Thomas C Reiter

US Patent:

53872878, Feb 7, 1995

Filed:

Jul 7, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/088501

Inventors:

Thomas C. Reiter - Hilton NY
Peter A. Pastecki - Rochester NY
Charles W. Pierson - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

B05C 1300
B25B 120
B23Q 300
A61K 900

US Classification:

118503

Abstract:

An apparatus for holding a solid compact medicament has relatively displaceable, substantially planar first and second members having opposed edge portions. Each edge portion has at least one notch having an interior wall. Housing is provided for holding members in a substantially co-planar relationship. When members are displaced, preferably along a fixed axis, to a first position, the interior walls of the opposed, aligned notches define an open gripping jaw for receiving and subsequently releasing the caplet. Further, when members are displaced to a second position, the open gripping jaw then partially closes, thereby capturing the caplet securely within the notches in the gripping jaw for processing.

US Patent:

59420340, Aug 24, 1999

Filed:

Jul 24, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/900225

Inventors:

Jeffrey D. Brehant - Lititz PA
Linn C. Hoover - Webster NY
Thomas Kucharski - Belle Mead NJ
Thomas C. Reiter - Hilton NY
David J. Revelle - Rochester NY
Daniel A. Slater - Rochester NY
Luis R. Torres - Lancaster PA
Patrick Vo - Basking Ridge NJ

Assignee:

Bayer Corporation - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

A23G 300

US Classification:

118 20

Abstract:

A process and apparatus for the gelatin coating of medicaments which includes a continuous conveyer system to advance a plurality of pallets through a loading station, at least one dipping station, at least one dryer station, a reorientation station and an unloading station. Medicaments to be coated are loaded into pallets at the loading station and advanced to the first dipping station where a vacuum is applied to secure the medicament to the pallet. The pallet is inverted and a first portion of each of the medicaments is dipped into a coating mixture. The pallet is then returned to its upright position, the vacuum is removed and the coating is dried. The medicaments are then transferred from the first pallet to a second pallet by a reorientation mechanism. The second pallet is then advanced to a second dipping station which operates in the same manner as the first dipping station. The second pallet is advanced through the dryer station and the fully coated medicaments are ejected from the pallet into a container.

US Patent:

57468648, May 5, 1998

Filed:

Sep 26, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/721129

Inventors:

Thomas Carl Reiter - Hilton NY
Peter P. Soscia - Geneseo NY
David P. Brust - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

B32B 3100

US Classification:

156220

Abstract:

A process of providing a smooth surface to an image-receiving laminate in an identification card stock, the laminate comprising an oriented polymeric film support having an image-receiving layer located on a first outermost surface thereof, and the second outermost surface of the oriented polymeric film support having a heat- or chemically-activated adhesive thereon, the process comprising applying an embossed surface to the image-receiving layer using a textured plate employed in a laminating process, and then applying a smooth surface to the image-receiving layer using a smooth plate employed in a laminating process.

US Patent:

58469001, Dec 8, 1998

Filed:

Jul 31, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/688975

Inventors:

Thomas Carl Reiter - Hilton NY
Peter P. Soscia - Geneseo NY
David P. Brust - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

B41M 5035
B41M 538

US Classification:

503227

Abstract:

An identification card stock comprising a polymeric core substrate having an oriented polymeric film laminated on at least one side thereof, said card stock also having an image-receiving layer located on the outermost surface of at least one side of said card stock, and process of using same.

US Patent:

55142168, May 7, 1996

Filed:

Jul 7, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/088500

Inventors:

Peter A. Pastecki - Rochester NY
Thomas C. Reiter - Rochester NY
Charles W. Pierson - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Bayer Corporation (formerly Miles, Inc.) - Parsippany NJ

International Classification:

B05C 1302

US Classification:

118503

Abstract:

An apparatus for holding and subsequently releasing a solid compact medicament, such as a caplet. The apparatus has a first and a second member each having an upper and a lower surface. The first and second members each have at least one notch opposed to each other and correspondingly aligned and extending beyond the respective upper and lower surfaces of each member. The first and second members have chambers adjacent to each of the notches, and each of the notches is moveable in the respective chamber of the opposing member so that the opposing notches form a gripping jaw that can move between a first and a second position. When the gripping jaw is in an open first position, it can receive a solid compact medicament, and in a closed second position, the gripping jaw can grip the medicament.

US Patent:

61959111, Mar 6, 2001

Filed:

Mar 23, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/274760

Inventors:

Jeffrey D. Brehant - Lititz PA
Linn C. Hoover - Webster NY
Thomas Kucharski - Belle Mead NJ
Thomas C. Reiter - Hilton NY
David J. Revelle - Rochester NY
Daniel A. Slater - Rochester NY
Luis R. Torres - Lancaster PA
Patrick Vo - Basking Ridge NJ

Assignee:

Bayer Corporation - Morristown NJ

International Classification:

F26B 300

US Classification:

34463

Abstract:

A process and apparatus for the gelatin coating of medicaments which includes a continuous conveyer system to advance a plurality of pallets through a loading station, at least one dipping station, at least one dryer station, a reorientation station and an unloading station. Medicaments to be coated are loaded into pallets at the loading station and advanced to the first dipping station where a vacuum is applied to secure the medicament to the pallet. The pallet is inverted and a first portion of each of the medicaments is dipped into a coating mixture. The pallet is then returned to its upright position, the vacuum is removed and the coating is dried. The medicaments are then transferred from the first pallet to a second pallet by a reorientation mechanism. The second pallet is then advanced to a second dipping station which operates in the same manner as the first dipping station. The second pallet is advanced through the dryer station and the fully coated medicaments are ejected from the pallet into a container.

US Patent:

55799515, Dec 3, 1996

Filed:

Jun 23, 1994

Appl. No.:

8/264391

Inventors:

David J. Revelle - Rochester NY
Peter A. Pastecki - Rochester NY
Thomas C. Reiter - Hilton NY

Assignee:

Bayer Corporated - Parsippany NJ

International Classification:

B65G 5900

US Classification:

221 95

Abstract:

An apparatus (10) for orienting and loading solid compact medicaments, such as solid compact medicaments (A), into a carrier device (C) comprises a feeder (12) having a plurality of elongated first channels (20) through which the solid compact medicaments travel with an acute angle relative to a predetermined orientation of the carrier device (C). An orienting member (32) cooperating with the feeder (12) reorients the solid compact medicaments to the predetermined orientation as they exit the feeder (12). In an alternative embodiment, a pitch changing means (42) in fluid communications with the orienting means (32) provides for final orientation of the solid compact medicaments prior to loading in the carrier device (C).

US Patent:

48308870, May 16, 1989

Filed:

Apr 22, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/185207

Inventors:

Thomas C. Reiter - Hilton NY

Assignee:

Eastman Kodak Company - Rochester NY

International Classification:

B05D 130

US Classification:

427420

Abstract:

Method and apparatus for applying one or a plurality of superimposed layers of a photographic coating composition by the curtain coating method onto a moving support. The spacing between the edge guides, used to maintain the width of a curtain throughout its free fall from the coating hopper to the impingement line on the support, is arranged to coat less than the width of the support so as to provide an uncoated margin on the support. The curtain fluids are extracted from the edge region of the falling curtain by connecting a suction device to the edge guides near the point of impingement of the falling curtain, thus substantially reducing the thickness of the curtain at its edge region and thereby reducing the thickness of the coated edges.