Work Actuated Senser Initiates Shifter Patents (Class 83/307)
  • Patent number: 7066002
    Abstract: A metal sheet punch device for metal sheets which includes a longitudinally extended frame having forward and rearward ends and alignment devices for aligning the frame on a metal sheet. At least two metal punch devices are mounted on the frame, each including a metal punch support structure movably mounted on the frame and a metal punch having a pointed lower end, the metal punch mounted on the underside of the metal punch support arm structure. A support structure drive device such as a coiled spring is operatively connected to the metal punch support structure to rapidly move the metal punch support structure between a retracted position and an extended position and a trigger device is operatively connected to the metal punch devices to trigger each of them to drive the metal punch into the metal sheet to form at least two securement screw indentations therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Inventors: John Price, Leighton Schafer
  • Patent number: 6050927
    Abstract: An on-demand exact registration form web perforating method is simple yet effective, and can operate at high speed and a long life. A form web is moved in a predetermined path past first and second rotatable continuous circumferential perforator wheels mounted on stationary axes and spaced from and in alignment with each other along the path. First and second anvil cylinders are spaced along the path for cooperation with the wheels, each cylinder having an interrupted circumference including a raised portion and a depressed portion, and an axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Moore U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Jimmie A. Harrod