Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Daniel O'Byrne
  • Patent number: 6718873
    Abstract: A proof press for the mounting of flexographic printing plates, comprising a printing cylinder, which is covered by a blanket for the mounting of at least one printing plate with double adhesive tape interposed, the printing cylinder being movable at right angles to its own axis in order to be placed in contact, along a generatrix, with a respective impression roller for performing proof prints, an optical system for collimating points of the impression roller with respective points of the printing plate by direct viewing, and a compression device for producing the forced adhesion of the printing plate to the double-adhesive tape and to the blanket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Bieffebi S.p.A.
    Inventors: Stefano Sambri, Alberto Zanoli
  • Patent number: 6718606
    Abstract: An apparatus for molding and inserting in caps liners made of plastic material dispensed by an extruder, comprising: a dosage carousel; a molding carousel; an insertion carousel; a cap feeder for feeding the insertion carousel with caps, the carousels being rotatable about vertical axes and provided with seats for supporting multiple shuttles that are angularly equidistant concentrically to the rotation axes of the respective carousels, the dosage carousel having assemblies for taking in succession doses of plastic material from the extruder and depositing them onto the shuttles, the molding carousel having assemblies for molding in succession liners on the shuttles and the insertion carousel having assemblies for removing in succession the liners from the shuttles and inserting them in respective caps fed by the feeder; and a first, second and third star, for shuttle transferring at the respective carousels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Sacmi Cooperativa Meccanici Imola S.c.r.l.
    Inventor: Giovanni Bassi
  • Patent number: 6715528
    Abstract: An actuation assembly for double-glazing units with a frame with two glazed panes that form a hermetic air space accommodating shutters movable to be gathered or rolled-up, which comprises rotary motion speed varying elements, with a first rotor, with a magnet ring external to the unit and a second rotor, with a magnet ring arranged inside the unit to surround coaxially thereto, the rotation shaft on which the cords, from which the shutters hangs, are wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Finvetro S.p.A.
    Inventor: Mauro Rossini
  • Patent number: 6716349
    Abstract: A filter for Diesel engine fuel, comprising a filtering mass which is contained within an enclosure and is provided so as to be crossed by the fuel in its path inside the filter between an intake connector and a discharge connector. The enclosure comprises a water collection chamber at its bottom. The filter further comprises at least two micromeshes which are adapted to be crossed sequentially by the fuel that exits from the filtering mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Sogefi Filtration S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Baracchi, Claudio Crovetti, Sergio Tallano
  • Patent number: 6717089
    Abstract: An electric pole for a low-voltage power circuit breaker, comprising: a fixed contact and a movable contact which can be mutually coupled/uncoupled; at least two conducting elements, suitable to electrically connect the movable contact to a power supply grid, the conducting elements being arranged so that the electric currents flowing through them are equally orientated; means for mechanically supporting and actuating the movable contact; and at least one insulating element which is interposed between the conducting elements and is suitable to contrast, by friction with the conducting elements, electrodynamic repulsion forces that are generated between the fixed contact and the movable contact during opening in short-circuit operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: ABB Service S.r.l.
    Inventors: Lucio Azzola, Eligio Zanchi
  • Patent number: 6715238
    Abstract: A safety device for the building field, for individually protecting against falls workers assigned to walking at high elevations in buildings under construction. The device comprises at least one pole, a detachable connection for the pole base with the surface of a building, the pole having at its top end, an engagement for a cable element forming a safety parapet, at least one leg connected laterally to rest, with its lower end, on the surface of the building, laterally to the region engaged by the base of the pole, to form, for the pole, an auxiliary resting element for pushing against the surface of the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Patent number: 6706057
    Abstract: A compression suture device for the surgical treatment of hemorrhoids, comprising two mutually opposite sections, each of which has a portion for mutual irreversible connection and a clamping portion for at least two flaps of organic tissue which are arranged in contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventors: Gianfranco Bidoia, Riccardo Annibali
  • Patent number: 6705162
    Abstract: A probe assembly for monitoring the water level in boilers with an electric immersion resistor heater, of the type that comprises at least one sensor element to be arranged inside a hollow body which is in turn associated and partially inserted in the boiler. The hollow body has, on the portion arranged outside the boiler, a plug which axially supports the sensor element; the end of the sensor element arranged at the plug is connected, when the plug is installed, by way of at least one electrical contact, to an electrical power supply cable, whose contact end is arranged at the portion of hollow body that is arranged outside the boiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: T.P.A. Impex S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luigi Amoretti
  • Patent number: 6703824
    Abstract: A device for measuring the power of a motor, having a measurer for measuring the current sent to the motor and a measurer for measuring the voltage, related to the current, that is sent to the motor, a rephaser for rephasing the waveform of the voltage measured by the voltage measurer and a multiplier suitable to multiply the current measured by the current measurer with the voltage rephased by the rephaser, the output signal of the multiplier being processed in order to obtain active power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Z. Bavelloni S.p.A.
    Inventor: Franco Bavelloni
  • Patent number: 6702224
    Abstract: A magazine for a plurality of reels of tape provided with a device for selecting a reel of tape to be used, comprising a plurality of supports for the reels, which can slide on a guide so that the reels form a stack whose axis is parallel to the guide, elements for actuating simultaneously the plurality of supports along the guide in order to position the reel of tape to be used in a preset point of the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Resta S.r.l.
    Inventor: Roberto Resta
  • Patent number: 6703942
    Abstract: An industrial system for measuring a physical quantity, related to an industrial process and/or application, comprising: first means for detecting said physical quantity and for transmitting first data and/or signals related to said physical quantity; second means for receiving said first data and/or signals, said second means being connected to said first means through one or more data/signal transmission lines; third means for reading said first data and/or signals and for programming said first means, said third means being detachable from said means and fixable in a remote position from said first means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: ABB Sace S.p.A.
    Inventors: Riccardo Borelli, Gianfranco Bianchi
  • Patent number: 6702823
    Abstract: A device for identifying the position of the distal holes for passage of securement screws provided in an intramedullary nail inserted in a medullary canal of a long bone, having an arm that protrudes from said medullary canal, provided with a fixing element for rotational and axial fixing to the end of said nail, the arm comprising a portion that protrudes outside the bone provided with elements for the coupling, at a selective distance, of a hollow stem which encloses a plurality of channels allowing sliding therein of guiding wires for guiding a cannulated bone drilling tool and at least one securement screw to be inserted after removal of the cannulated tool through the bone and distal holes of the intramedullary nail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hit Medica S.r.l.
    Inventor: Ciro Rosario Iaia
  • Patent number: 6701911
    Abstract: An adjustment device, particularly for adjusting the levelness of a surface or of an electric appliance, such as for example a set of burners of a cooker for watercraft, comprising two side panels provided with two pivots for pivoting to a fixed support. The pair of pivots is slidingly located in a longitudinal seat and interacts with means for varying the position of the pivots which can be activated by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Techimpex Italiana S.r.l.
    Inventor: Lorenzo Giacomin
  • Patent number: 6698174
    Abstract: A tool lifting apparatus for gardening vehicles such as lawn mowers or the like, of the type that comprises a lever-type frame, which supports the tool and is associated with hydraulic-cylinder lifting actuators, coupled between the frame and the vehicle chassis. The lever-type frame is coupled to the vehicle chassis to perform oscillations with respect to a longitudinal axis. The lever-type frame defines a third-class lever in which the lever fulcrum is arranged to the rear of, and parallel to, the front axle of the vehicle and to the rear of the actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Antonio Carraro S.p.A.
    Inventor: Girolamo Martignon
  • Patent number: 6698250
    Abstract: A circular double-cylinder hosiery knitting machine with a device for removing and transferring the article at the end of the knitting process, comprising a lower and an upper needle cylinders with vertical axis, a device with a removal element insertable from above into the upper needle cylinder, provided with first grippers that engage the final end of the article and a transfer element, arranged above the upper needle cylinder to remove the article from the removal element and to feed it to a sewing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Lonati S.p.A.
    Inventors: Ettore Lonati, Tiberio Lonati, Fausto Lonati
  • Patent number: 6696146
    Abstract: Mono- or biaxially-stretched polyester resin foamed sheets and films wherein the polyester resin has a melt strength of more than 1 centinewton at 280° C., a melt viscosity of at least 1500 Pa.s at 280° C. for a shear ratio which tends to zero and a crystallization rate such that for a 10-minute heating at 120° C. the crystallinity can reach values as high as 30-35%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Sinco Ricerche S.p.A.
    Inventors: Hussein Al Ghatta, Sandro Cobror, Tonino Severini
  • Patent number: 6691933
    Abstract: A water jet deliver disk in kitchen sprayer, comprising a first element, made of a rigid material such as plastic, and constituted by a peripheral body fixable to the sprayer body, by a hub adapted to convey a central jet, and by cross-members connecting the peripheral body and the hub in a monolithic structure and arranged to provide water passage openings, and a second annular element, made of an elastic material and associated with the first element to embed the cross-members in the region between the peripheral body and the hub, and comprising holes for water passage which are arranged at the passage openings formed by the cross-members to provide jet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: AMFAG S.p.A.
    Inventor: Orlando Bosio
  • Patent number: 6688222
    Abstract: A rotary printing machine comprising two supporting shoulders, a central drum or cylinder being rotatably mounted on the supporting shoulders, at least one printing unit being arranged around the drum and comprising a printing plate cylinder and an anilox roller, which are rotatably mounted on a respective pair of supporting elements and whose rotation axis is parallel to the axis of the drum, wherein at least the central drum is actuated by a source of motion which directly engages an axial shank of the drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Uteco Holding S.p.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Cattaruzza, Agostino Pertile
  • Patent number: D486116
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Due Emme Mille Miglia S.r.l.
    Inventor: Fulvio Maifrini
  • Patent number: D488692
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Ghidini Cipriano S.p.A.
    Inventor: Diego Andina