Patents by Inventor Vjekoslav Bogdan

Vjekoslav Bogdan 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).

  • Compression plate assembly for a folder buckle chute
    Patent number: 5437596
    Abstract: In a buckle chute folding apparatus having at least one buckle chute and including a first pair of rollers for feeding one or more sheets into the buckle chute, the buckle chute including upper and lower chute plates having a predetermined gap therebetween and a plurality of stops positioned in within the buckle chute such that the sheet buckles and forms a bulge in the sheet that is grasp by a pair of folding rollers which complete the fold, an improvement comprising structure for narrowing the predetermined gap between the upper and lower chute plates whereby buckling of the sheet within the buckle chute is minimized. The narrowing structure comprises a pair of compression plates, each of the compression plates being secured respectively on the outer face of the upper and lower chute plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.
    Inventors: Vjekoslav Bogdan, Steven W. Marcello