Patents Issued in March 16, 2004
  • Patent number: 6705196
    Abstract: An ammunition drum (110) and firearm with an ammunition drum (110). The ammunition drum designed for being mounted on a firearm has at least two projectile channels (118), which are arranged around a longitudinal drum axis (112). The ammunition drum (110) has at least two drum segments (114.1, 144.2, 114.3), which are connected with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Oerlikon Contraves AG
    Inventors: Kurt Mueller, René Alfred Hagmann
  • Patent number: 6705197
    Abstract: A soft fabric multithreat ballistic vest is disclosed. The vest is a combination of different types of ballistic fabric used together, One type of ballistic fabric serves to slow and deform a projectile through plastic deformation and heat transfer. The other material serves to slow a projectile and absorb its energy thereby reducing backface deformation. The combination of various types of ballistic grade material allow the use of fewer total plies of material and a lighter weight end product than if either one type of material was used alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventor: Murray L. Neal
  • Patent number: 6705198
    Abstract: A linear drive comprising a housing having a tube body (3) and a terminally mounted housing cover (4). In the wall of the tube body (3) a cavity is located, into which a sensor (14) extends. The rear end section (21) of the sensor (14) is in a socket (18), arranged as an extension of the cavity, of the housing cover (4). This socket (18) is formed by a recess (22) and its opening (26) extends from the end face (23) facing the tube body (3), of the housing cover (4) as far as the adjacent lateral outer face (24) of the housing cover (4). The electrical lead means for the sensor (14) are associated with the lateral section of the recess's opening (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Festo AG & Co.
    Inventor: Ullrich Hirling
  • Patent number: 6705199
    Abstract: A precision servo control system for a pneumatic actuator has a piston positionable over a stroke of the pneumatic actuator using a supply of pressurized gas. A brake and a sensor system are connected to the actuator and to the servo control system. The servo control system operates to initiate the forward thrust from the pressurized gas to move the piston along the stroke. When a braking point along the stroke is determined, the servo control system initiates a reverse thrust from the pressurized gas while maintaining the forward thrust and simultaneously begins to selectively apply the brake to stop the piston within a predetermined tolerance of a desired stopping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Tol-O-Matic, Inc.
    Inventors: Chen-Fu Liao, Paul B. Gladen, Keith Hochhalter
  • Patent number: 6705200
    Abstract: A vacuum brake booster (1) has a vacuum chamber (4) and a working chamber (3), which are separated from one another in a pressure-proof manner by a movable wall (5). A control valve (6), which has a housing (7) workingly coupled to the movable wall (5), has a valve seat (10), which is disposed in the housing (7) and which in dependence upon the displacement of an input element (8) may control the supply of at least atmospheric pressure to the working chamber (3) in order to achieve a pressure difference at the movable wall (5). For improved braking force assistance during emergency braking operations, an armature (18) cooperating with a permanent magnet (19) is provided in the control valve housing (7) and coupled in actuating direction to the actuating element (8). The armature (18) is spring-biased counter to actuating direction and, in the normal position of the control valve (6), is held at a first distance from the permanent magnet (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Lucas Varity GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Schlüter, Michael Possmann
  • Patent number: 6705201
    Abstract: A piston/cylinder unit, in particular a gas spring, includes a valve device for the operational motion of a piston rod. The valve device is activatable by an activation device, the activation device being connected near an actuation device and being connected to a load contact device, which influences the function of the valve device. The load contact device connects the actuation device to the valve device for the purpose of changing the adjustability of the valve device when the gas spring is loaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Stabilus GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Knopp, Stephan Enders, Manfred Metzdorf
  • Patent number: 6705202
    Abstract: An engine includes a rotatable member with one or more cylinders disposed tangentially around its circumference. There are one or more corresponding pistons, each piston is associated with a piston lever pivoted eccentric to the rotatable member. Movement of each piston is controlled so that combustion energy is transmitted to the rotatable member by the cylinder moving away from the piston. Both the cylinders and pistons rotate continuously relative to a stationary part of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Harcourt Engine Pty Limited
    Inventors: Dougal Lamont Harcourt, Robert James Selby, William Lewis White
  • Patent number: 6705203
    Abstract: An extended male slipper servo pad provides an improved connection between the swashplate and a positioning mechanism in a variable displacement hydraulic unit. The swashplate assembly includes a swashplate having a socket formed therein and a male slipper servo pad pivotally attached to the swashplate at the socket. The male slipper servo pad has a ball end secured in the socket and a pad end having a substantially flat planar surface thereon directed away from the ball end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Sauer-Danfoss Inc.
    Inventor: Nick Boone
  • Patent number: 6705204
    Abstract: A swash plate-type compressor includes a cylinder block, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a plurality of pistons, and a pair of shoes. The cylinder block has a plurality of cylinder bores formed therethrough. The drive shaft is rotatably supported by the cylinder block. The swash plate is mounted on the drive shaft for rotation therewith. Each of the plurality of pistons is slidably positioned within a respective one of the cylinder bores to reciprocate therein. Each of the pistons has a pair of substantially semispherical cavities formed at an end thereof. A pair of shoes is positioned between each of the pistons and the swash plate. Each shoe has a semispherical portion adapted to be positioned within one of the substantially semispherical cavities of the pistons and a flat portion slidable along a surface of the swash plate. A first concave portion is formed in the flat portion. A second concave portion is formed in the semispherical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Sanden Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Miyazawa, Masatoshi Sagiya
  • Patent number: 6705205
    Abstract: A piston apparatus includes a housing containing a piston, a first spring assembly arranged about a portion of the piston, a damping assembly including a hydraulic damper reset spring assembly arranged inside the piston, and cooperating structure on the housing and piston for actuating the damping assembly arranged inside the piston to slow motion of the piston when inside the housing. The housing includes a first end having a stop element with an axial stem portion. The spring assembly contains a spring captured between annular end members and is disposed between the exterior of the piston and the interior of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Michael S. Gaudette
  • Patent number: 6705206
    Abstract: A fluid actuator attaches a hinged safety device to a vehicle and pivots the hinged safety device between retracted and extended positions. The housing of the actuator has a base and a removable cover. A sub-assembly is attached to the base. The subassembly includes a generally planar base member with integral right cylinder, lever arm pivot support and stop posts. A piston slides in the right cylinder and forms a fluid chamber between the piston and a closed end of the right cylinder that is fed through a passage through the closed end of the cylinder. A lever arm is pivotally attached to the lever arm pivot support at one end for pivotal movement between retracted and extended positions, the lever arm extending over the cylinder and having a lip at an opposite end that is spaced from the right cylinder. A pivot arm engages the top of the piston at one end and the lever arm at an opposite end to transfer motion from the piston to the lever arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Transpec, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Bernard, Richard J. Iminski, Kevin L. Wolf
  • Patent number: 6705207
    Abstract: A piston type compressor has a housing, a cylinder block and a piston. The cylinder block is fixed to the housing. The piston is accommodated in the cylinder block. A piston ring is provided between the cylinder block and the piston. A sealing coat is made of soft metal, and is provided between the piston ring and the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Masakazu Murase, Tatsuya Koide, Takayuki Imai
  • Patent number: 6705208
    Abstract: A beverage brewer (20) with a brew basket sensor (48) that senses when the brew basket is fully mounted to a brew basket mount (38) to enable initiation of a brew cycle. A controller 14 responds to the brew basket sensor (48) and internal programming that times the brew cycle including the drip period to actuate an automatic remote controlled brew basket lock (50) to lock the brew basket to the mount (38) during the entire brew cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Zbigiew G. Lassota
  • Patent number: 6705209
    Abstract: A pressure cooker includes a cooking pot (22) and a lid (23) removably attachable thereto by interlocking radially-extending circumferentially-spaced locking flanges on the cooking pot and lid. The lid and cooking pot further include handles to facilitate application of the lid to the cooking pot, and safety interlocks which vent the interior of the cooking pot to the atmosphere at all times except when the lid is securely locked to the cooking pot, and also prevent opening the lid when the interior of the cooking pot is pressurized. The lid further includes a manual pushbutton (73) to produce a rapid-release of the pressure within the cooking pot when the lid is to be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventors: Bing Yang, Jingran Fu, Shiliang Llang
  • Patent number: 6705210
    Abstract: A chafing dish with utility handles connected to the chafing dish at such an angle as to permit a lid to be placed on top of the chafing dish and allow a safe, efficient, and balanced grip to be had to lift and exchange or serve food in a chafing dish assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventor: Joseph L. Leonard
  • Patent number: 6705211
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electric roaster for smoked meat which comprises an outer shell, an inner pan covered by heating elements located inside the outer shell, an up lid, a supporting ring located on the bottom of the inner pan, a tray for holding the meat located within the inner pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventors: Shou-Cai Dong, Li Huang
  • Patent number: 6705212
    Abstract: A stainless steel structural member for a blockformer apparatus has at least one surface along which in operation curd slides. The at least one surface coming into contact with curd is at least partly a substantially sloping undulating surface, viewed on a microscopic scale, which has been obtained through a micropeening treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventors: Wieger van der Meulen, Steven Acreman
  • Patent number: 6705213
    Abstract: A smoke generator has an air pump with control valve to supply a continuous controllable air supply to a smoking fuel on a grid in a fire box. Smoke is directed to the food processor from a smoke output within the fire box and above the grid. A chimney extends from the top of the fire box. It is filled with fuel. This fuel is fuel is not in the air stream, so it does not burn. As fuel on the grid is consumed, fuel from the chimney drops onto the grid. This provides a continuous feed of fresh so that the device can generate a uniform controllable stream of smoke over a long period of time unattended. A disposable fuel cartridge is also provided for ease of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventor: Thomas A. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6705214
    Abstract: A tilt out head for a bulk material baler that includes a bracket for holding a baling wire feed drive, including an electro servo motor and drive wheels, a baling wire knotter including tying cylinders and an electro servo motor and optionally other equipment such as a cutter, a gripper, and tensioning pins. The tilt out bracket of the present invention pivots at its lower extremity so that the equipment on the bracket may rotate outwards and down away from a baler carriage to a stopped position that exposes all of the parts for ease of repair and maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: L&P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Timothy Stamps
  • Patent number: 6705215
    Abstract: A Carpet Seam Press is disclosed. The press includes means for cooling and pressing a recently-formed seam between two adjoining sections of carpet. The press further includes a light projecting from at least one end for illuminating confined work areas. The press also includes a bottom plate having several small holes formed in it and fans for forcing air through those holes and onto the seam being pressed and cooled. Further yet, the press may provide an electrical convenience outlet to eliminate the need for more than a single extension cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventor: Patrick Underwood
  • Patent number: 6705216
    Abstract: Calender including at least one roll stack having a plurality of rolls arranged to form at least one nip, a stand arrangement having a stand located at each axial end of the at least one roll stack, and antifriction bearings arranged to support the plurality of rolls on the stand arrangement. Each stand includes a bearing edge on which the antifriction bearings are arranged, a contact edge structured and arranged to contact a mounting surface, and a connecting edge forming a connection between the bearing edge and the contact edge. Each stand further includes a plate structured and arranged to include the bearing edge, the contact edge and the connecting edge to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Rolf Conrad
  • Patent number: 6705217
    Abstract: A device for holding a golf ball during printing of indicia thereon. The device includes a base, a stationary member attached to the base and having a surface for engaging a portion of the golf ball, a clamping member slidably mounted on the base and having a surface for engaging a portion of the golf ball, and positioning members having springs that urge the clamping member toward the stationary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventors: Donald W. Godsey, Michael R. Davis
  • Patent number: 6705218
    Abstract: One or more beverage container labels and the method for creating a first static part and a second variable part including printing the image on the label using a single pass. The printing apparatus having a computer with memory to store a first static portion of an image and a second variable portion of an image so that a rasterizer connected to the memory and combining the first static portion and the second variable portion can form an image for printing. The apparatus also has a printer connected to the rasterizer for printing the image on a label in one step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: The Jolt Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Carl J. Rapp
  • Patent number: 6705219
    Abstract: The web-fed rotary offset printing machine utilizes a blanket belt onto which two or more colors are offset and which prints the two or more colors at once onto a material web. The blanket belt travels about guide rollers which have a lesser mass and/or a lesser diameter than the form cylinders which offset the colors onto the blanket belt. If several impression nips—blanket to web nips—are formed along the travel path of the material web, they are located so close to one another that fan out register errors cannot occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Gerald Roger Douillard, Eric Michael Lapine, Michael Robert Lemelin
  • Patent number: 6705220
    Abstract: A device for guiding a travelling web comprises a first movable angle bar and a second movable angle bar located in respective positions in a first operative mode to guide the travelling web from an entering direction to an exiting direction and to define a first print-to-cut registration setting. In a second operative mode the exiting direction of the travelling web is changed and the print-to-cut register is maintained, whereas in a third operative mode the print-to-cut register is changed and the exiting direction is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Ronald Henry Boucher
  • Patent number: 6705221
    Abstract: In a sheet-processing rotary printing machine operatable in recto printing and recto/verso printing modes, there is provided a device for reversing sheets, which includes a transfer drum bounded by two sheet-guiding cylinders, a reversing/storage drum and an additional transport element assigned to the transfer drum, the transfer drum being drivable in opposite directions of rotation in the recto printing and the recto/verso printing modes, and gripper systems actable in both directions of rotation of the transfer drum, the gripper systems being accommodated on an imaginary jacket surface of the transfer drum; a printing unit including the components of the device; and the printing machine being a multicolor printing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Günter Stephan
  • Patent number: 6705222
    Abstract: A rotary printing machine is disclosed comprising a conveyor for conveying sheets of material from an upstream cylinder to a downstream conveyor in which the angular positions of both conveyors are sensed, as well as the linear position of each sheet, and the speed of the conveyor is adjusted to maintain registry of each sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Ward, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald J. Norman, Jack E. Simon
  • Patent number: 6705223
    Abstract: An inking unit for a printing machine includes at least one roller, an ink container adjacent to the roller, a metering doctor blade disposed on the ink container and being engageable with the roller, and a movable displacer element for setting a printing ink level in the ink container relative to the metering doctor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Schönberger
  • Patent number: 6705224
    Abstract: In a stamp apparatus, a paper-sheet object is conveyed in the arrow direction between a presser roller and an impress hub having a predetermined character/symbol string. Since a cam is rotated in the arrow direction by a rotary solenoid, it makes the presser roller approach the impress hub via a roller and an arm. A separating lever is rotated in the arrow direction by a rotary solenoid from an initial position (position shown in the drawing) to a siding position. When the paper-sheet object is conveyed to between the presser roller and the impress hub, a stamp bonded on the bottom surface of the paper-sheet object is canceled with a postmark. A presser mechanism suppresses a rebound produced when the presser roller starts to urge the paper-sheet object, and also maintains a predetermined urging pressure of the presser roller relative to the paper-sheet object having a predetermined thickness or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato Kuroda, Yoshikazu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6705225
    Abstract: A tubular printing blanket including a tubular print layer, a tubular isotropic plastic reinforcing layer underneath the print layer, a compressible layer underneath the reinforcing layer, and a sleeve for supporting, directly or indirectly, the compressible layer. es axial stability due to its isotropic nature and the plastic material. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing a tubular printing blanket including forming a tubular reinforcing layer and sliding the tubular reinforcing layer over a compressible layer. Furthermore, a device for manufacturing a tubular printing blanket is also provided. A first build cylinder has an outer diameter. A mandrel cap can be attached to one end of the build cylinder, the mandrel cap having an outer diameter larger than the build cylinder outer diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: James Brian Vrotacoe, Richard Karl Weiler
  • Patent number: 6705226
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for clamping the leading edge of a supply of recording media, such as a printing plate, on the external drum of an imaging system. The leading edge clamping apparatus includes a spring segment disposed on the external drum, wherein the spring segment may be selectively displaced between a clamping position for clamping the leading edge of the printing plate against the external drum and a release position, and an inflatable member positioned between the spring segment and the external drum for displacing the spring segment between the clamping position and the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Agfa Corporation
    Inventor: Kevin T. McManus
  • Patent number: 6705227
    Abstract: A recto and verso printing press, comprising an upper gripper and a lower gripper, respectively, centrally pivotable with respect to an introduction of force, said upper gripper, in recto printing position thereof, being cooperable with a gripper pad fixed to a cylinder of the printing press, said upper gripper and said lower gripper being arranged centrally in relation to one another and to said gripper pad, and having a common center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Heidleberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Willi Becker
  • Patent number: 6705228
    Abstract: A method for exposing print media formed as printed plates with the use of UV light from a light source that is modified by a projection unit with respect to direction and/or intensity, the method comprising the steps of in a first process appearing an image of a calculated and stored partial image from the projection unit on the print medium; in a second process positioning the projection unit relative to the print medium by a positioning unit; optimizing joining of partial images into one image by running the first process and the second process in parallel with coordination of the first process and the second process by a higher-level unit via control of lines, and by providing at least one unit in which one or more trigger signals are generated for starting and ending the second process to move the projection unit to a next partial unit, and for the first process for starting and ending an exposure, so that the trigger signals are evaluated by a receiver formed as the higher-level unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignees: Basys Print GmbH Systeme fuer Druckindustrie, Toyo Ink. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Stefan Eggers, Claas Andreae
  • Patent number: 6705229
    Abstract: A method for setting machine settings for a printing machine at a time selected from before and during printing of a printed product on a printing machine, includes providing for one of an operator of the printing press and a pressman to evaluate a printed result of a printed product produced in one of a production printing and a proof printing, and resetting the machine settings, if necessary; in dependence upon an enabling signal, storing prescribed input variables and machine settings, which define a print job, in a control system belonging to the printing machine; and applying the stored values for influencing future settings of the printing machine, even for other print jobs; a printing machine for performing the method; and a material for printing with the printing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Eckart Frankenberger
  • Patent number: 6705230
    Abstract: An active optical fuze employing side looking, narrow beams. The beams never have anything below the roll stabilized missile in their field of view. Fog and cloud discrimination circuitry is included in the fuze. Detonation of the warhead occurs when either beam intersects any structure on the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventor: Roy L. Nichols
  • Patent number: 6705231
    Abstract: A safing and arming device is provided for a warhead or round which is to be launched by a rifled gun and which includes submunitions. A slider is disposed in a housing between a detonator and lead cup and is movable between a first, safe position wherein the slider acts as an interrupter and a second, armed position wherein an opening in the slider is in alignment with the detonator and lead cup. A setback sensor initially locks the slider in the safe position and then, responsive to a setback force produced at gun launch, unlocks the slider. An ejection sensor also initially locks the slider in the safe position and continues to lock the slider against movement to the armed position during a period between gun launch and exiting of the warhead from the gun. Responsive to the ejection force produced at exiting of the warhead from the gun, the ejection sensor unlocks the slider to enable movement thereof to the armed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventor: Alexey Zacharin
  • Patent number: 6705232
    Abstract: A tamping machine for tamping ballast underneath ties of a railroad track includes a machine frame extending in a longitudinal direction and supported for mobility on the track by two undercarriages. A subframe is arranged between the undercarriages and is mobile on the track by means of a further, separate undercarriage. A frame support is provided for connecting the subframe to the machine frame in a manner allowing displacement of the subframe in the longitudinal direction. The frame support is mounted on the machine frame and displaceable relative thereto perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction. A transverse drive is connected to the frame support and linked to the machine frame. A vertically adjustable tamping unit and a track lifting unit are arranged on the subframe between the further undercarriage and the frame support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Franz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Josef Theurer, Friedrich Peitl
  • Patent number: 6705233
    Abstract: A paint wagon (10) has a base (22) having a plurality of wheels (28, 30) mounted in supporting relation thereto. A drop pin (32) is slidably mounted to the base. The drop pin (32) selectively engages with a conveyor (12) for translating the paint wagon (10) along a path. A plurality of slidably mounted mounting fixtures (26) are movable between a contracted position and an expanded position. An actuating assembly (24) slidably mounts the mounting fixtures to the base. The actuating assembly (24) has a longitudinal support (38) and a plurality of cars (52, 54, 56) in sliding engagement with the longitudinal support. The mounting fixtures (26) extend from the plurality of cars. A rotatably mounted pinion (70) drivingly engages a rack (84, 86) which is slidably mounted with the longitudinal support. The rack (84, 86) is connected to an outer car (56).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Decoma International Corp.
    Inventors: Bradley Spiewak, Henry R. Draper
  • Patent number: 6705234
    Abstract: A folding table is provided having a three-sectioned platform. The table includes two pairs of pivotal supporting legs wherein pair member legs are rigidly cross braced and are held by cable braces when the leg pairs are erected. The table also includes two tensionable platform cable members and a pair of platform-to-cable load transfer bars. When the table is fully erected the platform cable members are tensioned by the load transfer bars and maintain the platform in a flat, load-bearing state. The platform's three sections are interconnected by hinges that permit in a folded table a pair of opposite end sections to overfold one another and overlie an intervening mid-section. When folded, the table has a compact, easily transported configuration with all movable and loose components being internally stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventors: Kurt Miller, David Kumarich
  • Patent number: 6705235
    Abstract: A platform is selectively attachable to the wall of an open container. The platform includes a hanger which is placed over and engages the top rim of the container wall. A bracket is pivotal between a flat storage position and a locked position perpendicular to the planar body of the platform. When the bracket is placed in the locked perpendicular position, the hanger may be placed over the top rim of the upstanding wall so that the bracket abuts the outside surface of the upstanding wall and the platform is therefore maintained in a substantially horizontal orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventor: Mike Gerutto
  • Patent number: 6705236
    Abstract: A pallet (10) includes a rectangular support deck (12) having a substantially planar upper supporting surface including a plurality of channels (16) formed therein extending across the pallet (10). The deck (12) includes support members (14) extending from an underside of the deck (12) that nest in recesses formed in the upper surface of the deck. An alignment portion (40) is formed at a center point along the first edge of the deck and a second alignment portion is formed at a center oint of an opposed edge of the deck. An alignment portion (40) includes angled sides for receiving a tapered member of a complementary device (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Stratis Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew W. Elder
  • Patent number: 6705237
    Abstract: A pallet includes an upper deck, a support material disposed within the upper deck, an upper frame member supporting the upper deck, a plurality of foot members disposed on the upper frame member, and a lower frame member disposed on the plurality of foot members. The upper deck includes a first half and a second half disposed in communication with a major face of the first half. Numerous variations in which the pallet is collapsible or includes reinforcement members are within the scope of the pallet disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Infiltrator Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy E. Moore, Jr., Ronald P. Brochu, Daniel J. Swistak
  • Patent number: 6705238
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a scissors lifting device having a pair of scissors positioned between a carrier unit and a base unit. The scissors have inner arms and outer arms which can pivot in relation to each other about a scissors axle. The lifting device further includes a lifting truck that can be moved back and forth by means of a drive in order to open and close the scissors. According to the invention, a drive shaft that is oriented parallel to the scissors axle is coupled to the drive and enables at least one traction mechanism that is arranged around the drive shaft and is coupled to the lifting truck to be moved in both directions of rotation. This results in a construction having a reliable drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Heckert GmbH
    Inventor: Gerold Heckert
  • Patent number: 6705239
    Abstract: A table assembly has extruded motorized telescopic legs with an outer leg including adjustable feet which provide micro adjustment of the height of the table assembly. The combination of the telescopic support leg and adjustable feet provide macro and micro adjustment of the table to accommodate workers of different stature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Suspa Incorporated
    Inventor: James E. Doyle
  • Patent number: 6705240
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a portable table that can be anchored to an earthen surface. The portable table has a top portion comprising opposing surfaces, and at least one stand member. The stand member may be secured to the top portion by a securing member in a disassembled state to facilitate transportation of the portable table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventors: Robert H. Block, Miguel Ruiz
  • Patent number: 6705241
    Abstract: A refractory vessel has a generally cylindrical metal shell and an upper torispherical dome. A refractory liner lines the shell and the dome. A layer of skew blocks are positioned between the cylindrical shell portion of the refractory liner and the dome portion. A metal band is positioned outwardly from said layer of skew blocks for restraining radial expansion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Weyerhaeuser Company
    Inventors: Zia Abdullah, John Peter Gorog
  • Patent number: 6705242
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to hermetically seal openings in an explosion suppression chamber. The present invention utilizes an air lock device to ensure that, in the event toxins are released from the primary explosion chamber opening closing means, the toxins are properly handled and are not inadvertently released into the atmosphere. The preferred embodiment of the present invention uses negative pressure to vacuum the entrained air within the airlock cavity subsequent to an explosion. An alternate embodiment of the present invention uses positive pressure within the air lock cavity to force air through integral filter membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: CH2M Hill Constructors, Inc.
    Inventor: John Donovan
  • Patent number: 6705243
    Abstract: A supporting-arch construction having two abutment blocks, one impost, in each case, engaging against each abutment block. Supporting-arch blocks are arranged between the imposts, and are of the same construction. A process is provided for producing such a supporting arch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Refratechnik Holding GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus-Detlef Kassau
  • Patent number: 6705244
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an inflatable seat webbing, more particularly for a seat belt, comprising the steps of weaving a two-ply fabric having an upper ply and a lower ply, folding and placing outermost outer parts on adjoining parts so that all parts are located in sequence above or below a middle part to result in, as viewed in a warp direction, the configuration of a collapsed concertina, and tucking the middle part to the left as viewed from a predetermined direction in relation to fabric threads so that the upper ply and the lower ply of the middle part formerly facing each other now face outwards and sandwiching the folded outer parts and the middle part in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Inventors: Johann Berger, Josef Märtz
  • Patent number: 6705245
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for forming polymer by DC plasma polymerization wherein a substrate is used as an electrode by applying a power to the substrate and an opposite electrode in a deposition chamber is positioned to both the surfaces of the substrate to be deposited. In addition, the present invention can acquire safety during the polymerization by insulating a main body from a substrate to which voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Young-Man Jeong, Su-Won Lee, Dong-Sik Youn