Patents by Inventor Ronald W. Weller

Ronald W. Weller 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).

  • Signature feeder operable with either flat or standing stacks
    Patent number: 5026038
    Abstract: Signature loader comprising a telescopically related main floor-mounted frame and a smaller auxiliary frame, first and second horizontal rotatable shafts between the frames spaced apart by a predetermined distance and so positioned that infeed belts thereon converge to define between them a signature infeed throat, one of said shafts being a pivot about which the auxiliary frame may be pivoted so the throat may be selectively positioned in one of two alternate attitudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: McCain Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald W. Weller, James Wrona
  • Signature machines
    Patent number: 4989850
    Abstract: Signature machine for printing an inside page of a signature as it moves through the machine from a signature supply source to the signature gatherer, made possible by positioning an ink jet printer in a raceway between the supply source and the gatherer. After being printed the signature is folded to bring the inside pages into juxtaposition before being delivered to the gatherer. There may be two supply sources for different signatures, feeding different signatures to be printed differently before being folded one after another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Inventor: Ronald W. Weller
  • Signature machines
    Patent number: 4549730
    Abstract: A signature feeding machine in which signatures are fed one by one from a stack in a supply hopper by suction devices; when a signature is not to be fed the stack is displaced so that the suction devices are inoperable to effect feeding and preferably suction is discontinued at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: McCain Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald W. Weller, Terrence H. Drope
  • Varying the drop of sheets into a hopper
    Patent number: 4180259
    Abstract: Signatures fresh from the printing press are fed in a shingled stream toward and then dropped one by one into a hopper which may feed a gathering chain. The signatures are "broken" (unstuck) by first stacking them edgewise on horizontal support, shingling them in a constant stream by an unusual form of suction feed, bending the shingled stream and thereafter cascading the stream into the hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1979
    Assignee: McCain Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Elmer Bewersdorf, James F. Cosgrove, Thomas R. Flavin, Edward Gallagher, Willam B. Mc Cain, Ronald W. Weller, Lawrence J. Werstler
  • Sheet feeders
    Patent number: 4177982
    Abstract: Signatures fresh from the printing press are fed in a shingled stream toward and then dropped one by one into a hopper which may feed a gathering chain.The signatures are "broken" (unstuck) by first stacking them edgewise on a horizontal support, shingling them in a constant stream by an unusual form of suction feed, bending the shingled stream and thereafter cascading the stream into the hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Assignee: McCain Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Elmer Bewersdorf, James F. Cosgrove, Thomas R. Flavin, Edward Gallagher, William B. McCain, Ronald W. Weller, Lawrence J. Werstler
  • Mailing sorter having parallel delivery conveyors and parallel sorting conveyors with chain-speed mail separation
    Patent number: 4140627
    Abstract: Mail is sorted by scanning zip code data, delivering the scanned mail from a delivery conveyor to a sorting conveyor and altering the speed of the sorting conveyor when there is a change in the zip code; zip code batches cannot be interrupted by missing pieces. The delivery conveyor and sorting conveyor are at right angles and both conveyors may be duplicated by a parallel conveyor, enabling large size mail to be handled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Assignee: McCain Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald W. Weller, John Vente