Patents by Inventor Austen Barnes

Austen Barnes 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).

  • Decamberer
    Patent number: 6038904
    Abstract: A decamberer for strip of approximate rectangular section has opposed rollers defining a downstream extent each with grooves receiving the strip edges and maintaining the strip in an approximate plane, and defining when viewed perpendicular to the plane an undulatory shape and with a progressively decreasing amplitude of oscillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Inventor: Austen Barnes
  • Decamberer
    Patent number: 5904058
    Abstract: Camber of a travelling wide strip is provided by a pair of opposed rollers adapted to bear on opposite wide sides of such a strip. Mutually independent means are provided to provide deforming pressure at a selected end of said opposed rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Inventor: Austen Barnes
  • Edge treatment tool
    Patent number: 5761947
    Abstract: An edge treatment tool defines the travel direction of a strip having edges. An edge treatment tool is supported to extend transversely to the strip travel direction and may be advanced and retracted relative to said edge to control its position relative to said edge and the supporting means causing resilient vibration of said tool in the strip travel direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Inventor: Austen Barnes
  • Vibratory or rocking edge treatment tool
    Patent number: 5752402
    Abstract: An edge treatment tool having a vibratory mount to cause vibrating motion in a direction are used to treat metal edges extending in such direction. A resilient mounting may be used for the tool. The resilient mounting allows the tool to be vibrated by vibrators which oscillate with the tool or by vibrators which change length from a fixed to a resilient mount. The resilient mount is preferably provided by thin metal strips bendable about axes perpendicular both to the edge direction and to the application direction for the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Inventor: Austen Barnes
  • Edge conditioner
    Patent number: 5477721
    Abstract: An edge conditioner for travelling strip means has a tool holder which is biased away from the strip means but is actuable toward the strip by air pressure. The holder may be mounted on an arcuate support where the centre of the arc is the near edge of the strip, to allow variance of approach angles. The tool may be vibrated relative to the tool holder at between 10 and 50 KHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Inventor: Austen Barnes
  • Modular edge conditioner
    Patent number: 4961334
    Abstract: Treatment means for metal strip edges provide opposed carriages designed to simultaneously treat opposite edges with treatment tools. Rollers on the carriage are located to contact the edges of the strip on the same side as that carriages edge treatment tool and allow accurate positioning of the tools relative to the strip edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Inventor: Austen Barnes