Edwin E Smith

US Patent:

39725650, Aug 3, 1976

Filed:

Jul 23, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/598286

Inventors:

Edwin Smith - San Antonio TX

International Classification:

A47C 702

US Classification:

297455

Abstract:

This invention is a new type of couch or chair using multiple elongated reversible cushions for both the back and seat. The cushion, which may be used any place in the seat or back, has an extension on each end thereof so the back and seat cushions will interlock. The extension also overhangs the front of the couch which forms a part of the couch frame. The couch frame has four legs with the front legs supporting the arm rests and the rear legs supporting the back. A horizontal frame extending between the legs supports the seat cushions. Slats extend horizontally under the cushions for both the seat and back. The frame is formed from wood with saddlebag cushions being draped over the arms of the couch.

US Patent:

46747397, Jun 23, 1987

Filed:

Aug 2, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/762117

Inventors:

Edwin K. Smith - Haworth NJ

Assignee:

Corrugated Paper Machinery Corp. - Hunt Valley MD

International Classification:

B65H 514

US Classification:

271268

Abstract:

A conveyor belt transfer section moves printed sheets at constant speed from a printer to a platen type die-cutter, this constant speed being equal to the printer speed. The die-cutter is provided with an intermittently operated sheet conveyor having a gripper bar that is moved intermittently so as to fully stop in succession at a plurality of locations including an infeed station and a working station downstream of the infeed station. When the bar is stopped at the infeed station, sheet grippers mounted thereon are opened and are kept open while the bar is accelerated in the downstream direction. As a sheet approaches the infeed station, the bar begins to move away from the infeed station at an acceleration rate which permits the sheet to enter the open grippers on the moving bar. These grippers are closed to hold the sheet when sheet speed and gripper bar speed are essentially equal. With its grippers closed, the bar continues to accelerate, then decelerate and finally stops at the working station with the sheet operatively positioned between the platens of the die cutter.

US Patent:

47673931, Aug 30, 1988

Filed:

Dec 8, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/939114

Inventors:

Edwin K. Smith - Haworth NJ

International Classification:

B31B 120
B31B 125

US Classification:

493342

Abstract:

A flat platen-type cutting and creasing press for sheet material includes a continuously moving closed loop conveyor that carries sheet gripping means in a feed direction along a generally horizontal feed path extending through a sheet loading station, a sheet unloading station, and a cutting station having die elements positioned thereat with the cutting station being positioned between the sheet loading and unloading stations. Eccentric shafts rotating at uniform speed translates platens carrying the die elements along a circular path positioned for the die elements to operatively engage and thereby fully cut a sheet moving along the feed path through said cutting station. Rotating counterbalancing weights on the eccentric shafts are disposed between points on the platens that are connected to the eccentric shafts.