Special-article Machines Patents (Class 101/4)
  • Patent number: 11877631
    Abstract: A method to permanently mark an item of plated jewelry involves creating a laminate of two metals, and upper layer typically formed of a more precious metal such as gold, platinum, and palladium that do not readily oxidize, laminated onto the surface of a less precious metal, such as silver, which is oxidized to create a dark color (e.g. black). A laser is used to create characters and/or designs in the upper layer by vaporizing portions to effectively remove those portions. This exposes the upper surface of the less precious metal that does become oxidized. An oxidizer, such as liquid sulfur, is used to blacken the silver, typically a dark gray. This allows an easy and inexpensive method of archiving information on jewelry bearing or supporting a gem that describes the supported gem rendering the gem more valuable collectible and traceable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventor: Yianni Melas
  • Patent number: 11526074
    Abstract: A molding apparatus for molding a composition on a substrate using a mold includes a conveying unit configured to convey an object, a holding unit configured to hold the object conveyed by the conveying unit, a supply unit configured to supply gas to an object space surrounding the object held by the holding unit, and a control unit configured to control the supply unit so that a first amount of supply per unit time of the gas to be supplied from the supply unit in a case where the conveying unit is inside the object space is different from a second amount of supply per unit time of the gas to be supplied from the supply unit in a case where the conveying unit is outside the object space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takanori Endo
  • Patent number: 11370136
    Abstract: A device for machining distinctive marks on line includes a clamping positioning system and a mark machining system. The clamping positioning system includes a first frame, a clamping cylinder and a fixed roller are fixed on the first frame, and a clamping roller corresponding to the fixed roller is fixed to an output end of the clamping cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weidong Liu, Shiwen Xu, Minglei Li
  • Patent number: 11312165
    Abstract: An assembly for precise positioning of a stamping tool, such as a photopolymer stamp. The assembly having a flat base of preferably a square shape. A platform of a predetermined height runs along the periphery of the flat base. A grid film removably adhered to the top surface of the flat base. Four alignment tabs can be provided on the four corners of the platform. A flip plate dimensioned to fit over the platform, such as corners of the flip plate juxtapose to the alignment tabs. A portion of the flip plate extends sidewards from the periphery of the platform, such as the flip plate can be lifted. The clear flip plate having radial lines that extend from the center to the periphery of the flip plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Inventor: Tasnim Ahmed
  • Patent number: 11199770
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus includes a processing unit that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate by using a mold, a chamber that accommodates this processing unit and includes a first gate to which a first containment unit that contains the substrate before being processed by the processing unit is connected and a second gate to which a second containment unit that contains the substrate after being processed by the processing unit is connected, and a control unit that prohibits opening of the first gate until a predetermined time elapses since the substrate on which the pattern is formed by the processing unit is contained in the second containment unit and the second gate is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyohito Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11140954
    Abstract: A method to permanently mark an item of plated jewelry involves creating a laminate of two metals, and upper layer typically formed of a more precious metal such as gold, platinum and palladium that do not readily oxidize laminated onto the surface of a less precious metal, such as silver, which is oxidized to create a dark color (e.g. black). A laser is used to create characters and/or designs in the upper layer by vaporizing portions to effectively remove those portions. This exposes the upper surface of the less precious metal that does become oxidized. An oxidizer, such as liquid sulfur, is used to blacken the silver, typically a dark gray. This allows an easy and inexpensive method of archiving information on jewelry bearing or supporting a gem that describes the supported gem rendering the gem more valuable collectible and traceable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventor: Yianni Melas
  • Patent number: 10828885
    Abstract: A printing process that reduces the amount of flash that occurs when printing to a surface of a plastic card. The printing can occur by a retransfer printing process. The printing process includes generating an image canvas that has rounded corners instead of the conventional right angle corners. The use of rounded corners on the image canvas reduces the amount of printing in the image canvas at the corners compared to an image canvas that has right angle corners, thereby reducing the amount of printing that is present that could form flash at the corners of the card surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Entrust Corporation
    Inventor: Patrick C. Cronin
  • Patent number: 10322590
    Abstract: A method of providing a mark to a case of a cartridge of ammunition. The mark includes at least one sub-mark and is suitable for identification and/or for tracking of the cartridge. At least one indenter selectively radially indents a circumferential surface of a bottom of the case, thereby forming the at least one sub-mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
    Inventors: Xavier Cedric Raemy, Milan Vasic
  • Patent number: 10283235
    Abstract: A composite harness includes a composite cable that includes a plurality of first electric wires, a multicore wire formed by covering a plurality of second electric wires having a smaller diameter than the plurality of first electric wires with one urethane-based resin inner sheath to be in contact with the first electric wires, and a jacket covering an outer periphery of the plurality of first electric wires and the multicore wire, and a molded resin provided at an end portion of the composite cable so as to cover an outer surface of the inner sheath at an end portion of the multicore wire. The outer surface of the inner sheath is irregularity-formed at least at a portion in contact with the plurality of first electric wires and a portion covered with the molded resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Murayama, Hirotaka Eshima
  • Patent number: 9850015
    Abstract: A high-speed continuous rotary type filling and packaging machine can identifies a defective filling head and a defective seal head and it also identify which part of a seal working surface in the seal head has a defect. In a sealing device of the high-seed continuous rotary type filling and packaging machine that covers a container body, which is filled with liquid contents, with a molded lid and seals the container body and the molded lid to produce a sealed container, a filling head number and a seal head number are inkjet-printed, desirably transparent ink, which can be read by irradiation of an ultraviolet ray, on a container body in which a seal working surface in the seal head and the top surface of the container molded lid are brought into press-contact and a positional relation between a seal working surface and the sealed container is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YAKULT HONSHA, SHIKOKU KAKOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouji Hayashi, Tomoyuki Masuda, Tadashi Mifune, Mitsuhiro Nishitani
  • Patent number: 9561119
    Abstract: A single piece stent construction having a plurality of commissure posts, each of which extends upwardly from a solid ring along a bend line and generally along a central longitudinal axis of the stent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Carol E. Eberhardt, Faisal Kalam
  • Patent number: 8973495
    Abstract: There is provided an imprint apparatus configured to perform an imprint in which a resin on a substrate is molded using a mold and a pattern is formed on the substrate. The apparatus includes a press unit configured to press the resin on the substrate and the mold to each other, a cure unit configured to irradiate light to the resin molded by the mold to cure the resin, and a movement unit configured to move the mold and the substrate, from a position at which the press is performed by the press unit to a position at which the light is irradiated by the cure unit, and from the position at which the light is irradiated by the cure unit to a position at which the mold is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kasumi, Hideki Ina
  • Patent number: 8955431
    Abstract: An imprinter for creating impressions of designs in media such as buttercream, fondant, gum paste, modeling dough, and cookie dough for decoration. The imprinter includes a retainer having a retainer body and at least one retaining portion and a lock configured to be received by the retainer. The lock has a lock retaining portion engageable with the retaining portion of the retainer to selectably secure the lock to the retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Wilton Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: David Starr, Erin Smith, Traci Chapple, Stephanie Goode, Mason Umholtz, Angie Lullie, John McDavitt
  • Publication number: 20150027083
    Abstract: An embossing device comprises a first embossing roller and a second embossing roller forming a passage for a web of wrapping material to be embossed, which has a main line of extension and a direction of feed; the first embossing roller comprises on its outer surface toothings to make an imprint on the web; a first toothing having a first impression to imprint on said web a first segment of a reference for identifying a section of the web and a second toothing to imprint a decorative pattern on the web; the second toothing comprises a zone without teeth for defining on the web a second, unembossed segment of the reference; the first toothing and the zone without teeth are offset from each other along a directrix of the first roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Roberto POLLONI, Marco GHINI, Stefano NEGRINI
  • Patent number: 8784939
    Abstract: A shoe platen to securely hold a shoe so that graphics, including custom graphics, can be printed on the shoe automatically. The platen comprises a shoe plate 102 configured to receive shoes such as high-top shoes or low top shoes. Adjusters 104, 106 can also be used to accommodate shoes of various styles and sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Pics on Kicks, LLC
    Inventors: Nick Romero, Fernando Padilla
  • Patent number: 8724177
    Abstract: A printing apparatus having an automatic printing sheet feeder integrated thereto to improve mass productivity. The printing apparatus includes a base, a moving stage, an automatic printing sheet feeder, and a printing roll. The moving stage is linearly movable along the base, and has a lithographic plate seated on the top surface thereof, the lithographic plate having a printing pattern thereon. The automatic printing sheet feeder is installed on the moving stage. The automatic printing sheet feeder includes an unwinding roll, which supplies the printing sheet, a rewinding roll, which collects the printing sheet, and a plurality of guide rolls, which guide the printing sheet to pass through the printing area of the moving stage. The printing roll is installed on the base, and performs printing by transferring ink from recesses of a printing pattern of the lithographic plate to the printing sheet on the moving stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials
    Inventors: Taik Min Lee, Jeongdai Jo, Dong Soo Kim, Byung Oh Choi, Chung Hwan Kim, Dong Youn Shin
  • Patent number: 8570590
    Abstract: A method for printing combined jobs having different blanks on a printed sheet includes obtaining area coverage values or inking zone presetting values for printing presses, with which the blanks are printed, from image data of the printed sheet. The area coverage values from an earlier job are compared with those from a subsequent job, in which the number, the configuration or the type of at least one blank differs from the corresponding value from the earlier job. The configuration of the blanks on the sheet is changed if the difference in the area coverages exceeds predefined values. An installation for carrying out the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Eberhard Redmer
  • Patent number: 8522680
    Abstract: A printing and embossing folder includes a first panel member having a plurality of holes and a second panel member hingedly coupled to the first panel member having a plurality of holes in corresponding relationship to the holes of the first panel member. A set of design tiles include positive relief designs disposed thereon. A corresponding set of design tiles have either negative relief designs for embossing or no relief for printing. The tiles can be positioned at any desired location on the folder so long as the positive design tiles are positioned opposite a corresponding tile for either embossing or printing. Inserting a sheet of paper within the folder and pressing the folder will cause the design to be embossed or printed into the paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventor: Faye Angevine
  • Patent number: 8393266
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for applying a design on a medium. In some embodiments, the system includes a letterpress assembly having a base and platen that may be configured in an open configuration and a closed configuration. In the open configuration, the base receives the medium and the platen receives a printing plate. The printing plate may include the design to be applied to the medium. A roller assembly may then receive the letterpress assembly in the closed configuration and may exert a compressive force on the letterpress assembly. The compressive force brings the medium into contact with the printing plate and applies the design on the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Lifestyle Crafts, LLC
    Inventors: Michelle Mellor Rasmussen, Adam M. Goodman, Nathan A. Arnesen
  • Patent number: 8353245
    Abstract: In a line art transfer free hand colouring printing technique, a design outline is first generated on a transfer substrate using a glutinous ink and is then applied to a surface, for example the front of a T-shirt. A user then applies colouring and/or texturing in and/or around the design in accordance with personal choice to create an image and thereafter a finishing is applied. The finishing comprises a sheet releasably carrying decorative transfer elements which upon application to the image highlights the outline only, the remainder of the image remaining unaffected by the finishing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Inventor: Darryl Zinman
  • Patent number: 8322278
    Abstract: A marker carrier device has carrier elements for carrying respective markers, the device being re-configurable between a compact configuration and a selection configuration in which the markers are accessibly presented for selection. Carrier devices loaded with markers are received at a receiving station of a marking unit. The markers are selected from the carrier individually while in the marking unit and marked by a marking device with a predetermined indicium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Hellermanntyton Limited
    Inventor: Steven Blanks
  • Patent number: 8281329
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improve disk retrieving and releasing device and an automation disk burning system, wherein the improve disk retrieving and releasing device is opposite to an optical disk driver of a host and disposed on the host, such that the host and the improve disk retrieving and releasing device constitute the automation disk burning system. The improve disk retrieving and releasing device is adapted for automatically retrieving a disk from a disk tray when disk tray withdraws from the optical disk driver, and releasing and putting the disk into a disk collecting bucket when the disk tray gets back into the optical disk driver. The improved disk retrieving and releasing device comprises: a frame member and two clamping mechanisms, wherein the clamping mechanism comprises: a support member, a clamping member, and an interlocked rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Bluhen Tech Enterprise Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho-Cheng Kang, Sung-Hsuan Wang
  • Patent number: 8037815
    Abstract: The invention concerns a marking device comprising a support frame, marking means including a marking member and means for moving the marking member parallel to two mutually perpendicular movement planes and to the surface to be marked to produce, on the surface to be marked, two-dimensional symbols inscribed in a marking window. The invention is characterized in that it comprises means for compensating, at least partly, the influence of the rotation over the distance between the marking member and the marking point of the surface to be marked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: SIC Marking
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Galland, Gerard Barraud
  • Patent number: 8011638
    Abstract: A marking device comprises an outer shell in a cylindrical shape with a bottom surface attached to a molding device, a rotatable tube provided inside of the outer shell, an indicator connecting to the bottom of the outer shell and a support mechanism pushing up the rotatable tube from the internal space of the outer shell while the indicator and the outer shell are engaged with each other. The head of the indicator is formed in a frusto-conical shape tapered into the inside of the outer shell. The rotatable tube comprises an inner surface contacting to the outer surface of the head of the indicator, and an outer surface forming a frusto-conical head tapered into the inside of the outer shell from a second carved marks. The outer shell comprises an inner surface contacting to the outer surface of the head of the rotatable tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Uratanishoji Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Uratani
  • Publication number: 20110163158
    Abstract: Systems and methods for personalizing data card are disclosed. One embodiment includes a card receiver configured to receive one or more data cards, a control system connected to the card receiver, the control system configured to receive personalization information, an encoder system connected to the control system, the encoder system configured to encode the one or more data cards with at least some portion of the personalization information, a card reader connected to the control system, the card reader configured to read magnetic fingerprint information from the one or more data cards, and the control system configured to store the magnetic fingerprint information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Bradley Brown, David Fletcher, Richard Burchill, Annmarie D. Hart, Ruth Deignan, Lawrence R. Meyers
  • Publication number: 20110088573
    Abstract: A method of printing is disclosed. The method comprises embossing a capillary structure onto a receiving layer, and depositing a liquid material to fill the capillary structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventor: Joseph M. JACOBSON
  • Publication number: 20110072988
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for manipulating images is disclosed. In one embodiment according to the invention, a method for manipulating images comprises: displaying for manipulation at a browser-based user interface a graphical representation of at least a portion of an image held at a remote image store; providing an internet communications link coupling the user interface to a remote image processor; transferring information about manipulations applied to the graphical representation between the user interface and the remote image processor; and causing the remote image processor to access the remote image store and apply, to at least a portion of the image held in the store, manipulations emulating those applied to the graphical representation. In another embodiment according to the invention, there is disclosed a method for applying a personalized image to a financial account access means corresponding to a financial account of a customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Serverside Group Limited
    Inventors: Adam Elgar, Tom Elgar
  • Patent number: 7882780
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for imprinting a pattern formed on surfaces of an imprint mask onto a double-sided substrate. The method includes deforming the surfaces of the first and second imprint stamps to produce respective first and second deformed surfaces, each having an arc therein. A pressure is applied to bring the deformed first and second surfaces into intimate contact with the first and second substrate surfaces, respectively. The applied pressure substantially flattens the deformed surfaces. To separate the two surfaces, the applied pressure is released. The method also includes transporting a substrate having first and second patterning surfaces and a shaped edge using a carrier having a holding portion that holds the shaped edge of the substrate, the holding surface having a shape that is complementary to the shaped edge of the substrate, such that the patterning surfaces remain untouched by the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: ASML Holding N.V.
    Inventor: Harry Sewell
  • Patent number: 7858391
    Abstract: A device for holding a laboratory sample cassette having a marking surface disposed at inclined angle to a main body of the cassette, has a platen with an aperture through which marking of the marking surface can occur. The device also has a receiving surface for receiving one of said cassette which surface is inclined relative to the platen, a step, and a clamp. A receiving cassette is slid down the inclined receiving surface until the cassette engages the stop and so that the marking surface substantially faces the platen and a recess behind the marking surface is aligned with the clamp. A plunger of the clamp is lowered toward the platen and into the recess so that the marking surface is pinned against the platen. The marking surface can then be marked by marking means via the platen aperture. The plunger is then moved away from the platen and the cassette is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Raymond A. Lamb Limited
    Inventor: Thomas Fergus Hughes
  • Publication number: 20100275794
    Abstract: A system that allows a material to be marked while still on the CNC tooling table and allows an operator to input marking information just prior to, or even during, the tooling cycle. The present invention comprises a sequence controller associated with a computer readable medium and adapted for communication with the CNC controller. An HMI device and a marker controller are also connected with the sequence controller. A lifter assembly is connected with the sequence controller to raise and lower a marker assembly. The lifter assembly is connected to the gantry of the CNC tooling system with an adaptor block. The present invention provides the advantage of reduced time when compared to marking the part at a separate station remotely located from the CNC system, and allows the operator to input marking information just prior to or during the CNC tooling cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Ed Silchenstedt, William A. Nicholas
  • Publication number: 20100229737
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a method for ornamenting a container, a mandrel, drum, apparatus used for the method, in which the number of manufacturing process and the manufacturing cost are reduced, and prevents scratches in the inner and outer surface of the container. [Solution] The ornamenting method of a container comprises a process to perform underprinting, a process to perform outer surface printing, and a process to perform embossing on the surface of the container held by a holding means in a manufacturing line. It is preferable that the outer surface printing process and the embossing process are simultaneously or successively performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Takeuchi Press Industries Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Tadao Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20100213637
    Abstract: A machine head for producing a surface relief on a substrate, the machine head comprising a flexible stamping element having a curved profile and an inverse of the surface relief on its convex side; and the flexibility of the element being such that the inverse of the surface relief can be pressed to become flat and in planar contact with the substrate being pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: API GROUP PLC
    Inventors: Stephen DONE, Ken SHEPHERD, Phil CARPENTER
  • Publication number: 20100031833
    Abstract: There is provided an imprint apparatus configured to perform an imprint in which a resin on a substrate is molded using a mold and a pattern is formed on the substrate. The apparatus includes a press unit configured to press the resin on the substrate and the mold to each other, a cure unit configured to irradiate light to the resin molded by the mold to cure the resin, and a movement unit configured to move the mold and the substrate, from a position at which the press is performed by the press unit to a position at which the light is irradiated by the cure unit, and from the position at which the light is irradiated by the cure unit to a position at which the mold is released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kasumi, Hideki Ina
  • Patent number: 7629021
    Abstract: The object of the present is to provide high-quality magnetic recording media capable of easy tracking, and allowing high-density recording, high-speed recording, and higher capacity without increasing the write-current at magnetic heads. The nanohole structure comprises a metal or metal-compound base material and plural arrays of nanoholes, wherein the plural arrays of nanoholes are respectively arranged into regular alignments, the regular alignments are different between adjacent arrays, and the regular alignments are alternately disposed within the metal or metal-compound base material. The magnetic recording medium according to the present invention comprises a substrate, a porous layer into which plural nanoholes are formed, and a magnetic material within the plural nanoholes, wherein the plural nanoholes are formed in a direction approximately vertical to the plane of the substrate, the porous layer is a nanohole structure according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Yamagata Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nakao
  • Publication number: 20090078132
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for imprinting text on items such as tools. The imprinting process involving employing a roll forging assembly including a large-sized roller plate and a multi-angle vise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Alltrade Tools, LLC
    Inventor: Max Hu
  • Patent number: 7503542
    Abstract: A gas-exhausting marking device that is easily attached to the molding device in an appropriate position where the marking device exhibit sufficient gas-exhausting effect. The upper surface and the bottom surface of the marking device according to the present invention are configured to be breathable to allow gas to flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Uratanishoji Kabushiki Kaisha (Japan Corporation)
    Inventor: Hideki Uratani
  • Patent number: 7461593
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for imprinting text on items such as tools. The imprinting process involving employing a roll forging assembly including a large-sized roller plate and a multi-angle vise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Alltrade Tools LLC
    Inventor: Max Hu
  • Patent number: 7421947
    Abstract: Roll-forming apparatus is provided together with a conveyor system utilized to transport raw dough rolls. A stop gate is movably positioned in the path of the rolls and, when placed in an interfering position, temporarily stops the rolls while the rolls maintain sliding contact with the conveyor. An imprinter is positioned above the conveyor and adjacent the stop gate. The stop gate is subsequently moved to a noninterfering position to permit the rolls to pass to the imprinting drums where the rolls are formed into a desired shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Inventor: William Roy Bryan
  • Patent number: 7419317
    Abstract: A print processing method of a printing-and-embossing composite apparatus in which ink-characters printing and braille embossing are performed on the same object based on inputted character information, wherein, in cases where the ink-characters printing and the braille embossing are performed on the same object in a superposed state, and a character size for use in the ink-characters printing is set equal to or less than a given size, the ink-characters printing is barred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Akaiwa
  • Patent number: 7401549
    Abstract: An arrangement for transferring information/structures to wafers uses a stamp on which the information/structures to be transferred have been applied as elevated structures. The wafer is fixed on a chuck and is provided with a plastically deformable auxiliary patterning layer. In various implementations, the dimensions of the stamp approximately correspond to those of the wafer, the stamp is provided with the elevated structures essentially over the whole area, and/or the stamp and the wafer are in each case provided with mutually assigned pairs of alignment marks in such a way that the stamp can be positioned in a predetermined position on the wafer by means of an infrared positioning system and can be pressed into the plastically deformable auxiliary patterning layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Jens Staecker, Uwe Bruch, Heiko Hommen
  • Patent number: 7296514
    Abstract: A convex/concave pattern-forming stamp which is capable of making recesses of a convex/concave pattern uniform in depth and preventing deformation and peeling of portions of the convex/concave pattern at the same time. The stamp has on a surface thereof an annular area formed with protrusions for forming a convex/concave pattern in a resin layer on a surface of a disk-shaped substrate by being pressed against the resin layer. Protrusions for dispersing a pressure applied to the resin layer when the stamp is pressed against the resin layer are formed in at least one of an outer area located radially outward of the annular area and an inner area located radially inward of the annular area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Fujita, Mitsuru Takai
  • Patent number: 7273006
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for embossing the sidewalls of heavy gauge sheet metal containers involves clamping over a top edge of an opening into the container using a press carrying complementary embossing dies. The clamping apparatus can be a portable punch press having opposite members on a solid C-shaped frame, one being movable by a hydraulic drive cylinder to bear against the other. The die set coupled to the clamping apparatus has opposite protrusions and depressions representing an indicia to be embossed on the container, such as a trademark, symbol, owner's name or other indicia. In one embodiment the container is a dumping refuse container with an opening edge reinforced by a frame. The press has an opening throat that spaces the dies sufficiently that the clamping apparatus can be clamped over the reinforced edge to space the point of deformation of the sheet metal from the edge of the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Wastequip, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Rasmussen, Steven N. David
  • Patent number: 7225731
    Abstract: A sheet punching and embossing machine includes a device for stripping waste from a punched and embossed sheet at a stripping station, the device having a stripping plate for supporting the sheet. Also included are gripper carriages fixed to revolving chains, for gripping the sheet at a leading edge thereof and for then pulling the sheet intermittently through the stripping station and further stations in the machine. The stripping plate has, in an inlet region for the sheet and before stripping openings, at least one suction opening to which vacuum is applicable from below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Günther Bayer, Gerhard Klaassen
  • Patent number: 7217050
    Abstract: Before embossing raised letters on a target tape which is subjected to embossing of raised letters, written letters are printed based on inputted character information, and also an upside-and-downside identifying information for identifying the upside and the downside of the target tape as seen in the widthwise direction thereof is printed on the target tape. In the emboss-processing section, the upside and the downside of the target tape is detected based on the identifying information. If the target tape is found to have been inserted upside down, the raised letters are embossed in a state of turning the embossing data by 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Kurashina, Junichi Kikuchi, Takayuki Uehara, Makoto Takada, Seiji Tanaka, Takanobu Kameda
  • Patent number: 7178456
    Abstract: Roll-forming apparatus is provided together with a conveyor system utilized to transport raw dough rolls. A stop gate is movably positioned in the path of the rolls and, when placed in an interfering position, temporarily stops the rolls while the rolls maintain sliding contact with the conveyor. An imprinter is positioned above the conveyor and adjacent the stop gate. The stop gate is subsequently moved to a noninterfering position to permit the rolls to pass to the imprinting drums where the rolls are formed into a desired shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Inventor: William Roy Bryan
  • Patent number: 7171894
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a removable marking device for a mold that enables to leave two marks of different meanings accurately with simple operation. A removable marking device for a mold has a control mechanism that allows said indicator axle to rotate with said rotatable tube when said indicator axle rotates in the other direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Uratanishoji Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Uratani
  • Patent number: 6994024
    Abstract: Disclosed is an embossing system to be used with a die press. The embossing system includes a force transfer assembly, which comprises a first cover and an opposite second cover with the first and second covers being connected by a hinge. The force transfer assembly further includes a stencil and an opposing form positioned internal of the force transfer assembly. The stencil and the form are adapted to sandwich an embossing material, such as paper, between the stencil and the form. The embossing system further includes a layer of static vinyl that is located internally of one of the covers to secure the form to the internal side of one of the covers. The embossing system also utilizes an adhesive located on the cover opposite the cover with the vinyl to secure the stencil to the internal side of the opposite cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Ellison Educational Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin L. Corcoran, David L. Hughes
  • Patent number: 6966257
    Abstract: A removable marking device for mold consists of a substantially cylindrical outer member, an indicator can be rotated around axis line of outer member, a mark portion that is formed on upper surface of outer member and said indicator, wherein in said indicator, plural positioning projection portions protruding in radial direction of indicator is located, positioning projection portion consists of a positioning spring buried in indicator and an insert portion located in a tip of positioning spring, in inner wall of outer member, a positioning groove extending axis direction of outer member is formed at even intervals along circumferential direction of middle bore portion, in plural positioning projection portions, when at least one positioning projection portion is inserted in positioning groove, other positioning projection portion touches in inner wall of outer member in positioning groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Uratanishoji Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideki Uratani
  • Patent number: 6925931
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for making e.g. boardlike objects (11) arranged in a pile (12), in which method the objects are marked with a marking printed by a print head (26) and containing e.g. information about the object. To improve the marking quality, the objects are pressed together to reduce or eliminate gaps between them in the direction of compression, and the marking is made on an edge of the object that is parallel to the direction of compression of the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Metso Panelboard Oy
    Inventor: Antti Korhonen
  • Publication number: 20040265751
    Abstract: A description is given of a method of manufacturing a stamper for use in the manufacture of Small Form Factor (SFF) optical data storage media. A conventional master plate (2) is provided with a series of areas with spiral- or concentric-shaped information tracks (3a-3h), having a relief structure, with the center of each area (3a-3h) being located outside the axis of rotation (9) of the master plate (2). This is done by using a conventional master recorder and a separate master plate support structure (1) without the necessity for complex movements of the master recorder writing head. The master plate (2) thus obtained is used to produce the stamper, containing a negative replica of the surface of the master plate (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventor: Petrus Helena Gerardus Maria Vromans