Dennis A Burgess, Age 876770 E Pico Del Monte, Tucson, AZ 85750

6475280, Nov 5, 2002

Jan 29, 2001

09/772026

Dennis M. Burgess - Minnetonka Beach MN
William J. Campbell - Minnetonka MN

Burgess Industries Inc. - Plymouth MN

B05C 102

118 66, 118108, 118208, 118236, 118256

An emulsion coater is provided with a framework having a table or work surface for supporting a sheet of material that is to be coated e. g. , a sheet of transparent plastic film. A carriage is mounted on the framework for rectilinear movement thereacross parallel to the surface of the sheet to advance a coating applicator across the sheet. A coating dryer is also mounted on the carriage to progressively dry the coating from one end to the other as it is applied. A motor is supported on the framework for moving the carriage forwardly from one end of the sheet to the other. Provision is made for disengaging the coating applicator from the carriage once the coating has been applied and thereafter moving the carriage in a reverse direction across the applied coating to the starting position while optionally continuing to dry the coating. In order to remove drippings and spills, a sheet of paper is unwound from a supply roll supported at one end of the framework, advanced across the work surface and rewound at the opposite end of the supporting framework. A washing pan that can be filled with water is provided at one end of the machine for removing coating material from the applicator before it has a chance to dry.

7610855, Nov 3, 2009

May 22, 2007

11/752254

Dennis M. Burgess - Wayzata MN, US
William J. Campbell - Minnetonka MN, US

Burgess Industries, Inc. - Plymouth MN

B41F 47/14

101477, 101480

Transportation of a lithographic plate uses an indexer to load plates into pods for delivery to a press cylinder via a pod elevator or a pod cart. The plates are imprinted with a bar code, imaged, punched, bent, sheared, corner notched, and registered to a press cylinder. The plates are loaded into the indexer, which moves the loaded plates into a position in alignment with designated pod compartments, and loads the plates into each of the designated pod compartments by indexed movement of an elevator within the indexer. The pod elevator or the pod cart moves the pods proximate to a press cylinder where the plates are unloaded from the pod and loaded onto a press cylinder. A computing device, such as a PLC, directs the process. A vision system senses information from the indexer, pod, pod elevator, and the plate for feedback to a PLC, which initiates all of the foregoing operations.

7621219, Nov 24, 2009

May 23, 2007

11/752839

Dennis M. Burgess - Wayzata MN, US
William J. Campbell - Minetonka MN, US
Joseph A. Stein - Plymouth MN, US

Burgess Industries, Inc. - Plymouth MN

B41F 1/34

101481, 1013821

The method and apparatus for registration of a lithographic plate includes a means for ensuring that the plate is in contact with registration pins on imaging and bending devices and a means for finely adjusting an initial position of the plate with respect to registration pins on the bender to bring the plate in registration with the specified plate lock-up position on the press cylinder. Three separate electrical circuits ensure that the plate is in contact with the registration pins if each separate circuit is able to conduct current between the respective pins and the plate. The fine adjustment is accomplished by rotation of eccentric registration pins until the plate is within tolerance.

8322282, Dec 4, 2012

Oct 14, 2009

12/587814

Dennis M. Burgess - Wayzata MN, US
William J. Campbell - Minnetonka MN, US

Burgess Industries, Inc. - Plymouth MN

B41B 47/14

101477, 101480

Transportation of a lithographic plate uses an indexer to load plates into pods for delivery to a press cylinder via a pod elevator or a pod cart. The plates are imprinted with a bar code, imaged, punched, bent, sheared, corner notched, and registered to a press cylinder. The plates are loaded into the indexer, which moves the loaded plates into a position in alignment with designated pod compartments, and loads the plates into each of the designated pod compartments by indexed movement of an elevator within the indexer. The pod elevator or the pod cart moves the pods proximate to a press cylinder where the plates are unloaded from the pod and loaded onto a press cylinder. A computing device, such as a PLC, directs the process. A vision system senses information from the indexer, pod, pod elevator, and the plate for feedback to a PLC, which initiates all of the foregoing operations.

5535898, Jul 16, 1996

May 19, 1995

8/444900

Ralph D. Burgess - Plymouth MN
Dennis A. Burgess - Tuscon AZ

A47F 500

211206

A printing plate carrier for transporting at least one printing plate that has tabs along two opposed edges has at least one supporting bracket connected to the carrier as part of the carrier. The supporting bracket has an elongated, upwardly facing horizontal edge that acts as an elongated hook for engaging and supporting the printing plate when the tab of the printing plate is hung upon the edge of the bracket. A plurality of floor-engaging wheels are connected to the carrier to support the carrier for movement from one location to another. The carrier includes a supporting framework preferably having a pair of spaced apart upright frame members and at least one horizontal supporting beam member releasably removably connected between the upright frame members. The latter serve as supporting columns for holding the beam in place when the carrier is assembled. The beam or beams, when removed, separate the columns from one another to render the carrier collapsible so that it can be reduced in size for shipment and storage.

5577965, Nov 26, 1996

Feb 12, 1996

8/600292

Dennis A. Burgess - Tucson AZ

A63B 6936

473230

A golf club has a clubhead upon which is rotatably mounted a rotary member or roller. The roller is exposed at the front of the club to engage the golf ball and is free to rotate upon a horizontal axis while in contact with the golf ball to facilitate rotation of the golf ball as the club moves the golf ball across the ground. The clubhead preferably has a front face that is directed toward the ball and the roller is mounted on the clubhead as a part of the front face of the club so as to engage the ball and to rotate freely while in contact with the ball. Typically, the clubhead has a pair of horizontally spaced apart supporting walls with an opening between them to accommodate the roller and to support the roller for rotation about a horizontal axis with the roller located at an elevation adapted to engage the center of the ball but to be held out of contact with the ground.

4176949, Dec 4, 1979

Aug 3, 1978

5/930855

Dennis A. Burgess - Minneapolis MN

Burgess Industries, Inc. - Minneapolis MN

G03B 2722

355104

A rotary open-ended tubular drum of transparent material is supported within a housing by a pair of spaced support rolls and an endless flexible belt entrained over a pair of spaced apart feed rolls, the belt being generally opposed to the support rolls. The belt and drum are driven by a motor to feed a master sheet and a sensitized sheet to be printed, in face-to-face contact, between a drum engaging feeding flight portion of the belt and the portion of the drum engaged by the belt. An ultraviolet lamp is mounted in outwardly spaced relation to one end of the drum, and delivers ultraviolet light axially toward the interior of the drum. A stationary mirror within the drum is positioned to reflect ultraviolet light from the lamp toward an interior surface of the portion of the drum that is engaged by the feeding flight of the belt. A mask within the drum confines the reflected light to a given limited portion of the drum, and cooling fans are used to maintain the drum in a cool condition and to remove heated air from the housing.

5970774, Oct 26, 1999

May 15, 1998

9/079866

Dennis M. Burgess - Minnetonka MN
William J. Campbell - Minnetonka MN
Mark L. Palmer - Burnsville MN

Burgess Industries, Inc. - Plymouth MN

B21D 504

72294

An apparatus and a method configure lithographic plates by cutting corners and bending edges in preparation for use in web offset printing. The lithographic plate is precisely aligned and immobilized on a support bed, which has bending anvils at opposing edges of the bed. A corner die cutter advances into position above a corner of the plate, cuts a corner of the plate and then retracts. An eccentric camming member for bending the plate edges has full bearing supporting ends and additional bearings intermediate the ends. The eccentric camming members lower to the plate and rotate within their bearings to form bends of selected angles in opposing edges of the plate. The eccentric camming members are then counter rotated and raised to their position above the plate. The movements of the corner die cutter and the eccentric camming member are precisely sequenced with each other by programmable logic control.