Patents Examined by Rinaldi I. Rada
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Patent number: 8033342Abstract: A device and method for temporarily mounting a tool to a member such as an upright board without the need for any prior attachments to the board. A member securing element attached to the tool is secured to the upright board when gripping surfaces engage opposite sides of the board as a result of rotation of the tool brought about by an off-set center of gravity.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Inventor: Gary Clark
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Patent number: 8028498Abstract: A Method of Processing a Container and Base Cup Structure For Removal of Vacuum Pressure A plastic container (10) has a wall extending to a lower portion including a pressure panel (20). The panel (20) is transversely oriented and can move from a downwardly inclined position providing a geometrically unstable configuration to an upwardly inclined position providing a geometrically stable configuration to control pressure change in the container. This movement may be provided by suitable actuating means such as rod (22). In the unstable configuration a base cup 50 or any other suitable holder can support the container and enable it to be conveyed in a container handling or processing system.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2005Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: CO2PAC LimitedInventor: David Murray Melrose
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Patent number: 8025199Abstract: The present invention, in accordance with various embodiments thereof, relates to a surgical device for at least one of cutting and stapling a section of tissue. The surgical device includes a housing including at least two drivers. The surgical device also includes an anvil mechanically attachable to the housing and moveable relative to the housing between an open position and a closed position. The first driver operates to move the anvil relative to the housing to an intermediate position between the open position and the closed position. The second driver operates to move at least a portion of the housing relative to the anvil between the intermediate position and the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2004Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LPInventors: Michael P. Whitman, David A. Nicholas
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Patent number: 8024910Abstract: An apparatus for forming a container includes a frame, and a forming station coupled to the frame. The forming apparatus includes a plurality of folding plows configured to fold portions of a blank to form a container. The apparatus also includes a transfer assembly including a plurality of containment bars for supporting the container in a formed state. The containment bars facilitate retaining the formed state of the container while the transfer assembly transfers the container to an operator.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2004Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Smurfit-Stone Container Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Thomas D. Graham, William Courteau, Amer Aganovic
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Patent number: 8024909Abstract: A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material having a receiving table for the container handling machines therein.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2005Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: KHS Maschinen- und Anlagenbau AGInventor: Herbert Bernhard
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Patent number: 8020358Abstract: An apparatus for forming inflated containers from a film web having two juxtaposed film plies includes: a. a mechanism that conveys the film web along a path of travel; b. a first sealing device for producing one or more seals that bond the film plies together to form a container having at least one opening; c. an inflation assembly for inflating the container by directing a stream of gas into the opening thereof; and d. a second sealing device for sealing closed the opening of the inflated container.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2004Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Sealed Air Corporation (US)Inventors: Laurence B. Sperry, Eric A. Kane
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Patent number: 8016046Abstract: A combustion tool includes a cylinder having a lower end provided with a resilient bumper, a piston dimensioned for reciprocation within the cylinder to impact the bumper at an end of the cylinder and having a driver blade depending therefrom for impacting fasteners. At least one back pressure release opening is disposed in the cylinder to be in alignment with the piston and to be closed by the piston when the piston impacts the bumper.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2008Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Hanxin Zhao, Marc Largo
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Patent number: 8016177Abstract: A surgical stapling instrument is provided having systems for securing buttress material to the anvil and staple containing cartridge associated with the surgical instrument. The system includes a retainer configured to engage the anvil or the staple containing cartridge and capture the buttress material between the retainer and the anvil or staple containing cartridge. The disclose retainer engages the anvil or staple containing cartridge in snap fit or friction fit fashion. The buttress material includes a circumferential perforation line enabling the center of the buttress material to be stapled to tissue while the remainder of the buttress material remains with the anvil or staple containing cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2011Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LPInventors: Michael Bettuchi, Brian Nentwick
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Patent number: 8011547Abstract: A portable linear fastener driving tool is provided that drive staples, nails, or other linearly driven fasteners. The tool uses a gas spring principle, in which a cylinder filled with compressed gas is used to quickly force a piston through a driving stroke movement, while a driver also drives a fastener into a workpiece. The piston/driver is then moved back to its starting position by use of a rotary-to-linear lifter, and the piston again compresses the gas above the piston, thereby preparing the tool for another driving stroke. The driver has protrusions along its edges that contact the lifter, which lifts the driver during a return stroke. A pivotable latch is controlled to move into either an interfering position or a non-interfering position with respect to the driver protrusions, and acts as a safety device, by preventing the driver from making a full driving stroke at an improper time.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Senco Brands, Inc.Inventors: Richard L. Leimbach, Thomas A. McCardle, Danny L. Bolender, Steve Dickinson, Joseph R. Knueven, Robert L. Lance, Jr., Dan Stolz, Michael V. Petrocelli, Teresa Petrocelli, legal representative
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Patent number: 8011551Abstract: A retraction mechanism allows the full distal retraction of the firing drive from various positions. The retraction mechanism has been developed for use with a hand held surgical apparatus. An embodiment of the retraction mechanism includes a drive member, a first pulley, a second pulley, and a firing drive. The drive mechanism is configured to be driven by a motor. The first pulley is configured to rotate when the motor drives the drive mechanism. The second pulley is movable relative to the first pulley between a proximal position and a distal position. The firing drive is movable relative to the first pulley between proximal and distal positions. In operation, the first pulley rotates in a first direction in response to a distal translation of the firing drive and wherein the firing drive moves proximally upon rotation of the first pulley in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LPInventors: Stanislaw Marczyk, Joseph Bender-Zanoni
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Patent number: 8011549Abstract: A driving tool with a flywheel, a driver, an actuator and a roller that is moveable between an unactuated position and an actuated position. Positioning of the roller in the actuated position forces an engagement surface on the driver into contact with a rotating edge of the flywheel to transfer energy from the flywheel to the driver so that the driver will translate along an axis. The actuator at least partially initiates movement of the roller from the unactuated position to the actuated position.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Alan Berry, William D. Sauerwein, Craig A. Schell, Jeffrey A. Elligson, Charles L. Bradenbaugh, IV, Howard T. White, James J. Kenney
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Patent number: 8011441Abstract: A portable linear fastener driving tool is provided that drive staples, nails, or other linearly driven fasteners. The tool uses a gas spring principle, in which a cylinder filled with compressed gas is used to quickly force a piston through a driving stroke movement, while a driver also drives a fastener into a workpiece. The piston/driver is then moved back to its starting position by use of a rotary-to-linear lifter, and the piston again compresses the gas above the piston, thereby preparing the tool for another driving stroke. The driver has protrusions along its edges that contact the lifter, which lifts the driver during a return stroke. A pivotable latch is controlled to move into either an interfering position or a non-interfering position with respect to the driver protrusions, and acts as a safety device, by preventing the driver from making a full driving stroke at an improper time.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2008Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Senco Brands, Inc.Inventors: Richard L. Leimbach, Shane Adams, Thomas W. Clark, Michael V. Petrocelli, Teresa Petrocelli, legal representative
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Patent number: 8011548Abstract: A nail gun having a safe firing mechanism is composed of a main body, a nail-driving member, a safety member, and a linkage. The main body includes a nail passage for receiving nails and a nail chamber for receiving a nail ready to be fired by the nail-driving member. The nails include an initial nail, a final nail, and a plurality of standby nails located between the initial and final nails. The linkage includes a contact portion and a stopping end linking up with the contact portion. The contact portion is stopped against the standby nail. The stopping end is stopped against the safety member. When the contact portion is not stopped against the standby nail, the stopping end is located at where the safety member is stopped. When the contact portion is stopped against the standby nail, the stopping end shifts to where the safety member is not stopped.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2010Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Basso Industry Corp.Inventor: Jeng-Fang Chang
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Patent number: 8011445Abstract: A portable power tool has a housing, a rotating sleeve provided for rotatably driving a tool and a rotatably supported in the housing by at least one bearing, a driving gear-wheel installed on the rotating sleeve in a freely rotating manner and drivable by a motor, a safety clutch that couples the driving gear-wheel with the rotating sleeve in a rotation-proof manner, the safety clutch having two clutch members that are slippable, with one of the clutch members being assigned to the driving gear-wheel and the other clutch member being assigned to the rotating sleeve in both cases in a rotation-proof manner, and with a coupling sleeve providing a force against which the clutch members are slippable when a limit torque is exceeded, the bearing being seated on the rotating sleeve in an axially displaceable manner and loaded by the coupling sleeve of the safety clutch against an axial stop of the rotating sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2005Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Achim Duesselberg, Kurt Sieber
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Patent number: 8011443Abstract: The invention is a striking mechanism for a handheld power tools in particular electric hammer. A piston is arranged in an axially bidirectionally movable manner in a guide tube. A striker is provided which acts on a striking pin and which is held in a movable manner in the guide tube. A compression space is delimited by the piston and the striker such that an air cushion is enclosed therein. It is proposed that at least one spring element is provided between the striker and the striking pin.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2007Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gerhard Meixner, Otto Baumann, Jan Koalick
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Patent number: 8006885Abstract: A surgical stapling apparatus comprises a handle assembly, an actuation shaft having a connector, and a retraction mechanism positioned within the handle assembly. The retraction mechanism includes a motor coupled to a transmission shaft, a first gear rotatably mounted on the transmission shaft, the first gear configured to engage a second gear, a clutch operatively attached to the second gear, a main shaft rotatably connected to the clutch, and a pulley coupled to the main shaft, the pulley being operatively attached to the connector. The connector and the pulley may be attached via a cable. The retraction mechanism may include a spring motor for maintaining the cable in tension. The spring motor may have a spring element wrapped around and interconnecting at least two arbors.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Tyco Healthcare Group LPInventor: Stanislaw Marczyk
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Patent number: 8006776Abstract: A pneumatic device control apparatus and method comprising a ported valve slidably fitted over a feed tube of the pneumatic device, and using a compliant biasing device to constrain motion of the valve to provide asymmetric timing for extended pressurization of a power chamber and reduced pressurization of a return chamber of the pneumatic device. The pneumatic device can be a pneumatic hammer drill.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2009Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventor: Yarom Polsky
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Patent number: 8006778Abstract: In a handheld power tool, including a first housing part and a second housing part as well as a damping element between the first housing part and the second housing part, the damping element is connectable to the first housing part and the second housing part, and the handheld power tool further has at least one securing element, which is connectable to the first housing part and the second housing part.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2007Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Juergen Wiker, Joachim Schadow, Joerg Maute
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Patent number: 8006884Abstract: A hammer tacker (1), which is used to drive staples (8) into a work piece (7), comprises a handle (2) and a magazine (3). The magazine includes a magazine house (4) and a magazine rail (5) which rail is connected to the magazine in such a way that it in its front end (6) can be moved in to and out of (P) the magazine house. Staples stored in the magazine are fed, by a feeding device (24) arranged in the magazine, to an outlet opening (25) in the front end of the magazine. A driver blade (10) housed in the magazine and constituting part of a driver (9) drives the staple fed to the outlet opening into the work piece. The driver (9) is attached to the magazine (3) on the magazine's outer side (19) to facilitate changing the driver blade.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2005Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Isaberg Rapid ABInventors: Jan Ebbesson, Björn Söderholm
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Patent number: 8006464Abstract: An apparatus for exchanging operating units disposed at rotating container handling machines, particularly upper handling components for varying the filling program, the cleaning program, and/or the closing program, wherein units are removed and replacement units are mounted in place of the removed units, it being proposed that each upper operating head (for example, filling element) {4} is associated with a plurality of replacement units {18, 19, 20} and these replacement units can be attached during a replacement at all operating heads {4} at the same time and/or exchanged at the same time and/or can be brought into the operative position with/connected to these operating heads {4}. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2004Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: KHS Maschinen-und Anlagenbau AGInventor: Dieter-Rudolf Krulitsch