Patents Assigned to Braner Enterprises
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Patent number: 4567799Abstract: A sled which is mounted between an uncoiler and a multiple-head or arbor type slitter and which carries a pair of pinch rolls and a peeler. The sled is adapted for longitudinal movement between the slitter and the uncoiler to allow indexing of the slitter arbors and feeding of the coil initially into the slitter.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1984Date of Patent: February 4, 1986Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Douglas S. Matsunaga
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Patent number: 4504186Abstract: A transporting device for lifting and relocating material from one position to another. In one embodiment, the transporting device comprises a stationary central support pedestal and a rotatable turret situated at the top of the pedestal. The turret has at least a pair of arms which extend radially outwardly from the pedestal. Each arm has an adjustable lifting and stacking mechanism for gripping and transporting of material as the turret is rotated. In another embodiment, the transporting device comprises a rotatable central support turret situated on a stationary pedestal. A pair of arms extend radially outwardly from the turret. Each arm may be raised and lowered independently of the other and includes a mechanism for gripping material as the turret is rotated. In either embodiment, the turret is driven by a motor situated in the stationary pedestal.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1983Date of Patent: March 12, 1985Assignee: Braner EnterprisesInventor: Lawrence J. Richards
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Patent number: 4443147Abstract: A transporting device for lifting and relocating material from one position to another. In one embodiment, the transporting device comprises a stationary central support pedestal and a rotatable turret situated at the top of the pedestal. The turret has at least a pair of arms which extend radially outwardly from the pedestal. Each arm has an adjustable lifting and stacking mechanism for gripping and transporting of material as the turret is rotated. In another embodiment, the transporting device comprises a rotatable central support turret situated on a stationary pedestal. A pair of arms extend radially outwardly from the turret. Each arm may be raised and lowered independently of the other and includes a mechanism for gripping material as the turret is rotated. In either embodiment, the turret is driven by a motor situated in the stationary pedestal.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1983Date of Patent: April 17, 1984Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Lawrence J. Richards
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Patent number: 4327620Abstract: A slitter having multiple spaced pairs of arbors carried upon a rotatable housing which is shiftable as a unit toward and away from a second housing which is adapted to support a selected pair of such arbors during the slitting operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 1980Date of Patent: May 4, 1982Assignee: Braner EnterprisesInventors: James Greinke, Douglas Matsunaga, Eric W. Mosquera
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Patent number: 4265155Abstract: A slitter having multiple spaced pairs of arbors supported for pivotal movement upon a frame. A drive located adjacent the pivot axis of the pairs of arbors is provided to make driving contact with one arbor of each of the arbor pairs as such pair of arbors is brought into and positioned across the passline of the slitter.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1979Date of Patent: May 5, 1981Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Esteban Lopez, Douglas Matsunaga
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Patent number: 4236431Abstract: A slitter with a plurality of slitter heads mounted on a turntable to allow rotation of the heads. Each slitter head is adapted to be joined to a motor drive by means of an interconnecting arbor end portion which extends from the outboard bearing of the slitting head.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 1979Date of Patent: December 2, 1980Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Charles B. Gawlik, James D. Hall, Douglas S. Matsunaga
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Patent number: 4212218Abstract: A slitter having a pivotal head carrying multiple spaced pairs of arbors with said head being liftable to displace the arbors from the pass line of the material.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1978Date of Patent: July 15, 1980Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Harold R. Braner, Douglas S. Matsunaga
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Patent number: 4199116Abstract: A recoiler for use in a slitting line upon which multiple strands of slit material are wound. The recoiler includes a rotatable drum having expandable side walls which are shiftable between expanded and retracted positions during drum rotation.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1978Date of Patent: April 22, 1980Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Douglas S. Matsunaga
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Patent number: 4183273Abstract: A slitter having multiple spaced pairs of arbors carried upon a rotatable housing which is shiftable as a unit toward and away from a second housing which is adapted to support a selected pair of such arbors during the slitting operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1978Date of Patent: January 15, 1980Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: James G. Greinke, Douglas S. Matsunaga, Eric W. Mosquera
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Patent number: 4093140Abstract: A method by which multiple strands of slit metal material are wound upon the rotating drum of a recoiler. Frictional contact between the recoiler drum and strands cause the strands to be coiled about the drum with relative movement between the recoiler drum and the separate coils of strands occurring to accommodate the varying thicknesses of the individual strands so that the strands are wound upon the drum at substantially the same linear speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 1977Date of Patent: June 6, 1978Assignee: Braner Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Douglas S. Matsunaga
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Patent number: D285136Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1983Date of Patent: August 12, 1986Assignee: Braner Enterprises Inc.Inventor: Lawrence J. Richards