Patents by Inventor Miguel A Triana

Miguel A Triana 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).

  • Apparatus for facilitating handling tab stock in a top feed vacuum corrugated feeder
    Patent number: 5876030
    Abstract: An apparatus for facilitating handling particularly tab stock in a sheet feeder, having a top feed vacuum corrugated feed head assembly for feeding sheets seriatim from a sheet supply stack. The facilitating apparatus includes a platform adapted to support a sheet supply stack of the tab stock type. A tab stock sheet supply stack is located on the platform in relation to the top feed vacuum corrugated feed head assembly. A force is applied to the tab stock sheet supply stack, such force having at least a component in a direction relative to such tab stock sheet supply stack to prevent individual tab stock sheets in such stack from prematurely moving out of control of the top feed vacuum corrugated feed head assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael T Dobbertin, Henry Paul Mitchell, James Douglas Shifley, Miguel A Triana, Theophilus Casimir Wituszynski