Patents by Inventor Richard Pralat

Richard Pralat 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).

  • Separation of anomalous items
    Patent number: 6073776
    Abstract: A method for jogging bunches of standard-size documents of prescribed height mixed in with anomalous- size documents of lesser height, these standard-size documents to be shaken and tilted to register against a first-wall of a receptacle. This method also involving: relieving the first wall to form a cutout to pass only the anomalous-size documents; providing a second wall in the receptacle forward of the first wall; and shaking the documents so as to register the forward edges of the anomalous-size documents against the second wall after passing through the cutout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas A. Seymour, Edward A. Green, Richard Pralat
  • Apparatus and method of item jogging with registration-barrier cutout to pass under-height items
    Patent number: 5622269
    Abstract: A method for jogging bunches of standard-size documents of prescribed height mixed in with anomalous-size documents of lesser height, these standard-size documents to be shaken and tilted to register against a first-wall of a receptacle this method also involving: relieving the first wall to form a cutout to pass only the anomalous-size documents; providing a second-wall in the receptacle forward of the first-wall; and shaking the documents so as to register the forward edges of the anomalous-size documents against the second-wall after passing through the cutout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas A. Seymour, Edward A. Green, Richard Pralat