Patents by Inventor Tim Schramm

Tim Schramm 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).

  • Small and bulk pack napkin separator
    Patent number: 8931618
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided, for alternatively producing either small or bulk packs of napkins from a stack of folded napkins produced by one folding machine, through use of a pack dispatching arrangement having an inlet, a small pack transfer station and a bulk pack transfer station, and configured for operation in a small pack mode for dispatching a stream of spaced apart small packs of folded sheets separated from the stack of folded sheets, and received at an inlet of the pack dispatching arrangement, to the small pack transfer station, and alternatively operable in a bulk pack mode for dispatching a stream of spaced apart bulk packs of folded sheets separated from the stack of folded sheets, and received at an inlet of the pack dispatching arrangement, to the bulk pack transfer station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: C.G. Bretting Manufacturing Co., Inc.
    Inventors: James Andrew Walsh, James R. Michler, Tim Schramm
  • SMALL AND BULK PACK NAPKIN SEPARATOR
    Publication number: 20120201643
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided, for alternatively producing either small or bulk packs of napkins from a stack of folded napkins produced by one folding machine, through use of a pack dispatching arrangement having an inlet, a small pack transfer station and a bulk pack transfer station, and configured for operation in a small pack mode for dispatching a stream of spaced apart small packs of folded sheets separated from the stack of folded sheets, and received at an inlet of the pack dispatching arrangement, to the small pack transfer station, and alternatively operable in a bulk pack mode for dispatching a stream of spaced apart bulk packs of folded sheets separated from the stack of folded sheets, and received at an inlet of the pack dispatching arrangement, to the bulk pack transfer station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: C.G. BRETTING MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
    Inventors: James Andrew Walsh, James R. Michler, Tim Schramm