Patents Examined by William E. Dondero
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Patent number: 9328817Abstract: A drive device for a construction machine includes a speed reduction unit reducing speed of rotational force output from a motor, the speed reduction unit has a gear mechanism provided in a casing and reducing the speed of the rotational force output from the motor, and an oil receiver arranged above the gear mechanism in the casing, the oil receiver forms a main storage space for storing the lubricant oil, and is arranged in the casing such that an oil passage for guiding a rising lubricant oil to the main storage space is formed between an outer surface of the oil receiver and an inner wall surface of the casing, the oil receiver is provided with an oil drain opening, the oil drain opening designed to gradually discharge the lubricant oil stored in the main storage space toward the gear mechanism through the oil drain opening.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignees: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Yamashita, Masatsugu Hamasaki, Masashi Kawabata, Shoji Yoichi, Ryo Uchiyama
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Patent number: 8596419Abstract: Divider device for a flow of lubricant carried by a gas, typically air, comprising a distribution barrel (4) having an end face (5) into which run longitudinal distribution channels (6, 7) communicating with outlet orifices (8, 10) and a connection piece (18) mounted upstream of the distribution barrel (4) and comprising a hollow body with a bore (20) through which the flow of lubricant and gas can pass. The bore (20) of the connection piece (18) has a localized throttling region (26) of reduced cross section followed by a region (22) of enlarged cross section, and there is a gap defining a chamber (25) between the connection piece and the distribution barrel.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: Guillaume Amilien, Régis Page
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Patent number: 7314197Abstract: A web separating device includes a cutting/joining drum, which is rotatable in contact with web of optical film on a peripheral surface thereof. A cutting drum is positioned for contacting the cutting/joining drum peripherally, and has a cutter for cutting the web being supplied in a width direction in cooperation with the cutting/joining drum, to obtain upstream and downstream web sections. A joining drum is positioned for contacting the cutting/joining drum peripherally, and attaches a guide leader to a front end of the upstream web section. Guide rollers are disposed for allowing passage of the web and the upstream and downstream web sections in a non-contact manner before and after being cut or attached.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2004Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Kouji Tonohara, Kenichi Taninokuchi
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Patent number: 7264195Abstract: A barbed wire installation mechanism is provided that is supported on an ATV rack with one or more poles extending vertically from the ATV rack onto which one or more barbed wire spools are placed. The mechanism includes a base plate to which the poles are attached. To hold the base plate on the ATV rack, “L” shaped brackets are attached to the base plate opposite the poles. The “L” shaped brackets slide around beams of the ATV rack and serve to hold the base plate on the ATV. A metal securing disk with a center bore fits on the pole and is placed on top of the barded wire spools to prevent the spools from sliding off the poles. A safety frame is further attached to the base plate that supports a screen to prevent the barbed wire from contacting an operator, and provide greater protection for the driver during a rollover.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2005Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Inventors: Eddie Fletcher, Irvin Ronald Taylor, Jeffrey Street
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Patent number: 7264193Abstract: A web winder of a turret winding type is provided with a first spindle secured to a first drive shaft. A second spindle is secured to a second drive shaft. Positions of the first and second drive shafts are changeable in the web winder. A changeover device changes over winding of a web wound about the first spindle to winding about the second spindle. A cutting drum is disposed on a first side with respect to a web path of the web, and has a cutter for cutting the web in a width direction thereof. A receiving drum is disposed on a second side with respect to the web path opposite to the first side. A drum support arm supports the cutting and receiving drums in a rotatable manner and in a manner of contacting drum peripheral surfaces of the cutting and receiving drums on each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2004Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation, Ltd.Inventor: Shinji Hikita
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Patent number: 7261251Abstract: A yarn lifting element (28), which is provided on a positive thread regulating wheel, comprises straight yarn-bearing surfaces (34,35) whose position cannot be displaced by the yarn (2), enabling the yarn to slip in relation to the thread feeding wheel (17) when required. Said additional measure enables the positive thread regulating wheel to be used in areas which were previously excluded on account of the required synchronicity between the feeding of the thread and the consumption of the thread.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2003Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Memminger-IROInventors: Falk Kühn, Hermann Schmodde
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Patent number: 7261254Abstract: A holder for a rolled medium is provided. The holder has a mandrel having a drive surface adapted to receive the rolled medium and is adapted to be rotated so that an amount of rolled medium on the drive surface can be unrolled therefrom. A stop is located on a stop end of the drive surface. A retaining surface is located on a load end of the drive surface and is separated from the stop so that a rolled medium can be disposed therebetween with the retaining surface being movable between a first position where the retaining surface projects above the drive surface and a second position where the retaining surface does not project above the drive surface. A resilient biasing structure is joined to the retaining surface to drive the retaining surface toward the first position and the drive surface drives the rolled media toward the stop.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: August 28, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Robert F. Mindler
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Patent number: 7258300Abstract: A mandrel is utilized to support a roll of material. The mandrel includes a retaining element, which can be placed on an inner circumference of a roll of material, and at least one carrier element which transmits a torque between the mandrel and the material roll. The carrier element can be engaged with the roll of material in a non-positive manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2003Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Karl Richard Rösch
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Patent number: 7255300Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided, for forming a filter element including a media pack in the form of a coiled web of fluted filter media, by feeding the web of fluted filter media at a controlled linear speed onto a mandrel rotated by a winding motor providing a controlled driving torque to the mandrel, to thereby maintain a controlled tension on the web of fluted filter media as the web is wound onto the mandrel. The web may be fed at a substantially constant linear speed to the mandrel, and/or the winding motor may be controlled in a manner providing substantially constant driving torque to the mandrel for maintaining a constant tension on the web as a function of the constant driving torque. Coiled media packs having circular or non-circular cross sections, can be formed with either cored, or core-less construction.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2004Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Baldwin Filters, Inc.Inventor: Stan Johnston
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Patent number: 7255302Abstract: Disclosed are guide apparatus for guiding an advancing continuous fiber bundle, a winding machine having the guide apparatus installed therein, a method for making a bobbin of a continuous fiber bundle, particularly that of carbon fibers, and a carbon fiber bobbin made by using the winding machine; and the guide apparatus comprises: a pair of a first and a second guides disposed on the passage of the fiber bundle, axis lines of which guides are in a relation twisted away from each other in a space, and a parallel guide disposed at the downstream side of the pair of the guides, axis line of which parallel guide is parallel to that of the bobbin, the first guide being a flat or a conical guide, and the second guide being a conical guide.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2004Date of Patent: August 14, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Gordon Shearer, Fumihiko Nobayashi, Osamu Tsutsumi, Atsushi Kawamura
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Patent number: 7249725Abstract: In accordance with the invention a thread carrying apparatus is proposed with a thread (2) lying in contact with or passing along the thread carrying apparatus with friction in the operating state. The thread carrying apparatus includes excitation means (3) for producing oscillations which reduce the frictional force between the thread (2) and the thread carrying apparatus. In this arrangement a resonator body (4) is provided with the thread (2) lying in contact with or passing along the resonator body with friction in the operating state. The resonator body (4) is designed in such a manner that the excitation means (3) produce resonant structural sound oscillations in the resonator body (4).Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2003Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Sultex AGInventors: Erich Klaeui, Hans-Dieter Scorl
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Patent number: 7246767Abstract: Winding machine for rolled or drawn wire/rod with turn clutch device for automatic winding of the type comprising a reel with a mandrel and base flange and an external mobile containment counter flange, wherein the counter flange is openable to allow the axial extraction from the mandrel of the reel of the completed coil, the flange of base comprising a recess to receive the head of the wire/rod to be wound, with an overturned trapezoidal annular recess with corresponding reduction towards the base for auto-clamping the wire/rod to start winding without requiring pincers.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2006Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignee: S.I.M.A.C. S.p.A.Inventor: Federico Castellani
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Patent number: 7246764Abstract: In a cross-wound bobbin (1), the helical lines along which the yarn (4) is wound have a different inclination in adjacent layers. The winding ratios are selected such that the quantity drawn off is greater if the unwinding point is moving from the unwinding end to the bottom end, compared to the quantity drawn off if the unwinding point is moving from the bottom end to the unwinding end.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2002Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignee: Deutsch Institute fur Textil-und Faserforschung Stuttgart (DITF)Inventors: Heinrich Planck, Christoph Rietmuller, Helmut Weinsdorfer
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Patent number: 7243872Abstract: Apparatus monitoring and/or adjusting tensile force in a yarn (10) including at least three consecutive yarn deflecting elements (11, 12, 13) of which the central deflecting element (12) is displaceably held by a retention device (14) that is supported in such a way that the motion and/or position of the deflecting element (12) is substantially a function only of the tensile force F1 in one yarn segment, such segment being situated between the displaceable deflecting element (12) and only one of the two neighboring deflecting elements (11 or 13).Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2003Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Assignee: Picanol N.V.Inventors: Jozef Peeters, Peter Deruytter
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Patent number: 7240874Abstract: An adhesive tape for a flying reel change of a flat material wound up over a reel, provided with at least one detachable adhesive system. The adhesive tape has a main support made of a material to which a machine-detectable admixture has been added.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2001Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: tesa AGInventors: Markus Eikmeier, Bernhard Gebbeken, Thomas Gassner, Christoph Nagel
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Patent number: 7240873Abstract: An adhesive tape for a flying reel change of a flat material wound up over a reel, provided with at least one detachable adhesive system. The adhesive tape is provided with at least one transponder which can be detected by means of a detector.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2001Date of Patent: July 10, 2007Assignee: tesa AGInventors: Markus Eikmeier, Bernhard Gebbeken, Thomas Gassner, Christoph Nagel, Axel Burmeister
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Patent number: 7237742Abstract: The yarn feeder device (1) of the invention has one or more yarn feeler levers (26), which are movably supported on the housing (2). The yarn feeler lever (26) is movable between an operating position I and a response position II. In the operating I, its crossbar (28) which forms the yarn feeler means is approximately in the same line as yarn guide elements, such as the struts (19, 23) of yarn guide bails (18, 22). Somewhat above its operating position I, the yarn feeler lever (26) meets a stop, past which it is not moved by the yarn (8). To improve the accessibility to the yarn guide elements (19, 23) particularly when yarn is being inserted and threaded in, the stop of the yarn feeler lever (26) is embodied as yielding. The yarn feeler lever (26) can therefore be moved upward manually past the stop on its lower end (28), in order to open up the space enclosed between the yarn guide elements (19, 23).Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Memminger-IRO GmbHInventors: Eberhard Leins, Attila Horvath, Richard Kaufmann
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Patent number: 7229045Abstract: A store control device of an intermediate store carries, on a pivot mounting which is mounted on a chassis capable of travelling along a track, so as to be rotatable about a vertical axis through 360°, a pick-up device for a paper reel which has a continuous track section for holding a carriage loaded with a paper reel and raisable and lowerable claws arranged on both sides thereof. Storage tracks which are in the form of short stub tracks and have carriages and which form storage places for holding paper reels with axes oriented transversely to the track are arranged on both sides of the track. Before storage of a paper reel in the intermediate store, the pivot mounting is rotated so that the winding direction of the stored paper reel corresponds to a required value. The claws can also be formed so as to be longitudinally displaceable on both sides by at least a reel length, in which case only a support surface is provided between them and the storage places are equipped with stationary storage troughs.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2004Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Metso Paper AGInventors: Pierre Bucher, Martial Frund, Walter Brandli
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Patent number: 7229044Abstract: An improved tension controller for a strand to achieve constant downstream tension regardless of tension variation in the upstream strand has a pair of tensioning plates (9, 10) between which the strand upstream (3), downstream (5) is compressed, generating frictional force for added tension. A selectable loading force is applied to the controller in the opposite direction to the movement of the strand. This loading force acts on a wedge between a movable tensioning plate and a fixed plate (9). The angle between the fixed plate (9) and the strand between the tensioning plates generates a compression force at a right angle toward the compressed strand for added tension. The incoming strand is deflected before it reaches its compressed stage between the tensioning plates. This strand deflection generates a force-component in the direction of the strand movement and reduces the loading force correspondingly.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2003Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: Texkimp LimitedInventor: Kurt W. Niederer
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Patent number: 7222813Abstract: A log multiprocessing apparatus winds a web material around a winding core to form a log. Once the log is about to be completed, the web material is severed to form a tail of the log, and a pattern including at least one glue layer is applied on the tail of the log. The log then is decelerated and the tail is pressed on the log to form a final sealed log of web material.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Chan Li Machinery Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tsai Tung-I