Patents Examined by Adam J Eiseman
  • Coiled material passing device and coiled material passing method
    Patent number: 11103908
    Abstract: A coiled material passing device is usable to pass a coiled material played out by an uncoiler to a leveler feeder configured to correct any winding curl of the coiled material. The coiled material passing device includes a clamper configured to clamp a starting end of the coiled material played out from the uncoiler, a moving body configured to support the clamper, the moving body being movable between the uncoiler and the leveler feeder, and a first driver configured to move the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: KOMATSU INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidekazu Tokunaga
  • Conduit offset bender
    Patent number: 11103910
    Abstract: A conduit offset bender preferably includes an upper die, a lower die, a first guide plate, a second guide plate, a force transfer plate, two compression springs and an actuation device. The upper die includes an upper die base, a first pair of lugs, a second pair of lugs, a first boss flange and a second boss flange. The lower die includes a lower die base, two first lower boss flanges and two second lower boss flanges. Larger and smaller offset grooves are formed in the upper and lower dies. The two compression springs are retained in spring counterbores formed in the upper and lower boss flanges. A bottom of the first and second guide plates are attached to the lower die base. The actuation device includes a first handle plate, a second handle plate, a pressure roller, a cam roller, a pivot pin and a retention pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TEMCO INDUSTRIAL, LLC
    Inventors: Josh Leber, Justin Harvey
  • Wire tying tool
    Patent number: 11103915
    Abstract: An apparatus for twist tying wire around intersecting rebar bars. The apparatus is configured to receive and discharge precut wire segments, form and wrap the wire around the rebar, and twist the wire securely around the rebar. The user merely positions the tool at the rebar intersection, release a wire segment into the work end of the tool, and with a single fluid motion move a slide mechanism up to bend the wire segment around the rebar and twist it about itself to tie the rebar together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventor: Mark L. Bastoni
  • Intelligent baling
    Patent number: 11102935
    Abstract: An agricultural baler includes a baling chamber and a pre-compression chamber. The pre-compression chamber is configured to gather crop material and to periodically form a slice of the crop material and introduce the slice into the baling chamber. The baling chamber includes a plunger provided for moving in the baling chamber thereby compressing slices of crop material into a bale. The agricultural baler further includes multiple sensors and a controller configured for controlling operation of the agricultural baler based on inputs of the multiple sensors. A first subset of the multiple sensors is directly related to bale parameters, and a second subset of the multiple sensors is indirectly related to the bale parameters. The controller is configured to control the operation of the agricultural baler and calibrate the sensors of the second subset based on outputs of sensors of the first subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Dries Liefooghe, Bram Rosseel, Jeroen Devroe, Brecht Vermeulen, Thomas Debbaut
  • Panel hemming device and a method of hemming using the same
    Patent number: 11097328
    Abstract: A panel hemming device includes: a fixing die on which a panel is placed and having a supporting surface stepped upward to be parallel with an end of the panel; a hemming shaft having a first side coupled to a tool and having a second side to which a hemming roller, which contacts a top of the supporting surface when fixed to the fixing die, is coupled; a rotary shaft having a first side coupled to the first side of the hemming shaft to receive torque and having a second side, which contacts a bottom of the fixing die when fixed to the fixing die; and a case supporting an outer surface of the hemming shaft disposed through the case and coupled to a first end of the rotary shaft such that the rotary shaft can rotate upward or downward with respect to the first end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Woo Jin Chung, Myeon Gi Hur
  • Cheese grater
    Patent number: 11096525
    Abstract: A grating device is for grating a substantially solid product capable of being grated. A first housing of the grating device is positioned, shaped and sized for encasing the product to be grated. A second housing is operatively connectable to the first housing, the second housing having a loading section configured for receiving the product to be grated. A grating drum is rotatably mountable about the second housing, and positioned, shaped and sized for grating the product from the loading section of the second housing via rotation of the grating drum against the product. A biasing assembly is operatively cooperable with the first housing for biasing the product to be grated inside the loading section of the second housing towards and against the grating drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: LES PROMOTIONS ATLANTIQUES INC.
    Inventor: Stephane Beliveau
  • Cutting module and method for cutting a strand into individual pieces
    Patent number: 11097280
    Abstract: A cutting module for cutting a strand into individual pieces, the cutting module comprising a rotatable cutter wheel and a rotatable cot wheel, the cutter wheel being rotatable and having cutting blades, the cot wheel having a cylindrical outer surface and being rotatable parallel at a distance from the cutter wheel, such that cutting edges of the cutting blades contact the outer surface of the cot wheel successively in use, so that a strand which is fed between the cutter wheel and the cot wheel is cut into individual pieces, each of the cutting blades being designed such that a cutting force is directed through the cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Willy Joseph Dijsselbloem, Stefan Gielen, Jose Sales-Fernandez
  • Crusher device comprising an overload safety device
    Patent number: 11097284
    Abstract: A crusher device such as a cone or gyratory crusher is disclosed. The crusher device includes a shaft defining a first direction parallel to its length. The shaft includes an upper shaft end, a crusher head, and an overload safety device that couples the crusher head to the upper shaft end. The overload safety device includes a biasing device configured to bias the crusher head away from the upper shaft end in the first direction. The overload safety device is configured to permit displacement of the crusher head along the first direction relative to the shaft in response to a force acting on the crusher head in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Metso Minerals Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrzej Niklewski, Paulo Barscevicius
  • Drawing machine for drawing tubes
    Patent number: 11097325
    Abstract: A drawing machine (1) for drawing a tube (2), defining a longitudinal axis (Y), comprising a first die (3) for carrying out the drawing of the tube by means of the use of a mandrel (4); a device for varying the inclination (5) of the tube inlet into said first die (3); a second die (6) for carrying out a skin pass operation on the tube, arranged downstream of said first die (3); an in-line system for detecting the eccentricity of the tube; a data processing system (7) for processing signals originating from said detection system and sending input data to said device for varying the inclination (5) of the tube to vary the inclination of the tube so as to correct the eccentricity of the tube in-line; wherein said in-line system for detecting the eccentricity of the tube comprises a first detection head comprising at least three first transducers (8) arranged downstream of said first die (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.p.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Angelilli, Luca Crespan
  • Method for producing open-seam pipes from sheet metal panels
    Patent number: 11097326
    Abstract: A method for producing open-seam pipes from sheet metal panels, in particular thick sheet metal panels. A sheet metal panel, having bending edges on the long sides thereof, is fed to a pipe forming press where the sheet metal panel is formed, lying on a lower tool having of two supporting elements which are horizontally spaced apart from each other, by an upper tool, which can be raised and lowered, by application of a bending force, progressively into an open-seam pipe having bending edges on opposite long sides with a gap for later longitudinal seam welding. In order that the sheet metal panel can be easily, progressively formed or shaped from the start, at least the bending sections immediately adjacent on the bending edges of the sheet metal panel are each formed from the outside to the inside, deviating from a numerically ascending bending step sequence in a pilgering process sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Thome, Manfred Kolbe, Uwe Feldmann, Jochen Vochsen
  • Process shaft tooling assembly
    Patent number: 11097333
    Abstract: A forming station for a necker machine including a frame assembly, an inboard turret assembly, an outboard turret assembly and a forming station quick-change assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Richard James Edward Mercer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Russell Bauer, Daniel A. Jansen
  • Female die for a joining tool
    Patent number: 11090707
    Abstract: A female die for a joining tool having an anvil and a shoulder which coaxially surrounds the anvil and which is configured on a main body of the anvil or by an end of a bush, and a sleeve which surrounds the main body or the bush, respectively, and which across the circumference thereof has radial slots penetrating the wall of said sleeve, in each case one sliding piece being guided in said slots so as to be movable in the radial direction (R), said sliding piece in the axial direction (A) being supported at least on the shoulder, is distinguished in that the wall of the sleeve on that end that surrounds the shoulder in the region between the slots has regions which widen in a radially inward manner and which extend in each case between two neighboring sliding pieces and in the radial direction (R) at least in part protrude beyond the shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: ECKOLD GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Florian Unger
  • Milling bowl
    Patent number: 11090656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a milling bowl, in particular for vertical mills, and to the production of such a milling bowl. Milling bowls of this type have hitherto typically been produced from a cast material as a single piece. Due to the increasing size of said milling bowls, said milling bowls can generally only be transported to the destinations by means of special transport. Therefore, the invention creates a milling bowl consisting of assemblies, wherein a double-walled center part formed from two housing shells is provided between a head flange and a base flange. Said center part forms a cavity, which is filled with a curable casting compound such that a rotationally rigid milling bowl is present after the casting compound has been cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Loesche GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Klokow, Stefan Hamann, Heide Hammesfahr, Karl-Heinrich Zysk
  • Device and method for processing of feed material
    Patent number: 11090658
    Abstract: A device and a method for processing feed material that has a housing, a material supply channel and a material discharge. The housing is axially divided into a first processing zone in which a rotor rotating around an axis is situated, and a second processing zone which adjoins the first processing zone in the flow direction of the feed material. In order to perform different processing procedures in one device the feed material is subject to a process gas by arranging a hollow body in the housing, coaxially to the axis for the formation of the second processing zone, which outer circumference is radially situated opposite the inner circumference of the housing, and which features at least one port at the end that is facing the rotor. A process gas, which can be fed to the feed material through at least one port, is applied to the hollow body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: PALLMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hartmut Pallmann
  • Press form device and method for producing press-formed articles
    Patent number: 11084080
    Abstract: To reduce warping of vertical wall portions without causing buckling during pressing. Press-forming into a hat cross-sectional shape having one linear vertical wall portion and the other curved vertical wall portion and not having a flange portion is performed. A punch and a pad sandwiching a top sheet portion therebetween, bending blades, and stoppers are provided. The punch is supported by a first cushion component. 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 a set compression amount in the range of 2% or more and 6% or less of the heights of the vertical wall portions 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Miyake, Toyohisa Shinmiya, Daisuke Toyoda, Hiroyuki Takebe, Youichi Konkawa
  • Wheel rim straightening device
    Patent number: 11084079
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a wheel rim straightening device. The wheel rim straightening device includes a lifting platform; the lifting platform is symmetrically provided with a left horizontal sliding table and a right horizontal sliding table; the left horizontal sliding table and the right horizontal sliding table are each provided with a vertical sliding table; and the two vertical sliding tables are provided with an inner pressure head which extends outwardly and corresponds to an outer pressure head, and a first runout detecting gauge corresponding to a second runout detecting gauge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Huiying Liu, Junmeng Li
  • Hammer punch tool
    Patent number: 11084086
    Abstract: A hammer punch tool having a guide and a punch that is slidably coupled to the guide. The guide has a force transfer surface and a cavity accessible through an opening in the guide. The punch has a portion that is slidably received within the cavity of the guide through the opening in the guide. The guide slides relative to the punch between a reset position of the guide (or extended position of the punch), in which a portion of the punch engages the guide to retain at least a portion of the punch within the cavity, and a hammer position of the guide (or retracted position of the punch), in which the force transfer surface of the guide engages the punch. A method of forming material with the hammer punch tool by striking the punch with the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: EURO TOOL, INC.
    Inventor: Jay Nicholas Whaley
  • Radial press
    Patent number: 11084082
    Abstract: A radial press is provided having a main structure, a plurality of pressing jaws arranged around a pressing axis, and having a drive unit which acts on the pressing jaws. The drive unit is supported on the main structure and can move the pressing jaws radially in the direction of the pressing axis and away from the same, at least one fibrous structure is provided radially outside the pressing jaws, the fibrous structure enclosing the pressing jaws and extending in annularly closed form around the pressing axis in a plane which is substantially perpendicular to the pressing axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: UNIFLEX-HYDRAULIK GMBH
    Inventors: Vaclav Hejplik, Carsten Baumgartner, Lukas Zientek
  • Startup sequence for roller crusher
    Patent number: 11077446
    Abstract: System and method for controlling the startup sequence of a roller crusher is disclosed. The roller crusher includes two generally parallel rollers that are separated by a gap where the rollers rotate in an opposite direction. During startup, the gap between the rollers is greater than the gap during normal production and a feeding arrangement is run at a speed that is lower than a normal production feed rate. The rollers are rotated at a predetermined speed that is less than the speed during normal production. Other parameters of the system are set such that material is fed over the entire length of the rollers and the no crushing force is exerted during the startup. The method and system of the present disclosure reduces the amount of stress on the rolls, frame and hydraulic system of the roller crusher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Metso Outotec USA Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Knorr
  • Method for manufacturing ring-rolled product
    Patent number: 11077481
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a ring-rolled product forms the ring-rolled product from a ring material by using a mandrel roll and a main roll. The mandrel roll and the main roll are configured so as to contact inner and outer circumferential surfaces of the ring material, respectively, and are configured so as to press the ring material in a radial direction thereof in a state in which the ring material is rotated in a circumferential direction thereof. The method includes a step of rolling the ring material that includes an operation of induction-heating the main roll by at least one induction heating element and rolling the ring material between the mandrel roll and the main roll, which is induction-heated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Murai, Takanori Matsui, Yuji Ishiwari, Tomoyoshi Kiwake