BALBIR SINGH
Engineers in Delaware

4197774, Apr 15, 1980

Nov 9, 1978

5/959359

Balbir Singh - Media PA
Ernest M. Pinhak - Boothwyn PA

Scott Paper Company - Philadelphia PA

B26D 104, B26D 702

83374

A cutting assembly of the type useable for severing a sheet into desired lengths. The assembly includes an elongate track having a slot extending through an upper wall thereof for slidably receiving and retaining a cutter slide therein. The track has upper surface segments that are roughened; preferably with laterally extending grooves spaced along a major portion of the elongate slot. A cutter slide moveable within the slot has a top member overlying the cutting element and extending beyond the element both laterally and in the direction in which the slide is moveable so as to overlie the roughened surface segments of the track. The top member has an extremely smooth stationary lower surface in the regions overlying the roughened track surfaces. This lower surface is adapted to engage a sheet positioned across the slot in overlying relationship with the roughened track surfaces and to press the sheet into engagement with the roughened surfaces for preventing relative sliding movement between the sheet and the track as the cutter slide is moved over the sheet to sever it.

6808478, Oct 26, 2004

Jun 5, 2000

09/587655

Balbir Singh - Media PA

Ethicon - Somerville NJ

B31F 110

493424, 493416, 493418, 493426, 493434, 493442

A system ( ) for producing folded articles includes a cutting station ( ) operable to segment a fabric web ( ) into a continuous stream of individual web segments ( ). The system also includes a rotary folder ( ) comprising a plurality of folding rollers ( ). The rotary folder ( ) rotates about an axis spaced apart from axes of the folding rollers ( ). The rotary folder ( ) is operable to receive the web segments ( ) at a first location and fold the web segments one or more times while rotating from the first location to a second location about the rotary folder ( ) axis. The system further includes a transfer station ( ) operable to receive the folded web segments ( ) from the rotary folder ( ) at the second location and deliver the folded web segments ( ) to a third location.

6425547, Jul 30, 2002

Aug 31, 1999

09/387742

Balbir Singh - Media PA

Ethicon - Somerville NJ

B65H 3508

242527, 2425301, 242531, 2425334, 242542, 2425423

A system for producing coreless fabric rolls includes a feed station ( ) operable to supply a leading edge of a fabric web ( ) from a parent roll ( ). The system includes a first tucking station ( ) operable to position the leading edge of the fabric web ( ) adjacent one of a plurality of spindles ( ) coupled to a turret ( ). The system also includes a winding station ( ) comprising a winding roller ( ). The winding station ( ) is operable to receive the leading edge in a nip defined by the spindle ( ) and the winding roller ( ) and wind the fabric web ( ) into a fabric roll about the spindle ( ). The system also includes a cutting station ( ) operable to separate the fabric roll from a remaining portion of the fabric web ( ). The system also includes a second tucking station ( ) operable to receive the spindle ( ) from the winding station ( ) and wind a trailing edge of the fabric roll about the fabric roll.

4265409, May 5, 1981

Nov 13, 1979

6/093529

Jon N. Cox - Oakland ME
Balbir Singh - Media PA

Scott Paper Company - Philadelphia PA

B65H 1920

242 56A

An apparatus that controls the swinging of a frame (50) and the rotation of a turret (52) in an automatic web rewinding machine. The frame (50) is pivotally mounted in the machine and a turret (52) including a plurality of rotatable mandrel assemblies (56) is mounted for rotation within the frame (50). The control apparatus includes an indexing device (66) having an output shaft (70) that undergoes intermittent rotation in response to continuous rotation of an input shaft (68). One drive means (80), coupled and responsive to the output shaft (70) of the indexing device (66) provides intermittent rotation of the turret (52). A second drive means (78) is provided to control the rotation of the cam (60) in order to minimize the overlap of the rotation of the cam (60) with the dwell time of the turret (52). The optimum condition occurs when the cam (60) rotates only when the turret (52) is indexing and when the cam (60) does not rotate at all while the turret (52) is dwelling. This optimum condition is achieved by having the second drive means (78) also coupled and responsive to the output shaft (70) of the indexing device (66) for providing the intermittent rotation of cam (60) in synchronism with the rotation of the turret (52).

6283905, Sep 4, 2001

Aug 31, 1999

9/387032

Balbir Singh - Media PA

Ethicon - Somerville NJ

B31B 132

493360

A system (10) for producing folded articles includes a cutting station (58) operable to segment a fabric web (42) into a continuous stream of individual web segments (86). The system also includes a rotary folder (96) comprising a plurality of folding rollers (104, 106). The rotary folder (96) rotates about an axis spaced apart from axes of the folding rollers (104, 106). The rotary folder (96) is operable to receive the web segments (86) at a first location and fold the web segments one or more times while rotating from the first location to a second location about the rotary folder (96) axis. The system further includes a transfer station (62) operable to receive the folded web segments (86) from the rotary folder (96) at the second location and deliver the folded web segments (86) to a third location.

7578414, Aug 25, 2009

Jun 17, 2004

10/870329

John C. Sellars - Wauwatosa WI, US
Jerry Ballas - Media PA, US
Balbir Singh - Media PA, US
Neal D. Watson - Fox Point WI, US
Ronald A. Bogdanovich - Mequon WI, US

Sellars Absorbent Materials, Inc. - Milwaukee WI

B65D 83/00, B65D 25/54, B65H 1/00

221 65, 221 33, 221 63, 220781

A water resistant absorbent towel dispenser. The dispenser includes a container having top, bottom and side walls housing a supply of absorbent towels, and an exterior handle for facilitating transport of the dispenser. The top wall includes a finger-accessible opening through which absorbent towels may be withdrawn. In certain embodiments, the top wall is convex upwardly, but is flexible to enable it to be depressed when dispensers are stacked vertically so as to come into load bearing contact with the towel supply. In some embodiments, the top and bottom walls have interlocking configurations to add lateral stability to vertically stacked dispensers.

6258017, Jul 10, 2001

Jun 5, 2000

9/587656

Balbir Singh - Media PA

Ethicon - Somerville NJ

B31F 108

493424

A system (10) for producing folded articles includes a cutting station (58) operable to segment a fabric web (42) into a continuous stream of individual web segments (86). The system also includes a rotary folder (96) comprising a plurality of folding rollers (104, 106). The rotary folder (96) rotates about an axis spaced apart from axes of the folding rollers (104, 106). The rotary folder (96) is operable to receive the web segments (86) at a first location and fold the web segments one or more times while rotating from the first location to a second location about the rotary folder (96) axis. The system further includes a transfer station (62) operable to receive the folded web segments (86) from the rotary folder (96) at the second location and deliver the folded web segments (86) to a third location.

4009814, Mar 1, 1977

Sep 8, 1975

5/611064

Balbir Singh - Media PA

Scott Paper Company - Philadelphia PA

B65H 1742

226113

Disclosed is a web accumulator for accumulating and discharging a reserve portion of a continuous web passing through the accumulator. The accumulator, which is particularly useful for handling weak webs such as sanitary or tissue paper, includes first and second sets of rotatably mounted web rolls, each of which is partially wrapped by the web when the web is looped alternately from a roll of the first set to a roll of the second set in consecutive order. The second set of web rolls is mounted for movement towards and away from the first set of web rolls to discharge and accumulate the reserve portion of the web, and the accumulator preferably includes drive means separate from the web for driving each web roll at the speed of the web passing over it at all times including when it is accumulating or discharging. The drive means is preferably provided by a drive pulley operably connected to each web roll and preferably having the same size as its respective web roll, an endless flexible belt engaging the drive pulleys in the same sequence that the web engages the web rolls, inlet drive means for rotating the first web roll, exit drive means for rotating the exit web roll, and take-up means for taking up and releasing slack in the drive belt occurring when the second set of rolls moves towards or away from the first set.

5158521, Oct 27, 1992

Jan 23, 1992

7/825746

Balbir Singh - Media PA

Scott Paper Company - Philadelphia PA

B31F 107, B31F 702, B65H 1738, B29C 1712

493354

A rolled paper embossing dispenser in which the paper is embossed and from which the paper is simultaneously dispensed. The dispenser includes a nip formed by a first embossing roll and a second embossing roll, both rotatably mounted within a cabinet. The first embossing roll has a plurality of spaced-apart annular bands with each annular band including discrete, spaced-apart knuckle projections extending radially from the roll. The second embossing roll includes annular slots and annular extensions arranged in alternating relationship with each annular slot having sufficient width to receive the knuckle projections without contacting any portion thereof as paper is fed through the nip and embossed. A lever or crank is provided for a user to rotationally drive one of the embossing rolls, the other embossing roll rotating only in response to the paper being drawn through the nip such that rotational slippage of one roll with respect to the other will not result in breaking or tearing the web.

6153232, Nov 28, 2000

Feb 11, 1999

9/248865

Steven Holten - Houston TX
Balbir Singh - Media PA
David A. Blythe - Philadelphia PA
Simon R. Gainey - Bryn Mawr PA
Edward J. O'Brien - East Hampton NJ

Uncle Ben's, Inc. - Houston TX

B65D 8134

426 79

A boil-in-bag package for the storage and cooking of food items includes an elongated rectangular shaped bag having an inside and an outside wall, a closed top end and an open bottom end. A handle section is adjacent the top end of the bag section, with the handle section having an upper and a lower portion and a first and second side. The upper portion of the handle section includes an opening sized and shaped for receiving a lifting utensil. A sealing/release mechanism is positioned on the handle section and is configured to releaseably close the open bottom end of the elongated bag section contiguous with the handle section thereby forming a U-shaped package configured to allow a through-flow of fluid between the inside walls of the U-shaped package. The sealing/release mechanism is further configured to allow for the release of the open bottom end from the handle section without contacting the elongated bag section.