William Sherman - Medford NJ Francis C. Larkin - Trenton NJ Stephen J. Horvath - Bensalem PA
Assignee:
Brandt, Incorporated - Bensalem PA
International Classification:
G01N 904 G06M 700
US Classification:
250223R
Abstract:
Sensors in the infeed and output stackers, under control of the microprocessor, monitor the sheets. The apparatus is started automatically by placing sheets in the infeed. A count of the sheets is developed and displayed as the sheets are fed. When the infeed is empty and the output contains sheets, the count is retained. If sheets are removed from the outfeed, the count is retained and is reset only after more sheets are placed in the input. The same rules obtain for batching. The sensors cooperate with singles, holes and doubles detectors and have their gain adjusted depending upon sheet density. Automatic threshold adjustment circuits compensate for dust build-up and component aging. Upon sheet detection, the sensing circuit threshold level is instantaneously shifted to prevent an abrupt change in intensity from the sheet covering the sensor to provide an erroneous indication of the presence of a subsequent sheet or sheets. The sensors assure accurate counting even through sheets are fed in skewed and/or overlapping fashion.
Method And Apparatus For Counting Sheets Which May Be Fed In Skewed And/Or Overlapping Fashion
William Sherman - Medford NJ Francis C. Larkin - Trenton NJ Stephen J. Horvath - Bensalem PA
Assignee:
Brandt, Inc. - Bensalem PA
International Classification:
G06M 706
US Classification:
271 4
Abstract:
Sensors in the infeed and output stackers, under control of the microprocessor, monitor the sheets. The apparatus is started automatically by placing sheets in the infeed. A count of the sheets is developed and displayed as the sheets are fed. When the infeed is empty and the output contains sheets, the count is retained. If sheets are removed from the outfeed, the count is retained and is reset only after more sheets are placed in the input. The same rules obtain for batching. The sensors cooperate with singles, holes and doubles detectors and have their gain adjusted depending upon sheet density. Automatic threshold adjustment circuits compensate for dust build-up and component aging. Upon sheet detection, the sensing circuit threshold level is instantaneously shifted to prevent an abrupt change in intensity from the sheet covering the sensor to provide an erroneous indication of the presence of a subsequent sheet or sheets. The sensors assure accurate counting even though sheets are fed in skewed and/or overlapping fashion.
Aspirator Liquid Blending Device Using Multiple Restrictors
Stephen R. Horvath - Caledonia WI Charles E. Seaman - Somers WI
Assignee:
S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. - Racine WI
International Classification:
B05B 730
US Classification:
239318
Abstract:
An improved aspirator device for the accurate blending of an additive liquid such as a liquid concentrate with a pressurized stream of a main liquid such as water. The improvement involves the use of a metering means composed of at least two plastic injection molded restrictors in serial communication. Each restrictor has, as its smallest diameter fluid passage, a hollow bore of from about 0. 005 inches to 0. 010 inches in diameter and from about 0. 005 inches to 0. 010 inches in length wherein the dimensions of each hollow bore are such to provide a volume:volume dilution ratio of the additive liquid to the main liquid of from about 1:500 to 1:2,500.
Method And Apparatus For Counting Sheets Which May Be Fed In Skewed And/Or Overlapping Fashion
William Sherman - Medford NJ Francis C. Larkin - Trenton NJ Stephen J. Horvath - Bensalem PA
Assignee:
Brandt, Incorporated - Watertown WI
International Classification:
G06M 706
US Classification:
377 8
Abstract:
Sensors in the infeed and output stackers, under control of the microprocessor, monitor the sheets. The apparatus is started automatically by placing sheets in the infeed. A count of the sheets is developed and displayed as the sheets are fed. When the infeed is empty and the output contains sheets, the count is retained. If sheets are removed from the outfeed, the count is retained and is reset only after more sheets are placed in the input. The same rules obtain for batching. The sensors cooperate with singles, holes and doubles detectors and have their gain adjusted depending upon sheet density. Automatic threshold adjustment circuits compensate for dust build-up and component aging. Upon sheet detection, the sensing circuit threshold level is instantaneously shifted to prevent an abrupt change in intensity from the sheet covering the sensor to provide an erroneous indication of the presence of a subsequent sheet or sheets. The sensors assure accurate counting even though sheets are fed in skewed and/or overlapping fashion.
Method And Apparatus For Counting Sheets Which May Be Fed In Skewed And/Or Overlapping Fashion
William Sherman - Medford NJ Francis C. Larkin - Trenton NJ Stephen J. Horvath - Bensalem PA
Assignee:
Brandt, Incorporated - Bensalem PA
International Classification:
G01N 904 G06M 700
US Classification:
250223R
Abstract:
Sensors in the infeed and output stackers, under control of the microprocessor, monitor the sheets. The apparatus is started automatically by placing sheets in the infeed. A count of the sheets is developed and displayed as the sheets are fed. When the infeed is empty and the output contains sheets, the count is retained. If sheets are removed from the outfeed, the count is retained and is reset only after more sheets are placed in the input. The same rules obtain for batching. The sensors cooperate with singles, holes and doubles detectors and have their again adjusted depending upon sheet density. Automatic threshold adjustment circuits compensate for dust build-up and component aging. Upon sheet detection, the sensing circuit threshold level is instantaneously shifted to prevent an abrupt change in intensity from the sheet covering the sensor to provide an erroneous indication of the presence of a subsequent sheet or sheets. The sensors assure accurate counting even through sheets are fed in skewed and/or overlapping fashion.
Method And Apparatus For Detecting Abnormal Thickness Conditions Such As Folded And/Or Missing Corners Of Moving Sheets
Peter J. Loftus - Levittown PA Stephen J. Horvath - Bensalem PA
International Classification:
G01B 704 B65H 314
US Classification:
33147L
Abstract:
Sheets moving in a feed direction and arranged at spaced intervals are fed through nips arranged to rollingly engage opposing sides of the sheet, each nip being formed by a roller rotating about a fixed axis and a cooperating swingably mounted roller. Resilient adjustable biasing means urges an assembly upon which the swingably mounted roller is pivotally mounted, as well as an arm forming part of the pivotally mounted roller assembly, in a first direction. A sensor is positioned adjacent the free end of said arm. Sheets moving through said nip cause displacement of said pivotal assembly against the biasing force in accordance with the thickness of the sheet passing through the nip. The biasing means comprises a thick, and accurate resilient element designed to permit the roller assembly to follow even abrupt thickness changes rapidly and accurately without experiencing overshoot or undershoot. The sensor senses the position of a field generating element mounted upon the free end of said arm to provide a signal representative of the size and direction of the displacement.
Method And Apparatus For Evaluating And Sorting Sheets In A High Speed Manner
Stephen J. Horvath - Bensalem PA Steven R. Wilcox - Mount Laurel NJ
Assignee:
Brandt, Inc. - Bensalem PA
International Classification:
G01V 904
US Classification:
250223R
Abstract:
Electronic solid state circuitry incorporating the microprocessor for automatically controlling document handling apparatus. Sheets are advanced from a stack of sheets arranged in an infeed stacker and are moved one at a time at high speed through an examining location where sensors examine the sheets to determine their condition. The microprocessor periodically initiates an adjustment in the brightness level and gain control level of the lamps and sensor elements employed in the sensor array; tracks each sheet as it moves through the document handling apparatus; and evaluates the outputs developed by the sensors to determine the fitness of each sheet. A gating roller assembly, under control of the microprocessor, is operated to divert each sheet toward one of a plurality of output stackers according to the results of the evaluation performed by the microprocessor. Timing of the electronic circuitry is controlled by timing signals derived from the document handling apparatus to synchronise the electronic circuitry with the document handling apparatus. The sheets are tested during their high speed movement for a variety of conditions which are operator selectable and which conditions are operator adjustable.
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Date: May 20, 2015
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As Partner Losses Near 70, Dewey's Troubles Spread Overseas
firm's new management team, installed last month, has ties to Poland. Stephen Horvath, a London partner set to take over the firm's day-to-day operations, works closely with the Warsaw office on M&A and finance deals, according to his Dewey Web site bio. Like Fogelman, Horvath joined Dewey from