Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Albert Josif
  • Mechanical-hydrostatic transmission, particularly for tools and vehicles suitable for gardening, such as lawn-mowers or the like
    Patent number: 6443036
    Abstract: A mechanical-hydrostatic transmission particularly for tools and vehicles suitable for gardening, such as lawn-mowers or the like, comprising a reduction unit, a clutch unit, an oil pump and a hydraulic motor which are integrated and contained within a single casing, the pump and the clutch unit being arranged coaxially on a first shaft which is connected externally, by means of a coupling, to motor means, the pump being hydraulically connected to the hydraulic motor and the hydraulic motor being in turn axially associated with a second shaft from which a power take-off extends. The casing contains kinematic connections for transmitting motion to the driving wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Antonio Carraro S.p.A.
    Inventor: Girolamo Martignon
  • Machine tool for working stone and agglomerates of inert materials
    Patent number: 6439219
    Abstract: A machine tool for working stones and agglomerates of inert materials having a support for the abrasive or, respectively, cutting material to contact the stone during working and a connecting part for connecting the tool to the machine which generates and transmits to the tool the movement that the tool performs during working; the support and the connecting part are fastened to each other, in a detachable manner, by way of removable locking elements. Between the support and the connecting part a layer is interposed, made of a material which is suitable to damp the mechanical vibrations of the machine, reducing their transmission from the connecting part to the support, and suitable to damp the vibrations that occur in the support during working, and reducing further their transmission from the support to the connecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Inventor: Vittorio Pareti
  • Apparatus for unwinding/rewinding a suction hose for draining cesspools, septic tanks and sewers in general
    Patent number: 6438792
    Abstract: An apparatus for unwinding/rewinding a suction hose for draining or purging cesspools, septic tanks, sewers or the like which includes, on a truck, a reel with which, in a peripheral region, a radial hose guide is associated, the hose guide including a composite am with guiding elements for the hose, wherein the arm is peripherally articulated to the reel so as to pitch, in an adjustable manner actuated by actuation elements, about an axis which is parallel to a tangent to the reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Cappellotto S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luigi Cappellotto
  • Track sliding facilitating method and device for a wire stranding machine
    Patent number: 6434922
    Abstract: A method and a device for facilitating the sliding, along a track, of an element having a predominant axial dimension subjected to an intense force pressing it against the track, particularly for facilitating the sliding of a wire subjected to stranding in stranding machines. The method consists in interposing between the element and the track a pressurized fluid which contrasts the force that presses the element against the track. In this way, the sliding friction of the element on the track is reduced and it is possible to reduce the force to be applied to the element in order to achieve its advancement along the track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Inventor: Angelo Dalerba
  • Machine for preparing food products
    Patent number: 6435079
    Abstract: A machine for preparing food products, for example lasagne, comprising a feeder which is suitable to take a plurality of lines of product and to feed each line to a respective product conveyor; each line comprises product distribution units suitable to distribute the product in respective containers fed by a conveyance device. The product conveyors extend parallel to each other and one above the other and have different lengths, each product conveyor having a delivery end at a distribution station which is suitable to deposit the product, which arrives from the respective product conveyor, in a container which is supplied to the distribution station by the conveyance device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: G. Mondini S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giovanni Mondini
  • Magnetic closure for items of clothing
    Patent number: 6434801
    Abstract: A magnetic closure particularly for items of clothing and the like, comprising a magnetic body which is accommodated in a seat which is closed hermetically and is formed by two plate-like elements which are mutually coupled at least in a region which peripherally surrounds the magnetic body. The coupled plate-like elements (10,11) can be applied to each one of a couple of flaps to be joined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: SAMA S.p.A.
    Inventor: Erico Grunberger
  • Method for controlling the assembly cycle of a frame assembling machine and machine for carrying out the method
    Patent number: 6434439
    Abstract: A cross-section of one of the strips in a frame is digitized in binary format by means of a scanner and graphically visualized; dimensions of the cross-section and points suitable for positioning a strip locking device are determined, together with points of application of the stapling elements and the number of the elements to be applied in each point. A frame assembling machine is then activate to perform the actual stapling of the strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Inventor: Giuseppe Raffoni
  • Machine for opening dies for extruding aluminum and alloys thereof
    Patent number: 6430793
    Abstract: A machine for opening dies for extruding aluminum and alloys thereof, comprising a table for supporting a die to be opened which is connected to translatory motion elements for placing the die at a parting unit which has a plurality of tools distributed around the die and provided with a parting blade which can be gradually moved closer and inserted between the two parts that constitute the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Compes S.p.A.
    Inventor: Mario Pedersoli
  • Back protection shield
    Patent number: 6427695
    Abstract: A back protection shield, which includes at least one anatomic shell-like body made of substantially rigid material and longer than wider, so as to extend longitudinally and cover a substantial portion of user's backbone. The shield has a concave inner surface designed to face, in use, the user's back and a convex outer surface and at least one series of spaced stiffening ribs which extend at least partly in a transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Spidt Sport S.r.l.
    Inventors: Pietro Zanetti, Gianni Zago
  • Refrigeration system having a refrigeration cycle which provides optimized consumption
    Patent number: 6427460
    Abstract: A refrigeration system having a refrigeration cycle which provides optimized consumption, comprising a main section, which is constituted by at least one main compressor, a main condenser, which is connected between the compressor and at least one expansion valve, and at least one evaporator, which is connected to the expansion valve, which comprises an auxiliary section comprising at least one auxiliary compressor which is connected to a low-pressure intake line of the main compressor, at least one auxiliary condenser which is connected to the auxiliary compressor, and a first auxiliary reservoir and a second auxiliary reservoir which are respectively connected to the output of the auxiliary condenser and to the output of the main condenser, for connection to the at least one expansion valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Inventor: Luciano Zanon
  • Braking device particularly for skates
    Patent number: 6425586
    Abstract: A braking device, particularly usable for skates comprising a shoe composed of a quarter which is articulated to a shell associated with a supporting frame for two or more wheels, and comprising at least one traction element which is connected at one end to a tab which protrudes from a braking element which is located in a region which is adjacent to the last wheel and oscillates in contrast with at least one flexible element. In the braking device, the traction element is associated, at its other end, with two levers which operatively interact with the quarter and allow to take up the traction element when the quarter oscillates backward so as to place the braking element in contact with a braking surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Assignee: Benetton Group S.p.A.
    Inventors: Roberto Gorza, Nicola Vendramin
  • Tire changing machine for industrial vehicle wheels
    Patent number: 6422285
    Abstract: A tire changing machine having a support frame, rotatable supporting device for a wheel rim, locking device for securing the wheel rim to the supporting device, a fitting tool which can be secured to an adjustable tool supporting arm carried by the support frame, and driving device for the rotatatable supporting device. The machine also includes a first and a second pressure members which can be located in diametrically opposite positions with respect to a wheel rim carried by the supporting device and are designed to act on either side of a tire on the wheel rim, and drive device for actuating, upon control, each of the first and second pressure members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Butler Engineering & Marketing S.r.l.
    Inventor: Tullio Gonzaga
  • Needle actuation device for knitting machines for hosiery or other articles
    Patent number: 6422044
    Abstract: A needle actuation device comprises a cam box facing a needle holder and supporting at least one lowering cam whose profile is inclined with respect to the direction of the motion of the needle holder with respect to the cam box. The profile of the lowering cam engageable by a needle or needle pusher heel, protruding from the needle holder. The lowering cam is movable along an adjustment direction in which at least one component is parallel to the direction of the sliding of the needles in the needle holder, to vary length of knitting loops, and rotatable to vary inclination of the profile with respect to the motion direction. Adjusters are provided to vary inclination of the profile of the lowering cam both correlated to the loop length variation and independently of the loop length variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Matec S.p.A.
    Inventors: Fernando Caselli, Andrea Falchini, Filippo Bargellini
  • Process and apparatus for the controlled pyrolysis of plastic materials
    Patent number: 6423878
    Abstract: An apparatus for the pyrolysis (cracking) of a polymeric material consisting of a reactor provided with a molten catalyst bed and a feeding extruder for introducing the polymeric material into the catalyst bed. The process consists in the introduction of a polymeric material in the molten catalyst bed for converting a variety of polymers, side-chain plastics, linear-chain plastics and halogenated plastics, such as for example PVC, into hydrocarbon products which are useful for energy generation while avoiding the pollution problems associated with the direct combustion of plastic materials. The process can also be used for cracking mixtures of polymeric material derived from the sorting of municipal solid waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Inventor: Riccardo Reverso
  • Method for producing a knitted fabric with a circular knitting machine with cylinder and dial, particularly for producing footlets or the like
    Patent number: 6415632
    Abstract: A method for producing a knitted fabric with a circular knitting machine with cylinder and dial, particularly for producing footlets, comprising the steps of producing a knitted fabric with a particular process that achieves high elastic deformability for the fabric. By virtue of this high elastic deformability, the fabric is particularly adapted to be used to produce footlets, obtainable simply by cutting, from the fabric according to the invention, a contoured part, to which a pretensioned elastic band is applied at its perimeter. The resulting footlet has an elastic deformability that achieves optimum fit yet can have, on the side adapted to be directed toward the user's foot, an inextensible natural thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Gafitex S.r.l.
    Inventor: Giuliano Vesnaver
  • Bilateral automatic machine for edge-machining plates of glass, stone-like materials and the like
    Patent number: 6416382
    Abstract: A bilateral automatic machine for machining the edges of plates of glass, stone-like and of other plate shaped materials and the like, comprising a supporting frame which has a conveyor for the plates to be machined. There are also provided an abutment shoulder and a movable shoulder for supporting abrasive grinding wheels which act on the opposite edges of the plates. The machine comprises, for each shoulder, downstream of the last grinding wheel in the direction of advancement of the plates, a sensor for detecting the dimensions of the plates being machined which drives an advancement device for the advancement of the last grinding wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Z. Bavelloni S.p.A.
    Inventor: Franco Bavelloni
  • Accident-prevention device for buildings, particularly for assembling prefabricated components made of concrete or the like
    Patent number: 6412230
    Abstract: 3An accident-prevention device for buildings, particularly for assembling prefabricated components made of concrete, which comprises at least one pole and elements for detachably connecting the base of the pole to the surface of a building. The pole has, proximate to its tip, guiding pulleys for a cable element which forms a safety parapet. The guiding means are adapted to divert, in a direction which is substantially parallel to the axis of the pole, at least part of the stresses transmitted from the cable element to the pole, and the pole is provided with shock-absorbing elements for cushioning the stresses transmitted from the cable element to the pole in a direction which is substantially parallel to the axis of the pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Inventors: Sergio Zambelli, Benito Zambelli
  • Anti-theft container for commercial items
    Patent number: 6412633
    Abstract: An anti-theft container, comprising two half-box-like components wherebetween the item to be protected is enclosed. A first one of the components has an enclosure containing an excitable signaling component and an engagement means in which one end of a tab which protrudes from a second one of the components is insertable and lockable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Inventor: Emilio Costa
  • Method for reducing computational errors in a useful band of a signal generated with a fourier transform, for fixed-point microprocessors
    Patent number: 6411977
    Abstract: A method for reducing computational errors in a useful band of a signal generated with a Fourier transform, particularly for fixed-point microprocessors, which comprises a step of shifting errors present in a signal due to Fourier transforms applied thereto, so that the errors straddle a frequency in which the information content of the signal is irrelevant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: M.B. International S.r.L.
    Inventor: Michele Bargauan
  • Pattern, particularly for textiles, fabrics and sheet-like elements in general
    Patent number: D461643
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Missoni S.p.A.
    Inventor: Ottavio Missoni