo drive, drives the thread tensioning device. The method includes storing a length of binding thread; in a separate step, tensioning the binding thread; and thread-stitching the book block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Mueller Martini Holding AG
    Inventor: Marcel Weiss
  • THREAD STITCHING MACHINE
    Publication number: 20120219385
    Abstract: A thread stitching machine to process signatures into book blocks includes a transport system for the signatures including a transport section on which the signatures are straddling for supply to a stitching station. The transport section includes an auxiliary saddle and a driven, continuously moving conveying chain to drive the auxiliary saddle. The conveying chain has spaced-apart, integrated pusher elements. A downstream installed stitching station includes a freely moving stitching saddle immediately following the auxiliary saddle. The stitching saddle includes a separate conveying device for the signatures, operated by a drive. A detection device is arranged at a transition between the auxiliary saddle and the stitching saddle to detect a position of the signature and a time which the signature passes by. The conveying chain is operated with a change in speed that depends on different sheet lengths following each other directly in a sequence of signatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: MUELLER MARTINI HOLDING AG
    Inventors: HOLGER ARENDT, DIRK WALDMANN, MARCEL WEISS, FRANZ MEZGER