Patents Examined by Adam J Eiseman
  • Patent number: 11135638
    Abstract: A pipe enlarging device includes a base, an operation unit and a clamping unit. The clamping unit is received in the base, and includes movable front and rear clamps and a front threaded rod. The front and rear clamps are resiliently movable when the front threaded rod is rotated so as to form an adjustable clamping area between the front and rear clamps. The clamping area is used to clamp pipes of different sizes. The operation unit includes a top threaded rod with a cone-shaped member which is used to enlarge the inner diameter of the pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: Yu-Shiang Huang
  • Patent number: 11135639
    Abstract: A device for guiding and directing a metal sheet in a bending machine to form continuously a conical structure, in particular a frustoconical structure, comprises: resting and contrasting arrangement extending along a closed path, and suitable for restingly receiving a longitudinal edge of the metal sheet and contrasting a movement of the edge in a direction that is transverse to a preset advancement trajectory of the metal sheet; a supporting body for the resting and contrasting arrangement, having at least one oblong lateral portion that is suitable for facing the edge and configured for conforming the resting and contrasting arrangement to the longitudinal profile of the edge so as to obtain an extended zone of contact with said edge and impose resting and contrasting pressure distributed along the edge; the resting and contrasting arrangement is movable around the supporting body along the closed path to accompany the edge of the metal sheet by a distributed contact devoid of relative sliding and rolli
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventor: Orazio Maria Davi
  • Patent number: 11135636
    Abstract: A method of forming one or more tie rods that includes flattening a main body of a wire in a first selected plane to form a flattened main body, further flattening selected portions of the flattened main body in a second plane perpendicular to the first plane to form one or more break back regions, and then passing the wire through a punch press machine to form one or more coined regions in one or more ends of the wire, thus forming the tie rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Titcomb Brothers Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Ted Titcomb, Paul S. Titcomb
  • Patent number: 11135634
    Abstract: To reduce warping of vertical wall portions without causing buckling occurring in a component shape not having a flange portion. A punch and a pad sandwiching a top sheet portion therebetween in the sheet thickness direction, bending blades for bend-forming the vertical wall portions, and stoppers facing the bending blades in the press direction and constraining end portions of a material to be machined are provided. The punch is supported by a first cushion component elastically expandable and contractible in the press direction. The bending blades each have an upper die component and a lower die component disposed facing each other in the press direction with an interval (D) equal to or larger than a set compression amount and a second cushion component interposed between the upper die component and the lower die component, maintaining the interval (D), and contractible in the press direction at a predetermined pressure or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Miyake, Toyohisa Shinmiya
  • Patent number: 11129334
    Abstract: An unloading device for unloading a round bale from a round baler includes a first support arm for unloading the round bale, a second support arm for unloading the round bale, and an actuator for operably controlling the first and second support arms. The first and second support arms are adjustably mounted on the round baler. Moreover, the first and second support arms are adjustably controlled by the actuator as a function of an unloading direction of the round bale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Pascal Gresset, Frederic Perrotin, Romain Repecaud
  • Patent number: 11129336
    Abstract: A dual rotary cutter bale processor operable in a first mode for producing ground material and dispersing ground material for a first use and a second mode for producing cut material and dispersing cut material from the processor for a second use, where the cut material is coarser than the ground material. Material is processed for feeding into a container, bunk, or tire, into windrows on the ground, making piles of material, spreading the material for use as animal bedding, and/or mulching newly seeded areas. A screen and moveable bypass door for each rotary cutter and a position of a deflector direct a cut path such that the bypass doors can be used to force the material through the screens to further reduce size of the material or the deflectors can be used so the material bypasses the screens for dispersal from the processor in a coarser state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: DURATECH INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Bennett, Nicholas Fayville
  • Patent number: 11130163
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a press molding method for forming a press-molded product having a flange including a special-shaped portion. The method includes: a trimming step of determining an outer peripheral edge of the flange and forming the special-shaped portion; and a finishing step of molding the flange into a final product shape position of the press-molded product after the trimming step. The flange includes a first flange portion including at least a portion of an outer peripheral edge of the special-shaped portion. In the trimming step, the first flange portion is press-molded into a preform position deeper in a thickness direction of the first flange portion than a final product shape position of the first flange portion, and in the finishing step, return molding of lifting the first flange portion in the thickness direction of the first flange portion to the final product shape position of the first flange portion is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11130598
    Abstract: A strapping tool is disclosed herein. In one or more embodiments, the strapping tool includes a motive power source; and a tensioning assembly operatively coupled to the motive power source, the tensioning assembly including a cam member and at least one tensioning foot member, the cam member operatively coupling the at least one tensioning foot member to the motive power source, and the at least one tensioning foot member of the tensioning assembly configured to apply tension to a piece of strapping while being driven in an oscillatory manner by the motive power source. Also, in one or more embodiments, the strapping tool includes a jaw lifting assembly, the jaw lifting assembly configured to raise the at least one sealing jaw member out of a strapping pass line of the strapping tool so that the piece of strapping is capable of being inserted into the strapping tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Golden Bear LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Robert Sikora, Charles Russell Patzer, Pavlo Vsevirovich Barlasov
  • Patent number: 11123746
    Abstract: Provided are a shredder assuring greater freedom in designing a feedstock supplier that supplies sheets, and a sheet manufacturing apparatus. The shredder has a feedstock supplier having a supply opening through which a sheet is supplied; and a shredding device configured to shred the sheet supplied from the feedstock supplier. The shredding device includes a rotary cutter that rotates on a first axis, and a circulating cutter that moves in an endless path and cuts the sheet in conjunction with the rotary cutter. The circulating cutter includes a conveyor configured to convey the sheet from the feedstock supplier to the rotary cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Yamada
  • Patent number: 11123787
    Abstract: A transport device for the transport of workpieces in a workpiece transport direction in a press, which has a carrier rail, which is mounted, via a lifting carriage and a rocker rotatably mounted on the lifting carriage, on a vertically running upright of the press. In order to enable a flexible workpiece transport, it is provided that, on the carrier rail, workpiece grippers are mounted on at least two transport carriages, which each have their own drive mechanism in order to move the transport carriages with the workpiece grippers along the carrier rail independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBH
    Inventor: Rolf Cisar
  • Patent number: 11123940
    Abstract: A servo press machine includes a display unit that displays a strip-shaped region for setting a motion of a slide and an operation unit that receives an input operation. A range extending from an upper end of the strip-shaped region to a lower end thereof corresponds to a movement range of the slide in a linear movement, and the strip-shaped region is formed of a plurality of slide operation regions that are consecutive in a direction in which the strip-shaped region extends. Each of the slide operation regions can set a speed of the slide in response to the input operation received by the operation unit, and a boundary between adjacent two of slide operation regions can move along the direction in which the strip-shaped region extends in response to the input operation received by the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: AIDA ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Harada
  • Patent number: 11122771
    Abstract: The invention provides a feed-mixing wagon (1) for animal feed, comprising a frame with a drive, a container (4) with a continuous wall (5) with a feed-unload opening, a feed auger which is arranged in the container for mixing and cutting animal feed and comprising an auger shaft (8) and an auger body (10) which is arranged around it in a spiral which has several blades, wherein the blades comprise at least one blade (11) of a first, long type and at least one blade (12) of a second, short type, and wherein at least one blade of the short type is situated closer to the bottom (6) than at least one blade of the long type. As a result of the various blades in the described configuration, the cutting and mixing behaviour can be adjusted in an optimum way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: LELY PATENT N.V.
    Inventors: Jan Lambertus Pastoor, Jan Martinus Van Kuilenburg, Karel Van Den Berg, Howard Sie
  • Patent number: 11125360
    Abstract: Tubes for use in ultrahigh pressure devices, and associated systems and methods of manufacture are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a metal tube includes an elongate bore having a circular transverse cross-sectional shape. The metal tube also includes an elongate wall extending around the bore and having an annular transverse cross-sectional shape with an inner surface closest to the bore, an outer surface furthest from the bore, and a wall thickness extending from the inner surface to the outer surface. An inner portion of the wall is under swage-autofrettage-induced overall compressive stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: OMAX Corporation
    Inventors: Chidambaram Raghavan, Darren Stang, Erik Unangst
  • Patent number: 11117173
    Abstract: An adjusting cylinder quick-action adjustment for a long, rapid stroke movement in an edging stand which includes an edger upright, adjustment system, balancing system and edging roll sets, comprises a piston which acts via edging roll chocks of at least one edging roll for adjustment against the rolling stock. The adjustment of the edging roll can be actuated on each side hydraulically by a fluid. The adjusting cylinder quick-action adjustment is mounted in the edger upright and exerts the force required for the edging process. The adjusting cylinder quick-action adjustment includes on each side of the edging upright at least one double cylinder which has two cylinders coupled to one another and is separately controllable and configured for rapid adjustment and for control adjustment of the edging roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Wendt, Martin Schmidt, Michael Zielenbach
  • Patent number: 11117180
    Abstract: A quick-change die assembly for a necker machine includes an outer die mounting, an outer die, an outer die quick-release coupling, an inner die mounting, an inner die assembly, and an inner die quick-release coupling. The outer die is coupled to the outer die mounting by the outer die quick-release coupling. The inner die assembly is coupled to the inner die mounting by the inner die quick-release coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Richard James Edward Mercer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Russell Bauer, Daniel A. Jansen
  • Patent number: 11110499
    Abstract: This circular rolling mill has a fixed main frame, a pair of cylindrical rollers, internal and external, to shape internal and external radial faces of an annular part and supported by a first secondary frame mounted on the main frame, as well as a pair of conical rollers, upper and lower, to shape opposite front faces of the part and supported by a second secondary frame mounted on the main frame. At least one rack and pinion assembly moves a roller in translation relative to one of the secondary frames. At least one electric geared motor drives the pinion of the rack and pinion assembly. The electric geared motor is fixedly mounted relative to one of the auxiliary frames. A fluid discharge mechanism is interposed in a kinematic chain for transmitting force between the rack and the roller moved by this rack. The fluid discharge mechanism has at least one variable volume chamber supplied with pressurized fluid and the volume of which varies as a function of the relative position of the roller and of the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: FORGE PAT GMBH
    Inventor: Peter Bierhalter
  • Patent number: 11110498
    Abstract: An adjustment device for adjusting a roll in a roll support (13) of a roll stand includes a cylinder housing (2) that can be secured to a roll support (13), and a piston (1) guided to move translationally in and across the roll support. The position of the piston (1) can be determined via a travel measurement device (9) connected to a coupling rod (6) secured directly to the piston (1). The piston (1) has a guide element (3) extending from the piston head (4) into a bore in the roll rack and in the direction toward the travel measurement device (9). The coupling rod (6) is secured to the guide element (3). To reduce the sensitivity of the adjustment device to a tipping, the guide element (3) is guided in a guide opening (14) of the cylinder housing (2). A sliding guide (7) is provided for the coupling rod (6), which can be arranged on an end of a borehole (15) in the roll rack facing the travel measurement device (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventors: Stefan Buslehner, Gernot Dirisamer, Ansgar Radek, Franz Schallauer
  • Patent number: 11110506
    Abstract: A controllable force cushion device that can be programmed to provide a variable and/or pulsating force that can be used in any application where force control is desirable. The frequency of the pulsation can be adjusted to suit different applications and/or circumstances (e.g., forming of sheet metals in die applications, etc.). The cushion can comprise one or more manifolds containing hydraulic cylinders that can be compressed during operation pushing fluid through a proportional relief valve that can be controlled by a motion control device, thereby creating a desired force. Material (e.g., sheet metal, etc.) flow can be controlled by using a gap control method. In use, the variable pulsating, gap control, auto-learning press cushion device of the present invention can optionally be mounted to the underside of a press bolster and can be used in conjunction with a stamping press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Barnes Group Inc.
    Inventors: Ethan McLaughlin, Richard Miller, Steven Reilly, Michael Culbertson, Russ Sasak
  • Patent number: 11110540
    Abstract: An extruder for a metal material includes a cylinder having a receiving space in which a solid metal material is provided, a nozzle extending from a lower end of the cylinder, an upper coil provided on an outer surface of the cylinder and melting the solid metal material to form a liquid metal material, and a first lower coil provided on an outer surface of the nozzle to control an extruded shape of the liquid metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daelim Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Suk Yang, hong hyun Shin, Bonjin Koo, In-Kyu You, sunghoon Hong
  • Patent number: 11102934
    Abstract: Processing of baled material includes a bale opening stage, a separation stage, and a decortication stage. The bale opener features a conveyor moving incoming bales toward a toothed extractor with an array of teeth driven on a revolutionary path moving upwardly past the adjacent end of the conveyor to rake through the bale and extract material therefrom. The conveyor tilts upward reduce a working angle between the conveyor and the toothed extractor to urge the shrinking bale toward the moving teeth. A separation stage features multiple sets of vertically stacked, counter-rotating rollers with different characteristics from one set to the next. A decorticator has an external container, an internal drum rotatably supported therein, and an array of teeth on the drum. Driven rotation of the internal drum spins the fibrous stalks around the internal drum and impacts the fibrous stalks against surrounding interior wall surfaces of the external container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventor: Shan Jin