Robert P Beer

US Patent:

8381236, Feb 19, 2013

Filed:

Feb 14, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/523826

Inventors:

Daniel D. DeFore - Chanhassen MN, US
Robert E. Beer - Plymouth MN, US
Jingang Deng - Eden Prairie MN, US
Brian P. Johnson - Eden Prairie MN, US

Assignee:

DataCard Corporation - Minnetonka MN

International Classification:

G06F 3/00
G06F 9/44
G06F 9/46
G06F 13/00

US Classification:

719329

Abstract:

In a document personalization production system, an application framework is provided between a production manager and one or more machines to enable new hardware and/or new functions for the creation, production, printing, attachment, and delivery of personalized documents. The application framework provides the application program interfaces, the graphical user interfaces, and the plugins required to implement the new hardware and/or new function into an existing document personalization production system without having to reprogram the production manager. The application framework may comprise or connect a number of service modules so that production manager applications are compatible across multiple machines or stations of the document personalization production system.

US Patent:

43267912, Apr 27, 1982

Filed:

Dec 12, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/215690

Inventors:

Robert E. Beer - Minneapolis MN
Conrad V. Anderson - Minneapolis MN

Assignee:

Pako Corporation - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

G03D 313

US Classification:

354321

Abstract:

A photoprocessor for photosensitive webs includes a plurality of tanks containing photoprocessing solution and a dryer. The web is transported through the tank by a plurality of opposed spaced pairs of oppositely oriented driven tapered rollers. The transport speed of the web through the tank is determined by a pair of opposed cylindrical rollers at the exit of the last tank. The cylindrical rollers are driven at a tangential velocity which is approximately equal to the tangential velocity at the centers of the tapered rollers. A loader at the inlet end of the processor includes driven and idler rollers which are normally out of engagement and which are brought into engagement to drive the web into the processor for a selected time period when the web is first sensed at the inlet end of the processor.

US Patent:

44563558, Jun 26, 1984

Filed:

Oct 5, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/432859

Inventors:

Kenneth M. Kaufmann - Minneapolis MN
Robert W. Lundstrom - Minneapolis MN
Robert E. Beer - Minneapolis MN

Assignee:

Pako Corporation - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

G03B 306
G03B 308

US Classification:

354299

Abstract:

A processor for processing undeveloped photographic film discs mounted on a spindle assembly has a conveyor to intermittently convey the spindle assembly from a first end to a second end of the processor along a generally horizontal conveyor path. The spindle assembly is conveyed to a plurality of processing stations along the conveyor path, with each processing station having a processing tank. During processing, the processing tanks move between an upward process position and a downward dump and transport position. A fluid dispenser at each processing station dispenses processing fluid to the processing tank at that processing station when a spindle assembly is positioned at that processing station. A spindle sensor at the first end of the processor provides a signal indicative of the presence of the spindle assembly in the processor. The operations of the conveyor, processing tank movement and fluid dispensers are controlled by a control apparatus as a function of the spindle sensor signal.