Patents by Inventor Ryan S Stevenson

Ryan S Stevenson 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).

  • Selective sheet delivery apparatus
    Patent number: 6250627
    Abstract: A printed sheet transporting apparatus has a sheet inlet adjustable to selected heights and including an optional inverter for incoming sheets, a sheet feed path leading to selected positions in which a deflector may be adjustably positioned for deflecting sheets to various receivers for the sheets which are mounted on the apparatus at a plurality of vertically spaced sheet receiving positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Gradco (Japan) Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Takeuchi, Kiichiro Noguchi, Ryan S Stevenson, Peter M. Coombs
  • Selectively adjustable decurler
    Patent number: 5947467
    Abstract: A decurler has an arched plate and a rotatable paper sheet feed roll defining an adjustable gap through which paper sheets driven by the roll exiting a copier or printer apparatus which causes the paper sheet to be curled transversely of the feeding direction, and the gap is selectively adjusted to control the decurling effect dependent upon the extent of the curl in the paper induced by the copying or printing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Inventors: Bradford Billings, Ryan S. Stevenson