Patents by Inventor Melvin E. Moore

Melvin E. Moore 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).

  • Strap tensioning device
    Patent number: 4177724
    Abstract: In a package strapping machine an improved means for tightening the strap extending from a strap supply about a package to be strapped including feed means, retract means, linearly reciprocating tension means and a secondary gripper in which the tension means is outside of the path of the strap between the feed means and the retract means and in which the tension means reciprocates in a direction approximately normal to the usual path of the strap traveling through the tension means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Assignee: Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric A. Johnson, III, Melvin E. Moore, Tom A. Budd
  • Package strapping device with floating heat tongue
    Patent number: 4157274
    Abstract: An improved floating heat tongue and mounting device for use in conjunction with a package strapping device which forms a heat seal in overlapping portions of a plastic strap wrapped about a package. A floatable metal heat tongue mounted for vertical floating movement within a holder which is adapted to deliver heat to the heat tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1979
    Assignee: Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric A. Johnson, III, Melvin E. Moore, Tom A. Budd