Patents Examined by Richard D Crosby, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11911924
    Abstract: A razor apparatus including a head having at least one blade member on each of a first and a second opposed side of the head. Each blade member has a straight front cutting edge. The head includes a frame defining an opening through which the cutting edges are accessible. The frame also includes a rotatable mounting element for attachment of the head to a handle. The head is rotatable around a longitudinal axis of the handle at least 180° when the rotatable mounting element is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Scott Gilman
  • Patent number: 11904489
    Abstract: A cutting device includes a placement member on which an object to be cut is placed and a mounting portion to which a cutting blade is mounted. The cutting device detects, in the course of the mounting portion moving, a pressure correspondence value corresponding to a pressure applied to the mounting portion, and a movement amount of the mounting portion, decides a cutting pressure correspondence value that is the pressure correspondence value corresponding to a cutting pressure, on the basis of the pressure correspondence value and the movement amount after the cutting blade has come into contact with the object to be cut, and acquires cutting data. The cutting device further applies in accordance with the acquired cutting data, the cutting pressure corresponding to the decided cutting pressure correspondence value to the mounting portion, and cuts the object to be cut, using the cutting blade mounted to the mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Sugiyama, Yukitoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11897158
    Abstract: Machines for cutting products and impellers suitable for use therein. Such an impeller includes a lower plate and paddles configured with the lower plate to direct material placed on the lower plate in a radially outward direction of the impeller under the influence of centrifugal forces when the impeller is rotated. At least one of the paddles has an outer radial extent that is adjacent a perimeter of the lower plate. At least a first exit hole is located in the lower plate and has a wall section that completely closes the first exit hole along the perimeter at an upper surface of the lower plate. The first exit hole extends through the lower plate to define a passageway connected to the upper surface to enable foreign debris at the upper surface to exit the impeller through the passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Urschel Laboratories, Inc., Pepsico, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Alan Barber, Corey Everette Baxter, Rebecca Glynn Gann
  • Patent number: 11883892
    Abstract: A stop for a tool that engages a work piece on a work platform includes a mounting assembly that can be movably mounted on the tool so that the mounting assembly is selectively positionable on the tool. A first member is operatively connected to the mounting assembly and projects outwardly from the mounting assembly. A second member projects from the first member to engage and locate the work piece with respect to the tool. The second member is mounted on the first member for movement along a length of the first member and is selectively fixed to the first member to adjust a distance between the second member and the mounting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Darrin E. Smith
  • Patent number: 11883967
    Abstract: A locking foldable knife with a locking assembly that reliably locks a blade in an extended position for use is disclosed. The locking assembly utilizes the surface area of a shaped peripheral edge at a second end of a blade, together with, confirming structures of a locking bar, and one or more stops to reliably lock a blade in an extended position. A locking assembly also locks a blade in a folded position in one or more embodiments of the locking foldable knife.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Good Sportsman Marketing, LLC
    Inventor: Dillon Douglas
  • Patent number: 11864493
    Abstract: A handle for a hand-guided power tool has a shaft with a fastening end and a free end. The fastening end is provided to secure the handle on the power tool. The handle has an outer side that is designed to at least partially support a palm of a hand of a user. An inner side is positioned opposite the outer side at the handle. A thumb support surface is provided at the inner side. The thumb support surface, viewed in a side view of the handle perpendicular to the inner side, is positioned at an angle of at least 20° and at most 70° in relation to a longitudinal axis of the handle at every point of the thumb support surface. A power tool such as a trimmer has a handle bar provided with a handle with such a thumb support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Liv Bicheler, Roland Mandel, Simon Haug
  • Patent number: 11865733
    Abstract: The present invention relates to cutting body hair such as beard stubbles of multidays' beard. More particularly, the present invention relates to a cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer, comprising a pair of cooperating cutting elements with two rows of comb-like cutting teeth at opposite edges thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Roman Röder, Andreas Peter, Bernhard Sikora
  • Patent number: 11850766
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for separating product containing pouches from a travelling web of adhered films carried on a film support surface includes a rotary blade drum assembly having blade configurations with blade portions arranged to form the entire perimeter edge of the flange of the pouch which rotate in synchronous registration with grooves in the film support surface. In one form, at least one blade portion and associated groove portion are non-linear and other than longitudinal or transverse to the film support surface of the forming drum or travelling web of films. The blade portions may be heated and the rotary blade drum assembly may include insulating guides for the pouches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Mespack Cloud, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander J. Waterman, Donn D. Hartman, Gregory Wilmes, Anthony Crivolio
  • Patent number: 11844309
    Abstract: A lawn trimmer including a cutting disc, a drive shaft; and a flexible drive shaft. The drive shaft is within a straight shaft, connected to the motor and extending to the flexible drive shaft, translating the rotation of the motor to the flexible drive shaft. The flexible drive shaft is within a curved shaft, parallel but not-colinear with the straight shaft, extends to a rotor head connected to the curved shaft, translating drive shaft rotation to a cutting disc comprising a plurality of cutting blades on a cutting plane; an intersection between the cutting plane and the curved shaft axis defines a predetermined oblique angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventor: Douglas Franklin
  • Patent number: 11844466
    Abstract: Various juicing devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. The juicing device has a removable grinder assembly. The removable grinder assembly can be quickly and conveniently decoupled into individual components. The juicing device has a removable press chamber that can be quickly and conveniently removed from the juicing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Goodnature Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Wettlaufer, Dale Wettlaufer, Thomas Heyden
  • Patent number: 11845196
    Abstract: A method for making a paper blank from a corresponding paper sheet includes: loading a paper sheet along a longitudinal orientation, resting on a supporting surface that defines a worktop; moving a carriage in parallel with the worktop; making a primary cut on the paper sheet along a cutting orientation perpendicular to the worktop, using a primary blade which slides relative to a primary anvil; making a secondary cut, sliding a secondary blade and a secondary anvil relative to each other at a secondary cutting unit. The primary cutting unit and the secondary cutting unit are actuated by an actuating assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: EMMECI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Alessio Giovanneschi, Pablo Baroni
  • Patent number: 11844317
    Abstract: A hedge trimmer may include a body housing; a blade extending forward from a front portion of the body housing; a prime mover housed in the body housing and configured to drive the blade; a front handle disposed forward of the body housing and including a grip support and a front grip, wherein the blade is attached to the grip support and the front grip is connected to the grip support; and a rear handle connected to a rear portion of the body housing and including a rear grip. A first vibration isolator may be disposed between the grip support and the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11832564
    Abstract: This brush cutter includes: a drive unit; a working unit which is driven by power of the drive unit; a shaft which transmits the power of the drive unit to the working unit; a tubular portion which is disposed between the drive unit and the working unit, and in which the shaft is inserted; a floating box which has a handle support portion; and a handle which is supported by the handle support portion. The brush cutter is provided with a vibration absorbing member which fits in a tubular portion side fitting portion provided in the tubular portion and fits in a box side fitting portion provided in the floating box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Koike, Dai Hyakusawa, Shingo Tsuruoka, Takahiro Nakayama, Takahiro Yamamoto, Takuma Kimoto, Toshiro Uchida
  • Patent number: 11833701
    Abstract: The invention relates to a blade receiver assembly, comprising a switch comprising a switch cover and a switch base fixedly connected to each other, wherein the switch base has an opening; an axle with a structural section and a body receiver section, wherein the axle is arranged to move through the opening of the switch base in relation to the switch. The invention also relates to a cutting device comprising a blade receiver assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Fiskars Finland Oy Ab
    Inventors: Alexander J. Huesman, Stephen P. Dechant, Daniel Lipscomb
  • Patent number: 11826979
    Abstract: A machine for making corrugated paperboard boxes form corrugated paperboard sheets includes a slotter device with a blade that forms slots in the corrugated paperboard sheet. The machine can handle various sizes and configurations of corrugated paperboard sheets and can determine if the blade of the slotter device has a suitable length to form slots in each of the various corrugated paperboard sheets, using parameters including a circumferential length (N) of the slotter cylinder and dimensions (E, F, G) of the corrugated paperboard sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA ISOWA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Miyashita, Shunsuke Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11826923
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a shaving head configured to be moved along a shaving direction relative to skin during shaving of the skin, the shaving head including a housing, one or more blades mounted within the housing, and a hair moving mechanism connected to the housing and arranged in the shaving direction relative to the one or more blades, wherein the hair moving mechanism is configured to move hair relative to the skin in a direction towards the one or more blades during shaving. A shaver including same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: BIC Violex Single Member S.A.
    Inventor: Panagiotis Kopelas
  • Patent number: 11820042
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a holding table for holding a workpiece, a cutting unit including a spindle and a mount, a blade changer unit for mounting a cutting blade on or dismounting a cutting blade from the mount, and a control unit. The blade changer unit includes a blade chuck for holding the cutting blade and a moving unit. The cutting unit includes a vibration detecting sensor. The control unit includes a calculator for calculating the central axis of the mount from a position where the vibration detecting sensor detects vibrations caused upon contact between the mount and the blade chuck, and a mounting/dismounting controller for aligning the central axis of the blade chuck with the central axis of the mount and mounting the cutting blade on and dismounting cutting blade from the mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Terada
  • Patent number: 11818979
    Abstract: A grass trimmer includes a trimming head, a driving device for driving the trimming head to rotate so as to cut vegetation and an operating device for a user to operate so as to control the driving device. The trimming head includes a spool and a line holding member, the spool is used to wind a cutting line, and the line holding member is formed with a line holding structure. The driving device includes a motor. The grass trimmer has an auto-winding mode. In the auto-winding mode, the motor drives at least one of the spool and the line holding member to make the spool and the line holding member rotate relatively so that the cutting line is wound on the spool automatically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd., Chervon (HK) Limited
    Inventors: Jianpeng Guo, Maohui Li, Fangjie Nie, Toshinari Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 11820029
    Abstract: A convertible cutting device (1, 1?) comprises a first handle (2, 2?) with a first blade (8, 8?) and a second handle (5, 5?) with a second blade (11, 11?), and a conversion device (14, 14?) being configured to adapt at least a scissor position and a knife position. The conversion device (14, 14?) and the second handle (5, 5?) comprise in each case at least one abutment section (15, 15?; 18, 18?) being configured to abut against one another when the conversion device (14, 14?) is in the knife position and when the first handle (2, 2?) and the second handle (5, 5?) are in the closed position, whereby the conversion device (14, 14?) is retained in the knife position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Kuhn Rikon AG
    Inventors: Stefan Thomet, Marco Waltenspul, Jochen Schaepers
  • Patent number: 11820028
    Abstract: A folding knife includes a movable piece that is attached to a blade and a handle so as to be relatively rotatable by a specific rotation angle with respect to the blade, and to rotate with respect to the handle together with the blade outside the specific rotation angle; a notch or a recess formed at a position near a rotating shaft portion on the back side of the blade; a protrusion that is formed at a position on the movable piece and in a shape corresponding to the notch or recess of the blade; and a rotation mechanism including the rotating shaft portion that allows the movable piece to rotate with respect to the blade only within a specific rotation angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SPYDERCO, INC.
    Inventor: Junpei Makari