Patents Examined by Jennifer S Matthews
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Patent number: 11975458Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cutting a base web with a separating device as well as a corresponding method, where the separating device can cut a base web into individual bases which can be guided under a fresh product. The separating device comprises a knife device and a counter cutting device, each of which comprise at least two cutting edges. The knife device and/or the counter cutting devices can be moved to and fro in two directions.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Stefan Mueller, Peter Willburger, Michael Heim, Robin Volz
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Patent number: 11975456Abstract: A shaver includes a housing and at least one cutter accommodated by the housing. Each cutter includes an external cutting member and an internal cutting member which is rotatable relative to the external cutting member about an axis of rotation. A locking system is configured and arranged to prevent rotation of the external cutting member relative to the housing. The locking system includes an annular array of N1 first arresting elements and N2 second arresting elements, wherein N1?8 and 1?N2?N1. The N2 second arresting elements are configured and arranged to be each engageable with a respective one of the N1 first arresting elements in any of N1 angular positions of the external cutting member about the axis of rotation relative to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventor: Marcus Cornelis Petrelli
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Patent number: 11969809Abstract: A cutting tool for cutting pipes of varying diameters includes a body having an opening extending along a predetermined axis through the body, and a cutting blade extending into the opening along a plane extending at right angles to the predetermined axis. The body includes a plurality of pipe support members, which are spaced from one another and configured to contact an outer surface of a pipe received by the tool, and a plurality of flexible connection members that connect the pipe support members to one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SCOTT CUTTERS LIMITEDInventor: Scott Rampling
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Patent number: 11958121Abstract: A reciprocating power tool may include a driving system driving a reciprocating mechanism. A selection mechanism provides for selection of a linear mode of operation or at least one orbital mode of operation. Motion of a reciprocating shaft of the reciprocating mechanism may be guided by a guide bracket fixed in the housing and an orbit bushing movably coupled in the housing. The guide bracket may include at least one guide slot having a contoured guide surface that guides the motion of the corresponding end portion of the reciprocating shaft. The contoured guide surface may guide the corresponding end portion of the reciprocating shaft in a corresponding direction relative to the longitudinal centerline of the at least one guide slot during an out stroke and a return stroke of the reciprocating stroke.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventor: Yanchao Wang
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Patent number: 11945132Abstract: In order that grippers on individual tracks of a multi-track slicing machine can be moved and controlled independently of one another, they are not all mounted on a same gripper slide guided on the only slide guide present. Instead, at least two slide guides may be present, each of which carries at least one gripper slide, which in turn either carries several grippers or several gripper slides.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KGInventors: Tom Stachel, Manfred Achenbach, David Boettcher, Nico Bischof
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Patent number: 11938645Abstract: Provided is a cutting implement which is easily ground or which needs no grinding and is safe. The cutting implement is a cutting implement including an acting portion 3 that cuts an object to be cut, the cutting implement configured such that the acting portion 3 includes a main body portion 4 and a small thickness portion 5 whose thickness is smaller than the thickness of the main body portion 4 and the small thickness portion 5 has a width of 2.5 to 20 mm and a thickness of 0.1 to 0.5 mm.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISYA LEBENInventor: Atsushi Takabu
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Patent number: 11938646Abstract: A cutting tool may comprise a blade portion forming a distal end of the cutting tool. The blade portion may comprise a knife edge, and this knife edge may be defined by a grind surface. The blade portion may further include a chamfer surface that intersects the grind surface. The grind surface may be planar and/or the chamfer surface may be planar. A first exterior surface angle, defined as an external angle between respective outwardly facing surfaces of the grind surface and the chamfer surface, may be between about 210 degrees and about 270 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Cricut, Inc.Inventors: Qionghe Meng, Kurt Stalsberg
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Patent number: 11919097Abstract: A reciprocating saw includes a housing assembly and a motor positioned within the housing assembly. The motor includes a pinion. A drive mechanism is positioned within the housing assembly and includes a gear driven by the pinion, a hub coupled to the gear, a spindle, and a connecting rod. A clutch assembly is coupled to the drive mechanism to selectively transmit drive force form the gear to the hub. The clutch assembly includes a first disk coupled to the gear, a second disk coupled to the hub, a biasing member, and a threaded fastener. The biasing member is positioned between the hub and the gear to bias the first and second disks into frictional engagement. The threaded fastener extends through the gear and threadably engages the hub to couple the hub to the gear. Tightening the threaded fastener pulls the hub toward the gear to preload the biasing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Brian Wattenbach, Jeffrey Holly, Benjamin Ludy, Roger D. Neitzell, Thomas R. Bednar
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Patent number: 11919098Abstract: A blade having an attachment portion including an aperture defining an anchor center, the attachment portion configured to couple with an oscillating power tool. The blade also has a first blade portion having a first cutting edge, and a second blade portion having a second cutting edge. The first and second blade portions are generally coplanar and extend away from the attachment portion in an outward direction. The first cutting edge has a first horizontal linear dimension measured perpendicular to the outward direction, the first horizontal linear dimension being 3.5 to 4.0 inches to generally correspond with a first dimension of a single outlet gang box. The second cutting edge has a second horizontal linear dimension measured perpendicular to the outward direction, the second horizontal linear dimension being 2.1 to 2.6 inches to generally correspond with a second dimension of the single outlet gang box.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: John J. Springer, Courtney J. Burns
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Patent number: 11919179Abstract: An out-the-front knife, components thereof, and associated methods. The out-the front knife can be a double-action spring-assisted knife. The knife includes a handle and a blade. The handle includes a rear end and a front opening opposite the rear end. The blade is movable with respect to the handle between stowed and deployed positions. In the stowed position, the blade is biased rearward. The knife includes an actuator movable in a deploying direction to spring the blade forward away from the stowed position toward the deployed position.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: AOB Products CompanyInventors: Brett Eckelkamp, Michael Cottrell, Shane Ball, William Garland, Brian Steere, Timothy S. Kinney, Seth Wheeler, Justin Burke, James Tayon, Curtis Smith
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Patent number: 11904375Abstract: An elongated securement member for enabling the accurate alignment and securement of a first plate and a second plate together through a configured bore arranged therebetween, the elongated securement member having a first for securement member upper end and a second or securement member lower end. The first or securement member having a longitudinal axis, the upper end of which also having a tapered or wedge inducing non-cylindrical portion, the second or securement member lower end having a threaded portion of a diameter D1 and a middle cylindrical portion of a diameter D2, and an annularly arranged channel formed at a juncture of the tapered or wedge inducing non-cylindrical portion of the securement member upper end and the middle cylindrical portion of diameter D1 of the securement member.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Richard J. Greenleaf
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Patent number: 11897160Abstract: Disclosed is an electric saw guide plate capable of recycling lubricating oil, comprising two outer guide plates and an oil guide plate connected between the two outer guide plates; outer edges of inner walls of the outer guide plates and a periphery of the oil guide plate form a guide plate groove for containing a saw chain, a plurality of oil inlets are formed in an upper end of the oil guide plate and a plurality of oil outlets are formed in a lower end of the oil guide plate, the oil inlets and the oil outlets are communicated through an oil guide channel, and the oil inlets and the oil outlets are communicated with the guide plate groove at the same time. According to the electric saw guide plate, the saw chain is lubricated, and meanwhile the recycling of the lubricating oil is also realized.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: HANGZHOU EXCELSIOR & SHARP GARDEN TOOLS CO., LTD.Inventor: Quanfu Wang
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Patent number: 11897018Abstract: A tool gripper assembly arrangement for holding a tool accurately in a holder plate. An elongated gripper bore opening is arranged within the holder plate, for receipt of an elongated tool within that gripper bore opening. A pair of thin, flexible, curvilinear gripper wings arranged between the wedge receiving channel and the gripper bore opening. An elongated gripper-wing pressing-wedge arranged within the elongated gripper wedge receiving channel; and a wedge and wedge-channel-engaging adjustment bolt is arranged between adjacent surfaces of the wedge and the wedge receiving channel arranged to bias both the wedge and the pair of gripper wings radially inwardly toward a longitudinal axis of the gripper bore opening, so as to form a perfect tool gripping-circle around and move the tool held within the elongated gripper bore.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Inventor: Richard J. Greenleaf
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Patent number: 11890768Abstract: A food processing machine (10) and a method of cutting slices or portions from a food product (60) in a food processing machine are described. The food processing machine comprises an end gripper (40) for gripping a trailing end (62) of a food product travelling along a food product flow path towards the cutter. A gripper drive assembly (41) is arranged to move the end gripper from stowed position below the food product flow path to a raised position in the food product flow path after a food product has passed over the end gripper and then bring the end gripper into engagement with the trailing end of the food product.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: THURNE-MIDDLEBY LTDInventors: Anthony Hodge, James Wakefield
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Patent number: 11883618Abstract: A method of using an apparatus including a base housing, an actuator, and a blade. The base housing defines an upwardly presented support surface. The base housing also defines a distally oriented tip receiving recess. The distally oriented tip receiving recess is sized and configured to receive a bulbous distal tip of a dilation catheter. The actuator is movably coupled with the base housing. The blade us secured to the actuator. The actuator is operable to move the blade downwardly relative to the base housing. The blade is configured to sever a portion of a dilation catheter along a plane longitudinally interposed between the support surface and the tip receiving recess to thereby sever the bulbous distal tip of the dilation catheter in response to movement of the actuator relative to the base housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Acclarent, Inc.Inventors: George L. Matlock, John H. Thinnes, Jr., Jordan R. Trott, Karthick Ramyan Mohan
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Patent number: 11883973Abstract: A controller uses detection information of a contact sensor or time-series data of a detection value related to a drive motor included in a rotation mechanism and/or a feed mechanism to acquire a coordinate value when a cutting tool comes into contact with a to-be-cut object or a component. The controller determines a relative positional relationship between the cutting tool and a rotation center of the to-be-cut object based on coordinate values when the cutting tool comes into contact with the to-be-cut object subjected to turning work or a reference surface whose relative positional relationship with the rotation center of the to-be-cut object is known at least at two positions different from a rotation angle position of the cutting tool during the turning work.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKAI NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEMInventors: Eiji Shamoto, Hongjin Chung, Takehiro Hayasaka, Seiji Hamada
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Patent number: 11878439Abstract: A hole punch for forming a hole in metal or other material is provided. In some embodiments, the punch comprises a first assembly that is positioned on one side of the device to be punched and a second assembly is positioned on the other side. One of the assemblies comprises a male punch and the other comprises a female die plate. In some embodiments, rotation of a bolt causes the male punch to move through the device to be punched and into the female die plate. In some embodiments, the device to be punched is a rain gutter. In some embodiments, one or both of the first and second assemblies have magnets so that the punch can be releasably assembled with the assemblies on either side of the device to be punched.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Mayer Engineering, LLCInventors: James A Finstrom, Todd M. Mayer
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Patent number: 11881856Abstract: A method of resetting a digital counter for a personal care appliance by sending an electrical output signal from an optical sensor to a control circuit. The electrical output signal is compared to a predetermined value with the control circuit or a change in the electrical output signal from the optical sensor is detected over time. A signal is sent to a consumer user interface by the control circuit based on the electrical output signal and the predetermined value or based on the change in the electrical output signal from the optical sensor. The digital counter is reset based on an input signal from the consumer user interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: The Gillette Company LLCInventors: Judith Von Dahlen, Alexander Tessmann, Alexander Hiller, Dominik Jueling, Viktor Kraft
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Patent number: 11872718Abstract: A handheld cutting tool includes a housing including a motor housing portion, a drive housing portion, and a handle portion extending from one of the motor housing portion or the drive housing portion. A motor is located in the motor housing portion. A driven gear is coupled to the motor for receiving torque therefrom. A first guard extends between the handle portion and one of the drive housing portion or the motor housing portion, and a second guard extends between the drive housing portion and one of the handle portion and the motor housing portion. A guide bar extends from the drive housing portion at an angle offset relative to the handle portion and the first and second guards. A chain is supported on the guide bar, and a battery pack is removably coupled to a bottom part of the handle portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventors: Shane McCue, Drake J. Schlosser, Charles M. Rowland, Anthony J. Buxton
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Patent number: 11866284Abstract: An automatic tape dispensing system comprising a feed system having a plurality of rollers, the rollers driven by a motor for peeling tape from a tape roll and dispensing the tape from the dispensing system. The system further includes a reel for supporting the tape thereon and a track supporting the reel. The track extends from a first upper end to a second lower end, the reel movable from the upper end to the lower end in response to tape being dispensed from the system in order to maintain a desired tension on the tape roll.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventors: Todd Sternberg, Nobuhiro Tsuchiya