Patents by Inventor Adolph V. Klancnik

Adolph V. Klancnik has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Machine tool fixture
    Patent number: 5039074
    Abstract: Machine tool fixture for clamping a workpiece characterized by jaw members nested in an overlapped relation with jaw closing cam surfaces in laterally spaced relation defining a slot in which is positioned a complemental cam section of a cam plunger moving on an axis normal to the axis of jaw movement. In one embodiment the plunger and jaws have a second set of complemental cam surfaces to open the jaws; in a second embodiment, springs are used to open the jaws at a corresponding limit position of the cam plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Inventors: Adolph V. Klancnik, Kenneth A. Klancnik
  • Machine tools
    Patent number: 4645092
    Abstract: Small workpieces are loaded into a pair of detenting (spring-biased) jaws along a loading station center line by a reciprocal feed finger. The jaws are shifted to a work station center line, where tooling is applied, by advancing one jaw toward the other. The jaws are shifted back to the loading station center line where the workpiece is ejected from the jaws concurrently with the loading of the next workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Assignee: Universal Automatic Corporation
    Inventors: Adolph V. Klancnik, Kenneth A. Klancnik
  • Machine tools
    Patent number: 4637524
    Abstract: Coacting, self-centering jaw members in a machine tool which machines small, cylindrical lightweight workpieces; coaction and self-centering is achieved by an equalizer arm actuated by a slide; the slide also actuates one jaw member while the equalizer applies an equal force to the other jaw member; a spring bias applied to each jaw member speeds production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Assignee: Universal Automatic Corporation
    Inventors: Adolph V. Klancnik, Kenneth A. Klancnik
  • Machine tool bar feed
    Patent number: 4402642
    Abstract: Bar stock is fed to the chuck of a machine tool by a ball chain having a rigid pusher at the end engagable with the bar stock, the ball chain being advanced by a wheel having pockets for the ball chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1983
    Assignee: Universal Automatic Corporation
    Inventors: Adolph V. Klancnik, Kenneth A. Klancnik
  • Automatic turret lathe
    Patent number: 4379415
    Abstract: An automatic turret lathe in which sequences are manually programmed for automatic control (both turret and cross slide) as an incident to setting up the machine, requiring neither tape nor card programs but rather the manual effort of the machinist; the lathe also incorporates a unique clutch and bearing support for the rotary turret, and the turret has a positive lock for accurately holding the index position; all essential functions and modes including feed rates and r.p.m. are visually displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1983
    Assignee: Universal Automatic Corporation
    Inventors: Adolph V. Klancnik, Kenneth A. Klancnik
  • Automatic turret lathe
    Patent number: 4327614
    Abstract: An automatic turret lathe in which sequences are manually programmed for automatic control (both turret and cross slide) as an incident to setting up the machine, requiring neither tape nor card programs but rather the manual effort of the machinist; the lathe also incorporates a unique clutch and bearing support for the rotary turret, and the turret has a positive lock for accurately holding the index position; all essential functions and modes including feed rates and r.p.m. are visually displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Universal Automatic Corporation
    Inventors: Adolph V. Klancnik, Kenneth A. Klancnik
  • Automatic turret lathe
    Patent number: 4324161
    Abstract: An automatic turret lathe in which sequences are manually programmed for automatic control (both turret and cross slide) as an incident to setting up the machine, requiring neither tape nor card programs but rather the manual effort of the machinist; the lathe also incorporates a unique clutch and bearing support for the rotary turret, and the turret has a positive lock for accurately holding the index position; all essential functions and modes including feed rates and r.p.m. are visually displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1982
    Assignee: Universal Automatic Corporation
    Inventors: Adolph V. Klancnik, Kenneth A. Klancnik
  • Collet assembly
    Patent number: 4171820
    Abstract: A collet assembly in which actuation is resisted by a spring washer sandwiched between two wear rings, in which the collet sleeve may be pre-tensioned by a conveniently located nut and in which end thrust is adsorbed by needle bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1979
    Assignee: Universal Automatic Corporation
    Inventor: Adolph V. Klancnik