Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Taylor & Aust, P.C.
  • Orthopaedic reamer assembly
    Patent number: 7278996
    Abstract: An orthopaedic reamer assembly includes a reamer with a generally hemispherical shell having a concave side and at least one attachment feature associated with the concave side. A driver is attachable to the reamer. The driver includes a shaft with a reamer end. The reamer end removably attaches to at least one attachment feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Symmetry Medical, Inc.
    Inventor: Todd Wolford
  • Integrated fuser unit and drive system for use in an electrophotographic imaging process
    Patent number: 7274903
    Abstract: An integrated fuser unit has a drive system with a motor and a drive train mounted in the fuser unit frame. A swing arm assembly engages and disengages the hot roll from the drive train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Lee Carter, Edward Lawrence Kiely, Edward Alan Rush
  • Variable speed drive for agricultural seeding machines
    Patent number: 7273016
    Abstract: An agricultural seeding machine includes a mechanical drive; a seed meter including a driven shaft; and a planetary gear set. The planetary gear set includes an input shaft connected with the drive, an output shaft connected with the driven shaft, a ring gear, and a motor coupled with a ring gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Donald Keith Landphair, Christopher Allen Myers
  • Back-to-back lampholder
    Patent number: 7273296
    Abstract: A lampholder assembly in which lampholders are supported on a bracket in a back-to-back configuration with no gap therebetween is formed of a pair of insulative lampholders, each having a generally planar back surface and an opposite front face including a lamp receiving opening. One lampholder includes a set of two resilient latching pawls extending generally orthogonally from and to either side of the back surface thereof and the other lampholder includes a set of two rigid bosses extending from laterally opposite sides thereof. A lampholder mounting bracket receives the bosses and latching pawls to rigidly support the lampholders in back-to-back contact with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Pent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank Roe
  • Imaging apparatus having interface device for print mode selection
    Patent number: 7269371
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a print engine operable in a plurality of print modes. An interface device is communicatively coupled to the print engine. The interface device includes a control lever having a plurality of positions. The plurality of positions corresponds to the plurality of print modes, wherein the control lever is manually manipulated to select a desired print mode of the plurality of print modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Jude Ahne
  • Method of chemically loading fibers in a fiber suspension
    Patent number: 7264689
    Abstract: A method of continuously loading fibers in a fiber suspension with calcium carbonate. The fibers include a fiber wall surrounding a lumen. A reactant solid in the form of calcium oxide and/or calcium hydroxide is mixed into the fiber suspension with a resultant initial process pH of between 11 and 12. The fiber suspension is transported at a consistency of between approximately 15 and 30% into an inner chamber of a closed reactor. A reactant gas is injected into the reactor, whereby the reactor is pressurized to a pressure between 5 and 150 psi. A temperature of the fiber suspension within the reactor is controlled at a range between ?10° C. and 80° C. The fibers within the fiber suspension are loaded with calcium carbonate as a result of a chemical reaction between the reactant solid and the reactant gas in the reactor over a predetermined reaction time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Paper Technology North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Klaus Doelle
  • Method for the manufacture of fillings for utilization in the mechanical processing of aqueous paper fiber stock
    Patent number: 7263755
    Abstract: A method for fabricating fillings that are utilized in refiners for the purpose of refining paper fiber stock. The filling manufactured in accordance with the method of the present invention includes a base body, an overlay template on the base body and processing elements. The processing elements are inserted into the overlay template that is equipped with corresponding openings. A solid connection is subsequently produced, for example, by way of high temperature welding. Advantages of the method include the selection of optimum materials for the processing elements; the fabrication process is flexible; and the method is especially economical, when measured by the quality of the produced fillings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Lange
  • Power entry assembly for an electrical distribution system
    Patent number: 7264499
    Abstract: A power entry assembly for an electrical distribution system, the power entry assembly includes at least one conductor carrier and a housing connected to the at least one conductor carrier. The housing includes a first orientation relative to the at least one conductor carrier. A connector is connected to the housing at a second orientation, where the first orientation is approximately 180° from the second orientation. Two conductor carriers may be used, one for alternating current conductors and the other for direct current conductors. The two conductor carriers may have different outside textures which allows an installer to correctly orient the power entry assembly by feel alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Pent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Shawn J. Kondas
  • Fuser unit operation for gloss consistency
    Patent number: 7260339
    Abstract: A method of operating a fuser for duplex printing includes equilibrating the fuser roll surface temperatures by rotating the rolls at a speed faster than the process speed between fusing an image on a first side of the media and fusing an image on a second side of the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Lee Carter, John William Kietzman, Calvin Dale Murphy
  • Chassis for a lock set
    Patent number: 7257973
    Abstract: An interconnected chassis includes a mounting plate including a spring engaging tab. A cover plate includes a recessed spring retention wall. A lower cam has a lower pivot axis. An upper cam has an upper pivot axis. A slide plate is positioned between the mounting plate and the cover plate, the slide plate having a spring retention slot and a spring support ledge. The slide plate includes a first end having a pivot feature and a second end having a lower cam engagement member for engaging the lower cam. A spring is positioned in the spring retention slot of the slide plate and in the recessed spring retention wall of the cover plate, and between the spring engaging tab of the mounting plate and the spring support ledge of the slide plate. A toggle is pivotably coupled to the slide plate by the pivot feature, the toggle having a head portion positioned to engage the upper cam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Newfrey, LLC
    Inventors: Oscar Romero, Jeanette Vy Bui, Graham John Wheatland
  • Imaging apparatus having a printhead carrier/belt interface device
    Patent number: 7255421
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a carrier housing having an attachment feature, a carrier belt to transmit a translation to the carrier housing in a bi-directional scanning direction; and an interface device interposed between and coupled to both the carrier housing and the carrier belt. The interface device includes a body having a wing and a base. The wing is defined by a span and by a chord length. At least one of the wing and the base is mounted via the attachment feature to the carrier housing. The span extends in the bi-directional scanning direction, and the chord length is substantially perpendicular to the span.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Alan Herwald, Brian Andrew Naro, Bryan Christopher Scharf
  • Table pad coupling system
    Patent number: 7250207
    Abstract: A table pad coupling system including a first table pad and a second table pad. The first table pad having a plurality of peripheral surfaces including a first peripheral surface and a second peripheral surface, the first peripheral surface opposite the second peripheral surface. The first table pad additionally including a plurality of magnets positioned within the first table pad, the plurality of magnets including a first magnet associated with the first peripheral surface and a second magnet associated with the second peripheral surface, the first and second magnets having a surface of a same magnetic polarity, the surface of the first magnet and the surface of the second magnet outwardly oriented proximate the respective first and second peripheral surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Ohio Table Pad Company
    Inventors: Gary W. Heal, Christopher P. Krauser
  • Apparatus for measuring the permeability of a circulating band in a paper machine
    Patent number: 7249491
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the permeability of a circulating band, in particular of a dewatering band in a papermaking machine, having a nozzle from which a measuring fluid flows onto the band. In order to avoid undesired lifting of the nozzle off the band due to pressure peaks, the apparatus according to the present invention has a nozzle which can be pressed onto the circulating band with a constant contact pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Ischdonat, Ralf Pfifferling, Rudolf Muench, Michael Sollinger, Wolfgang Ulfert
  • Exit roller system for an imaging apparatus
    Patent number: 7246962
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a print engine having a print zone. A print media feed system transports a sheet of print media in a media feed direction along a media feed path through the print zone. The print media feed system includes a plurality of exit rollers positioned across a width of the media feed path. Each of a plurality of pressure rollers engages a respective one of the plurality of exit rollers to define a plurality of exit nips. A support structure mounts the plurality of exit rollers and the plurality of pressure rollers. The support structure positions the plurality of exit nips in an arrangement to define a transverse path across the width of the media feed path in the direction transverse to the media feed direction, the transverse path having a central portion and elevated portions on each side of the central portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund H. James, III, Michael A. Marra, III
  • Crew overboard retrieval system
    Patent number: 7238074
    Abstract: A crew overboard retrieval system for retrieving an object in the water including a flotation device, a net connected to the flotation device and a line connected to the net. A method of retrieving an object in the water, including the steps of: providing a crew overboard retrieval system including a flotation device, a net connected to the flotation device and a line connected to the net; connecting the line to a marine structure; deploying the crew overboard retrieval system in the water by casting off the flotation device and the net; at least partially encircling the object in the water with the net; capturing the flotation device; and retrieving the object in the water with the net.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Inventors: Larry K. Berndt, Paul W. Berndt
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: 7238056
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a plurality of conductors, at least one male terminal electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of conductors, and at least one female terminal electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of conductors. At least one male terminal includes a cross-section defining at least one line contact. At least one female terminal is for electrical connection to at least one male terminal. At least one female terminal includes both a longitudinal split and an approximately circular cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Dekko Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Phillip A. McCoy
  • Door closer cover
    Patent number: D549078
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Assa Abloy Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: John H. Hoogendoorn
  • Transmitter case
    Patent number: D549119
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Innotek, Inc.
    Inventor: Kent A. Becker
  • Door closer cover
    Patent number: D550063
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Assa Abloy Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: John H. Hoogendoorn
  • Door closer cover
    Patent number: D550064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: John H. Hoogendoorn