Abstract: An appliance assembly includes an appliance and an appliance member. The appliance includes a wall defining a plurality of holes. The appliance member is carried by the appliance. The appliance member includes a housing which includes a snap-fit arrangement coupled with the appliance. The snap-fit arrangement includes a first plurality of ears and a second plurality of ears, the first and second plurality of ears snap-fittingly engaging the plurality of holes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 16, 2008
Date of Patent:
May 8, 2012
Assignee:
Group Dekko, Inc.
Inventors:
Joseph J. Scheiber, Michael S. Coverstone, Jeremiah Lewis
Abstract: The invention relates to a bar arrangement for a machine for producing a fibrous web. The bar arrangement according to the invention is characterized by at least one restoring mechanism for bringing the mobile bar from the operating position into the rest position.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 30, 2010
Date of Patent:
May 1, 2012
Assignee:
Voith Patent GmbH
Inventors:
Frank Schmidt, Ansgar Müller, Joachim Grabscheid
Abstract: A system monitors vibration activity in a press machine environment and generates a signal indicative of vibration level severity. An accelerometer can provide measured peak acceleration data that serves as an indication of vibration level. The vibration measurement, is compared to a reference vibration level that corresponds to a run condition of desired operating parameters. A controller controls the press machine shutheight in accordance with the differential expressed in the comparison result. The consequent shutheight adjustment effects a change in the vibration activity that acts as a correction to the deviation in vibration behavior expressed by the differential.
Abstract: An orthopaedic reamer, including a generally hemispherical shell rotatable about an axis having a plurality of tongues. Each tongue partially defines a corresponding C-shaped opening with a substantially constant width. Each tongue includes a cutting segment. The cutting segment includes at least one notch and a plurality of cutting teeth. Adjacent cutting teeth are separated by a corresponding notch. Each notch of each tongue has a corresponding cutting tooth of another tongue overlapping a cutting position of the notch during rotation of the orthopaedic reamer about the axis.
Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a block defining a plurality of combustion cylinders, an intake manifold fluidly coupled with at least one combustion cylinder, and an exhaust manifold fluidly coupled with at least one combustion cylinder. An EGR valve may be fluidly coupled between the exhaust manifold and the intake manifold. A turbocharger includes a turbine fluidly coupled with the exhaust manifold, and a compressor fluidly coupled with the intake manifold. A microphone is positioned at the compressor inlet or the compressor outlet provides an output signal. An ECU is coupled with the microphone, and controls operation of an actuatable element of a VGT, an EGR valve, and/or an injected fuel quantity, to prevent surge of the compressor, dependent upon the output signal from the microphone.
Abstract: An impact filter suitable for a kitchen exhaust hood is provided with a grease trap to capture grease particles and channel the particles away. The trap can be of different configurations. The filter can be used in various processes to clean air streams, such as filtering processes for removing grease and other cooking exhaust particles and other processes for removing grease particles.
Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine including a frame and a threshing section supported by the frame. The threshing section includes a rotating member, a concave and a hydraulic concave support system that positions the concave proximate to the rotating member. The concave is movable in directions toward or away from the rotating member. The hydraulic concave support system includes at least one hydraulically driven element movable substantially parallel to the same directions.
Abstract: A swimming pool includes a plurality of non-metal panels arranged in an end-to-end manner around a periphery of the swimming pool. Each panel includes a non-metal base material, an electrically conductive ground plane, and at least one bonding feature. The bonding features of the plurality of panels are electrically coupled together and bonded to ground.
Abstract: A machine for the production of a fibrous web including a fibrous stock suspension unit for the production of an aqueous suspension, a web former for dewatering the aqueous suspension and forming the fibrous web including at least one inclined wire progressing, at least in sections, at an angle to horizontal and at least one single layer headbox, one binder wire section progressing substantially horizontally and including at least one binder headbox, one drying unit including a drying wire, one winder, and at least one blowing device positioned between the binder wire section and the drying unit for contactless floating guidance of the fibrous web by one of air and another free flowing medium, wherein the blowing device includes a plurality of blowing zones transverse to a direction of travel of the fibrous web, the blowing zones configured to be controlled/adjusted independently of each other.
Abstract: The invention relates to a press fabric, especially a press felt, for a machine for the production of a fibrous web, especially paper or cardboard, which is fluid permeable and which includes an elastomer polymeric material. The invention is characterized in that the total weight component of the elastomer polymeric material contained in the press fabric is more than 50%, preferably more than 60% of the total weight of the press fabric.
Abstract: An operator input assembly includes an operator input device. The operator input device includes a paddle and a leaf spring interfacing with the paddle so as to bias the paddle to a predetermined position. The paddle includes a region which interfaces with the leaf spring.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 22, 2008
Date of Patent:
April 10, 2012
Assignee:
Deere & Company
Inventors:
Douglas S. States, Wolfgang Grabner, David J. Klas
Abstract: A piston crown for a diesel engine in which the crown has an annular recess coaxial with an injector injecting fuel in a radiated, non-swirl pattern. The recess has an internal central crown portion approximately parallel to the angle of the fuel injected and a curved outer section to curve air compressed by the piston significantly enough that it is directed back toward the central axis and mixes with the fuel injected along the internal central crown portion to promote mixing and reduction in soot formation.
Abstract: An agricultural work machine includes a hopper configured to store an agricultural product during harvesting operations, and an unloading system configured to receive the agricultural product from the hopper and to unload the agricultural product from the work machine. The unloading system includes a turret rotatably attached to a portion of the work machine; a base conveyor belt system configured to convey the agricultural product away from the turret; a base support structure pivotably coupled to the turret, the base support structure being configured to support at least in part the base conveyor belt system; and a shock absorption system configured to absorb a shock load transmitted between the base support structure and the turret.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 17, 2008
Date of Patent:
April 3, 2012
Assignee:
Deere & Company
Inventors:
Bruce A. Coers, Daniel J. Burke, Ryan P. Mackin
Abstract: A ground engaging work vehicle including a frame, a plurality of tractive elements, a movable extension, a hydraulic fluid using attachment, a hydraulic fluid pump and an accumulator. The plurality of tractive elements are coupled to the frame. The tractive elements engage the ground. The movable extension is connected to the frame. The hydraulic fluid using attachment is coupled to the movable extension. The hydraulic fluid pump is selectively fluidly coupled to the attachment. The accumulator is selectively fluidly coupled to the attachment dependent upon at least one fluid flow requirement of the attachment.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 30, 2008
Date of Patent:
March 27, 2012
Assignee:
Deere-Hitachi Speciality Products
Inventors:
Jarvis Degroot, Adrian Fengler, William Wilkinson
Abstract: A method of connecting an impactor to an orthopaedic implant includes the steps of: providing the impactor including a shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, a trigger pivotably connected to the distal end, the trigger including a cam end, a push rod within the shaft and connected to the cam end of the trigger and a threaded pair connected to an end of the push rod opposite the trigger; providing the orthopaedic implant including a threaded hole; locating the threaded pair within the threaded hole; pivoting the trigger; linearly displacing the push rod; and radially expanding the threaded pair to engage the threaded hole.
Abstract: A fabric for papermaking includes a first layer side, a second layer side and at least one binder warp yarn pair. The first side layer has a plurality of first weft yarns and a plurality of first warp yarns. The second side layer has a plurality of second weft yarns and a plurality of second warp yarns. The at least one binder warp yarn pair includes a first binder warp yarn pair having a first binder warp yarn and a second binder warp yarn, the first side layer and the second side layer being bound by the first binder warp yarn pair. The first binder warp yarn and the second binder warp yarn exchange the layer to which they are woven at exchange points. A knuckle is formed with the first binder warp yarn and an adjacent first warp yarn, a subsequent adjacent knuckle only being formed with the first binder warp yarn and an opposite adjacent first warp yarn.
Abstract: A three-phase separator for separating gas and solids from a three-phase mixture containing liquid, gas and solids includes an inlet region for the three-phase mixture, an outlet for a fraction rich in solids, an outlet for liquid, a first separator for separating gas from the three-phase mixture, forming a two-phase mixture which contains liquid and solids, and a second separator for separating solids from the two-phase mixture formed in the first separator, the first separator and the second separator in each case having at least one plate block each having at least three mutually parallel plates, between which a flow channel is formed in each case, the first separator being configured such that the mixture entering through the inlet region is led from top to bottom in the at least two flow channels, relative to the vertical, the second separator being configured and arranged in relation to the first separator such that the two-phase mixture emerging from the first separator enters the at least two flow cha
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 30, 2010
Date of Patent:
March 13, 2012
Assignee:
Voith Patent GmbH
Inventors:
Lukas Menke, Georgios Troubounis, Ronald Mulder
Abstract: A conveyor is mounted on a tractor and extends from a hopper at the front of the tractor to an outlet behind the tractor. An agricultural harvester unloading system is operated to deposit grain from the harvester into the hopper of the conveyor. The conveyor is operated to transfer the grain into a cart pulled by the tractor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 15, 2008
Date of Patent:
March 13, 2012
Assignee:
Deere & Company
Inventors:
Bruce A. Coers, Daniel J. Burke, Ryan P. Mackin
Abstract: An electrical receptacle for use with an electrical distribution harness. The electrical distribution harness including a first connector and a second connector, a plurality of electrical conductors electrically connecting the first connector and the second connector, a conduit member at least partially enclosing the plurality of electrical conductors between the first connector and the second connector, at least one fastener element having a head, and at least one structural member connected to the conduit member by way of the fastener element, the head projecting above a surface of the structural member. The electrical receptacle including a housing with at least one recess and a connector extending from the housing. The electrical receptacle being electrically connectable to the first connector or the second connector of the harness. The recess being configured to accommodate the head when the electrical receptacle is engaged in the first connector or the second connector.