Patents Examined by C. Martin
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Patent number: 5239751Abstract: A method of producing a cylindrical nozzle incorporated in a fuel injection valve for an internal combustion engine including the steps of: setting a cylindrical nozzle blank on a second die so that a lower bottom face of the cylindrical nozzle blank rests on the second die; pressing a punch into the cylindrical nozzle blank while being guided along the inner wall face of the cylindrical nozzle blank; pressing the punch onto a bottom of the cylindrical nozzle blank to induce plastic flow, thereby transfer forming a seat portion at a center on the upper bottom face of the cylindrical nozzle blank; removing a projection formed on the lower bottom face of the cylindrical nozzle blank due to the plastic flow; boring a nozzle injection hole at the center of the transfer formed seat portion of the projection removed cylindrical nozzle blank; and hardening the bored cylindrical nozzle blank.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1991Date of Patent: August 31, 1993Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisanobu Kanamaru, Mizuho Yokoyama, Atsushi Koshizaka, Kenichi Gunji
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Patent number: 5233758Abstract: A window receiving assembly is carried by a frame of a vehicle door. A metallic channel has a mounting surface for mounting to the frame and a pair of side walls projecting from the mounting surface and defines a window receiving channel with an opening. The inboard side wall of the metallic channel has an edge rolled into the window receiving channel defining a lip and the outboard side wall consists of an upper portion in proximity to the mounting surface and a lower portion where the lower portion is rolled into the window receiving channel. A molding is extruded to the lower portion of the channel forming a sealing surface for engaging an exterior surface of the window. The sealing surface of the molding and the upper portion of the outboard side of the channel define a void where the window receiving channel widens compared to the opening.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 1992Date of Patent: August 10, 1993Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: John C. Bielis, Kenneth D. Schell, Cleatis W. Yarger
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Patent number: 5230618Abstract: The disclosure relates to an insulated furnace roller and a method of manufacture thereof, in which the roller is provided with an insulating refractory castable between the spaced apart tires of the roller and between the outermost tires and the furnace walls, the castable being secured to an arbor of the roller by metal anchors having outer ends that terminate inwardly of the outer surface of the castable, and wherein between the tires and the castable spacer discs are provided and between openings formed by the discs and tires insulation is inserted, the arbor being also wrapped with insulation before the castable is formed on the arbor.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1992Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Assignee: Bricmanage, Inc.Inventors: Francis H. Bricmont, Hugh B. Carr
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Patent number: 5230133Abstract: A plurality of pairs of identifying tags are provided. Each pair is made up of two identical tags, with each tag of each pair having a main, elongated, body-portion, preferably made of plastic, such as polyvinylchloride, in which is embedded a thin, elongated strip of flexible, pliable steel wire. In the preferred embodiment, the main, elongated body-portion is formed along a portion of its length with toothed projections which serve in aiding to retain the tag in a hole, when the respective tag is to be used for identifying a hole associated with a mating screw. The embedded steel wire helps to retain the shape of the tag when the tag is bent or wrapped about a workpiece or component being identified. In one embodiment of the invention, the ends of the steel wire project outwardly beyond the ends of the plastic main body-portion, so that the ends of the wire may be twisted together to removably hold tag on the workpiece or component being identified, after the tag has been bent thereabout.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 1992Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Inventor: Pasquale Esposito
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Patent number: 5226211Abstract: A combination of a workpiece support means and a workstation allow a workpiece to be positioned for machining. The support includes a precision way and a transfer fixture slidable along the way. The transfer fixture has precision ground datum markers for locating a workpiece in the vertical sense, and supports means providing an upright surface against which the workpiece can be urged, thus establishing for the workpiece a limit position in one horizontal direction. Locator devices are provided to clamp the workpiece into a predetermined position in the horizontal direction at right angles to the direction established by the upright surface, and a transfer bar or the like moves the transfer fixture. At the workstation there is provided a clamping device for urging the workpiece downwardly against the datum markers, a further clamping device for urging the workpiece firmly against the upright surface, and a third clamping device for clamping the transfer fixture against the precision way.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1992Date of Patent: July 13, 1993Assignee: Tri-Way Machine Ltd.Inventor: Joel W. Jones
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Patent number: 5197176Abstract: A tool for use in guiding a seat belt through or around one or more child safety restraints to secure the restraints to the seat of a vehicle, the tool comprising an elongated shank having a handle at one end of the shank to be gripped by a user, and clasping means at the opposite end of the shank for engaging the male half of the seat belt locking assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1991Date of Patent: March 30, 1993Inventor: David M. Reese
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Patent number: 5189772Abstract: An upholstering device wherein a single piece upholstering device may be used to cover a surface, having both straight and curved perimeters, with fabric. The upholstering device has elevating sections and joining sections. The upholstering device forms its own piping when fabric is secured to perimeter of surface to be covered.Also, method of covering a surface with a single piece upholstering device. The fabric is secured to the surface with fasteners passing through the fabric and the joining section of the upholstering device. By securing the fabric to the surface, the elevating sections are drawn together, forming piping.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1991Date of Patent: March 2, 1993Assignee: Key Plastics Sales, Inc.Inventor: John W. Appelt
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Patent number: 5182840Abstract: An epoxy floor roller tool formed by spirally winding a continuous strip of carding cloth having wires protruding outwardly therefrom around a roller core tube. The carding cloth wires are made of a cadmium plated steel which allows the wires to remain rigid even though quite thin and densely packed, whereby when the roller tool is rolled against a wet epoxy material spread over a floor surface, the wires will break even very small, closely spaced air bubbles in the epoxy, allowing the air to be released so that the voids caused by the air bubbles will flow closed without cratering before the epoxy hardens.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1991Date of Patent: February 2, 1993Assignee: The Wooster Brush CompanyInventors: William A. Jacobs, William P. Camp, Jr.
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Patent number: 5138760Abstract: This invention is a pole splicing joint construction and method of making the same and consists in initially preparing the upper end portion of the lower pole section to produce a splicing section having an abutment shoulder for the lower end of the upper section. This abutment shoulder is formed at the bottom of the splicing section of the lower pole section which has an outer abutment ring surface lying in a plane oriented substantially normal to the axis of the lower tube section.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1991Date of Patent: August 18, 1992Assignee: Lexington Standard CorporationInventor: Gary P. King