Patents by Inventor Philip V. Voorhees

Philip V. Voorhees 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: 6112884
    Abstract: A web-product delivery system includes a top belt system with at least one top belt assembly supported and movably adjustable on a carriage. The top belt assembly includes a front assembly and a rear assembly. Both the front assembly and rear assembly include at least one idler roller assembly, and a bracket slidably attached to the carriage to allow the top belt assembly to be positioned and adjusted along a product path while product is moving along the product path. The idler roller assembly may include a roller rotatably attached to an arm, the arm pivotably attached to a bracket, a pivot shaft attached to the bracket and slidably receiving a load-bias threaded adjusting rod. The adjusting rod is screwably attached to the arm to allow the arm to rotate about the bracket through a vertical plane when the adjusting rod is turned. The web-product delivery system further includes a transition throw-off and vertical adjustment assemblies which may be operated while running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Western Printing Machinery Company
    Inventor: Philip V. Voorhees
  • Patent number: 6089565
    Abstract: A stop wheel assembly for use in a web-product delivery system includes a stop wheel rotatably attached to an elongated member, a clamp member attached to the elongated member, and a gas cylinder including a first end attached to the clamp member to rotate the clamp member about a pivot point to raise or lower the stop wheel. A screw received in a threaded opening of a screw supporting block may contact the clamp member to rotate the stop wheel to a desired vertical distance from a slow down belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Western Printing Machinery Company
    Inventors: Philip V. Voorhees, Charles A. Steinhauer, Charles H. Bridges
  • Patent number: 4171655
    Abstract: An eccentric center-distance adjuster for rotary die cutters having load-biased screw adjustment of the center-distance between rotary die cutting cylinders which is stabilized against the die cutter frame in the same direction as the cutting load between said cylinders thereby minimizing cylinder bounce.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1979
    Assignee: Western Printing Machinery Co.
    Inventor: Philip V. Voorhees