Patents by Inventor Maurice Prodel

Maurice Prodel 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).

  • Apparatus for the assembly and/or machining of circulating and immobilizable parts carried by pallets
    Patent number: 4787496
    Abstract: Apparatus for the assembly and/or machining of parts manually and/or automatically, comprising a multiplicity of work stations each having pallet transfer apparatus for the displacement of the part-carrying pallets to the interior of a station and from one station to another by one or more carriages in continuous movement in which the movement of a pallet by a carriage occurs along one edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Inventors: Maurice Prodel, Jacques Prodel
  • Modular installation for assembling and/or machining parts, with work stations including keyboard-display devices
    Patent number: 4646245
    Abstract: Work stations (PM1 to PM3, PA, PB) are connected in series or in parallel in a closed loop main conveyor circuit (CC), thereby constituting a modular "flexible workshop" type of installation. Each work station (e.g. PM1) includes an upstream read means (L11) and a write means (E12) for co-operating with a modifiable destination code incorporated in each pallet conveyed by the system. Each work station has a local data processor unit (UM1) associated with a keyboard-display device. The keyboard-display devices greatly facilitate setting up the modular installation whenever it is changed around, and also provide continuous monitoring of installation operation, including the work done by specific operators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Inventors: Maurice Prodel, Jacques Prodel
  • Apparatus for the assembly and/or machining of circulating and immobilizable parts carried by pallets
    Patent number: 4519491
    Abstract: Apparatus for the assembly and/or machining of parts manually and/or automatically, comprising a multiplicity of work stations with means for the displacement of the part-carrying pallets to the interior of a station and from one station to another by one or more carriages in continuous movement in which the movement of a pallet by a carriage occurs along one edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Inventors: Maurice Prodel, Jacques Prodel
  • Machines for assembling or for machining parts
    Patent number: 4513854
    Abstract: An installation for assembling and/or machining parts manually and/or automatically, the installation comprising a plurality of stations or modules through which part-carrying platens move along a path comprising successive horizontal path portions extending at right angles to one another. The platens are driven along successive path portions by successive belts which at least partially support the platens, the improvement being that each module has as many belts (93, 99, 118) as it has perpendicular path portions, with each belt comprising an endless loop having a driving portion (95) and a return portion (94).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1985
    Inventors: Maurice Prodel, Jacques Prodel