Patents Issued in February 10, 2004
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Patent number: 6688202Abstract: A table saw including a base, a main table supported by the base, first and second rails attached to the table, a sliding table fixedly attached to the rails and sliding along the longitudinal axis of the rails and a cross-cut table slidably movable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the rails. The cross-cut table may be adjusted to ensure movement parallel to a blade protruding from the main table. An improved miter gauge assembly is also disclosed. An improved fence assembly is further disclosed herein. In addition, a table saw having an improved panel and leg construction is disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: James Parks, Robert S. Gehret, Scott Livingston, Michael L. O'Banion, Robert P. Welsh, William Scott Taylor, Todd L. Huston, Edwin G. Zehr, Scott Stropkay, David Louis Weissburg, Mark Allen Nichols, William R. Stumpf, Lewis Hampton Rohr, Henry Louis Tew, Thomas S. Paladino, Paul Eichelberger, David Edmund Duncanson, Jerry Wayne Holleman, Adan Ayala
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Patent number: 6688203Abstract: A circular sawing machine includes a work table, a saw seat having a first end provided with a saw blade and a second end pivotally mounted the work table, and an indication device mounted on the saw seat. The indication device includes a support seat secured on the saw seat, a slide seat mounted on the support seat, and an indication light source mounted on the slide seat.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Rexon Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ruey Zou Chen
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Patent number: 6688204Abstract: A cutting machine of dual blade feeding for a blind of foamed plastics, more specially a cutting machine providing the cutting application for the blind of foamed plastics that includes a filing board with a squeezing blade and a trimming blade mounted relative to the cutting end. The squeezing blade and the trimming blade respond to a shiftable tool block. During the cutting process, when the squeezing blade and the trimming blades move respectively, the shifting corresponding to the shifting status of the tool block can be used to provide the two cutting tools with the resistant force of press cutting to align to the angular position to produce an evenly cut end of the foamed plastics.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventor: Shien-Te Huang
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Patent number: 6688205Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting assembly for use in thin and ultrathin web winding stations. It also relates to a method for cutting a web using this cutting assembly. According to the invention, the web (1) is cut by a blade (30) with a cutting edge transverse to the web transfer direction; the blade moves between a rearward position and a forward position; in the forward position, the cutting edge is substantially parallel to an axis of the roll (7) receiving the web, and the blade is substantially tangent to a surface of the roll. For cutting the web, the blade is moved from its rearward position to its forward position, so that its speed at the time it engages with said web is at least substantially equal to the speed of the web. This ensures a clean and clear cut of the web. At the same time, it ensures that the leading edge of the web is smoothly and evenly placed on the roll, without any creasing nor folding of the web.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2000Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Du Pont Teijin Films UK, Ltd.Inventor: Gilles Petitjean
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Patent number: 6688206Abstract: A saw blade for a circular saw has a circular disk with a predetermined radius and a predetermined thickness. Teeth are arranged on the circumference of the circular disk and elongated air passages are provided in the substantially circular side faces of the circular disk. The saw blade has two parallel saw blades that are driven in coaxially opposite directions. In order to improve the operational behavior of the saw blade, especially in its thermal characteristics while providing a high mechanical stability, a respective longitude of the elongated air passages extends in a selected direction to lie in an area that extends from a first direction of a secant intersecting the side faces to a second direction of a circumferential arch in the side faces. The elongated air passages are located in an outer region defined by a ring area. The outer border of the ring area is provided by the circumference of an outer circle having a radius in the order of about 0.75 to 0.95 times the radius of the circular disk.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Powertools International GmbHInventor: Heinrich Mummenhoff
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Patent number: 6688207Abstract: Dual bladed apparatus for cleaving optical fibers is provided. The apparatus includes a housing having an opening therein for receiving an optical fiber, with or without insulation thereon and whether or not contained within a ferrule, the apparatus having dual, opposing, cooperatively operable cutting means reciprocally moveable transversely to the fiber, which cutters are positioned in adjacent proximity to the exit of the opening. On insertion of a fiber through the opening and upon actuation of the cutters, the fiber is cleaved. Fibers having diameters up to 3 millimeters can be cleaved, and angled cleaves are achievable.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Delaware Diamond Knives, Inc.Inventor: Joseph W. Tabeling
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Patent number: 6688208Abstract: A workbench holder system configured with a triangular notch in one corner. A cutting guide and a support bracket each have an upper horizontal component and a downwardly extending vertical component coupled to the stop piece. A piece of lumber may be brought in contact with the surface of the stop piece remote from the vertical component of the cutting guide and the lower surface of the horizontal component for the accurate cutting of the lumber.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventors: Stuart M. Campbell, Jacqueline M. Campbell
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Patent number: 6688209Abstract: A munition rack comprises a center strongback with an aircraft attachment hookup structure thereon, a first munition deployment structure, including a first munition deployer, affixed to a first outboard end of the center strongback, and a second munition deployment structure, including a second munition deployer, affixed to a second outboard end of the center strongback. The center strongback, the first munition deployment structure, and the second munition deployment structure are preferably dimensioned such that the distance between a first munition deployer transverse midpoint and a second munition deployer transverse midpoint is at least about 19 inches. There is at least one additional munition deployment structure selectively affixed to the bottom of the center strongback at an inboard location intermediate between the first outboard end and the second outboard end.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Roy P. McMahon, Michael F. Hampton
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Patent number: 6688210Abstract: A pistol comprises a basic housing (1) and a barrel slide (2) which is guided movably on the basic housing (1). An insert piece (8) is mounted in the barrel slide and contains a firing pin (20) and a firing spring (33). In order to improve the reliability while at the same time reducing the production costs, the insert piece (8) forms an open internal cavity (15) in which there are guide surfaces (16, 17, 18) for the firing bolt (20). The firing bolt (20) has mating surfaces (26, 27, 28), which rest on the guide surfaces (16, 17, 18) of the cavity (15) and, on its upper face, defines a free space (24) which runs in a longitudinal direction. The free space (24) contains the firing spring (33), whose front end (34) is supported on the firing pin (20) and whose rear end (35) is supported on an opposing bearing (14).Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2003Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventor: Wilhelm Bubits
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Patent number: 6688211Abstract: A dual linear actuator for allowing a tool to perform multiple actions either simultaneously or independently of one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventor: Vu H. Viet
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Patent number: 6688212Abstract: A swash plate-type compressor includes a cylinder block having a plurality of cylinder bores formed therethrough, a drive shaft rotatably supported by the cylinder block, and a swash plate rotatably mounted on the drive shaft. The compressor also includes a plurality of pistons, each of which is positioned within one of the cylinder bores and reciprocates within the cylinder bore. Each of the pistons includes a substantially semispherical cavity formed at an end of the piston. The compressor further includes a pair of shoes positioned between each of the pistons and the swash plate. Each shoe includes a substantially flat surface adapted to be in slidable contact with the swash plate, and a substantially semispherical portion adapted to rotatably engage the semispherical cavity of the piston. Moreover, the semispherical portion of the shoe includes a saddle portion or a groove having a first curved portion and a non-circular perimeter.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventor: Jiro Iizuka
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Patent number: 6688213Abstract: Device for subjecting dough pieces to more than one dough treatment. The device has a number of dough treatment rooms placed above one another. From a supply side dough pieces are supplied to the device, and from a discharge side dough pieces that have been subjected to all dough treatments are discharged from the device. A first leverage apparatus is placed at the supply side and a second leverage apparatus is placed at the discharge side. Each dough treatment room is provided with an introduction opening for introducing dough pieces in the dough treatment room and with a take-out opening for taking dough pieces out of it. A conveyor conveys the dough pieces from the introduction opening to the take-out opening. The introduction opening and the take-out opening of each of the dough treatment rooms are placed near the respective supply side and the respective discharge side of the device.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2000Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Johan Hendrik Bernard KaakInventor: Lothar Pasch
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Patent number: 6688214Abstract: In a production method for processed soybean food products that includes a grinding step (A) in which raw soybeans are ground to obtain a soybean slurry and a heating step (B) in which the obtained soybean slurry is heated and thermally denatured, a deaeration step (C) for removing air bubbles mixed in with the soybean slurry is performed partway through the heating step (B). These steps can be effectively performed using a soybean slurry thermal deaeration device 1 provided with a first heating apparatus 10 for raising the temperature of the soybean slurry to a predetermined intermediate temperature; a deaeration apparatus 20 and a second heating apparatus 30 for completing the thermal denaturation by further heating the soybean slurry once it has been deaerated in the deaeration apparatus 20.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Motokazu Kikuchi, Hideo Shidara, Masato Endo, Shoji Wakao
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Patent number: 6688215Abstract: An integrated stacker for positioning materials in a stack, compressing the stack and positioning and sealing a strap onto itself around the stacked and compressed materials includes a frame, a conveyor mounted to the frame, and a stacking assembly mounted to the frame. The stacking assembly includes a feed for feeding the materials onto the stack. The stacker further includes aligning arms operably connected to the frame for aligning the materials on the stack, a compression section mounted to the frame for compressing the stack of materials and a strapper section mounted to the frame. The strapper section includes a strap chute for conveying the strap around the compressed stack of material, a feed head for tensioning the strap and a welding head for sealing the strap material onto itself. The strap chute defines a strap path. The feed head, welding head and strap chute are mounted to a bracket that is mounted to the frame along a portion of the strap path.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.Inventor: Allison D. Tipton
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Patent number: 6688216Abstract: A feedback control system for use in a press machine is adapted to monitor and adjust the clearance between the gib and slide. A pressurized chamber, such as a hydraulic piston-cylinder combination is disposed in actuating relationship to the gib. Selective pressurization of the piston-cylinder induces a controlled displacement of the gib towards or away from the slide, thereby regulating the spatial relationship therebetween. A sensor provides a measure of any possible clearance between the gib and slide. The clearance measurement is compared to allowable reference data. A controller controls the pressurization of the chamber in accordance with the comparison results, thereby controllably moving the gib. The gib may be selectively displaced to optionally effectuate a minimal clearance condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: The Minster Machine CompanyInventor: Michael J. Olding
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Patent number: 6688217Abstract: An improved twin screw extruder device (14) is provided which is capable of producing a wide variety of high quality extrudates having greatly varying final properties, without the need for extensive machine modifications. The extruder (14) includes a barrel (16) together with a co-rotating twin screw assembly (22). The assembly (22) is made up of a pair of screws (50, 52) having central, tapered shafts (54, 56) equipped with outwardly extending helical flighting (58, 60); the screws (50, 52) are non-parallel and are positioned so that the flighting (58, 60) thereof is intercalated along the length of the screws (50, 52). The fighting is of specialized configuration and tapers along the length of the screws (50, 52) preferably at an angle of taper different than that of the shafts (54, 56); moreover, the width of the outer flighting surfaces (70, 72) increases along the length of the shafts (54, 56).Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Wenger Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Bobbie W. Hauck, Lavon G. Wenger
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Patent number: 6688218Abstract: A calender for treating a paper web, having at least one roll stack capable of being loaded from the end and in each case comprising a top and bottom end roll and a plurality of intermediate rolls, which are jointly arranged in a roll stack plane, and the rolls including hard and soft rolls in order to form operating nips in the form of soft nips, wherein each soft roll which forms an intermediate roll has a greater diameter than a soft roll which forms an end roll.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Eduard Küsters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & CO KGInventors: Peter Svenka, Bernhard Brendel, Jörg Prey, Helmut Kox
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Patent number: 6688219Abstract: A device for printing printed sheets (1) according to the screen printing method has a printing table (10) and a screen mechanism (9) arranged above it, with a screen frame (8) and a conveying device (7) for moving the printed sheets (1) before, during and after the printing. The conveying device has, when viewed in the conveying direction, at least one clamping device (7) for clamping the lateral edge area of the printed sheets (7). The clamping device is arranged on the side of the printed sheets (1) and is displaceable in the conveying direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventor: Gerhard Klemm
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Patent number: 6688220Abstract: A stencil printer is linked with a non-stencil printer. A number of copies to be printed is set. Working mode of the stencil printer is set to a stencil making mode or an ink transfer mode. A stencil is made when the working mode of the stencil printer is set to the stencil making mode and ink is transferred to a printing paper through the stencil when the stencil printer is set to the ink transfer mode. When the number of copies set is not smaller than a predetermined threshold value, the stencil printer is used, and when the number of copies is smaller than the predetermined threshold value, the non-stencil printer is used. Switching between the stencil printer and the non-stencil printer is inhibited when the working mode of the stencil printer is the ink transfer mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Riso Kagaku CorporationInventor: Katsumi Ohno
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Patent number: 6688221Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing security foils for objects of value such as papers of value consisting of a carrier foil and a cover layer applied thereto, the cover layer having the form of characters or patterns and/or coating-free areas in the form of characters, patterns or the like. In this method a printing form fastened in a printing machine is imaged so that areas of the form are ink-accepting, subsequently the form is inked and a carrier foil printed. In the next step the printed carrier foil is provided with a thin cover layer and finally the printed inking and the cover layer thereabove are removed so that coating-free areas arise.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2000Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbHInventor: Wittich Kaule
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Patent number: 6688222Abstract: A rotary printing machine comprising two supporting shoulders, a central drum or cylinder being rotatably mounted on the supporting shoulders, at least one printing unit being arranged around the drum and comprising a printing plate cylinder and an anilox roller, which are rotatably mounted on a respective pair of supporting elements and whose rotation axis is parallel to the axis of the drum, wherein at least the central drum is actuated by a source of motion which directly engages an axial shank of the drum.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Uteco Holding S.p.A.Inventors: Mauro Cattaruzza, Agostino Pertile
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Patent number: 6688223Abstract: A cylinder, such as a forme or transfer cylinder of a printing machine has at least one clamping conduit in an outer cylinder body. This clamping conduit extends axially in the cylinder body and has a radial depth. A tempering medium can flow through the cylinder. The cylinder outer body has an inner surface which is generally circular and which cooperates with the tempering medium.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AktiengesellschaftInventor: Bertram Wilhelm-Georg Dauner
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Patent number: 6688224Abstract: A rotary-blade folding unit includes at least one folding blade, a pair of folding rollers and a drive for producing a hypocycloid movement of the folding blade about a rotational axis of the folding blade and a main rotational axis for folding a signature that has been guided up to the rotary-blade folding unit in a transport plane extending between the main rotational axis and the folding rollers, and further includes a drive mechanism for producing an oscillatory movement of the folding blade at least approximately parallel to the main rotational axis; a folder including the folding unit; and a printing machine in combination with the folder.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Philippe Francois Herda, Serge Lanvin, Thierry Vauchelle, Yannis Woloch
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Patent number: 6688225Abstract: An ink cooling system for printing presses is disclosed. The ink cooling system is arranged to cool ink at locations within a printing press at the locations in which the ink properties are most likely to be adversely impacted, and which locations are or may be physically remote from the centralized ink supply or ink tanks. The disclosed system thus counteracts localized heating that commonly occurs in printing presses, thus minimizing or eliminating printing problems caused by heated ink.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Graymills CorporationInventor: Gerald N. Shields
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Patent number: 6688226Abstract: A sleeve to be drawn over a rotary support in order to define a blanket cylinder of an indirect or offset printing machine, this cylinder cooperating with a lithographic plate cylinder from which it receives the date to be printed and with a substrate onto which said data are transferred, said substrate moving between the blanket cylinder and a pressure cylinder, the sleeve comprising an inner cylindrical portion to be drawn over the aforesaid rotary support and having its surface covered by a layered structure comprising at least one compressible layer and an incompressible outer layer arranged to cooperate directly with the lithographic plate and with the substrate to be printed; the layered structure being composed at least partly of polyurethane material.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Erminio Rossini, S.p.A.Inventors: Felice Rossini, Francesco Castelli
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Patent number: 6688227Abstract: A magnetic plate retention system especially suitable for use in retaining a lithographic plate material to a conventional plate cylinder utilizes one of more elongated retention devices selectively positioned anywhere along the outer circumferential surface of the plate cylinder parallel to the axis of rotation of the cylinder. The retention devices are applied, removed, and retained with an application/removal assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Presstek, Inc.Inventor: Samuel D. Zerillo
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Patent number: 6688228Abstract: Disclosed is a planographic printing plate precursor, comprising a hydrophilic support and an image forming layer containing oleophilic heat-fusible particles, wherein the hydrophilic support has voids and the void content is 20 to 40 ml/m2.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Saburou Hiraoka
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Patent number: 6688229Abstract: A method for printing includes a plurality of process steps. According to an additional step, relevant data are stored in a central relational database. Both a printing press and a data processing unit processing prepress data are interconnected.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Peter Eisele, Andreas Forer, Rainer Ihle, Michael Kaiser, Stefan Schenk, Gerhard Schlindwein, Mathias Supp, Volker Weidner
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Patent number: 6688230Abstract: A method of printing a token by printer (5), in which the printer (5) includes a digital identification device (1) configured to generate a series of distinct print job counter numbers and to provide a public key of a cryptographic public key/private key pair. The method includes the steps of sending a printer generated print job counter number and an encryption key to a token issuer (4) the token issuer (4) sending to the printer (5) a message encrypted by the encryption key, the message including the print job counter number and information representative of the token (9) to be printed and the printer (5) decrypting the encrypted message and printing the token using the information representative of the token (9) if the print job counter number is valid.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Cheh Goh, Marco Casassa Mont
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Patent number: 6688231Abstract: The invention relates to a cord-type gas generator, comprising a solid propellant strand (10) consisting of a gas-generating material, located in a sleeve (12) and a detonation element (18). The solid propellant strand (10) is positioned in the sleeve (12) in such a way, that continuous channels (19) are configured between the sleeve (12) and the solid propellant strand (10) for the formation of a detonation shock wave. The gas generator is characterised in that the solid propellant strand (10) has a reduced woven thickness (W), achieved by the introduction of gaps into the material (slits 13, pores 14), in order to reduce its burn time.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventor: Günter Herrmann
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Patent number: 6688232Abstract: A clean burning premeasured compressed charge for use in black powder firearms as well as cartridges. The premeasured compressed charge is manufactured to have a substantially desired shape which facilitates improved flame propagation by the leading end wall and along the exposed sidewall surfaces of the compressed charge to result in a more complete and rapid burning of the compressed charge both from the leading end wall toward the trailing end wall and also radially inwardly from each one of the four sidewalls toward a center of the premeasured compressed charge. The premeasured compressed charge has a leading end portion and a trailing end portion and the leading end portion is either the same size or a smaller dimension than the trailing end portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Legend Products CorporationInventors: Mark Andrew Griesbach, Brett Neal Epstein
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Patent number: 6688233Abstract: A system and method for improving the process of mechanical translation of projectiles by a spring mechanism that is built of a smart material and that is activated by an electric pulse, to provide a controlled translation of a projectile before firing or, in case of pre-firing termination, in order to restore the projectile to its original position after translation. The pre-firing translation using the spring mechanism provides a more controlled process and reduces the risk associated with the conventional propulsion charge translation design. The ability to return the projectile to its initial state after translation affords a significant advantage over the conventional propulsion charge design since it enables the projectile firing to be terminated even after translation, unlike in the conventional design whereby the projectile firing is irreversible upon a mechanical translation by setting off the propulsion charge.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2003Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Leon Manole, Stewart Gilman, Ernest Logsdon, Samuel A. Lafontaine
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Patent number: 6688234Abstract: A paint ball land mine comprising multiple PVC parts detonates and marks simulated casualties. The mine may be easily field stripped by hand. The mine forcibly detonates in response to physical contact without unbalancing, so that tilting forces that otherwise misaim the mine are avoided. A rigid cylindrical two-part base threadably receives a removable top. A sealed interior for holding colored fluid is defined therebetween. A gas cartridge housed vertically interiorly of the base may be detonated when forced into contact with a puncture pin. An integral, upwardly projecting dome mounts a detonator assembly, comprising a tubular plunger that slidably contacts the cartridge when fired. Escaping gases pressurize the mine interior, forcing colored liquid upwardly and outwardly through multiple discharge passageways that are angled acutely to aim fluid away from the center. A removable safety pin, temporarily engaging the plunger, may be “pulled” to “set” the mine.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Paintball Combat LLCInventors: Eric D. Huber, Michael E. Huber
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Patent number: 6688235Abstract: A suspended transportation system comprising an extended continuous hollow box way having a slot throughout its operative under wall, said box way being elevated by columns from the ground level and generally following the lay of the ground; a pair of rails fixed on either side of the slot on the operative inner surface of the under wall within the extended box way and extending continuously throughout the box way; a plurality of bogie assemblies moving on the said rails within the box way secured to a floating beam located in the box way operative overhead of the bogie assemblies suspension means extending from the floating beams operatively downwards and through the slot in the box way; coaches suspended from suspension means; and motor means to displace the bogie assemblies on the rails. A derailment control safety device is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd.Inventor: Bojji Rajaram
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Patent number: 6688236Abstract: A damping system for a rail car truck utilizes friction wedges supported on side springs to damp relative movement between the rail car truck bolster and the side frames supporting it. Each friction wedge has a generally triangular shape with an angle &thgr; defined between a vertical friction surface which bears against a side frame and a sloping friction surface which moves relative to the bolster. The angle &thgr; and the force P of each side spring are defined by Fw W .Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Standard Car Truck CompanyInventor: Armand P. Taillon
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Patent number: 6688237Abstract: The deformation element (1) of a rail-borne vehicle is disposed in the region of at least one deformation zone located on the end side of the vehicle and comprises at least one tubular hollow space, wherein a structure is attached in a replaceable manner in the rail-borne vehicle and is formed of two metal sheets (2a, 2b), of which at least one is designed as a profiled metal sheet (2a′, 2b′) and which are connected together on mutually facing cross-pieces (3a, 3b) which lie against each other thus forming hollow boxes (4a, 4b) extending in parallel with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Siemens SGP Verkehrstechnik GmbHInventors: Gunter Bäck, Werner Gödl, Johann P. Schmid, Ewald Brückler, Christian Fellner, Roman Brossschädl
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Patent number: 6688238Abstract: A shower accessory organizing system for providing a neat, organized, out-of-the-way storage of accessories while still keeping them readily accessible to the user. The shower accessory organizing system includes a vertical support portion that has a first end and a second end. The vertical support portion is extendable between a pair of horizontal support surfaces such as a floor and a ceiling. At least one shelf member is couplable to the vertical support portion. The shelf member has a horizontal support surface for holding a plurality of shower accessories.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventor: Chrisafina Alexiou
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Patent number: 6688239Abstract: A display unit is adapted to be mounted to a holiday tree. The display unit comprises a plurality of table tops, each of the table tops having an outer diameter which generally conforms to the cross sectional outer diameter of the holiday tree at differing heights. In addition, each of the table tops has a cutout where the trunk of a holiday tree extends through. Further, each of the table tops is divided into two portions along a join line extending through the cutout. The table tops are supported by legs extending between adjoining table tops and between the bottommost of the plurality of table tops and the ground.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventors: John R. Pettini, Daniel C. Resanovich
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Patent number: 6688240Abstract: A shelving system includes a plurality of shelves each having spaced front and rear hooks projecting from each side edge, each rear hook being spaced forwardly from the rear edge of the shelf, and a support framework for adjustably supporting the shelves at spaced intervals. The framework has a pair of support posts located on each side of the shelves, each pair of support posts comprising a front support post located adjacent the front hooks of the shelves and a rear support post located adjacent the rear hooks of the shelves. Each support post has a series of vertically spaced openings for receiving the shelf hooks. The posts are positioned so they are much less vulnerable to damage, and can be made out of light material with an open configuration. Brackets attach to the shelf to allow the easy addition of useful accessories to the standard shelf.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventor: V. John Ondrasik
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Patent number: 6688241Abstract: An emergency destruct system for destroying the information on microfiches attached to cards stored in security containers like the drawers of a combination lock safe. The system includes a storage tray for the cards, a tank holding fluid which can dissolve the emulsion on the microfiches, a release port assembly on the bottom of the tank and means for actuating the assembly to open the port and release the fluid contained therein. The tray contains styrofoam spacers which form compartments to store the microfiche cards, is open at the sides and is placed in the bottom of the drawer. The tank is held above the tray by a retaining member which is affixed to the upper drawer separator. The back of the drawer is cut off and a rubber pad is secured to the back of the safe to form a back for the drawer when it is in the fully closed position.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1974Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Raymond E. Reilly
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Patent number: 6688242Abstract: A seeding machine comprises a main frame segment and left and right wing frame segments. In its working configuration the wing frame segments extend transversely. In its transport configuration the wing frame segments are folded forwardly. The wing frame segments are provided with a rear rank of planting units that are mounted to the wing frame segments by pivot arms that extend downwardly and rearwardly. The pivot arms are pivotally mounted to the wing frame segments by a rock shaft. The rock shaft is provided with an actuator bell crank that is coupled to a linear actuator for rotating the rock shaft relative to the wing frame segments. The pivot arms have a working position, wherein the planting units are in their working position, and a transport position, wherein the planting units have been pivoted on their noses into their substantially vertical transport position to reduce the transverse transport width of the seeding machine.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Bradley John Meyer, Thomas LeRoy Hall, Robert Edwin Bennett, Richard Hugo Clark, William Douglas Graham
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Patent number: 6688243Abstract: A minimum tillage agricultural implement 10 having a plurality of laterally spaced shank assemblies 60, 62 mounted on a transverse tool bar 56, 58. Each shank assembly 60, 62 has an elongated narrow upright shank 70 that extends downward from the tool bar 56, 58 to a working point 78 for forming a narrow furrow 12 in soil covered with agricultural residue. Each shank assembly 60, 62 has a set of residue control wheels 130, 132 that straddle the shank 70 with the axes 134, 136 of rotation of the residue control wheels 130, 132 being located rearward of a front edge reference segment 82 of the shank 70 by a distance “A” of less than a diameter of the wheels 130 or 132 for engaging and stabilizing the soil and agricultural residue downward and under the wheels and away from the shank 70. In an alternate embodiment, the residue control wheels 130, 132 are longitudinally offset with the distance “B” between the axes 134 and 136 are less than one-third the diameter of the wheels 130, 132.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: The McGregor CompanyInventor: Paul H. Buchholtz
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Patent number: 6688244Abstract: A product on demand delivery system directs product from a main hopper to an application unit. An air pump directs pressurized air to a plurality of air supply hoses. The air supply hoses are coupled to air inlets located on the nozzle assembly of the main hopper. Opposite the air inlets are corresponding product outlets for receiving the air streams and product entrained in the air stream. The product outlets are coupled to product supply hoses that are in turn coupled to auxiliary hoppers located on the application units. The air inlet is downwardly angled relative to the bottom and the product outlet is upwardly angled relative to the bottom. Peaked baffles are located above corresponding air inlet and outlets so that product puddles form beneath the baffles. Gaps are formed between adjacent baffles so that product from the main hopper can flow into the product puddles.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Bradley John Meyer, Nathan Albert Mariman
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Patent number: 6688245Abstract: A cultivating and seeding machine is provided with a seeding unit and a tillage device and/or a land roller. The seeding unit is provided with a seeding actuator, the tillage device is provided with a tillage actuator and the land roller is provided with a land roller actuator. The seeding actuator regulates the sowing depth of the seeding unit, whereas the tillage and land roller actuators regulates the downward pressure of these two implements, respectively. A controller having a memory loaded with information for adjusting the working implements, controls the various actuators in response to these data records.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventor: Detlef Juptner
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Patent number: 6688246Abstract: A chain stitch sewing machine comprises a needle for penetrating through a cloth on a throat plate to be vertically moved interlockingly with a main spindle of the sewing machine, thereby holding a needle thread, a cloth presser mounted on the throat plate and serving to press the cloth, a looper having a looper thread for reciprocating in such a direction as to cross a cloth feeding direction below the throat plate interlockingly with the main spindle of the sewing machine, a main feed dog for feeding a loop formed by the needle thread and the looper thread in cooperation of the needle and the looper rearward in the cloth feeding direction, and a loop engagement member for protruding from an upper surface of the throat plate and engaging the loop with the cloth presser when the main feed dog is descending from the upper surface of the throat plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Juki CorporationInventors: Kazuya Sadasue, Satoru Nishimura
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Patent number: 6688247Abstract: A device for compactly holding a large quilt during the sewing phase of the quilt-making operation including a three-sided frame having spaced-apart side members, each the side member of terminal length and attached to a single, common cross-member, the frame adapted to enter into close juxtaposition or nesting arrangement with the free arm of a portable sewing machine, a quilt-holding fitting extending from each terminal end of each side member for holding opposed, curled portions of the quilt apart from each other to create a wrinkle-free, planar work area of the quilt therebetween, and a plurality of wheels for moving the frame over a small support surface, such as a card table, to allow machineType: GrantFiled: September 16, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventor: Lawerence Henry Danielson
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Patent number: 6688248Abstract: A submersible catamaran made of two parallel submergible floats, each having a triangular bow, a float midsection, a tail, and stern, a solid support surface forming a top to the two submergible floats adapted for supporting heavy loads, two movable columns disposed on the solid support surface, a fixed column on each submergible float, a ballast system disposed in each submergible float to raise and lower the catamaran with respect to the waterline, a horizontal positioning system with maneuvering winches and maneuvering lines connected to the winch and an object at sea, a controller for orienting the catamaran relative to the object at sea, and a vertical positioning system with two lines secured substantially vertically to the object at sea, two motion compensation systems disposed for monitoring the line tensions, and a control system to control the tension between the two motion compensation systems and the object at sea.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Itrec B.V.Inventor: Joop Roodenburg
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Patent number: 6688249Abstract: The invention relates to a fully automated, or a semi-automated, method for mounting or dismounting a semi-automatic twistlock at a corner of a deck container, wherein the twistlock is mounted or dismounted on a quayside where a ship may be docked for loading or unloading, in a loading or unloading terminal installed on the quayside, the deck container being placed by means of the quay crane on a trolley bearing the deck container. The trolley carrying the deck container is brought into the loading or unloading terminal, which loading or unloading terminal is installed outside the operating area of the quay crane. The deck container is lifted off the trolley, after which an implementation apparatus is activated for mounting or dismounting the twistlock. Subsequent to this operation having been carried out, the deck container is replaced on the trolley and the trolley leaves the loading or unloading terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignees: Technische Universiteit Delft, Nelcon B.V.Inventors: Antonius Johannes Klein Breteler, Gürbüz Tekeli
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Patent number: 6688250Abstract: A floating platform for recovery of oil and gas from offshore oil and gas fields supports one or more decks above the water surface to accommodate equipment for drilling and processing oil, gas and water recovered from the oil and gas field. The platform includes a central column having a portion substantially below the water surface, and including a portion which extends above the water surface. The central column includes a base node and a plurality of pontoons extending outwardly therefrom and is anchored to the seabed by one or more tendons secured to the pontoons and to the seabed. Ballast modules fixedly or removably secured to the base node and/or the pontoons accept solid or liquid ballast for lowering the vertical center of gravity of the platform.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2001Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Seahorse Equipment CorporationInventors: Kent B. Davies, Stephen E. Kibbee, Richard B. Matten
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Patent number: 6688251Abstract: A submersible vehicle of diverse use that eliminates the compartments of ballast, and at the same time, has a horizontal displacement system and new direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Inventor: Americo Salas Peralta