Patents Examined by Timothy Eley
  • Patent number: 6276236
    Abstract: The present invention is regarding to a structural improvement of a clamp which includes a flex attached to a handle set, an actuator cable extends through the slider and is linked to gripper device, of which the openings and open notch are built in, it offers a convenient scheme for operator to detach or engage actuator cable from gripper device, by simple operation, gripper devices may be conveniently interchanged in order to meet versatile needs in various situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Inventor: Pi-Liang Wu
  • Patent number: 5928061
    Abstract: A wheel-head feed mechanism for a grinder comprising a base and a wheel head which is guided by a linear guide section provided on the base and rotatably supports a grinding wheel via a wheel spindle driven by a motor. The wheel-head feed mechanism includes feed screw mechanism composed of a screw shaft and a nut unit engaged with the screw shaft, the feed screw mechanism advancing and retracting the wheel head with respect to a workpiece, and servomotor for rotating one of the screw shaft and the nut unit. The screw shaft is offset from the linear guide section toward the wheel spindle. The nut unit includes a radial hydrostatic bearing section for supporting the root of a male thread of the screw shaft in the radial direction of the screw shaft by hydrostatic pressure, as well as a thrust hydrostatic bearing section for supporting the flanks of the male thread of the screw shaft in the axial direction of the screw shaft by hydrostatic pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuo Niino, Masahiro Ido, Toshihiko Shima, Eiji Fukuta, Hideki Nagano
  • Patent number: 5443215
    Abstract: In a forage harvester which has an automatically adjustable shearbar mechanism for adjusting the distance between the shearbar and a rotating cutterhead, rotation of the cutterhead is determined by the use of essentially steady state signals without substantial transient components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: New Holland North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert L. Fackler
  • Patent number: 5181304
    Abstract: An alignment system and method wherein a machine module is aligned with and secured to a machine base. A plate is loosely held on the module by screws, and the base and plate have mating pin holes. A pin is inserted through the mating pin holes, and the plate moves to find its aligned position. The screws are then tightened to fix the plate on the module, and the pin is removed. Subsequent realignment can be easily accomplished by reinsertion of the alignment pin to insure registration between the preset plate and base pin holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: Cincinnati Milacron, Inc.
    Inventor: Tadeusz W. Piotrowski
  • Patent number: 4923131
    Abstract: This invention relates to rotary impact crusher rotors used to communicate rock and to such rotors which are of substantially triangular shape having outlets at the apices of the triangle. This results in a rotor having reduced wearing surfaces and also avoids destruction or explosion of the rotor in the event of an excessive build up of rock in the crusher chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1990
    Inventors: Pieter J. Rossouw, Jan H. Rossouw
  • Patent number: 4562642
    Abstract: Apparatus for winding and insertion of coils in stators or rotors of electrical machines has a winding station and an insertion station, between which insertion tools 14 are transported by means of a rotary table 10. At the winding station, there is a template 24 which cooperates with a winding nozzle 26. Covering strip mechanism 44 has a rotationally movable guide duct 62 and guide portion 70, by means of which insulating strips 58 are introduced successively into ducts 52 provided for them between the tongues 50 of insertion tool 14. To reach with the guide duct 62 and guide portion 70, all the ducts 52 are situated on circumferences of different size depending on the particular insertion tool 14. Guide portion 70 is rotatable about the central longitudinal axis of insertion tool 14 by means of an adjusting motor 48, and is adjustable radially by means of an adjusting motor 46.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1986
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Fichtner
  • Patent number: 4538765
    Abstract: Waste paper is defiberized within a container or receptacle in a thick stock range at a low water level. Thereafter, by further infeeding water, the obtained slurry or the like is diluted to a consistency of less than 7% while continuing the defiberizing operation. Finally, the obtained stock suspension is withdrawn through a sieve or screen located at the floor of a defiberizing container. The defiberizing container or receptacle used for performing the method possesses a lower region having a smaller diameter, above which there is located an upper region having a larger diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1985
    Assignee: Escher Wyss GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Mayr, Albrecht Kahmann, Gerhard Lambrecht, Wolfgang Heinbockel, Wolfgang Siewert, Josef Maier
  • Patent number: RE31681
    Abstract: A non-expansible linkage bracelet and method of manufacture thereof, wherein the bracelet includes: a set of laterally adjacent top links having channel-shaped sections with .Iadd.width dimensions defined by .Iaddend.parallel side members .Iadd.which are .Iaddend.joined by top members, .[.one side member.]. .Iadd.the channel-shaped sections .Iaddend.of each top link .Iadd.being separated by an intermediate decorative section, and each top link .Iaddend.having at least one bendable locking lug protruding .[.therefrom.]. .Iadd.exclusively from one side thereof, each of said decorative sections having at least one recess on the said one side located laterally within said width dimensions, and at least one projection on the side opposite to said one side extending laterally beyond said width dimension .Iaddend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Textron, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen F. Bert