Patents Examined by Frederick R. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5054176
    Abstract: A machine tool has chuck means defining a geometric axis for holding a workpiece and turret means rotatable about an axis of rotation. The turret means includes at least one end surface, a peripheral surface and first fastening means distributed along a circle within a plane extending normally to the axis of the rotation and being adapted to fasten a tool by means of its fastening surface. At least one tool chucking attachment has a fastening surface to be fastened by the first fastening means instead of a tool head. The tool chucking attachment includes at least one second fastening means having fast-locking means for receiving the fastening surface of a tool head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Inventor: Franz Wachter
  • Patent number: 5054265
    Abstract: A packaging container is closed by using a double seam 152 to secure over the container body 70 a cover 74 of smaller diameter than is usual, creating a radial space 104 around the cover chuck wall 122 into which the body sidewall 72 is deformed to form a neck 76. The cover is initially placed on the body to form a sealable interface 142 therebetween, this interface being preserved throughout the seaming process. The body and/or the cover may be of plastics or metal or a laminated material. In an aseptic packaging process, a primary seal is created at the interface 142 under sterile conditions, seaming subsequently being carried out under non-sterile conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: CMB Foodcan plc
    Inventors: John A. Perigo, Geoffrey Tucker
  • Patent number: 5054340
    Abstract: An apparatus which moves a tool back and forth in synchronism with rotation of a workpiece with respect to the workpiece to machine the workpiece into a non-circular shape. The tool is attached to a tool mount placed on a tool mount table which is connected to be moved in a direction perpendicular to the axis of a spindle by a motor. The tool is connected to be moved in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the spindle with respect to the tool mount by a high speed actuator. Profile generating movement of the tool is thus provided by a combination of movement provided by the motor and movement provided by the high speed actuator. The high speed actuator is controlled in accordance with high frequency components included in profile data while the motor is driven in accordance with low frequency components included in the profile data. As a result, the responsiveness in profile generating movement of the tool is improved, and high speed machining of a non-circular workpiece is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sugita, Norio Sakakibara, Nobumitsu Hori, Yoichi Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 5054343
    Abstract: A turret lathe table having tool holders arranged on at least three concentric reference circles around the center of the table. The tool holders consist of first tool holders for drill tools and inner turning tools and second tool holders for outer turning tools. The first tool holders are arranged exclusively on the innermost and at least one intermediate reference circle, while the second tool holders are arranged only on the outermost reference circle. The spacing between the tool holders is such that a collision-free diameter remains between adjacent tool holders, the collision-free diameter being defined as a diameter equivalent to a workpiece of maximum dimensions capable of being machined by a respective tool in a respective tool holder without interference from tools in adjacent tool holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Boehringer Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Gloser, Siegfried Kuhn, Robert Rader, Friedhelm Setzer
  • Patent number: 5054967
    Abstract: A throw away cutting tool comprising a holder formed with a wedge groove and a throw away insert having a cutting edge at one end thereof and a wedge portion at the other end, the wedge portion being adapted to be clamped in the wedge groove by elasticity of the material of the holder. The holder is at least partly made of cemented carbide for higher rigidity and cutting stability. Also, the radius of curvature at the deep end of the wedge groove is optimized for crack resistance. Further, the angle of the V-ridge on the holder is interrelated to the angle of the V-groove in the insert for more holding stability and crack resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Noguchi, Nobuhiro Takahashi, Masafumi Hideshima, Tsuyoshi Asai
  • Patent number: 5052992
    Abstract: A cut and score die apparatus is provided for progressively converting a sheet of material into blanks. The apparatus includes a punching section for punching scrap material from the sheet of material to define an array of interconnected blanks arranged in a grid of rows and columns on the sheet of material. A scoring section is provided for simultaneously scoring a first predetermined pattern on a trailing portion of a first row of blanks and a second predetermined pattern on the leading portion of a second, succeeding row of blanks on the sheet of material. A blanking section is also provided for piercing the sheet of material in a predetermined pattern to cut blanks from the sheet of material without producing any additional scrap material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Peerless Machine & Tool Corporation
    Inventor: L. Edward Hyder
  • Patent number: 5052993
    Abstract: In the production of (cigarette) packs of the hinge-lid type, supplying a sufficient amount of material to the packaging machine presents a particular problem. In an advantageous solution, blanks (20) for producing the packs are severed from a continuous web of material (24) with punchings for delimiting the blanks (20) and further processed within the packaging machine. For the efficient production of (individual) blanks from the continuous web of material (24), the latter is fed to a blank station (26), in which preferably two respective blanks (20a, 20a) lying next to one another are severed by shearing from the following web of material (24) and from one another by means of severing rams (29). The two blanks (20a, 20b) so formed and individually separated are then fed to a folding turret (40), specifically appropriately with an intermediate conveyor in the form of a rotating blank turret (43) being interposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)
    Inventor: Heinz Focke
  • Patent number: 5052455
    Abstract: Apparatus for positioning a block which may be used as a charger for a lathe. The apparatus includes opposed primary chucks, each taking the form of a tapered receptacle for receiving the end of a block. The primary chucks are each displaceable in x and y directions extending laterally of a rotation axis, to position a block in an optimum position for peeling veneer therefrom. A secondary chuck is associated with each primary chuck which extensible to grip a block independently of the primary chuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Inventor: Howard C. Mason
  • Patent number: 5052995
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for the stocking (storage) of (pack) blanks and for feeding these to a folding unit of a packaging machine. The supply of packaging material to a packaging machine is especially difficult in the processing of blanks made of cardboard. Supply becomes easier if blanks joined together via residual connections are conveyed as a web of material in the packaging machine. Especially favorable storage of blanks (11) connected to one another is possible if the web of material (19) so formed is arranged in a zigzag-shaped manner as a result of oppositely directed folding and the blanks are stacked in this way. The stacks (15) formed can be kept in stock in a space-saving way and fed to an extraction station, in which the web of material (19) is drawn off from the stacks (15) and restored to the extended state. Appropriately, a plurality of stacks (15) is connected to one another, specifically via vertical web portions (23) from one stack to another, to form a continuous web of material (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)
    Inventors: Heinz Focke, Kurt Liedtke
  • Patent number: 5050352
    Abstract: An abrasive honing stick is bonded within a channel-shaped shell which is made of sheet metal and which is secured detachably to a stone holder by a pair of retaining studs. Each stud extends through a hole in the shell, is telescoped into an alined hole in the holder and is clamped by a set screw which, when tightened, cams against the stud to draw the shell inwardly against the holder. The retention studs extend radially from the shell to reduce the circumferential dimension of the overall stone assembly and thereby enable a comparatively large number of assemblies to be placed in a hone body of a given diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Barnes Drill Co.
    Inventors: Mark R. Estabrook, Charles R. Van Sickle
  • Patent number: 5049121
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing continuous form stationery by folding a strip of paper along transverse lines of weakening formed therealong and for cutting the folded continuous form stationery along selected folded transverse lines of weakening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: B. Bunch Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Earnest B. Bunch, III
  • Patent number: 5049118
    Abstract: A document pressing envelope is constructed by providing first and second substantially rectangular sheets of transparent material and a strip of opaque material, each of the sheets having corresponding first, second, third and fourth edges. A strip of first adhesive material is disposed on a first major surface of the first sheet, adjacent to the first edge thereof. The strip of opaque material is placed on the first major surface of the first sheet, to substantially cover the strip of first adhesive material. Strips of second adhesive material are disposed on a first major surface of the second sheet, adjacent to the first, second and third edges thereof. The respective first major surfaces of the first and second sheets are placed in facing contact, so that the respective second and third edges of the sheets are substantially in alignment to define respective closed ends of the envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Check Savers, Inc.
    Inventor: Rex P. McNabb
  • Patent number: 5049019
    Abstract: A method of making a container by laminating a metal substrate layer and a polymeric material layer together by bonding over the whole of at least one side of the metal substrate layer thereby forming a laminate container component, providing another container component, forming one of the container components into a tubular container body component having an opening set off by a peripheral edge portion, forming the other of the container components into a container closure component having a peripheral edge portion, assembling the container body component and the container closure component with the polymeric material layer in sandwiched relationship between the peripheral edge portions and in the complete absence of adding any additional sealing material between the peripheral edge portions other than the polymeric material layer of the first step and mechanically deforming the peripheral edge portions into a mechanical joint with sufficient force to compress the polymeric material layer and form an an air/
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: CMB Foodcan plc
    Inventors: Josef T. Franek, Paul Porucznik, Peter H. Serby, Christopher J. N. Tod
  • Patent number: 5049122
    Abstract: An apparatus for stripping the scrap portion from a die cut blank includes a stripper pin carrier providing a pattern of stripper pins supported in a resilient compressible material layer in which the stripper pins are demountably embedded. The stripper pins may be inserted into the reslient layer to provide a pattern or patterns which will accommodate virtually any size, shape and location of scrap portions to be stripped from a blank. The stripper pins can be removed and reinserted in a different pattern to accommodate a different run of blanks of corrugated paperboard or the like. Programmable robotic control may be used for pin placement and removal. The stripper pin pattern, location and rotation are synchronized with operation of the upstream cutting die such that the die cut blanks move continuously under the stripper roll for automatic scrap stripping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Marguip, Inc.
    Inventor: Carl R. Marschke
  • Patent number: 5048380
    Abstract: An adjustable wrench has a stationary jaw formed at an end of a handle. A slidable jaw is mounted for linear reciprocal movement toward and away from the stationary jaw by a worm gear in mesh with a gear rack on the slidable jaw. An axially movable shaft extends through the worm gear. The worm gear is rotatably mounted on the shaft, and restrained against axial movement relative thereto. An inner end of the shaft is slidably received in a recess in the handle, and a coil spring in the recess outwardly biases the shaft. A lever has a first end pivotally mounted to an outer end of the shaft and an intermediate portion pivotally secured to the handle. The slidable jaw may be moved by rotation of the worm gear to a loosely adjusted position and may be firmly tightened into engagmeent with the head of a fastener by manipulation of the pivotal lever. The wrench allows extremely quick engagement and release with the head portions of various fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Inventor: Mark A. Caldwell
  • Patent number: 5048376
    Abstract: Tool (20,40), a ring device (63,64) and a mounting means (8), the chain being adapted to mounting on vehicle wheel (1;11) having an elastic tire (3;13).The mounting means comprises portions (8) adapted to engagement with coacting mounting means (30) of the tool for attachment of attachment elements (5;15) of the chain on flange portions (7) of the rim (2;12) having a U-shaped cross section, or on ring devices (63,64) being connected with similar flange portions (17).The tool (20) is adapted to rest against a radially inwardly facing surface of the rim, to be connected to the chain and to be swung towards the axis of the wheel and about the place of rest for tensioning of the chain and attachment of the attachment elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Inventor: Odd Faanes
  • Patent number: 5049120
    Abstract: In a adapted folder for folding sheet products there is provided a combination having two knife cylinders with shear action knives of which one has pins adjacent to its knives for holding cut off trimmings of product, and a suction duct whose opening extends around part of the periphery of the cylinder with the pins. A high degree of operational reliability may be achieved without weakening the structure of the pin cylinder if compressed air nozzles are arranged in a row alternating with the pins and supplied with compressed air by timing means so that air flows from the nozzles when they register with the suction duct opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Albert-Frankenthal AG
    Inventor: Sebastian Prum
  • Patent number: 5048383
    Abstract: The device comprises essentially a body or shaped piece of cylindrical form and of a circular or polygonal cross section, comprising tubular cavities of different diameters for receiving the bars to be machined of different diameters. The tubular cavities can comprise longitudinal distribution channels for feeding oil under pressure to the bar to be machined. The cylindrical body further comprises indexing grooves at its external periphery, means of distribution of oil at the rear part of the device, an oil collector located at the front part of the device and cavities permitting the return of the oil to a hydraulic group. Reinforcing ribs are provided between the tubular cavities and between the latter and a mantle of the cylindrical body so that the latter has a great moment of inertia which ensures a good stability of the device. The tubular cavities may comprise tubes aligned along the longitudinal axis of the cavities and rotating freely with play in these tubular cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Sameca SA
    Inventors: Markus Geiser, Claude Vandevoir
  • Patent number: 5048384
    Abstract: A device for centering a feedback tachometer on an output motor shaft. The device includes a housing disposed on the motor shaft. The housing includes a base and flange in which is received a mandrel shaft. The central axis of the mandrel shaft may be aligned with the central axis of the motor shaft by set screws provided in the flange and are individually adjustable against the mandrel shaft to alter the position thereof within the flange. An adapter plate may be provided for attaching the base to the motor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Carlen Controls, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric T. Carlen
  • Patent number: 5048235
    Abstract: This invention is a new high wheel speed grinding process that uses only one very hard grade resin bonded grinding wheel of the desired abrasive grit size for the surface finish required, where simultaneously with the grinding of a workpiece the wheel face is conditioned and trued by a truing element heated to a temperature between 250.degree. F. and 1200.degree. F. at the truing rates required to provide grinding at quantitatively predictable desired and constant unit volume energy and metal removal rate values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Inventor: Roderick L. Smith