Patents Examined by Andrea Wellington
  • Patent number: 9849565
    Abstract: An improved floating jaw assembly to a machinist vise assembly capable of holding a plurality of individual workpieces, the vise assembly generally including a base with a way or ways, a fixed jaw mounted on the ways, at least one movable jaw slidably mounted on the ways to move toward and away from the fixed jaw on a longitudinal axis in such a manner that at least one workpiece can be securely held between the fixed jaw and the at least one movable jaw, and a mechanism for moving the movable jaw toward and away from the fixed jaw to clamp and unclamp workpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Inventor: Timothy Hopey
  • Patent number: 9848539
    Abstract: A control device of a cutting tool is revealed. For performing cutting, opening and closing, the cutting tool includes a pair of handles pivotally connected to each other and each handle having a blade. The control device is set on the handle and involved in opening or closing of the blades of the cutting tool. The control device includes a first component and a second component. The first and the second components are connected to and locked with each other tightly by a fastening structure. The control device is disposed on the handle closely, without loosening from the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: BOR SHENG INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shih-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 9848726
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the invention, an apparatus for peeling and cutting vegetables and other foods is provided. A plurality of blades form an aperture within a frame. This aperture expands as the vegetable passes through it. This method of food surface removal expedites the process by removing all sides of the vegetable surface at the same time, providing heightened safety features for users, allowing users to easily clean the apparatus, and allowing users to easily remove and replace broken blades or change blade types for a variety of culinary purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Inventor: Johnny Todd Harris
  • Patent number: 9844189
    Abstract: A blade assembly for cutting roots is installed on a hand-carried weed cutter or hand-carried side walk edger. The blade assembly has a central blade support that supports a central blade. A plurality of cutting blades are stacked on both sides of the central blade to form a stack of blades. The stack of blades is secured together by fasteners that pass through openings in the blades. The central blade and each of the plurality of cutting blades has a plurality of teeth. Outermost blades in the stack of blades are smaller in diameter than the blades directly adjacent to the outermost blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Inventor: Samuel James Baker
  • Patent number: 9821487
    Abstract: A double duty hole punch that punches holes in paper and supports a hand-held electronic device thereon. The double duty hole punch includes a base, a handle, a pair of punch dies, and a supporting apparatus. The base rests on a horizontal surface. The handle is pivotally attached to the base. The pair of punch dies are operatively connected to the handle, and punch the holes in the paper. The supporting apparatus supports the hand-held electronic device thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Inventor: Min Tet Soon
  • Patent number: 9821481
    Abstract: A saw sheath is provided which allows a saw to be inserted easily and smoothly, which prevents the inserted saw from easily falling out or rattling in the sheath, and which can suppress scraping-off of the inner wall by the blade tip of the saw caught by the inner wall. Storage structures of the saw sheath and a saw are also provided. The saw sheath (1) includes a flat sheath opening section (10) and a flat main sheath body (20), and a saw blade (41) is inserted into the main sheath body (20) via the sheath opening section (10). A pair of guide rollers (12) are provided at the entrance of the sheath opening section (10), on the left and right sides in the width direction of the entrance, and a grip penetration preventing section (15) is provided in the interior of the sheath opening section (10). The space from the guide rollers (12) to the grip penetration preventing section (15) constitutes an elastic grip-fitting space (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: U.M. KOGYO INC.
    Inventor: Shozo Miyawaki
  • Patent number: 9814346
    Abstract: An infusion unit having a closing piston, an infusion cylinder, and an ejection piston (for ejecting spent coffee). The piston can slide inside the infusion cylinder, between a retracted position and an extended position, for ejection of the spent coffee. Operation of the ejection piston can involve an oscillating rocker having a first arm (for driving the ejection piston) and a second arm (for engaging the oscillating movement of the rocker). The oscillating rocker can involve a first control cam arranged to generate oscillation in a direction driving toward the extended position of the ejection piston, or a second control cam arranged to generate oscillation in a direction driving toward the retracted position of the ejection piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: De'Longhi Appliances S.R.L.
    Inventors: Giuseppe De'Longhi, Davide Marcon
  • Patent number: 9808939
    Abstract: An asymmetrical cutting tool has a partially cord-wrapped handle with a first handle panel, a second handle panel, and an intercheangeable overlay. The cutting tool further includes a folding blade, pivotably attached to the cord-wrapped/overlaid handle, and having a partially concave edge and a punch tip. The folding blade is operable to transition between a locked state and an unlocked state. Lock wear is compensated by dual eccentric thumb studs which act as a camshaft lobe to alter the position of the blade with respect to the lock while in the locked state. The partially cord-wrapped handle is configured to receive the folding blade when the blade transitions from the locked state into the unlocked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Inventors: Santiago Gutiérrez, John David Broadwell
  • Patent number: 9743582
    Abstract: An integrated string and trimmer blade system that allows a user to simultaneously employ one or more flexible lines and one or more blades during various types of cutting operations (e.g., grass, weeds, branches, etc.). The system may be implemented on any appropriate cutting apparatus such as walk-behind trimmers and/or mowers, hand-held trimmers, and the like. Broadly, the system includes a cutting member having a body that is rotatable about a pivot axis of the cutting apparatus. One or more cutting blades are pivotally attached to the body such that the blades can oscillate or otherwise pivot relative to the body as the body rotates about the central axis. At least one of the blades includes one or more line holders thereon for receipt and attachment of one or more flexible cutting lines or strings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Frictionless World LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Banjo
  • Patent number: 9731857
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for forming one or more air intake holes wherein the punch-cutter to be used has a cylindrical blade at the tip, and also has a hooking portion or portions, which is/are disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical blade and which performs a function of hooking into a portion of the outer layer that has come inside the cylindrical blade to prevent the cylindrical blade from slipping out of that portion of the outer layer at a time when the cylindrical blade is moved backward, the cylindrical blade is pressed forward until the blade edge comes to a position close to the outer layer, and at this position, the outer layer is not yet cut out completely, but there remains a circular uncut portion ahead of the blade edge, then, the cylindrical blade is moved backward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisao Miyajima, Mitsuhiro Sotome
  • Patent number: 9724771
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a technique for reducing vibration by counter weights which smoothly operate without linearly reciprocating, in a reciprocating power tool. The reciprocating power tool has first and second bevel gears 123, 147 which are opposed to each other on either side of a pinion 119 and rotationally driven in opposite directions at the same reduction ratio by the pinion 119. Further, the reciprocating power tool has a slider 107 which is caused to linearly reciprocate in a longitudinal direction of a tool bit 111 by a crank 129. The first and second bevel gears 123, 147 are provided with first and second counter weights 143, 145 in positions displaced from their rotation axes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yonosuke Aoki, Shinji Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 9718209
    Abstract: A guide and safety guard for a table saw, of the type having a table top and a powered saw blade with an exposed saw blade portion projecting above the table top and a movable guide fence positionable on the table top on a far side of the saw blade, has a support rail having opposite ends coupled to support members in a desired spaced relation to the guide fence of the table saw, a guard block mounted by a sleeve portion so as to be slidable on the support rail in axial directions thereon, and rotatable on the support rail so that it can be moved out of and into operative position, wherein the guard block has a height projecting above the table top in the operative position that is greater than the height of the exposed saw blade portion for protecting the hand of the user, and a guard extension fixed to a trailing side of the guard block for protecting the wrist and lower arm area of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Tyler C. Hatch
  • Patent number: 9676105
    Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a retractable blade knife, which can comprise a handle and a blade. The handle can comprise a top handle scale operatively coupled to a bottom handle scale via a plurality of fasteners. The retractable blade knife can comprise a large coil spring adapted to cause the blade to thrust out from a first partially extended position to a second partially extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Inventor: Richard Wayne McChesney
  • Patent number: 9089902
    Abstract: A drilling template and a method for utilizing the drilling template to drill a hole in an object. The drilling template may include a through-bolt assembly to pivotally couple the drilling template to the object. The drilling template may further include a cam assembly configured to rotate the drilling template about the through-bolt assembly until it is locked into a fixed position using a guide pin coupled to the drilling template. The drilling template may be particularly useful in retrofitting heavy equipment in field use with RFID tags, and more specifically, with edge-mounted RFID tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Vallourec Oil and Gas France, S.A.S.
    Inventor: Ian Rex Binmore
  • Patent number: 8974156
    Abstract: A cutting insert with a substantially triangular or square basic form is particularly suited for face milling at high feed rates. It has convex cutting edges, which are each made up of a circular arc and at least one straight portion. Each cutting edge has, adjoining a cutting corner, a straight face cutting edge that merges with a main cutting edge, having 1 to 3 straight portions, a circular portion with a radius of at most 80% of the radius Ri of the inscribed circle. The cutting edges have an all-round cutting edge chamfer with a chamfer angle ?. This chamfer angle ? has along the cutting corners a value in the range from ?10° to ?20° and changes continuously along sub-portions of the face cutting edge and main cutting edge and along the circular portion to a constant value in the range from 0° to ?10°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Ceratizit Austria GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Burtscher
  • Patent number: 8960687
    Abstract: The invention relates to a workholder (10) for holding a workpiece to be processed in a machine tool, which workholder (10) is in the form of a annular body (12) having a central through hole (14), said annular body (12) having at least one weakened area (18, 20; 34, 36, 38, 40; 50, 52, 54, 56) obtained by material removal, as well as at least one pressure chamber (22; 42, 44; 58, 60) assigned to said at least one weakened area (18, 20; 34, 36, 38, 40; 50, 52, 54, 56) that can be charged with a pressurized fluid. Said at least one weakened area (18, 20; 34, 36, 38, 40; 50, 52, 54, 56) is dimensioned and arranged so as to cause said annular body (12) to be elastically deformable in an axial and/or a radial direction (a, r). As a result, with pressure acting on said pressure chamber (22; 42, 44; 58, 60), said annular body (12) can then be deformed elastically in a well-defined manner in an axial and/or a radial direction (a, r).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Samson AG
    Inventor: Helmut Fuchs
  • Patent number: 8960688
    Abstract: A power tool has a driving shaft driving a working element, a fastening piece fastening the working element to the driving shaft having a projecting shaft insertable into the driving shaft, a locking assembly locking the projecting shaft in the driving shaft having a locking member wherein the locking member has a locking position for locking the projecting shaft with the driving shaft and a loosening position for loosening the projecting shaft with the driving shaft. At the locking position, the fastening piece is pressed towards an end portion of the driving shaft by an elastic component. The locking assembly further includes a movable member arranged outside of the driving shaft, the movable member having a first portion and a second portion which can be directly or indirectly mated with the locking member wherein a radial distance of the first portion relative to a shaft center of the driving shaft is unequal to that of the second portion relative to the shaft center of the driving shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Chervon (HK) Limited
    Inventor: Hongtao Zhou
  • Patent number: 8950984
    Abstract: A cutting insert having a plurality of corner cutting edges has an upper face, a lower face, two longitudinal side faces and two transversal side faces connecting the upper face and the lower face. A through hole passes through central parts of the upper face and the lower face. The longitudinal side faces are opposite to each other and normal to both upper and lower faces, as are the transversal side faces. The upper face and the lower face are each provided with two chip discharge grooves, each chip discharge groove extending along a corresponding one of the transversal side faces, the two chip discharge grooves being inclined oppositely in the transverse direction so that the upper face and the lower face are each provided with two corner cutting edges at diagonally opposite corners. The longitudinal length of the insert is longer than the transversal length of the insert. The cutting insert can be mounted stably to a small-diametered cutter with a sufficient mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: TaeguTec, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Hee Choi, Chang Gyu Park, Kang Sool Jung
  • Patent number: 8950300
    Abstract: Since a tool holder is formed of a structure which is elastically deformed by a centrifugal force produced as the tool holder rotates around a rotation center axis, the rotation radius of a tool with a cutting edge directed to the rotation center axis varies from zero to an arbitrary value. The structure of the tool holder includes two beams elastically deformable to the same degree in opposite directions by the centrifugal force, and centrifugal force components acting on the two beams cancel each other so that a rotation balance is maintained even when the rotational speed of the tool holder is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: FANUC Corporation
    Inventors: Kenzo Ebihara, Masayuki Hamura
  • Patent number: 8950983
    Abstract: A cutting tool has a main tool body and at least one insert seat disposed thereon. The seat has a bottom surface for mounting a cutting insert, and further has a dowel pin, which penetrates a through-hole of the mounted cutting insert and the bottom surface and can be fixed to the main tool body. A center longitudinal axis of the fixed dowel pin is arranged at an acute angle with respect to the bottom surface. The dowel pin contains a spherical segment for mounting on a bearing surface of the through-hole. The surface of the spherical segment is interrupted by a segment groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Ceratizit Austria Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Peter Burtscher, Anton Diepold, Uwe Schleinkofer