Patents Assigned to PMC Industries
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Patent number: 10469022Abstract: The invention relates to retention systems and, more particularly, for a modular retention apparatus, system and method for securing and leveling a photovoltaic (PV) panel and other objects on a wall, rooftop and other structure to secure and ground electrically. The photovoltaic panel retention assembly utilizes a solar cap with one or more integral elongated flange extensions of a predetermined dimension to provide spacing between PV solar panels and/or to stabilize the solar cap from tipping under installation forces and load in use. The flanges extend through a support bracket configured with a base portion to support adjacent PV panels in a PV panel array and a base platform portion. The solar cap comprises integral teeth on a surface of the solar cap spaced apart from the flanged projections to locate the teeth adjacent a frame of the PV panel for electrical grounding thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Tamas Kovacs
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Publication number: 20190273460Abstract: The invention relates to retention systems and, more particularly, for a modular retention apparatus, system and method for securing and leveling a photovoltaic (PV) panel and other objects on a wall, rooftop and other structure to secure and ground electrically. The photovoltaic panel retention assembly utilizes a solar cap with one or more integral elongated flange extensions of a predetermined dimension to provide spacing between PV solar panels and/or to stabilize the solar cap from tipping under installation forces and load in use. The flanges extend through a support bracket configured with a base portion to support adjacent PV panels in a PV panel array and a base platform portion. The solar cap comprises integral teeth on a surface of the solar cap spaced apart from the flanged projections to locate the teeth adjacent a frame of the PV panel for electrical grounding thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2018Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicant: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Tamas KOVACS
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Publication number: 20190169851Abstract: An apparatus comprising a clamp with a mounting body having downwardly extending legs with at least one leg configured with an arcuate surface and a slot formed in a bottom surface of said mounting body by the downwardly extending legs for receiving a raised portion of a surface and a top portion for securing the device thereon. The clamp further includes one or more pins being received in one or more push-pin holes formed in the arcuate surface of the mounting body at a predetermined angle relative to said slot, whereby the predetermined angle can secure the clamp to varying designs of the raised portion, and a fastener adapted to be received in a fastener hole formed adjacent the one or more push-pin holes in the arcuate surface to force the one or more pins against the raised portion disposed in said slot and secure the clamp thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Tamas KOVACS
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Publication number: 20180187706Abstract: A clamp assembly that may be used for securing to a raised portion of a surface. The clamp assembly comprising a mounting body of a general block shape having a slot for receiving the raised portion formed in a bottom surface of the mounting body attaching the clamp assembly thereto. The clamp assembly is configured with one or more pins that may be formed in a substantially elongated cylindrical shape. The pins may be configured to be received in one or more push-pin holes formed in the mounting body, whereby the push-pin holes extend to the slot from a side surface of push-pin holes. The clamp assembly includes a fastening element adapted to be received in a fastener hole formed adjacent the push-pin holes in the side surface of the mounting body. The fastening element is configured to secure, attach and hold the clamp assembly to the standing seam by forcing the pins against the raised portion of the surface disposed in the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Applicant: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventors: Tamas Kovacs, Alan Wasley, Jim Bailey, Martin Taylor
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Publication number: 20180119425Abstract: An a clamp connector apparatus, system, and method for mounting a solar panel to a cross member while retaining snow, ice, items and other objects on a wall, rooftop and other structure. A clamp mounting apparatus, system, and method for mounting the retention apparatus and system to a stanchion assembly for a membrane roof thereby joining the cross member anchor assembly to a latch assembly of top block.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Tamas KOVACS
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Patent number: 9903532Abstract: A clamp assembly that may be used for securing to a raised portion of a surface. The clamp assembly comprising a mounting body of a general block shape having a slot for receiving the raised portion formed in a bottom surface of the mounting body attaching the clamp assembly thereto. The clamp assembly is configured with one or more pins that may be formed in a substantially elongated cylindrical shape. The pins may be configured to be received in one or more push-pin holes formed in the mounting body, whereby the push-pin holes extend to the slot from a side surface of push-pin holes. The clamp assembly includes a fastening element adapted to be received in a fastener hole formed adjacent the push-pin holes in the side surface of the mounting body. The fastening element is configured to secure, attach and hold the clamp assembly to the standing seam by forcing the pins against the raised portion of the surface disposed in the slot.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventors: Tamas Kovacs, Alan Wasley, Jim Bailey, Martin Taylor
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Patent number: 9850661Abstract: A retention apparatus, system and method for attaching a cross member with an anchor assembly to a latch assembly of a top block and clamp assembly secured to a wall, roof or other structure. The retention system is useful to prevent snow, ice and other objects from sliding off a roof. According to an exemplary embodiment, the retention apparatus and system may be secured to a standing seam on a metal roof to use an ice flag for retaining snow and ice between standing seams. The retention apparatus, system and method comprising a fastener securing a top block with a latch assembly to a clamp assembly attached to the standing seam of the metal roof. An cross member configured with an anchor assembly for operably connecting to the latch assembly of the top block by a ninety degree 90° straight-in approach to the latch assembly formed in the top block.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Tamas Kovacs
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Publication number: 20170130894Abstract: A clamp assembly that may be used for securing to a raised portion of a surface. The clamp assembly comprising a mounting body of a general block shape having a slot for receiving the raised portion formed in a bottom surface of the mounting body attaching the clamp assembly thereto. The clamp assembly is configured with one or more pins that may be formed in a substantially elongated cylindrical shape. The pins may be configured to be received in one or more push-pin holes formed in the mounting body, whereby the push-pin holes extend to the slot from a side surface of push-pin holes. The clamp assembly includes a fastening element adapted to be received in a fastener hole formed adjacent the push-pin holes in the side surface of the mounting body. The fastening element is configured to secure, attach and hold the clamp assembly to the standing seam by forcing the pins against the raised portion of the surface disposed in the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventors: Tamas Kovacs, Alan Wasley, Jim Bailey, Martin Taylor
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Publication number: 20170073974Abstract: A retention apparatus, system and method for attaching a cross member with an anchor assembly to a latch assembly of a top block and clamp assembly secured to a wall, roof or other structure. The retention system is useful to prevent snow, ice and other objects from sliding off a roof. According to an exemplary embodiment, the retention apparatus and system may be secured to a standing seam on a metal roof to use an ice flag for retaining snow and ice between standing seams. The retention apparatus, system and method comprising a fastener securing a top block with a latch assembly to a clamp assembly attached to the standing seam of the metal roof. An cross member configured with an anchor assembly for operably connecting to the latch assembly of the top block by a ninety degree 90° straight-in approach to the latch assembly formed in the top block.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Tamas KOVACS
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Patent number: 5396979Abstract: Apparatus for orienting cap assemblies presented serially in a stream of random oriented cap assemblies, each cap assembly having a span between a leading edge and a trailing edge and an axis located intermediate the leading and trailing edges, the apparatus including a gate having opposite abutments spaced relative to the span and the axis of each cap assembly, and a rotor for advancing the cap assemblies through the gate such that a selected one of the leading edge and the trailing edge of each cap assembly will engage one of the opposite abutments as the cap assembly passes through the gate to turn the cap assembly into the desired orientation for delivery of a stream of uniformly oriented cap assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1994Date of Patent: March 14, 1995Assignee: PMC IndustriesInventor: Kazmier Wysocki
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Patent number: 5207048Abstract: A chuck apparatus for threading a cap having a spout onto a bottle has a chuck with opposing gripping jaws for gripping the cap; a chuck rotating assembly for rotating the chuck to thread the cap on the bottle; a shaft connected with the chuck and an assembly for epicyclically rotating the shaft about a central axis; a raising and lowering assembly for raising and lowering the chuck out of and into engagement with the cap; a coupling rotatably connected with the shaft, and a cam assembly for raising and lowering the coupling; a spout alignment assembly for maintaining the spout at a first predetermined orientation with respect to the bottle while the chuck is rotated to thread the cap on the bottle, and including a saddle for engaging the spout, and a rod extending coaxially and rotatably through the shaft, for supporting the saddle above the gripping jaws in the first predetermined rotational orientation; and a chuck aligning assembly for aligning the chuck in a second predetermined orientation with respectType: GrantFiled: June 29, 1992Date of Patent: May 4, 1993Assignee: PMC IndustriesInventor: Kazmier Wysocki
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Patent number: 4779714Abstract: An orienter accepts trigger pump cap assemblies of the type in which a trigger is spaced from a cap along the pump housing of the cap assembly, the cap assemblies being presented serially in either one of first and second front-to-back orientations, and discharges the cap assemblies in only the second one of the orientations, the orienter including a pusher member which engages the pump housing of each cap assembly, as the cap assemblies travel downstream through the orienter, and pushes laterally against each pump housing to rotate the pump housing about the cap of those cap assemblies in the first orientation to reverse the front-to-back orientation of those cap assemblies so that all of the cap assemblies emerge oriented in the second orientation.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 1987Date of Patent: October 25, 1988Assignee: PMC IndustriesInventor: John J. Madden
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Patent number: 4746002Abstract: An apparatus for orienting and delivering dispenser cap assemblies includes a transfer arrangement for accepting oriented cap assemblies from an orienter and stabilizing the cap assemblies into a stabilized stream of oriented cap assemblies for further operations, the transfer arrangement having a guide track with a gate section at a jam-prone portion of the guide track and a diverter section upstream of the gate section such that upon the occurence of a jam in the jam-prone portion, the gate section is actuated to open the jam-prone portion and clear the jam, and the diverter section is actuated to divert further cap assemblies away from the jam-prone portion until the jam is cleared.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1987Date of Patent: May 24, 1988Assignee: PMC IndustriesInventor: Peter Wysocki
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Patent number: 4610345Abstract: Method and apparatus in which dispenser cap assemblies of the type having a trigger-type pump cap and a dip tube are fed to a generally cone-shaped drum which rotates about a vertical axis and carries compartments within which the cap assemblies are moved in a generally spiral outward direction while moving axially downwardly to be oriented vertically, with the cap below the dip tube, the cap assemblies then being transferred to a turnover wheel which rotates about a horizontal axis so that the cap assemblies are inverted to re-orient each cap assembly into a position where each dip tube depends vertically downwardly from the respective cap, the cap assemblies then being passed to a horizontal conveyor for advancement to a discharge point where the cap assemblies are presented serially in a prescribed alignment and orientation, at a relatively high rate, for capping operations.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1980Date of Patent: September 9, 1986Assignee: PMC IndustriesInventors: George E. Spreen, Hans Herold, Kazmier Wysocki
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Patent number: 4485511Abstract: A rotary die head has radially extendable and retractable thread cutting tools moving in paths of different angularity relative to the workpiece to permit one tool to cut a load flank in the workpiece at one lead and another tool simultaneously to cut a stab flank in the workpiece at a different lead, with the tools commonly generating the thread root, whereby a dual lead tapered thread may be formed on the workpiece in one pass. The respective cutting tools may have chasers with multiple teeth to permit the formation of deeper dual lead tapered threads in one pass. The die head may also have a radially extendable and retractable turning tool commonly driven with but moving in opposite directions from the thread cutting tools, whereby the turning tool when extended may form a seal or thread relief surface on the workpiece while the thread cutting tools are retracted.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1982Date of Patent: December 4, 1984Assignee: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Robert F. Urbanic
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Patent number: 4300780Abstract: A centering and self-adjusting chuck for clamping stock includes at least three circumferentially spaced dependent jaws that initially are displaced by being simultaneously radially inwardly driven equal distances under low pressure to center the stock positioned therebetween and further includes at least three other circumferentially spaced independent jaws that are then independently displaced by being radially inwardly driven under low pressure any distance required to have each such independent jaw engage the centered stock, the dependent and independent jaws finally being displaced by being simultaneously radially inwardly driven under higher pressure tightly and uniformly to clamp the stock therebetween for subsequent machining.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1979Date of Patent: November 17, 1981Assignee: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Robert F. Urbanic
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Patent number: 4123194Abstract: A chip breaker includes an abutment surface having geometry generally corresponding in profile to the geometry on the cutting edge of the associated thread chaser to permit such abutment surface to be uniformly spaced from respective roots and crests of the thread chaser and in close proximity thereto when the chaser and breaker are clampingly juxtaposed. The juxtaposed or trailing surface of the chip breaker has angularly biased, parallel grooves therein to deliver coolant past the chaser body and then into the cutting area along the respective flanks of the chip breaker and chaser geometry.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1977Date of Patent: October 31, 1978Assignee: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Lawrence E. Cave
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Patent number: D859140Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventor: Tamas Kovacs
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Patent number: D866300Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventors: Robert Mercier, Tamas Kovacs
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Patent number: D866305Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: PMC Industries, Inc.Inventors: Robert Mercier, Tamas Kovacs