Patents by Inventor David J. Swift

David J. Swift 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).

  • Patent number: 5791005
    Abstract: A scarifying and deburring tool is disclosed adapted to scarify an outer surface of a tubing, pipe or fitting end and scarify and debur an inner surface of a member having an open cylindrical end such tubing, pipe or fitting end. The tool includes an elongated contoured handle with two inner surface scarifying brushes extending from opposite ends of the handle. The handle includes two outer surface scarifying brushes supported in spaced apart throughbores in the handle. A deburring plate is affixed to one side of the handle and includes an inwardly angled deburring scrapers aligned with and extending into respective throughbores. When a tubing, pipe or fitting end is inserted in a throughbore and seated against the corresponding scraper, the end is deburred when the tubing, pipe or fitting is rotated with respect to the tool. The deburring plate includes an opening that functions as a key for opening and closing "B" type acetylene tanks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: The Mill-Rose Company
    Inventors: Mark Grabowski, Heinz Holzhaeusser, Paul M. Miller, David J. Swift
  • Patent number: 4133147
    Abstract: An elongate, abrasive strip element is produced by winding an abrasive monofilament, or bundles thereof, back and forth in a zigzag pattern from side to side of the strip, and chain stitching together adjacent transverse sections of the monofilament, or bundles thereof. The resultant strip is easily rolled or coiled about a transverse axis, but resists bending about a longitudinal axis, whereby it can be manipulated readily to form brush faces of various configurations. The warp yarns which are used to produce the chain stitches may be produced on a knitting machine which can be cammed to vary the number of stitches between adjacent transverse strands of the monofilament wefts, thereby selectively to vary the density of the brush faces produced from the strips, and also to vary the configuration of the abrasive strip itself (i.e. to produce it in linear form, circular, truncated-conical, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Assignee: Schlegel Corporation
    Inventor: David J. Swift, Jr.