Patents by Inventor Benjamin D. Church

Benjamin D. Church 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).

  • Peripheral cutting tool utilizing stick blades
    Patent number: 10099300
    Abstract: A low profile peripheral cutter (18) with stick blades (6). The cutter has a cutter body (30) and a flexible clamping disk (20) to clamp all blades. The flexible clamping disc includes a slot (24) between each cutting blade (6) in order to provide a plurality of blade clamping web wings (26) each of which acts like a deflection beam to hold the blades in position. Preferably, each web wing (26) covers one stick blade (6) and each web wing has two contacting pads (36, 38) to press each blade into its seating surface (44, 46) thereby holding the blade in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: THE GLEASON WORKS
    Inventors: Hermann J. Stadtfeld, Benjamin D. Church
  • PERIPHERAL CUTTING TOOL UTILIZING STICK BLADES
    Publication number: 20160175950
    Abstract: A low profile peripheral cutter (18) with stick blades (6). The cutter comprises a cutter body (30) and a flexible clamping disk (20) to clamp all blades wherein the flexible clamping disc includes a slot (24) between each cutting blade (6) in order to provide a plurality of blade clamping web wings (26) each of which acts like a deflection beam to hold the blades in position. Preferably, each web wing (26) covers one stick blade (6) and each web wing comprises two contacting pads (36, 38) to press each blade into its seating surface (44, 46) thereby holding the blade in position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: THE GLEASON WORKS
    Inventors: Hermann J. Stadtfeld, Benjamin D. Church