Spring Joint Patents (Class 30/234)
  • Patent number: 10499943
    Abstract: A ring handled surgical instrument is disclosed which can act as a scissors, a blunt dissector and a gripper. The device is made from flexibly resilient, medical grade sheet material in which the handles are strong enough to withstand without flexion the closure forces imparted by the fingers of a clinician and yet allow the blades on the operative end of the scissors to remain flexibly springy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Inventors: Michael E Lasner, Jeffrey I Lasner
  • Patent number: 8844143
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a rotor of a commutator motor, particularly in a direct current design, comprising a stator having a plurality of stator poles, wherein the rotor comprises a plurality of armature teeth which are disposed on the circumference of the rotor having interposed rotor grooves, and a commutated, which has a plurality of disks and associated winding hooks, comprising the following steps: winding bridges of the commutated by connecting winding hooks of the disks of the commutated, winding windings of armature teeth, and connecting the respective winding ends to winding hooks of the disks of the commutator. The invention further relates to such a commutated motor, particularly in a direct current design, and to an anti-lock breaking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kom manditgesellschaft, Wurzburg
    Inventors: Heinrich Kirchner, Robert Hessdoerfer
  • Publication number: 20110023309
    Abstract: A pressing handle is connected to a moveable blade having a hook-shaped engaging slot near the outer edge of an aperture to which a gripping handle fixed blade is pivoted. A containment space is formed by the junction of the gripping handle and a side of the fixed blade. The containment space has an arc-shaped opening, and the fixed blade has a positional aperture at a position corresponding to the opening. An end of an engaging member has an axle aperture and another end forms an engaging end, with a concave region formed between the two ends. A positioning pin passes through the engaging member and a torsion spring and is attached to the positional aperture. A push button-shaped body has a tongue at its lower end, an edge of which extends as a stop, and the tongue and the stop are both slidably mounted in the containment space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: HO CHENG GARDEN TOOLS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yao-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 7640666
    Abstract: A pair of gardening shears include two cutting blades pivotally connected with each other, two movable members each having a first side mounted on a respective cutting blade, two fixing members each mounted on a second side of a respective movable member, two locking bolts each extended through the fixing members, the movable members and the cutting blades, and two locking nuts each screwed onto a respective locking bolt. Thus, the cutting blades are limited by the fixing members and the locking bolts so that the cutting blades are juxtaposed to each other closely without producing a gap between the cutting blades, thereby facilitating a user operating the gardening shears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Ho Cheng Garden Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yao-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 6883239
    Abstract: A hair-trimming device is disclosed. The device comprises a substantially U-shaped member having a first handle portion and a second handle portion and an elastic portion alloy the first handle portion and the second handle portion to elastically separated; a pair of razor-fastener connected to the ends of the first and second handle and one lateral edge of the razor fastener being longitudinally mounted with razor with protective cover; and a stop mounted across the first handle and the second handle such that the handles are restricted to open to an excessive scope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Inventor: Fumihiko Sato
  • Patent number: 6317987
    Abstract: Disclosed is a scissor. The scissor comprises a pair of gripping sections integrally coupled with each other at one ends thereof; a pair of blade sections formed at the other ends of the pair of gripping sections, respectively; and a pair of safety plates securely fastened to outer surfaces of the pair of blade sections, respectively, for separating fabric or sheet material from the pair of blade sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Inventor: Jin Gu Joung
  • Patent number: 5561904
    Abstract: A rose stem stripper according to the present invention is accomplished by two metal arms including a base, a handle with looped gripping projections and a pair of jaws laterally offset from the handle. The metal arms are pivotally attached to each other at their bases. A rose containing a stem is inserted between the pair of jaws where each jaw has a V-shaped opening with a sharpened edge in order to overlap and form a generally diamond-shaped opening allowing only the rose stem to pass and thereby remove thorns and foliage. The handle of the rose stem stripper being offset from the jaws is gripped via the looped gripping projections and squeezed so that the sharpened edges of the V-shaped openings in the jaws move toward each other and encompass the rose stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Inventor: DooBong Chung
  • Patent number: 5459929
    Abstract: The present invention relates to hinged tools such as scissors, shears, pruners, or the like, having a force applying end with formed handles and an opposed working end consisting of a pair of blades disposed across a hinged joint through which a force may be transmitted. In these tools the handles, which are formed integrally with the hinge, are provided with ridge support in the form of heel elements to establish suitable contact between the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Fiskars Oy Ab
    Inventors: Erkki O. Linden, Veikko Makipelto
  • Patent number: 5438759
    Abstract: A button removal device including a straight torsion spring separating a pair of gripping members wherein the gripping members have a cooperative set of jaws affixed thereon. A first gripping member has a split pointed jaw which engages a singular jaw located upon a second gripping member. Buttons affixed to card stock by wire or string are removed by slipping the jaws between the string or wire and the button while closing the jaws using finger pressure and pulling away thereby cutting the wire or string. Buttons affixed using staples are likewise easily removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1995
    Inventor: Janice A. Dieringer
  • Patent number: 5081769
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cutting head, suitable for use in cutting wire or sheet metal. The cutting head includes two jaws, and a cutting blade on each jaw. A spring, which is preferably a split cylinder, is disposed in a hole at the pivot point between the jaws. The spring expands in the hole, forces the jaws apart, and stabilizes the jaws during use while correcting for any minor deviations which occurred in machining of the functional parts of the cutting head. In a preferred embodiment, the two jaws are held together by one or more straps which are bolted to each of the jaws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Cooper-Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Karel B. F. Juros
  • Patent number: 4958435
    Abstract: A device for ripping fabric includes two blades which act together in a scissor like fashion. A handle is rigidly attached to one of the blades. The movement of the handle back and forth causes a scissor like action between the blades. After the cut has been started, the device may be pushed through the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Cooper Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Grubbs, David S. Chapin
  • Patent number: 4879932
    Abstract: A manually operable paper slitting device has upper and lower platens normally biased apart from one another. The upper platen has diagonally extending and spaced parallel slitting blades extending downwardly therefrom for cooperation with spaced complementary slots formed in the lower platen. A resilient and compressible paper hold down and stripper element extends downwardly from the upper platen in surrounding relationship to the spaced slitting blades. The spaced slitting blades have an inclined bottom cutting edge which first pierces and then permits slitting of the paper along the cooperating slots in the lower platen. The resilient and compressible paper hold down and stripper element holds the paper from moving during and after the slitting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1989
    Inventors: William J. Scalise, Donna J. Scalise
  • Patent number: 4527331
    Abstract: An improved surgical suture remover is formed of a single elongated strip of resiliently flexible material having a bend substantially midway in its elongation to define first and second shanks respectively carrying a blade and a shearing portion at their corresponding ends. The blade includes a cutting section, and the shearing portion includes a cutting edge, and the blade and shearing portion are pivotally connected for movement of the cutting section and cutting edge toward and away from each other along a cutting plane to cooperatively sever a suture therebetween. An elongated suture gripping element unitarily depending from the shearing portion includes a contact area for suture gripping contact with the cutting section during an operating stroke or jaw closure of the instrument. In another embodiment there is a cutting blade and a shear blade forming a scissors, with each blade having an elongated raised rib, and an abutment shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1985
    Inventors: Jeffrey I. Lasner, Francisco H. Aleixo
  • Patent number: 4527332
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pair of handy scissors for readily cutting paper, cloth, thread, synthetic resin films and other sheet-like or linear materials in doing paper craftwork or needlework or opening packing bags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1985
    Inventor: Takaaki Aoki
  • Patent number: 3972333
    Abstract: A hand operated device for manipulating a pair of relatively movable cooperating tools is disclosed, having particular utility as a disposable surgical device for operating shears, forceps, hemostats and the like. The device is preferably molded of resilient plastic material and includes a pair of juxtaposed tool holding arms which are interconnected at one set of ends by a bowed portion and which are provided with a guiding device to keep the arms aligned and to limit their parting movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Inventor: Harry H. Leveen