Patents Examined by Kenneth E. Peterson
  • Patent number: 11123884
    Abstract: A folding knife includes a blade mounted for pivotal movement between an open position and a closed position. The knife includes a locking assembly having a cam mounted for pivotal movement between a raised position, in which the locking assembly is in an unlocked configuration allowing pivotal movement of the blade, and a lowered position, in which the locking assembly is in a locked configuration preventing pivotal movement of the blade. The knife includes a projection on the blade moveable between a collapsed position, allowing pivotal movement of the blade, and a raised position, preventing pivotal movement of the blade. The knife includes a bolt locking assembly for locking and unlocking the blade, and a cap over the bolt locking assembly preventing the bolt locking assembly from unlocking the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Inventors: Mark J Mollick, Paul J. Mollick
  • Patent number: 11123889
    Abstract: Shaving systems are disclosed that include (a) a handle having a distal end and a proximal end; and (b) a shaving assembly, disposed at the distal end of the handle, the shaving assembly including a blade unit comprising a plurality of blades disposed in a housing, the housing having a front cutting side and an opposite rear side and a plurality of measurement elements on a trailing edge of the rear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SL IP COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: Craig A. Provost, William E. Tucker, John W. Griffin
  • Patent number: 11124326
    Abstract: Process for cutting a water-soluble web in a cross-machine direction. Each cutting cycle contains at least two speeds. A first speed matches that of the speed of the water-soluble web and is also the speed at the point of cutting, and a second speed is faster than the speed of the water-soluble web in the machine direction and is the speed at a point in-between two cutting actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Luca Vitiello, Florence Catherine Courchay, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers, Miguel Brandt Sanz, Regine Labeque
  • Patent number: 11123893
    Abstract: A vacuum assist anvil cutting die set includes a cutting cylinder and an anvil cylinder. The cutting cylinder has an outer diameter surface with a cutting blade and a blade cavity adjacent to the cutting blade. The cutting cylinder has a vacuum port in communication with the blade cavity and is adapted and configured to be connected to a vacuum source to apply a vacuum to the blade cavity via the vacuum port. The anvil cylinder has an outer diameter surface with an anvil pin projecting from the outer diameter surface of the anvil cylinder. The anvil pin having a diameter and shape that closely approximates the blade cavity such that when a level of vacuum is applied to the cutting cylinder and the anvil cylinder is in rotational and linear register with the cutting cylinder, the anvil pin is insertable into the corresponding blade cavity in a manner to increase the level of vacuum of the blade cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: ROTO-DIE COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Charles E. Schomber, Darrel D. Buchholz
  • Patent number: 11117280
    Abstract: Disclosed here are shaving razor systems and methods including razor cartridges with a unitary frame having a length and width, a topside and an underside, wherein the unitary frame includes angled joints or bends connecting at least three guards running lengthwise on the unitary frame, the guards separated by at least three gaps in the frame, and at least three blades, affixed to the underside of the guards of the unitary frame, wherein the at least three blades include edges, and wherein the blade edges extend into the gaps in the frame when affixed to the underside of the guards of the unitary frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Personal Care Marketing & Research, Inc.
    Inventor: Shlomo Zucker
  • Patent number: 11117284
    Abstract: Disclosed is a line catcher-type waterjet cutting apparatus in which a workpiece is subjected to the waterjet processing in a state of being clamped by a workpiece edge clamping device and a separate driving unit for the workpiece edge clamping device is provided, and in which the workpiece is clamped by the workpiece edge clamping device during the waterjet processing, while the workpiece is easily decoupled from the workpiece edge clamping device after the waterjet processing is completed, so that the waterjet processing is carried out while reciprocally conveying the workpiece in an X-direction, thereby increasing the processing accuracy of the waterjet processing and easily automating the waterjet processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOPS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Hoon Choi, Tae Il Cho, Min Soo Song, Hyun Jung Kwon, Jang Sung Kim, Dong Jun Park, Mohamed Ahmed Hashish
  • Patent number: 11117775
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cutting apparatus for a roll zebra. The cutting apparatus includes: a main body portion; a mounting portion provided at one side of the main body portion to wind or unwind a fabric; a cutting portion provided at one side of the main body portion to cut the fabric with a required length; and a discharge portion provided at one side of the main body portion to convey the fabric cut by the cutting portion to the outside. The cutting portion includes a longitudinal cutting portion cutting the fabric in a longitudinal direction, and a transverse cutting portion cutting the fabric in a transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: BMO INC.
    Inventor: Kyu Su Choi
  • Patent number: 11112337
    Abstract: A sample sectioning device including a cutting mechanism that is operable to cut sections from a sample, a sample holder operable to move relative to the cutting mechanism, the sample holder having a first side and a second side, the first side faces the cutting mechanism and is dimensioned to receive a sample, a light source coupled to the sample holder, wherein the light source is operable to emit a light from the first side of the sample holder and through a sample positioned on the first side, and a generator operable to generate an electrical energy for providing power to the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SAKURA FINETEK U.S.A., INC.
    Inventors: Xuan S. Bui, Alyicia Marie Rios, Erico Von Bueren
  • Patent number: 11110622
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a chopped fiber bundle includes a cutter roll provided with one or more disk blades on a circumference of a roll core having a center axis coinciding with a rotation axis of the roll core and a nip roll provided in parallel with the rotation axis of the roll core, to feed a reinforcing fiber yarn to be continuously cut between the nip roll and the cutter roll, further including a rotary drive mechanism that rotates the cutter roll and at least one of: a reciprocating drive mechanism that reciprocates the cutter roll along the rotation axis of the roll core; and a traverse guide that traverses the reinforcing fiber yarn along the rotation axis of the roll core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasumoto Noguchi, Tamotsu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11103943
    Abstract: A blade extension for a reciprocating saw comprises a movable member and a stationary member. The movable member has a proximal end, a distal end and a body extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The proximal end comprises a blade end shaped to be received in a blade holder of the reciprocating saw. The distal end is configured to be coupled to a reciprocating saw blade. The stationary member extends along at least a portion of the movable member and supports the movable member for movement relative to the stationary member. The stationary member has a proximal end configured to be coupled to the reciprocating saw and an opposite distal end. The distal end of the movable member is arranged to protrude distally beyond the distal end of the stationary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Inventor: Randy Giltner
  • Patent number: 11103941
    Abstract: An example shearing head includes a first member and a second member being rotatable about a pin. The first member has a shearing surface forming a substantially right angle with a first lateral surface of the first member. The second member has a shearing surface forming a substantially right angle with a second lateral surface of the second member. The second member includes a first distal surface and a second distal surface forming a substantially right angle. The first distal surface and the second distal surface are substantially perpendicular to the second lateral surface. The second member includes a third lateral surface opposing the second lateral surface and a retainer is attached to the second member. A first surface of the retainer contacts the first distal surface, a second surface of the retainer contacts the second distal surface, and the third lateral surface contacts a third surface of the retainer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventor: Marc D'Antuono
  • Patent number: 11104020
    Abstract: A razor handle and method of manufacture, the razor handle having a connection member for connecting a razor blade cartridge to the handle, a core member, a cap member attached to the core member and an overmolded member surrounding the core member and bounded by the cap member, where the overmolded member and cap member form portions of the exterior surface of the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Harry's, Inc.
    Inventors: Tevis Koll Martin, Scott Newlin, Brittania Boey
  • Patent number: 11104027
    Abstract: A push block for advancing a work piece over a table saw is disclosed. The push block includes a table-top; a handle mounted on the table-top; a first leg having a proximal end mounted on a first side of the table-top, where the first leg includes a first grip member arranged on distal end of the first leg; a second leg having a proximal end movably mounted underneath the table-top, the second leg is spaced apart from the first leg to form a cut tunnel therebetween, where the second leg includes a second grip member arranged on a distal end of the second leg; a maneuvering mechanism, arranged on the table-top, for moving the second leg to adjust a width of the cut tunnel; and a balancing wheel slidably mounted on a second side, opposite to the first side, of the table-top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ETN Capital LLC
    Inventor: Taylor Fife
  • Patent number: 11090829
    Abstract: Machines and methods for slicing products into lattice-type slices or chips. The methods and machines utilize a cutting head having an annular shape that defines an axis of the cutting head, and an impeller assembly coaxially mounted within the interior of the cutting head for rotation about the axis of the cutting head. The cutting head having at least one knife at a perimeter thereof and extending radially inward of the cutting head. The impeller assembly has a base, a cavity within the base, a central opening to the cavity within the base, and equi-angularly spaced tubular guides extending radially outward from the base for delivering products within the cavity toward the perimeter of the cutting head as the impeller assembly rotates within the cutting head. The impeller assembly includes features with the ability to increase product throughput and increase the useful lives of the impeller assembly and cutting head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Urschel Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Wade King, Scott Alan Klockow
  • Patent number: 11090832
    Abstract: A short bar sprocket and pump assembly as well as short bar sprocket and pump and chainsaw motor assemblies are provided. A short bar assembly having a cooling assembly attached thereto is provided. A chainsaw chain drive assembly having a cooling assembly for the chain drive is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventors: Blake Catlin Lindsay, Dillon Michael Glover
  • Patent number: 11077567
    Abstract: An auto-retract scraper is described herein. The auto-retract scrape comprises a housing, a slider, a blade, a rotating hard stop, and a torsion spring. The rotating hard stop is rotated clockwise forcing the blade forward and out of the housing when the slider is engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas John Scimone, Robert Joseph Gallegos
  • Patent number: 11077573
    Abstract: An apparatus for cutting a whole tire into strips may include a cutting device having a first rotary blade and a second rotary blade. The tire is positioned between the first rotary blade and the second rotary blade, which cut the tire into one or more strips. The apparatus may further include a positioning system operable to orient the tire between a plurality of vertical, horizontal, and intermediate positions, relative to the cutting device. The apparatus may include one or more support rollers. The apparatus may further include a control system that controls the operation of the cutting device and tire positioning system as the tire is cut into strips by the cutting device. The apparatus may include a chipper to cut the tire strips into chips. The apparatus may include a bead peeler to remove the exterior rubber sheath from the wire bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Eco Green Equipment, LLC
    Inventors: Ted Bushman Rogers, Michael Bradley Swenson
  • Patent number: 11072030
    Abstract: A detangling device for severing a mooring line is disclosed. The device includes a line cutting assembly, which includes an ignition device, a propellant chamber, a moveable shuttle-knife assembly and a knife. The device further includes a pressure sensor, and a control system configured to monitor the pressure sensor and actuate the line cutting assembly when the monitored pressure sensor indicates a threshold depth is exceeded. The device can be a one-use device, wherein the knife breaks through a water-sealed housing to sever a mooring line when actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventor: Barton G. Selby
  • Patent number: 11065774
    Abstract: A slicing guide apparatus for reducing perishable foods into small, bite-sized pieces, the apparatus having a hollow cylindrical frame defining an open top end, an open bottom end, at least a first set of pair of elongated, vertical slots, at least a second set of pair of elongated, vertical slots that are perpendicular in orientation to the at least first set of pair of elongated, vertical slots, wherein the width of the at least first set of pair of elongated, vertical slots and of the at least second set of pair of elongated, vertical slots permits a cutting utensil to pass therethrough, at least one elongated, vertical rib that protrudes outward from the exterior of the frame and indicia affixed to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Frederick Anthony Lowetz
  • Patent number: 11065773
    Abstract: A shaving device comprising a head assembly having a support member and a blade cartridge. The support member is configured to be detachably coupled to a handle. The blade cartridge has a first and a second face wherein at least one of the first or second faces comprises at least one razor blade. The blade cartridge is configured to be rotatably coupled to the support member about a pivot axis such that the blade cartridge is pivotable by a user to select one of the first or second faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Ruairidh Robertson