Patents Examined by Jimmy T Nguyen
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Patent number: 11577866Abstract: A sealing tool for forming a joint in a seal positioned on overlying courses of strap includes a body, a motor and drive train housed, at least in part, in the body, a power supply and a sealing assembly mounted to the body. The sealing assembly is operably coupled to the motor. The sealing assembly includes at least one jaw having a pair of opposing jaw elements. Each jaw element has two edges for cutting into the seal and the courses of strap and forming a bent tab. The jaw element edges are configured to cut into the seal and the courses of strap material at different distances into a width of the seal and strap material. A method for forming seal and a seal formed by the tool and method are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventors: Jason R. Nasiatka, Janusz Figiel
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Patent number: 11564355Abstract: A baling press for baling cotton gin trash and other particulate biomass feedstock. The baling press generally includes an infeed chute assembly, a compression ram assembly, an extrusion chamber assembly, a strapping storage and dispensing assembly, and a strapping insertion assembly. The present invention also relates to methods of producing a bale with the baling press and a bale generated by the baling press and described methods.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: C&M BALING SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Raymond Clyde Adams, Wesley Allen Morgan
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Patent number: 11560245Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a mobile strapping device for strapping packaged products using a loop of wrapping strap. The strapping device includes a tensioning device for applying tension to the strap and a connecting device for connecting two overlapping portions of the strap. The tensioning device includes a rotatable tensioning wheel and a tensioning plate. The tensioning wheel is supported by a rocker that is pivotable to change a distance separating the tensioning wheel and the tensioning plate. The mobile strapping device includes a motor that is operably connectable to the rocker or the tensioning wheel such that the motor causes pivoting of the rocker or rotation of the tensioning wheel when operating in a first direction of rotation. In various embodiments, gearing, including a plurality of planetary gear sets, is used to operatively connect the motor to the rocker and the tensioning wheel.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventors: Flavio Finzo, Mirco Neeser, Dimitrios Takidis
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Patent number: 11553651Abstract: A method for determining parameters associated with bale charges formed within agricultural balers includes transmitting microwave signals through a charge of crop material located within a pre-compression chamber of an agricultural baler or into a wall of the pre-compression chamber. Additionally, the method includes determining at least one wave-related property associated with the microwave signals as transmitted through the charge of crop material or into the wall of the pre-compression chamber, and estimating a filling degree of at least a portion of the pre-compression chamber based at least in part on the at least one wave-related property associated with the microwave signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Luca Ferrari, Luca Vincetti, Moreno Maini, Stefano Lenzini, Lorenzo Rosa
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Patent number: 11554566Abstract: A press (10) for waste has a chamber that is enclosed in part by a sliding door (20). The door has an extrusion section (22) and an expulsion section (24). The extrusion section encloses the chamber while waste (18) is compressed in the chamber to extrude a wet fraction (32) of the waste. The expulsion section abuts the chamber when a remaining dry fraction (40) of the waste expelled. Preferably, the expulsion section is above the extrusion section. Various details of the door account for leakage of wet fraction waste between the chamber and the door.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: ANAERGIA B.V.Inventors: Willem Jan Oude Grotebevelsborg, Carlo Gonella
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Patent number: 11548253Abstract: A hot-pressing tool mounted on a press and operable under a controlled atmosphere, a method for implementing such a hot-pressing tool, and a facility for manufacturing objects that includes such a hot-pressing tool. The tool includes a first tool portion having a first fastening device to fasten onto a first platen, a second tool portion having a second fastening device to fasten onto a second platen. The first fastening device and the second fastening device are mobile with respect to one another to define a pressing chamber having an inner volume which is heated via a heating device. The first fastening device and the second fastening device each respectively have a pressing member to exert a pressing force on opposite faces of an object to be pressed in the pressing chamber. The heating device is to heat via optical radiation that is concentrated on the object via a concentration device.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: I-TENInventors: Fabien Gaben, Jean-Michel Burry
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Patent number: 11547058Abstract: An agricultural baler includes a feeder duct communicating with a bale chamber for charges of crop material to be transferred into a bale chamber. The baler also includes a door that defines at least a portion of a bottom wall of the feeder duct. The door is movable between: (i) a door-open-position, in which an opening in the bottom wall is provided; and (ii) a door-closed-position in which the opening is closed. The baler further includes a pick-up device that is movable between: (i) a lowered-position in which it is operable to convey crop material into the feeder duct; and (ii) a raised-position in which it is spaced further away from the ground than in the lowered-position. The pick-up device is mechanically coupled to the door of the bottom wall such that movement of the pick-up device causes the door to move from the door-open-position to the door-closed-position.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Jeroen Devroe, Dieter Kindt, Dries Liefooghe, Bram Rosseel
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Patent number: 11547055Abstract: A square baler including a pickup mechanism configured to pick up crop material from a single windrow on the ground, and a rotor configured to receive crop material picked up by the pickup mechanism. The rotor includes a first toothed section, a second toothed section, and an interior auger flighted section located between the first toothed section and the section toothed section. The rotor is configured to separate crop material into two streams of crop material.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Taylor Bozarth, Brian Olander
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Patent number: 11533854Abstract: A baling press for baling cotton gin trash and other particulate biomass feedstock. The baling press generally includes an infeed chute assembly, a compression ram assembly, an extrusion chamber assembly, a strapping storage and dispensing assembly, and a strapping insertion assembly. The present invention also relates to methods of producing a bale with the baling press and a bale generated by the baling press and described methods.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: C&M Baling Systems, Inc.Inventors: Raymond Clyde Adams, Wesley Allen Morgan
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Patent number: 11534998Abstract: A baling assembly includes a housing defining an interior and having an access opening selectively covered by a closure, a baling chamber within the housing and having a first wall movable along a first axis for compression of material within the baling chamber, and a ram adjacent the baling chamber. The ram includes a driving mechanism operably coupled to a support structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Sebright Products, Inc.Inventors: William D. Brisbin, Brent H. Sebright, David J. Wolf
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Patent number: 11534999Abstract: A press base assembly, a strengthening ring for use with press bases and related methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a press base assembly includes a press base having a body that includes a piston cavity at one end. The body, at a second end opposite that of the piston cavity, may exhibit a desired geometry. A strengthening ring may be shaped, sized and configured to substantially mate with the geometry of the second end of the body and be placed thereover. For example, the geometry of the second end may be substantially circular exhibiting a particular diameter and circumference. The strengthening ring may have substantially circular internal surface sized and configured such that the strengthening ring is positioned on the second end of the body in a manner that results in an interference fit between the two components.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: US SYNTHETIC CORPORATIONInventor: Shelby M. Shreve
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Patent number: 11528849Abstract: A twine knotter arrangement for knotting twine to tie a bale, the twine knotter arrangement including: a twine knotter (1), a deflection roller (41) adjustable relative to the twine knotter (1), via which twine (42, 43) coming from the bale is deflected in the direction of the twine knotter (1), and an adjusting device (54) for adjusting the position of the deflection roller (41) in dependence on the force (FR) exerted by the twine (42, 43) on the deflection roller (41).Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Rasspe Systemtechnik GmbHInventors: Andreas Acimas, Karsten Baldsiefen
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Patent number: 11529784Abstract: Retrofit systems for converting a manual press to an automated press. The retrofit systems include a first shaft, a second shaft, a first spacer, and a second spacer. The first shaft is mounted to a first vertical member and is coupled to a first cross member and to a second cross member. The second shaft is mounted to a second vertical member and is coupled to the first cross member and to the second cross member. The first spacer is supported by the first shaft and is disposed between the first vertical member and the first cross member. The second spacer is supported by the second shaft and is disposed between the second vertical member and the first cross member. The first spacer and the second spacer are selected to increase the space between the first cross member and the second cross member to accommodate an automatically actuated press.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Rogue Fabrication, LLCInventor: Joseph Gambino
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Patent number: 11530059Abstract: A strapping device including a tensioner operable to apply a strap tension to a loop of wrapping strap, a friction welder operable to produce a friction weld connection at two areas of the loop of wrapping strap disposed one on top of the other, a motor operable in a first rotational direction to drive the tensioner and in a second opposite rotational direction to drive the friction welder, and a control device. The control device is configured to, in response to receiving a first designated input: (1) operate the motor in the first rotational direction to drive the tensioner until a predetermined strap tension is reached in the loop of wrapping strap; and (2) afterwards, automatically operate the motor in the second different rotational direction to drive the friction welder to produce the friction weld connection.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventors: Mirco Neeser, Roland Widmer, Flavio Finzo
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Patent number: 11523562Abstract: A hay baler includes a compression stage having a first major wall conveying device, a support surface, a first sidewall conveying device and a second sidewall conveying device which are arranged to form a compression chamber and driven at compatible speeds to propel hay toward a downstream end of the compression stage. The first and second major wall conveying devices are in spaced relation to each other. The first and second sidewall conveying devices are transversely oriented and form first and second side walls of the compression chamber and are angled so that the compression chamber tapers from an initial width at the upstream end to a smaller final width at the downstream end.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: RANDI B. FARM, LLCInventor: John B. Randall
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Patent number: 11524803Abstract: A baling press for baling cotton gin trash and other particulate biomass feedstock. The baling press includes an infeed chute assembly, a compression ram assembly, an extrusion chamber assembly, a strapping storage and dispensing assembly, and a strapping insertion assembly. Methods of producing a bale with the baling press and a bale generated by the baling press are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventors: Raymond Clyde Adams, Wesley Allen Morgan
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Patent number: 11518131Abstract: A press machine is provided. Two vertical hydraulic cylinders are arranged on an upper beam plate of a press machine body, and the two hydraulic cylinders correspond to workbenches at corresponding positions in a one-to-one correspondence, constituting left and right working units, and a common mechanical drive unit and a common hydraulic drive unit are set for the left and right working units. The mechanical driving unit is composed of a driving motor through an electromagnetic clutch, an electromagnetic brake and lead screw nut driving mechanism driven by a gear pair. According to the load profiles during the working process of hydraulic press machine, the mechanical driving unit or the hydraulic driving unit are selected to provide energy for the two working units. A control method for the press machine, a press machine execution system and a control method for the press machine execution system are further involved.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Haihong Huang, Lei Li, Zhicheng Cao, Zhifeng Liu
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Patent number: 11511893Abstract: An externally-powered strapping tool includes a strapping tool assembly configured to perform one or more strapping operations; and an external power source operatively coupled thereto, the external power source being attached to the strapping tool assembly in a substantially immovable manner. According to another aspect, a strapping tool assembly includes one or more strapping tool subassemblies configured to perform one or more strapping operations; a power transfer subassembly operatively coupled to the one or more strapping tool subassemblies, the power transfer subassembly configured to transfer motive power from the external power source to the one or more strapping tool subassemblies; and a coupling member configured to couple the strapping tool assembly to the external power source.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Golden Bear LLCInventors: Joshua Robert Sikora, Stephen William Sikora, Charles Russell Patzer
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Patent number: 11510371Abstract: An agricultural machine includes a baler controller configured or programmed to obtain an ejector inclination value from a positional relation between a tractor inclination sensor and a bale ejector of a baler, the ejector inclination value being a sensor value of the inclination sensor corresponding to the bale ejector, and to allow ejection of the bale when a size of the bale in the baler is larger than a first threshold value and the ejector inclination value is less than a second threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Kurata, Susumu Umemoto, Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Zerbino Fulvio
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Patent number: 11498300Abstract: According to various embodiments, a compactor arrangement (202) may have the following: a function module arrangement (1002), which is installed on a support framework (204a) above an empty-container transport device (202t), wherein the function module arrangement (1002) has: a module receptacle (1004) for receiving multiple function modules (1006), the multiple function modules (1006), which are designed to match the module receptacle (1004) such that the multiple function modules (1006) can each be selectively received in multiple configurations (1100c, 1100d, 1100e, 1100f) in the module receptacle (1004), at least one processor (1008) which is configured to ascertain an actual configuration of the multiple configurations (1100c, 1100d, 1100e, 1100f) and to operate the function module arrangement (1002) and/or the compactor arrangement (202) on the basis of the ascertained actual configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbHInventor: Domenic Hartung