Patents by Inventor Robert F. Porod

Robert F. Porod 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: 4027054
    Abstract: A flexible belt carrier is provided for use in an apparatus for spray soldering the ends of roll capacitor blanks. The belt may be constructed of silicon rubber and has apertures extending transversely through the belt which are positioned very near to one of its surfaces. A slit or opening is made at each aperture through the web separating the aperture from the nearest surface of the belt. The belt moves in a sinuous path such that when flexed around a pulley in one direction the edges of the slit spread and gap, allowing ready insertion of a blank. When the belt passes over another pulley, the belt flexes in the opposite direction so as to foreshorten the slit surface. The slits are made at an angle acute to the surface of the belt. Therefore, as their surface foreshortens, the walls of the web formed at the slit cam against one another and overlap, thereby fully and tightly encircling the capacitor blank, exposing only the ends thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: Western Electric Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert F. Porod