Patents by Inventor Steven Joseph Croghan

Steven Joseph Croghan 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).

  • BOOK PROCESSING LINE INVERSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20110106293
    Abstract: Book-turning equipment is detailed. The equipment acts on horizontally-oriented books and rotates them vertically through approximately one hundred eighty degrees without reorienting their backbones (spines). Mechanical assistance is provided only for the first approximately ninety degrees of the book rotation, however, with gravity and centrifugal forces causing the remaining rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventor: Steven Joseph Croghan