Patents Issued in August 7, 2003
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Publication number: 20030145667Abstract: A linear actuator comprises rotary motion producing means (1,2,3,4,5); linear motion producing means (6,7,10,11,12) coupled with the rotary motion producing means for converting rotary motion to linear motion; a driven member (18) movable linearly by the linear motion providing means from a first position to a second position; and backdrive means (22) for returning the driven member to the first position. The arrangement is such that the linear motion producing means includes torque reaction means (13,15,16,17) which, in normal operation, is in an activated condition and provides a torque reaction path to enable the driven member to be moved from the first to the second position but which, in the event of a fault, is in a de-activated condition so that it no longer provides the torque reaction path and the back-drive means can move the driven member to the first position, without disengaging the rotary motion producing means from the linear motion producing means.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Alistair Ross Donald, Paul John Dursely
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Publication number: 20030145668Abstract: A drive shaft moving apparatus of the present invention includes a drive shaft 1 with a screw groove 3 formed in spiral shape, and a nut 5 fitted around the drive shaft 1 and being rotatably supported on a main flame 15 so as to allow the drive shaft 1 to axially move. The apparatus is characterized in that a fixing means 17 is provided on a side of the main flame 15 for preventing the drive shaft 1 from rotating, the fixing means 17 includes a guided member 24 being capable of moving along a guide member 4 formed on the drive shaft 1 in the axial direction, and the guided member 24 is disposed between the nut 5 and the drive shaft 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Toshiaki Shimada
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Publication number: 20030145669Abstract: The invention concerns a piston wherein the mobile screw (2) is engaged in the bolt (8) integral with the mobile assembly (1). It is provided with a cylindrical axial housing (10) wherein is engaged the rod (7) integral at its front end with the expander assembly (4). At the end of its front travel, the rod is retained by its flange (19) pressed on the stop (11) such that the expanding ring (5) is compressed by the thrust of the piston body (3) and causes the flexible envelope (6) to expand.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Pascal Favre
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Publication number: 20030145670Abstract: A screw device having a lubricant applying structure comprises a screw shaft provided with a spiral ball rolling groove, a nut provided with a loaded ball rolling groove having a spiral shape corresponding to the spiral ball rolling groove formed to the screw shaft, a number of balls disposed in a loaded rolling passage formed by the ball rolling groove and the loaded ball groove, a return member provided for the nut and arranged so as to connect one and another end portions of the loaded rolling passage so that the balls rolling the loaded rolling passage circulate, and a lubricant applying portion mounted to the return member so as to apply a lubricant. The lubricant applying portion is arranged inside the return member provided for the nut.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Fujita, Yoshiaki Saito
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Publication number: 20030145671Abstract: Motor vehicle gearbox with two concentrically mounted input shafts (6, 9), each driving an individual layshaft (12, 15), having gears (16-19, 41) in engagement with gears (21, 22, 40) on an output shaft. One layshaft (12) has a central synchronization device (30), by means of which the layshaft which is driveably coupled to the momentarily non-driven input shaft, can be accelerated up to a rotational speed chosen by the selected gear speed. The central synchronization device (30) has a friction clutch (34) and two synchronization gears (32, 33) of different diameter, the gear (33) of smaller diameter being widened relative to the other and being lockable to the shaft (12) by means of an engagement sleeve (63), so that drive torque can be transmitted via the synchronization gear (33).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Anders Hedman
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Publication number: 20030145672Abstract: Ball screw drive including threaded spindle and threaded nut body. Nut body is axially displaceable on spindle, and threaded grooves of the spindle and the nut body are arranged to form load-bearing ball channel. Return channel is provided, as is plurality of balls for movement through load-bearing ball channel and return channel. Return channel is structured so that balls moving through return channel are not under stress. At least one of spindle and nut body have at least one additional groove parallel to load-bearing channel, and return channel includes the additional groove. End caps arranged at opposite ends of nut body are structured and arranged to transfer balls from load-bearing ball channel to return channel and from return channel to load-bearing ball channel. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Eichenberger Gewinde AGInventor: Kurt Husistein
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Publication number: 20030145673Abstract: A ballscrew and ball nut assembly with complimentary threads providing a ball raceway having a ball re-circulation path within the screwshaft of the ballscrew provided on the peripheral surface of a screwshaft insert and including end passages which communicate with the raceway and a non-helical mid-passage connecting said end passages.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Dennis Frederick Walton
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Publication number: 20030145674Abstract: The robot includes a substantially vertical linear track and a bearing configured to translate along the linear track. Also included is an elongate arm having opposing first and second ends. The elongate arm is rotatably coupled to the bearing near the first end. A platform, configured to receive a wafer handling robot, is rotatably coupled to the elongate arm near the second end of the elongate arm. A linear drive, configured to translate the bearing along the linear track, is coupled to the bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventor: William T. Weaver
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Publication number: 20030145675Abstract: An apparatus (10) includes first and second plates (44 and 84) extending parallel to each other and movable relative to each other. A locking mechanism (140) prevents movement between the first and second plates (44 and 84). The locking mechanism (140) has a first position applying a force to urge the first and second plates (44 and 84) toward each other to prevent movement between the first and second plates. The locking mechanism (140) has a second position to permit relative movement between the first and second plates (44 and 84). A surface treatment on one of the first and second plates (44 and 84) and between the first and second plates resists relative movement between the first and second plates when the locking mechanism (140) is in the first position. The surface treatment lubricates relative movement between the first and second plates (44 and 84) when the locking mechanism (140) is in the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: TRW inc.Inventor: James M. Hobaugh
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Publication number: 20030145676Abstract: A flywheel for an internal combustion engine comprises a support and a ring gear. The support possesses a radial surface and the ring gear possesses a complementary radial surface. According to the invention, the ring gear is shaped in such a manner as to allow the ring gear to deform radially towards the axis of rotation of the flywheel at least in certain deformation angular sectors corresponding to compression and expansion zones of the pistons of the engine, and the complementary radial surface is fixed to the radial surface in fixing annular sectors that are situated between adjacent pairs of deformation angular sectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Jean Bonnefous, Frank Douillard, Serge Gaudu
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Publication number: 20030145677Abstract: The use of one or more studs attached to the sole of a bicycle shoe as a means of engagement of the shoe with a corresponding pedal. The studs are similar in design to lugs, cleats, spikes, or studs conventionally attached to the soles of soccer, football, or other outdoor sport shoes as a means of enhancing traction on turf or dirt. In a preferred embodiment of the pedal a cylindrical ring connects a pedal body and legs and provides a means for sandwiching studs in slots between the ring and a pedal cage. The stud-based shoe and pedal system is especially suited for mountain bicycling. The shoe readily releases from the pedal in unanticipated stops, thus preventing injury, and enables a cyclist to maintain firm contact with pedals in steep or treacherous terrain. The shoe performs well both on and off a bicycle when the cyclist is riding and running in difficult conditions commonly associated with off-road bicycling.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: David Albert Bremer
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Publication number: 20030145678Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a control apparatus for a cutting machine in which offset values on coordinates relative to the cutting machine are indicated, regardless of the position of the turret, and an operator need not calculate the offset values in the cutting process. This invention is characterized in that an X-axis offset value (&Dgr;X) and a Z-axis offset value (&Dgr;Z) of a cutting edge of the cutting tool when the turret 1 has been turned to an arbitrary angle are converted to values on coordinates relative to the cutting machine, and indicated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2001Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Hiroki Nakahira, Katsuaki Ono
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Publication number: 20030145679Abstract: High energy flux infrared heaters are used to treat an object having a surface section and a base section such that a desired characteristic of the surface section is physically, chemically, or phasically changed while the base section remains unchanged.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2000Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Vinod K. Sikka, Craig A. Blue, Evan Keith Ohriner
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Publication number: 20030145680Abstract: An ultrafine metal powder slurry with high dispersibility includes an organic solvent; a surfactant having a hydrophilic group and a lipophilic group; and an ultrafine metal powder in an amount more than 60% by mass and less than 95% by mass. In the slurry, the hydrophilic group of the surfactant is at least one selected from a sulfonato group, sulfo group, sulfonyldioxy group, polyoxyethylene group with carboxyl group, and polyoxyethylene group with phosphate group, and the lipophilic group is an alkyl containing 12 or more carbon atoms or an alkylphenyl. The ultrafine metal powder slurry includes no aggregated particles, exhibits good dispersibility and is useful as a metal material for conductive pastes. The slurry can save a part of process steps in conventional conductive paste production processes, can shorten a process time and can save in labor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: KAWATETSU MINING CO., LTD.Inventor: Morishige Uchida
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Publication number: 20030145681Abstract: A method of making Cu, Zn, and/or Cu/Zn alloy nanoparticles subjects one or more targets to laser energy to form a vapor and condenses the vapor to form nanoparticles having an average particle size of less than 20 nm. The optional application of an electric field results in nanoparticles with aspect ratios greater than 1.0. The target(s) can be a single target or separate targets comprising a mixture of copper, zinc, and/or copper/zinc. When separate targets are used, the laser beam can be split to form two separate beams each of which is made incident upon one of the targets. The nanoparticles can be formed in a chamber having an inert atmosphere or a reactive atmosphere and a convection current is created in the chamber by maintaining the top plate at a lower temperature than the bottom plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: M. Samy El-Shall, Sarojini Deevi, Yezdi B. Pithawalla, Seetharama C. Deevi, A. Clifton Lilly
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Publication number: 20030145682Abstract: A method of producing a non-metal element or a metal or an alloy thereof from a halide or mixtures thereof. The halide or mixtures thereof are contacted with a stream of liquid alkali metal or alkaline earth metal or mixtures thereof in sufficient quantity to convert the halide to the non-metal or the metal or alloy and to maintain the temperature of the reactants at a temperature lower than the lesser of the boiling point of the alkali or alkaline earth metal at atmospheric pressure or the sintering temperature of the produced non-metal or metal or alloy. A continuous method is disclosed, particularly applicable to titanium.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Kroftt-Brakston International, Inc.Inventors: Richard P. Anderson, Donn R. Armstrong, Stanley S. Borys
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Publication number: 20030145683Abstract: A 99.99% pure indium feed is charged into crucible 8 and heated to 1250° C. by upper heater 6 in a vacuum atmosphere at 1×10−4 Torr, whereupon indium evaporates, condenses on the inner surfaces of inner tube 3 and drips to be recovered into liquid reservoir 9 in the lower part of tubular member 11 whereas impurity elements having lower vapor pressure than indium stay within crucible 8. The recovered indium mass in liquid reservoir 9 is heated to 1100° C. by lower heater 7 and the resulting vapors of impurity elements having higher vapor pressure than indium pass through diffuser plates 12 in the upper part of tubular member 11 to be discharged from the system whereas the indium vapor recondenses upon contact with diffuser plates 12 and returns to liquid reservoir 9, yielding 99.9999% pure indium while preventing the loss of indium.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: DOWA MINING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kishio Tayama, Toshiaki Hodozuka
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Publication number: 20030145684Abstract: In a purification apparatus comprising a vertical stack of a feed heating zone having the feed crucible 1, a condensation zone having a plurality of condensation vapor passage plates 5, a solidification zone having a solidification crucible 2 and an entrapment/solidification zone having a plurality of entrapment/solidification vapor passage plates 7, a feed metal, preferably with a purity of at least 3N, is charged into the feed crucible 1 in a vacuum atmosphere, preferably at no more than 13 Pa (10−1 Torr), with the feed crucible 1 and the condensation vapor passage plates 5 being heated at controlled temperatures to generate the vapor of the metal in the feed heating zone; part of the metal vapor is condensed to form a molten condensate which is returned into the feed crucible 1, thereby; the process solidifying the high-purity metal in the solidification zone; the solidified metal has a purity of at least 6N and contains Cl, F and S in a respective amount of no more than 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: DOWA MINING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kishio Tayama, Shunichi Kimura
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Publication number: 20030145685Abstract: A process for producing a composite material of titanium carbide, titanium nitride, or tungsten carbide and metal or a metal alloy such as iron or steel or an alloy comprises blending together precursor materials including a titanium or tungsten source, a source of carbon, and a metal or a metal alloy and heating the precursor materials in a vacuum or an inert atmosphere or a nitrogen containing atmosphere to a temperature effective to form TiC, TiN or WC, to thereby form a material comprising particles of TiC, TiN or WC substantially encapsulated in a matrix of metal or metal alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: William Ronald Owers
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Publication number: 20030145686Abstract: An impact instrument for delivering an impulse to an object. The impact instrument may include an impact surface for contacting the object and an elongated member extending from the impact surface that terminates in an end. The elongated member may include a grasping region in the vicinity of the end. When the instrument is grasped within the grasping region, the center of percussion of the instrument preferably coincides with the impact surface. The instrument may also contain pivoting grasping member disposed on the elongated member. A cavity is preferably formed between the grasping member and the elongated member and may contain compressible material. The grasping member may rigidly contact the elongated member at an ideal pivot point. The grasping member is preferably adapted to pivot with respect to the elongated member at the ideal pivot point.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2001Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Board of Regents, The University of Texas systemInventor: Kurt A. Schroder
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Publication number: 20030145687Abstract: A spanner includes a spanner body having a head portion that defines a socket receiving chamber confined by a peripheral wall, and a handgrip portion extending from the peripheral wall and defining a shaft-receiving chamber. A drive shaft is rotatably disposed in the shaft-receiving chamber. A connecting member is disposed rotatably in the socket receiving chamber, and engages the drive shaft via a coupling unit. An annular sleeve is disposed outwardly of the handgrip portion, is sleeved securely on one end of the to the drive shaft, and is formed with an elongated groove. A turning handle is pivoted to the sleeve, and is turnable between a used position, in which, the handle is disposed outwardly of the groove, and a storage position, in which, the handle is received in the groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Wei Mo Jye Powertool Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yi-Chih Lin
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Publication number: 20030145688Abstract: A ratchet tool includes a passage defined through the head of the tool and communicating with an interior of the head. A driving member is received in the head and is pivotally connected to a pawl which is engaged with a toothed member in the head. A first engaging member is located on the driving member and a bar movably extends through the passage. The bar has a second engaging member which is engaged with the first engaging member. The pawl is pivoted by pushing the bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2001Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Liao I-He
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Publication number: 20030145689Abstract: A tool is adapted for rotating a threaded fastener having a plurality of circumferentially arranged flat areas separated by respective points. The tool includes a handle having first and second opposing ends. At least one of the first and second ends defines a fastener-receiving opening. A plurality of cam surfaces are formed at the fastener-receiving opening, and are adapted for operatively engaging respective flat areas of the fastener. A plurality of point pockets are formed between respective cam surfaces, and are adapted for receiving the points of the fastener to preserve the points when the fastener is rotated by the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Jerry A. Hartman
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Publication number: 20030145690Abstract: A tool is adapted for rotating a threaded fastener having a plurality of circumferentially arranged flat areas separated by respective points. The tool includes a handle having first and second opposing ends. At least one of the first and second ends is a working end having an inner and outer perimeter. The inner perimeter defines a fastener-receiving opening adapted for receiving the threaded fastener. The outer perimeter defines at least one clip-receiving groove. The groove is adapted for receiving a portion of a locking clip located adjacent the fastener. The tool is applicable for rotating the fastener only when the portion of the locking clip is received within the groove. A plurality of cam surfaces are formed with the inner perimeter at the fastener-receiving opening, and are adapted for operatively engaging respective flat areas of the threaded fastener. A plurality of point pockets are formed between respective cam surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Jerry A. Hartman
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Publication number: 20030145691Abstract: The non-slip system consists of screw connection elements or screw closure elements with cams or grooves (4) on the face, and of a spanner (13), also provided with cams (16, 17, 18), for tightening and loosening them. The side flanks (8, 9) of the cams or grooves have an S-shaped profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Rego-Fix AG.Inventor: Ernst Gerber
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Publication number: 20030145692Abstract: A pair of pliers having a first plier member assembly having a jaw portion, a tension assembly, and a cam assembly and a second plier member assembly having a jaw portion. The pliers further has a jaw portion first pivot point coupling the first plier member assembly to the second plier member assembly and a jaw portion second pivot point coupling the first plier member assembly to the second member assembly. The jaw portion second pivot point located closer to the first member and second member jaw portions than the jaw portion first pivot point.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Gerald Vincent Delbrugge, Eric Richard Colburn
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Publication number: 20030145693Abstract: A tool retaining device includes a shank having two ends selectively engaged in a barrel and having tool members detachably secured to the ends for being selectively used to act onto the objects or to drive fasteners. The shank includes an end shaft having a socket opening for receiving a tool member, a bucket secured onto the shaft and having a bore for slidably receiving a casing. A magnetic member is engaged in the casing and includes an orifice for slidably receiving the tool member and for attracting and retaining the tool member to the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Li Shiu Huang
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Publication number: 20030145694Abstract: An apparatus and a method are disclosed for reducing a thickness of a thermomechanically-affected layer on an as-machined surface of a hard metal workpiece being machined by a hard cutting tool exerting a thermomechanical load on a surface of the workpiece. The method involves reducing the thermomechanical load on the surface of the workpiece, and the apparatus includes a means for reducing the thermomechanical load on the surface of the workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Ranajit Ghosh, John Herbert Frey, James Bryan Taylor
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Publication number: 20030145695Abstract: An improved apparatus for trimming an irregular open end of a container body is disclosed. The improved trimmer cartridge includes a sealed gear housing, for retention of interior lubricant and to reduce contamination. An adjustment mechanism, accessible from the exterior of the housing, is provided to adjust a gap between two blades of the trimmer cartridge. The adjustment mechanism provides improved control over the gap width, which is between 8-25% of the can metal thickness. Additionally, a tang that is removably connected to a shaft for a first blade provides rotational power for the trimmer. The tang is replaceable without requiring the housing to be opened or requiring replacement of the blade shaft. Another blade shaft is provided for a second blade, with the two blade shafts having substantially equal mass. The trimmer also includes spur gears, which do not have the thrust load associated with prior art helical gears.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Metal Container CorporationInventor: Thomas C. Dickey
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Publication number: 20030145696Abstract: This application is drawn toward a combined coring and sawing machine for composite materials. The preferred embodiment combines the functionality of two machines typically used in the prior art and minimizes both the cost and errors associated with larger cutting tools, e.g. diamond cutting devices, used in the prior art. Combining variable speed motor operation with pressure actuated advancement of cutting tools and automatic workholding actuation provides a system which is effectively open-loop “load” controlled as opposed to the open-loop “displacement” control systems most often used in the prior art. Simple and economical specimen ejection techniques are a further improvement over the prior art which often includes no ejection facility at all.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: William Crockford
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Publication number: 20030145697Abstract: A die cutting system that includes a press and a substantially planar die with a plate and at least one cutting edge protruding from a surface of the plate. The press is manually operated and may be hand-held or supported upon a flat surface, such as a tabletop. A first member of the press receives the substantially planar die, while a second member of the press provides support for a sheet of material from which the die will cut a pattern upon biasing the die against the sheet of material. Manually operated presses and die cutting methods that employ teachings of the invention are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2001Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Natasha P. Hixon, Mark A. Hixon
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Publication number: 20030145698Abstract: A method and apparatus by which potatoes and other elongate food product can be properly oriented and stabilized during a slicing operation performed by a cutting device having a horizontal cutting plane. The apparatus includes a passage extending downwardly toward the cutting device and defining an opening in proximity to the cutting device, splines or other suitable features disposed along a first portion of the passage and oriented substantially parallel to the passage, and means for applying a force on a food product traveling downward through the passage so as to urge the product into contact with the splines during engagement with the cutting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Brent L. Bucks
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Publication number: 20030145699Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for portioning foodstuffs in three dimensions. A step in portioning according to the present invention includes scanning the foodstuff to be portion. Followed by a step of generating a three-dimensional map of the foodstuff. Followed by a step of comparing the generated three-dimensional map of the foodstuff with the desired shape which is stored in the memory of a computer. The computer will then be able to determine the particular cutting path in three dimensions in order to arrive at the predetermined shape. Followed by a step of cutting in one direction to fix at least one dimension of the foodstuff. Followed by a step of determining whether the foodstuff is within the tolerance limits or whether the foodstuff portion has moved during the first cutting operation. If the foodstuff portion has moved, the foodstuff will be rescanned. Followed by a step of generating a two-dimensional image of the foodstuff.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: FMCInventors: Kwang S. Kim, Stan Wijts, Norman A. Rudy
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Publication number: 20030145700Abstract: A conveying surface for a slicing apparatus that can be moved in two orthogonal directions in a coordinated manner to allow a depositing of slices in a pattern on the conveying surface. The conveying surface can be an endless belt conveyor circulated in the longitudinal direction by a servo-motor via a telescopic drive shaft and shifted in the lateral direction by servo-motor driving a crank arm mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Formax, Inc.Inventor: Scott A. Lindee
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Publication number: 20030145701Abstract: A frame saw for sawing a relatively thick piece of wooden feed stock simultaneously into a plurality of thinner pieces of wood, and including a feed assembly for continuously feeding the stock from an upstream input position to a downstream output position, and a plurality of closely spaced-apart parallel reciprocable saw blades positioned intermediate the input position and the output position for sawing the stock into thinner pieces of stock as the stock is moved by the feed assembly relative to the blades. A drive assembly is operatively connected to the blades for driving the blades in a reciprocating motion comprising alternate cutting and non-cutting strokes. A linear offset motion assembly is provided for moving the reciprocating blades alternately upstream and downstream into linearly-offset cutting and non-cutting positions relative to the stock.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Karl Ogden
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Publication number: 20030145702Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for cutting label sleeves off from a flat tubular label belt, unfolding and attaching the tubular label sleeves to objects, whereby a flat label sleeve is, no later than immediately after the cutting off of the tubular label belt, grasped on one side, transported continuously away, in a regular manner, by a cutting device while likewise grasped on the opposite side for a short time, in a non-uniform manner relative to the other side, transported in the same direction, and is, after that, opened by means of a lateral expansion of distance of both of the flat sides.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Gunther Eiban
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Publication number: 20030145703Abstract: In a device for the three-sided trimming of book blocks, adhesively bound or wire saddle-stitched paper covers and like printed products (1), the said device having separate cutting stations (22, 27), which are disposed one behind another in a direction of conveyance (F), for the front and head/foot trims, the said direction of conveyance (F) being orientated perpendicularly to the height of the block and perpendicularly to the front-trimming plane; having cutting tables (23, 28) on which the printed products (1) rest, at least partially, during trimming; having knives (25, 30) which are moved up and down and which operate against cutting strips (23a, 28a) fixed in the cutting tables (23, 28) or against lower knives; having pressing beams (24, 29) for pressing the printed products (1) against the cutting tables (23, 28); and having a transporting system (13) which connects at least the two cutting stations (22, 27) and clamps-in the printed products (1) in the process, there are provided a gripper (18) whichType: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Ansgar Rohe-Krebeck
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Publication number: 20030145704Abstract: Shears for cutting belt material, especially corded belts, with a movable upper knife and a stationary lower knife, a discharging conveyor belt and an upstream, pivotable depositing table and a drawing-in device for the belt material, wherein a metal shifting sheet, displaceable in the conveying direction of the belt, is mounted on the depositing table between the depositing table and the belt material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Bernd Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20030145705Abstract: An adjustable fence that provides a surface acting as a support and stop and includes an angled face with a measurement device thereon and further includes a plurality of grooves in which attachments such as clamps, miter gauges, stops, guides, jigs or fixtures are readily affixed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Blaine Miller
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Publication number: 20030145706Abstract: A lightweight, portable guide assembly for use with a power tool such as a hand-held circular saw is described having a platform, a front, a rear support and a bottom plate secured to the platform and a removable base secured to the assembly through an attachment means. The platform contains a pair of adjustable parallel guides for receiving the power tool and a blade gap allowing the power tool to contact a workpiece. The assembly is designed such that the blade of the circular saw contacts and penetrates the base without damage to the saw or the assembly, obviating the need for adjustment of the assembly before use and allowing for simplicity in design and construction of the guide assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Bobby Jordan
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Publication number: 20030145707Abstract: The invention concerns a sawing device comprising a wire assembly (15) supported on wire-guiding rolls (11, 12) and pressed against a workpiece to be sawn (20) fixed on a support table (21). A oscillating device (23) enables to produce a relative reciprocating movement between the workpiece to be sawn and the wire assembly (15) around an oscillation axis (A) whereof the spatial position can be adjusted and programmed so that said oscillation axis (A) is at a programmable and adjustable distance from an effective axis of rotation (28) of the oscillating device (23). In one embodiment, the oscillating device (23) comprises therefor rotating members (27), and translating members along two directions (Z and Y) contained in the cutting plane, thereby enabling to obtain very planar sawn slices with very even surface texture and improved sawing efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Charles Hauser
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Method, apparatus and actuatable perforator for creating apertures in pipe and pipe produced thereby
Publication number: 20030145708Abstract: The invention is a method and apparatus for making conduit for use in leaching systems, and the conduit produced thereby. The conduit has apertures created during its formation. The apertures are not cut from the material of the conduit. The material that is perforated is “rolled”, and made a part of the inner surface of the conduit. Included is at least one perforator that is actuatable. The conduit-forming material being perforated (typically a plastic-type material) is semi-molten, as during formation of the conduit, or after formation of the conduit by heating the perforator, thereby causing the conduit-forming material to be rolled rather than cut in creating a perforation. The apparatus has at least one actuatable perforator or at least one multi-tipped sequentially actuatable perforator located in at least one of a plurality of conduit-forming molds.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: David W. Presby -
Publication number: 20030145709Abstract: For a woodworking machine having a horizontally disposed working table and a bandsaw blade transverse to the table, there is provided an elongated fence having a substantially rectangular cross-section mounted perpendicular to the table and spaced from the saw blade and parallel to the line of the saw blade. The fence has a clamp including (a) a downwardly disposed projection at about one end of the fence adaptable for engaging an edge of the table, and (b) a pivotal member downwardly disposed from the fence at about the opposite end thereof and adaptable for engaging an opposite edge of the table. The projection is adjustable linearly relative to the fence to bring the projection and the pivotal member into fast engagement with opposed edges of the table. The pivotal member includes locking screw for locking the fence in a selectively pivotal position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Tom R. Flader
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Publication number: 20030145710Abstract: A saw tooth system having a plurality of tooth segments is provided. A retainer member engages retainer surfaces on each of the tooth segments to form a saw tooth unit. A retainer fastener may further secure the retainer member and tooth segments relative to one another. Locating flanges may be used to more precisely locate the tooth segments relative to each other or to a tooth holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Keith B. Hicks
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Publication number: 20030145711Abstract: An electric double-bass is broken down into a trunk, a detachable framework assembled with the trunk, coupling units provided between the trunk and the detachable framework, accessory parts, strings stretched over the trunk and an electric sound generating system for generating electric tones like acoustic tones of a double-bass, and any resonator is formed in the electric double-bass, wherein a string player disassembles the detachable framework from the trunk for storing the electric double-bass in a case, thereby enhancing the portability of the electric double-bass.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Shinya Tamura
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Publication number: 20030145712Abstract: A stringed musical instrument having an instrument body and a neck extending in a longitudinal direction outward from the body. Strings attach at their first end to the instrument body and at their second end to the neck. The neck is attached to the body via a holding member extending at least partially through the neck and the instrument body while permitting the neck to be pivotable about a fulcrum on the body. The stringed musical instrument further includes a moveable adjustment member arranged so as to be moveable in a predetermined manner to adjust the angular position of the neck relative to the instrument body wherein the moveable adjustment member includes a finger manipulable portion to move the adjustment member in the predetermined manner. The finger manipulable portion may be located within a recess provided in the instrument body or within a hollow sound chamber within the instrument body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: R. Ned Steinberger
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Publication number: 20030145713Abstract: A music performance data signal contains tone effect control messages to control the tone signal processor for imparting tone effects to the produced musical tones in a high-ranked model of tone producing apparatus in which many and complicated tone effects are available. In order that such a music performance signal can drive a low-ranked model of tone producing apparatus in which a small number of and simple tone effect are available, the tone effect control messages for the high-ranked model are converted to tone effect control messages which can realize similar tone effects as on the high-ranked model. For the tone effects not directly available in the low-ranked model, the tone effect control messages are converted with reference to conversion tables.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Applicant: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Iwase
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Publication number: 20030145714Abstract: A software solution to the pitch limitations inherent in the MIDI standard. The invention uses the Polyphonic Aftertouch (also known as “Key Aftertouch”) messages available in the basic MIDI standard to retune selected notes, according to the following process: First, a standard note lying on the Western scale is played. Then, a Polyphonic Aftertouch signal is immediately sent to shift the pitch of the standard note to transform it into a non-standard note. The Polyphonic Aftertouch message follows immediately behind the Note On message and pitch value creating the standard note. Thus, the standard note only sounds for about 960 microseconds. The shortest temporal resolution of the human ear is approximately 2-3 milliseconds. As a result, the human ear does not hear the first standard note, since it does not sound for a sufficient length of time. The human ear only perceives the pitch shifted note.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Ahmed Shawky Moussa
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Publication number: 20030145715Abstract: A guitar pickup switching system for a three pickup guitar has a bridge pickup, a middle pickup, and a neck pickup for an electric guitar. This invention utilizes a switch arrangement which permits the three pickup guitar player to select outputs of the pickups in any one of 29 series, parallel, in-phase, and/or out-of-phase combinations.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Thomas Fredrick Wnorowski
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Publication number: 20030145716Abstract: Clearance of a minefield is effected using first and second ground-engaging drive units (63 and 64), each of which includes a milling or grinding drum (6). The first drive unit (63) is connected to the front of a multi-purpose vehicle or tractor (62) and the second drive unit (64) is connected to the rear of the vehicle or tractor (62) to form a mine clearance apparatus which can be driven over the land to be cleared of mines with the vehicle or tractor (62) supported clear of the ground by the first and second drive units (63 and 64). The milling or grinding drum (6) of the first drive unit (63) grinds up the surface vegetation and the milling or grinding drum (6) of the second drive unit (64) grinds up a layer of soil and any anti-personnel mines contained therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2002Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventor: Roy Dixon