Patents Examined by Jennifer S Matthews
  • Patent number: 11866284
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventors: Todd Sternberg, Nobuhiro Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11858161
    Abstract: A cutting machine for the transversal cutting of paper material logs, including: a structure on which are moved the logs; a cutting unit including a blade; at least one sharpening unit with two grinding wheels; a positioning device for positioning the grinding wheels with respect to the blade. The positioning device includes: a primary carriage and two secondary carriages supported by the primary carriage; a sensor for detecting the radius of the blade and configured to stop the primary carriage when the grinding wheels are arranged with the respective axes at a given distance from the axis of the blade. In a second phase of positioning the grinding wheels, the secondary carriages are controlled so as to bring the abrasive side of the wheels into contact with the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FUTURA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gabriele Betti, Ciro Guarini
  • Patent number: 11858772
    Abstract: An apparatus for cutting diagnostic reagent strips includes first and second shafts with facing knife blades and spacers. A guide between the shafts ensures accurate, defect-free cutting. Adjusting screws fine-tune the shaft interval for enhanced cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Seokhyun Lee, Wonha Lee
  • Patent number: 11839991
    Abstract: Disclosed is a customized blinds&shades cutting apparatus. The customized blinds&shades cutting apparatus comprises a working platform. The working platform is provided with a blinds&shades fabric cutting mechanism, a blinds&shades integrated cutting mechanism and an adjustable positioning mechanism. The blinds&shades fabric cutting mechanism comprises a first base, a first motor is fixedly mounted on the first base, a connected shaft is mounted on a rotating shaft of the first motor, and a cutter knife is further movably arranged on the first base; the blinds&shades integrated cutting mechanism comprises a second base, an aligning and cutting die is arranged on the second base, a cutting groove is formed on the working platform, the second base and the aligning and cutting die, and the blinds&shades integrated cutting mechanism further comprises saw webs corresponding to the cutting grooves in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: MINGYANG WINDECO TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nianqing Zhang, Shehua Wei, Peilun Qian
  • Patent number: 11833656
    Abstract: A chain saw may include a saw chain, a guide bar to which the saw chain is attached, a sprocket configured to run the saw chain along a periphery of the guide bar, a prime mover configured to rotate the sprocket, an oil tank configured to store oil to be supplied to the saw chain, a housing that houses the prime mover and the oil tank, a bolt protruding from the housing and penetrating a hole disposed in the guide bar, a nut screwed onto the bolt to fix the guide bar to the housing, and a heat dissipating structure configured to dissipate heat from the bolt to the oil in the oil tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Oishi, Ryo Sunazuka, Yoshifumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11813681
    Abstract: A hand operated cutting tool (200) for pipes or tubes includes a housing (202). The housing (202) defining at least one first opening (204) to receive an object (210) to perform a first cutting action, and a second opening (206) which is adapted to perform a second cutting action. The first opening (204) includes a longitudinal axis (A-A1) and the second opening (206) include a longitudinal axis (X-X?). The longitudinal axis (A-A1) and the longitudinal axis (X-X?) include an angle (Z) therebetween that is unequal to 0 degree. And, one or more cutting blades (208, 502) are operatively coupled to the first opening (204) and the second opening (206). The one or more cutting blades (208) is arranged such that it is performing both the first cutting action and the second cutting action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventors: Thomas Renner, Haceli Öztürk
  • Patent number: 11778952
    Abstract: A hand-operated, two-blade shearing device providing a pincer post operatively associated with each blade, the two pincers post being dimensioned and adapted to work in concert to securely pinch and hold the object sheared by the two blades during the shearing action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Albert David Audette, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11772295
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a chain saw having a housing and a drive motor. The guide bar is held on the housing by way of a releasable fastening arrangement and, when the fastening arrangement is released, by way of a tensioning device is displaceable in relation to the housing in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the guide bar. The chain saw includes a chain lifting device which is configured separately from the tensioning device. The chain lifting device in a deflected position of the chain lifting device is configured for deflecting the saw chain when the tensioning device tensions the saw chain, and in an operating position of the chain lifting device is configured for relaxing the saw chain when the guide bar is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Lars Bathke
  • Patent number: 11752652
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus is provided. The cutting apparatus includes a cutter disposed in a conveying path for conveying a plate-shaped object and configured to cut the object, a downstream conveyor disposed downstream of the cutter in the conveying path and configured to convey the object, and a foreign-matter adhesion preventer disposed between the cutter and the downstream conveyor and configured to prevent foreign matter scattered by the cutter from adhering to the downstream conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: YOSHINO GYPSUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Niimi, Masaaki Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Masaki Ushizawa
  • Patent number: 11745377
    Abstract: In some examples, a device for ream-wise and/or pile-wise separating blanks from a pile and/or a ream of sheets includes at least one lower blank separating module and at least one upper blank separating module including an upper separating tool having multiple separating elements arranged in a separating element matrix. A separating element in an activated position has a first distance with respect to a carrier plate, and a separating element in a deactivated position has a second distance with respect to the carrier plate. The at least one upper blank separating module additionally includes at least one upper blank separating tool adapted as a function of the blank shape and/or the number of blanks on a sheet, such as for removing crosspieces when offcut pieces configured as crosspieces are present on a sheet, and/or for separating blanks arranged directly next to one another on a sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: KOENIG & BAUER AG
    Inventors: Erik Bormann, Johannes Helbig, Dietmar Hesse, Jun Mizutani, Johannes Naumann, Mirko Wulf
  • Patent number: 11745326
    Abstract: A cutter comprises one or more blades, a hinge coupled to the blades, and one or more adjustable handles pivotally coupled to the hinge. When being adjusted, the one or more adjustable handles permit adjusting their positions with respect to the opposing handle without concurrently actuating the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron S. Blumenthal, Aaron M. Williams, Andrew M. Tuchscherer
  • Patent number: 11738477
    Abstract: A whetting device for a slicer has a whetstone for sharpening a circular blade of the slicer; a hone for deburring the blade; a handle for moving the whetstone or hone toward the blade; a mount fastenable to a stop plate of the slicer, having an insertion apparatus for form-fittingly insertion into the stop plate, a U-shaped plate receptacle which has a gap for introducing the stop plate into the gap when the whetting device is pushed onto the stop plate; a receptacle for engaging around an end of the blade guard ring when the stop plate is a predetermined distance from the circular in the direction of rotation of the blade, and not to engage when shorter than that distance between; and a frame covering a cutting edge of the circular blade and for pivoting the whetting device into a working position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: BIZERBA SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Marius Oberle, Markus Oesterle, Matthias Kroener, Andreas Goez
  • Patent number: 11731306
    Abstract: An apparatus (100), including: a push block (102) configured to push a workpiece across a table saw, the push block including: a first leg (120), a second leg (130) having a fence side (132) configured to abut a fence of the table saw, and a center leg (140) disposed between the first leg and the second leg. The first leg and the center leg define a first tunnel (152) therebetween, and the center leg and the second leg define a second tunnel (154) therebetween; a scale (160) configured to indicate a distance along the push block from the fence when the fence side of the second leg abuts the fence; and a cursor (162) configured to indicate on the scale safe cut-width settings for the table saw in which a saw blade will not contact the center leg when the fence side of the second leg abuts the fence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Inventor: Henry Wang
  • Patent number: 11731301
    Abstract: A cutting device, including a frame, a cutting blade, which is fastened to the frame for pivoting about a first pivot axis, and a reduction transmission, which converts each forward pivoting movement of a plurality of successively performed forward pivoting movements and backward pivoting movements of a drive arm into a cutting pivoting movement of the cutting blade. A cutting-blade back-pivoting apparatus is provided, by which the cutting blade can be pivoted back from a pivoting end position to an initial position. The back-pivoting apparatus has, in particular, a tension element, which acts on the cutting blade in such a way that a clearance is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: WOLFCRAFT GMBH
    Inventor: Winfried Ebert
  • Patent number: 11724408
    Abstract: A utility knife including a handle, a blade, a first blade holder, and a spare blade holder. The spare blade holder is pivotal with respect to the handle between an open position where the recess is exposed to allow a spare blade to be removed from the spare blade holder and a closed position where the recess is within a slot of the handle to inhibit removal of the spare blade from the spare blade holder. The spare blade holder further including a cam surface and the cam surface of the spare blade holder engages a cam surface of the handle when the spare blade holder is in the closed position to urge the spare blade holder in a direction from a first longitudinal side of the handle toward a second longitudinal side of the handle to allow the first blade holder to pivot between extended and folded positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Grant T. Squiers, Steven W. Hyma, Christopher S. Hoppe, Michael Stearns, Joseph M. DeBaker
  • Patent number: 11697219
    Abstract: A method for perforating a web with a perforating apparatus includes: rotating a cylinder about a longitudinal cylinder axis, wherein the cylinder comprises at least one shaped blade; operatively engaging a movable support with the cylinder; positioning an anvil disposed on the support so as to cooperate in contacting relationship with the shaped blade, wherein at least one of the blade and the anvil comprise a plurality of teeth, and wherein adjacent teeth are separated by a recessed portion; feeding a web between the cylinder and the support; and perforating the web as the anvil cooperates in contacting relationship with the shaped blade disposed on the rotating cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kathryn Christian Kien, Deborah Sue Slovut, Jeffrey Moss Vaughn
  • Patent number: 11685134
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of cutting off self-adhesive linerless endless tape labels, using a cutter of a label printer, wherein the cutter comprises a transport roller, which is rotatable about an axis of rotation, and a blade unit that is linearly travelable in parallel with the axis of rotation of the transport roller and that has a cutting blade directed in the direction toward the transport roller, where tape labels pass between the transport roller and the blade unit, and are transported further step-wise in a motorized manner, by one label, and, between two consecutive further transport steps, the blade unit is linearly traveled in a motorized manner between a start position and a target position in order to cut off a label, such that the label is completely cut off and is held at the transport roller by the blade unit in the target position of the blade unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Bizerba SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joerg Haigis, Moritz Dehner, Pascal Eppler, Alexander Hirsch, Peter Will
  • Patent number: 11685071
    Abstract: In order to be able to implement a plurality of gripper functions acting independently of one another in a slicing machine without requiring a separate drive unit for each gripper function, a switching unit displaceable along an axial shifting distance is provided. Upon displacement of the switching unit along a first partial distance of a plurality of partial distances of the shifting distance, a caliber contact element is actuated in such a way that a caliber is pushed away from a caliber gripper, and upon shifting of the switching unit along a second partial distance, gripper claws of the caliber gripper are actuated in such a way that they are moved into an engagement position, in which they engage with the caliber, or into a release position, in which they release the caliber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIVAC SEPP HAGGENMUELLER SE & CO. KG
    Inventor: Winfried Hoerberg
  • Patent number: 11679522
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus for hair or fiber protruding from a surface includes a roller, a number of cutting features disposed at an outer peripheral surface of the roller, wherein the number of cutting features is adapted for cutting the hair or fiber when the roller rotates in contact with the filamentous surface or is moved while in contact with the filamentous surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Lee Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: Ross A Lee
  • Patent number: 11679517
    Abstract: A utility knife includes a blade, a housing to store the blade, an actuator, and a pinion gear to deploy the blade. The pinion gear includes one or more sets of teeth that are engaged with a fixed rack of the housing and a sliding rack of the blade holder. The pinion gear is also coupled to the actuator, which is configured to linearly translate the pinion gear. As the pinion gear linearly translates between front and back ends of the housing, the pinion gear rotates due to its engagement with the fixed rack. The further engagement between the pinion gear and the sliding rack causes the sliding rack to advance in the same linear direction as the pinion gear by a distance that is greater than the linear distance traversed by the pinion gear, thereby advancing or retracting the blade connected to the blade holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Darex LLC
    Inventor: Daniel T Dovel