Patents by Inventor Rolf Schimmelpfennig

Rolf Schimmelpfennig 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).

  • Printing device having at least two printing stations separated spatially from one another
    Patent number: 5330274
    Abstract: A printing head (106) as a first functional unit and at least one further functional unit (107) of the same kind or of a different kind are attached to a common carrier (105) and mounted by means of a carriage for displacement in each case in parallel in the direction of the print lines and are arranged so as to swivel between the individual working areas of the printing device by means of a common swivel drive. The arrangement of the individual functional units (106, 107) on the carrier (105) and the alignment of the swivel axis (104) are selected such that the functional units can be swiveled in each case in the direction of the print lines and perpendicularly to the feed direction out of and into the respective printing station (101, 102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Schimmelpfennig, Heinz Strohdiek