Patents by Inventor Tom Payer

Tom Payer 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).

  • Method and system for managing tension and maintaining registration between multiple webs in a web finishing system
    Patent number: 7032518
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the tension and maintaining registration between multiple webs in a web finishing system. The method involves transporting a first web and at least second web toward a finishing apparatus, comparing relative positions of registration marks on the webs, severing lengths of the second web in response to the relative positions, aligning each length of the second web with the first web, and then performing a finishing operation on the webs with the finishing apparatus. The system includes the finishing apparatus, devices for transporting the webs toward the finishing apparatus, devices for comparing the relative positions of the registration marks on the webs, a device for severing lengths of the second web in response to the relative positions, and a device for individually aligning each length of the second web with the first web before the webs encounter the finishing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Scheffer, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Scheffer, Eric K. Lo, John Nader, Tom Payer
  • WEB FINISHING METHOD AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20050028701
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the tension and maintaining registration between multiple webs in a web finishing system. The method involves transporting a first web and at least second web toward a finishing apparatus, comparing relative positions of registration marks on the webs, severing lengths of the second web in response to the relative positions, aligning each length of the second web with the first web, and then performing a finishing operation on the webs with the finishing apparatus. The system includes the finishing apparatus, devices for transporting the webs toward the finishing apparatus, devices for comparing the relative positions of the registration marks on the webs, a device for severing lengths of the second web in response to the relative positions, and a device for individually aligning each length of the second web with the first web before the webs encounter the finishing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Applicant: SCHEFFER, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce Scheffer, Eric Lo, John Nader, Tom Payer