Patents Issued in October 9, 2008
  • Publication number: 20080247797
    Abstract: The recording medium deburring apparatus is provided with: a transporting device that transports a recording medium; and a pressure applying device that applies pressure to edge portions of the recording medium. The edge portions are in parallel to a transporting direction of the recording medium transported by the transporting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshino, Atsumi Kurita, Yasuhiro Uehara, Junpei Amano, Aya Kakishima, Toshiyuki Miyata
  • Publication number: 20080247798
    Abstract: A tape printing apparatus, comprising a port for connecting to external apparatus; a first memory for storing label data defining at least one label; and a second memory comprising program information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Vladimir Buzuev, Jimmy Dullaert
  • Publication number: 20080247799
    Abstract: A thermal printer head and print control device capable of controlling what is printed onto a voucher, which includes a printer head and an image control sensor placed in an upper part of the printer head, and including an electronic card on a control unit and cables for connecting the image control sensor to the electronic card and the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: Custom Engineering Spa
    Inventor: Alberto CAMPANINI
  • Publication number: 20080247800
    Abstract: method for visualizing a use section (6) and at least one cutoff section (14) through a program for graphic production on an output device of a computer, wherein the use section (6) has an end format of a print product, and a page of the print product can be printed in the use section (6), and the cutoff section (14) abuts to an edge (15) of the use section (6), and has an elongated shape along the edge (15). In order to facilitate an intuitive perception in particular of the cutoff section (14) of a print page 7 it is proposed that in a joint depiction of use section (6) and cutoff section (14) at least one dimension of the cutoff section (14) is shown un-proportionally enlarged relative to the use section (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: HIFLEX SOFTWARE GESMBH
    Inventor: Dieter Reichhart
  • Publication number: 20080247801
    Abstract: Provided is a wallpaper printer having a media supply cartridge. The cartridge includes a media case, a media roll assembly rotatably located within the media case, and a roller assembly configured to operatively eject blank wallpaper from the media roll assembly and out of the case for printing with the wallpaper printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Kia Silverbrook, Tobin Allen King
  • Publication number: 20080247802
    Abstract: A starwheel for use in a printing device includes a plurality of rounded studs disposed around a periphery of the starwheel. A method of forming a starwheel that has a plurality of rounded studs disposed around a periphery of the starwheel includes injecting plastic into a mold to form the starwheel including the rounded studs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Phong X. Long, Fernando Juan Jover, Oreste Prada
  • Publication number: 20080247803
    Abstract: A wax-based drawing instrument having a substantially rigid wax-based cap applied to the ends of the fingers of the hand. The instrument has a frustroconical shaped internal cavity to allow the placement on a finger tip. The user can have a different color on each finger, allowing many colors to be used without having to put down one instrument and take up another. Several colors can also be applied simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Camillo Moro
  • Publication number: 20080247804
    Abstract: In a stick-shaped material propelling container capable of propelling and retracting a stick-shaped material, the influence of variation of the dimension of the stick-shaped material can be made small. An inner barrel is slidably inserted in an outer barrel, an elastic body which urges the inner barrel rearward is provided between the inner barrel and the outer barrel, a chuck piece which holds a stick-shaped material is provided at a tip end portion of the inner barrel, and a chuck ring is inserted between the chuck piece and the outer barrel. A cross section of the stick-shaped material forms a triangular shape, the frictional force applying part which is in contact with the stick-shaped material to apply a frictional force is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the outer barrel, and the frictional force applying part abuts on a side in the vicinity of a vertex of the stick-shaped material in a cross section of the stick-shaped material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: Kotobuki & Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidehei Kageyama
  • Publication number: 20080247805
    Abstract: A dispenser for spreadable foodstuffs and other spreadable substances allowing for spreading without the need for additional utensils not a part of the packaging is disclosed. The dispenser may rapidly switch between different disposable cartridges. Part of the dispenser is designed for an extended useful lifetime while the spreadable product is delivered in a disposable container. The dispenser can also be used to measure precise amounts of spreadable foodstuff and other spreadable products without the use of any additional measuring devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: INNOVATIVE CONSUMER SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Francis Kiss deVirag, Ileen Rosner, Jonathan Rosner, Alexander Sterling Wise
  • Publication number: 20080247806
    Abstract: The present invention provides an applicator including a combination applicating device (110) and substance (120) to be applied. For example, the applicator is particularly suited to the application of liquids integrated with a sponge or sponge-like device. In such personal cleansing environments, the liquid is associated with the sponge, and by activating the sponge (e.g., squeezing it), a dose of liquid is distributed to the sponge matrix, and the applicator can be used to apply the liquid to a surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: THE DIAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Catherine Henwood Todd, Andrew Clair Seys, Mark D. Hannen, E. Gary Myers, Jim F. Warner
  • Publication number: 20080247807
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing instrument, such as a marker assembly, the instrument having a barrel, a release mechanism, and a cap. The release mechanism can comprise a deformable arm affixed to the barrel or the cap, for pushing the cap and barrel apart. In one embodiment, a liquid dispensing instrument comprises a barrel having a first end and a second end, and a cap disposed over the first end of the barrel. The barrel has a deformable arm having a fixed end affixed to the barrel and a free end, the deformable arm protruding radially away from the barrel. The free end of the deformable arm pushes the cap away from the first end of the barrel when the deformable arm is pushed radially toward the barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: William P. Whitehorn, Michael Blackburn, Paul Dowd
  • Publication number: 20080247808
    Abstract: A combination roller/spray gun device with a spray gun nozzle that is held in alignment with a paint roller, and sprays paint at a predetermined point on a surface in front of the roller. A pressurized supply of paint is provided to a trigger controlled paint supply valve at the proximal end of the paint roller device. A removable nozzle/conduit assembly extends from the paint supply valve to the distal end of paint roller device. The nozzle/conduit assembly is secured inside of the shaft of the paint roller device by a removable roller assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Michael D. Costigan
  • Publication number: 20080247809
    Abstract: An application device for a liquid product, contained in a reservoir bottle having a lid for closing the opening of the bottle, through which at least one capillary migration channel for the liquid product passes towards a wetable surface on contact therewith is provided. Several similar capillary channels are preferably provided, which can alternatively function as openings for the entry of air through the lid. One of the ends of each channel opens outside the lid. The other end opens in a collector tube for the liquid product, contained in the bottle. The collector tube is embodied to hold a fixed amount of liquid product against gravity by capillary action, until the above is drawn off by capillary migration through the lid channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Richard Rene Bloc, Yves Ducroquet
  • Publication number: 20080247810
    Abstract: The inventive technology may relate to a retention apparatus (1) that in at least one embodiment comprises a compression sleeve element (2) established at least partially 5 around portions of a first elongated member (6) that telescopes from a larger elongated member (8) in which it may nest. A relative motion obstruction element (4) may disallow only certain types of motion, e.g., rotational and axial, of the compression sleeve element relative to the elongated members around which it may be at least partially established. As it instead may be the compression enhancement element (3)—which may be used to generate a retaining compression force element—that prevents perpendicular displacement of the compression sleeve element, deactivation and effective disengagement of the compression enhancement element may allow for a quick removal of the compression sleeve element without requiring that it be slid off an end of either elongated member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: ULTIMATE SUPPORT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Donald H. Eason
  • Publication number: 20080247811
    Abstract: A ball joint assembly for a vehicular steering or suspension application includes a cap-like housing in which is captured the articulating ball portion of a stud. A shank extends from the ball portion, outwardly from the housing cap, to provide a connection and anchoring interface for the suspension member or other anchoring component. The connection interface with the anchoring suspension member is characterized by a specially designed surface which is convenient to machine, provides increased surface-to-surface contact area, and provides additional advantages such as improved stress distribution and NVH benefits. A washer-like cone adaptor mates with a specially formed adaptor interface region on the stud. On its outer surface, the adaptor has a broad tapering feature designed to seat in a complementary-shaped receiving flare in the anchoring suspension member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Roger G. Sellers, Norman F. Curtis, Yanjun Xue, George R. Schmidt, Scott Warhover, Thomas J. Byrnes
  • Publication number: 20080247812
    Abstract: Piece of furniture (1) having at least a first furniture part (3) and a second furniture part (4), of which one furniture part (3) is mounted in a stationary, manner, and the other furniture part (4) is mounted in a movable manner, on the basic furniture structure (2) and which can be moved relative to one another, and having a lockable pushing-out device (5) which is arranged on the first furniture part (3) and is intended for moving the movable furniture part (4) from a closed end position into an open position, and having an engagement element (8) which is arranged on the second furniture part (4) and engages with the pushing-out device (5) at least over a part of the opening/closing path (OR, SR) of the movable furniture part, the engagement element (8) being mounted on the second furniture part (4) such that it can be adjusted preferably in linear fashion in relation to the first furniture part (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Thomas Embacher
  • Publication number: 20080247813
    Abstract: A socketing material (16), or mortar, for speltering wire rope, strand, and other tension members (14), comprising 35%-55% AL2O3; 32%-52% SiO2; 0%-20% CaO; and 0%-2% Fe2O3. The material (16) may have a continuous-use temperature of at least 1000 degrees, at least 2000 degrees, or at least 2500 degrees Fahrenheit. A speltered assembly (10) is produced by introducing the material (16) into and allowing it to cure within a cavity (24) of a terminal fitting (12) around the ends of a plurality of wires (31) of a tension member (16) which are arranged within the cavity (24) in a spaced-apart relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Timothy W. KLEIN, Bamdad POURLADIAN
  • Publication number: 20080247814
    Abstract: A release pin for selective engagement with at least one work piece, the pin extending in a longitudinal direction with an inner portion and an outer portion. The inner portion including a shank having an exterior portion extending in the longitudinal direction between a first end and a second end and the inner portion further including a locking arrangement near the second end. The shank exterior being sized to pass through an associated bore extending into an associated surface of an associated work piece. The outer portion being joined to the inner portion near the first end and including an abutment extending transverse to the longitudinal direction and being shaped to engage the associated surface when the shank is positioned in the associated bore such that the outer portion is defined by the abutment and has an outer longitudinal height extending in the longitudinal direction outwardly from the abutment and the associated surface when the pin is secured to the associated work piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: David Craig Hageman
  • Publication number: 20080247815
    Abstract: A fastener (11) in the form of a strip (12) of material in the form of a ring which in plan view is profiled to conform to an annular gap (H) between a first component (A) bounded by the fastener (11) and a second component (B) bounding the fastener (11); the ring member having ends providing a gap (G) in plan view; the strip of material having a first side (14) and a second side (15); and having a series of integral fingers (16-23) spaced along the length of the ring and projecting, in plan view, outwardly from the ring whether from the first side (14), the second side (15), or both sides thereof. In a further version the ring includes a further series of discrete projections formed integrally from the strip and lying around the ring member in between members of the series of fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: RENCOL TOLERANCE RINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Slayne, Christopher Needes, Marcus Baker
  • Publication number: 20080247816
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for attaching a switch control shaft to a switch pipe shaft, where the control shaft is mounted partly in the switch pipe shaft and tightened to the switch pipe shaft by a screw. The arrangement comprises a tightening piece. The screw is arranged to act on the control shaft through the tightening piece so that when the screw is turned, the tightening piece is arranged to press the control shaft against the pipe shaft so that the control shaft tightens fast between the tightening piece and the pipe shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: ABB OY
    Inventors: Harri Mattlar, Rainer Kolmonen, Jarkko Alanen
  • Publication number: 20080247817
    Abstract: A force-fitting clamping connection comprises a first metal clamping surface, a second metal clamping surface, and a clamping element for clamping the clamping surfaces against one another. The first clamping surface forms a hardened fine surface structure with microreliefs and microdepressions. The second clamping surface has a lower hardness than the first clamping surface. Preferably, the first clamping surface is surface-treated by sand-blasting, shot-blasting or embossing before the hardening operation. This allows permanently high friction values between the clamping surfaces. Also described is a flange connection comprising such a clamping connection for transmitting high torques, and also a production method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: GEISLINGER GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Geislinger, Cornelius Geislinger, Christof Sigle
  • Publication number: 20080247818
    Abstract: The invention relates to the mutual positioning of longitudinal building components, comprising two clamps (1) which can be rotated towards each other about an axis of rotation (6). Each of the two clamps (1) comprises two limbs (2) which define an opening (3) located therebetween. The opening (3) can be selectively narrowed or expanded by elastic deformation of the clamps (1) such that a longitudinal building component which is introduced into the opening of the clamp (3) can be prefixed. The two clamps (1) are provided with a bore (4) which is coaxial in relation to the axis of rotation (6) and which penetrates the limbs (2) of the clamps. The two clamps (1) are borne on a shaft (7) and blocking means are provided. Said blocking means are used to selectively block the rotatability of the two clamps (1) about the axis of rotation (6) and press the limbs (2) of each clamp against the longitudinal building component inserted into the opening (3) of the clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Marc Oesch, Andreas Lanz
  • Publication number: 20080247819
    Abstract: Aircraft arresting beds at ends of runways may be subject to damaging effects of jet blast phenomena. Arresting units for that and other applications and which are resistant to such effects are described, with related methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Silvia C. Valentini, Graham Kent Thompson, Yijian Shi, Hugh Kenneth Delong, Randall Craig Ohneck, Richard David Angley
  • Publication number: 20080247820
    Abstract: An assembly for releasing tension in a cable includes a mounting plate holding the cable in tension, the mounting plate oriented substantially parallel to the cable when it is in tension; and a leveraging member having a base positioned between the mounting plate and the cable and a leg extending upward from the base relative to the ground surface, wherein the leveraging member leverages the cable from holding connection with the mounting plate when it is impacted with a sufficient force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: Neusch Innovations, LP
    Inventor: William Neusch
  • Publication number: 20080247821
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of repairing a crack in a paved surface. This method involves applying a watertight tape over a crack in a paved surface to cover the crack and form a first layer. The tape is applied with an adhesive. The first layer is contacted with a first liquid acrylic adhesive. The first layer is covered with a polyester fabric to form a second layer that adheres to the first layer. The polyester fabric is impregnated with a second liquid acrylic adhesive. A fiberglass sheet is adhered to at least a portion of the second layer and to the paved surface beyond edges of the second layer to form a transition layer over the edges. Also disclosed is a system for repairing a crack in a paved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Thomas P. Hinding
  • Publication number: 20080247822
    Abstract: In order to repair a bridge in the zone of an expansion joint initially at least the near-surface components of the bridging device that is to be replaced are dismounted and the existing lane structure in the zones bordering the bridging device that is to be replaced is removed in the areas facing the abutment and the superstructure so as to form recesses placed at a lower level than the lane surface, whereupon a temporary bridging element located at the ground level is removably mounted. In order to entirely dismount one section of the bridging device that is to be replaced after another and perform preparatory work for assembling a new permanent bridging device, at least the bridging plate is repeatedly removed and re-assembled as required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: MAGEBA S.A.
    Inventors: Gianni Moor, Bernd Urich, Eduard Schiebelbein, Ernst-Peter Laich
  • Publication number: 20080247823
    Abstract: A line system (24) for a road miller, which rotates along with the milling roller (11) and which supplies water directly to the nozzles (23) which are arranged on the lateral surface (18) of the milling roller (11), to be arranged in the milling roller (11). Owing to the line system (24), the milling roller (11) no longer needs to be filled with water. The nozzles (23) are instead supplied with water directly from the line system (24) in order to spray the milling region selectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Frank Will, Rafael Schomaker
  • Publication number: 20080247824
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vibrating plate for ground compaction, said plate comprising a remote control device for controlling at least one forward or rear journey by the excitation of an oscillation device. The remote control device comprises an emitter unit, which can be displaced independently of the remaining vibrating plate and which can be detachably fixed to a draw bar. In a remote control mode, the emitter unit is held by the user and displaced independently of the vibration plate. In a draw bar mode, the emitter unit is placed on one end of the draw bar, so that the user can guide the vibrating plate by the pulling and pushing of robust control handles on the emitter unit. The latter can have at least one control handle, which can be used not only to input control commands for controlling the oscillation device, but can also be held by the user to manually guide the vibrating plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: WACKER CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AG
    Inventor: Michael Steffen
  • Publication number: 20080247825
    Abstract: A water or flood control and containment system is provided having foundations, sealed bases, supporting structure, and pumping system that gives the user control over water containment and movement either to reduce the water hazard or to store water. The bases are secured and sealed to paved surfaces with foundations that have been preset into the street or other prepared foundation. When deployed on multiple adjacent streets, roadway levee creates a compartmented barrier containment system that mitigates flooding and storm surges. The invention is to be removed and stored off site when not in use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Ronald Scott Bonds
  • Publication number: 20080247826
    Abstract: In a method for the trenchless laying of pipes, a drilling operation (5) is firstly carried out by means of controlled heading from a starting point (1) to a finishing point (6). Then the drilling head (3) is disconnected from the heading pipes (4) and the heading pipe run is connected by means of a special connecting pipe to the product pipe run (9), which is prefabricated above ground at the finishing point (6). Subsequently, the heading pipes (4) are drawn back from the drill hole to the starting point (1), the product pipe run (9) simultaneously being drawn into the drill hole. The method is suitable in particular for laying large-caliber, tension-resistant pressure pipelines (for example of steel or polyethylene) in soils that are not suitable, or only with reservations, for other laying methods (for example gravels, crushed stones, rock).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: MEYER & JOHN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Rudiger Kogler
  • Publication number: 20080247827
    Abstract: A vessel is provided that is an improvement over previously disclosed jack-up rigs and lift boats. The vessel has at least three thrusters and is self-propelled. The vessel additionally has a raised and hollow crane support on which a crane may be mounted. The crane support is affixed to tracks, which permit the crane to slide along the deck of the vessel. The raised and hollowed feature of the crane support permits the storage of equipment and things beneath the crane support without hindering the movement of the crane along the tracks. Optionally, the vessel further comprises a sub-base structure removably affixed to the transom of the vessel; a base structure removably affixed to the sub-base structure; and a work-over rig removably affixed to the base structure. Also provided herein are methods of using the crane and affixing the sub-base structure, base structure, and work-over rig to the vessel's transom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: Remedial (Cyprus) PCL
    Inventors: Richard A. Altman, Michael D. Brown, Peter W. Nimmo
  • Publication number: 20080247828
    Abstract: A cable bolt (10, 60) comprising a flexible cable 11 formed from a plurality of wound strands, wherein at least one of the strands is a hollow strand 12b. In one form, at least one region 14 of the hollow strand is formed with a helical formation or is otherwise arranged to resist radial compression. A cable bolt 60 is also disclosed with a hollow strand 12b that has a coupling 65 fitted at one end 14 and a resin retainer 61 fitted on the other end of the hollow strand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: JENNMAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Harold Craig, Timothy Joseph Gaudry, John Naylor
  • Publication number: 20080247829
    Abstract: An earthen containment reinforcement system has a plurality of connected panels containing recycled rubber vehicle tire material forming a retaining or barrier wall. The panels are connected by interlocking joints, and secured by a reinforcing cable that traverses the length of the connected panels. For added structural integrity, the reinforcing cable is connected by a plurality of tether cables to a corresponding plurality of anchors that are sunken in the earthen containment. An erosion shield is connected to the top edge of the retaining wall, and extends away from the top of the wall toward a land side of the earthen containment that is opposite the water side. By virtue of their construction from recycled vehicle rubber tire material, the panels are not only impervious to water and burrowing rodents and resistant to erosion, earth tremor, and explosion, but are easy and economical to fabricate and maintain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Richard Sine
  • Publication number: 20080247830
    Abstract: The invention concerns a recoverable gabion for use in protecting military or civilian installations from weapons assault or from elemental forces, such as flood waters, lava flows, avalanches, soil instability, slope erosion and the like. The gabion comprises opposed side walls comprising a plurality of side wall elements connected together at spaced intervals by a plurality of partition walls such that spaces between neighbouring pairs of partition walls define, together with the side walls, individual compartments of the gabion, adjacent side and partition walls being connected to one another by pivotal connections enabling the gabion to be folded between fully flattened and deployed configurations, wherein at least one of the pivotal connections is a releasable connection which when released allows a side wall element to open with respect to the gabion to allow access from the side of the gabion to any contents of the gabion compartments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: HESCO BASTION LIMITED
    Inventor: James Heselden
  • Publication number: 20080247831
    Abstract: A handling device for depositing a trench box into an open excavation is provided. The handling device includes at least one reciprocal trench box wall contact member movable along a first axis; motor means for selective movement of the wall contact member; and a coupling for attaching the contact member and the motor means to a prime mover for selectively moving the handling device along an axis generally perpendicular to the first axis. A system including the handling device and a trench box having a plurality of apertures engageable with the at least one wall contact member, and a method for depositing a trench box in an open excavation, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Joseph W. Worley
  • Publication number: 20080247832
    Abstract: A tool structure contains a first part having an oval end section with regard to an axis of symmetry in a direction of a maximum height and an axis of symmetry in the direction of a maximum width, and a second part having a recess accommodating the end section via mutual contact surfaces. The tool structure has a clamping element for the mutual clamping of the parts and mutual contact surfaces that are restricted to in each case four spaced-apart surface sections. These surface sections are disposed symmetrically with respect to a circumference of the end section such that a center point of a straight connecting line of the starting and end points of the respective surface section is at a normal distance b1 from the axis of symmetry and at a normal distance h1 from the axis of symmetry, h1 being greater than b1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: CERATIZIT AUSTRIA GESELLSCAFT MBH
    Inventors: Johann Maier, Siegfried F. Kerle, Eduard Reich, Einar Schurda
  • Publication number: 20080247833
    Abstract: A countersinking-carrier nozzle has a flat front surface with a central hole via which emerges a countersinking drill, such that said flat front surface establishes a limit to the penetration depth of the countersinking nozzle. The nozzle includes a flexible retainer for the nozzle front surface so that it swivels when making contact with a curved countersinking surface, adapting itself tangentially to it while the headstock presses against the countersinking surface. The flexible retainer is defined by a ball-and-socket joint including a curvo-concave retaining receptacle, with the possibility of swivelling, with a complementary curvo-convex portion provided in the rear part of the flat front surface. This portion projects with respect to the receptacle to allow it to swivel when pressed against the countersinking surface, at which moment the complementary curvo-convex portion of the rear part of the front surface swivels in the receptacle of the headstock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Juan Ramon Astorga Ramirez, Manuel Cadiz, Paloma Peinado Aguayo
  • Publication number: 20080247834
    Abstract: A key cutting machine is provided for cutting a key blank from a master key. The key cutting machine comprises a first cutting member that rotates about a substantially horizontal axis for cutting a key pattern on a key blank and a second cutting member that rotates about a substantially vertical axis for cutting a key pattern on a key blank. Additional improvements or features of a key cutting machine are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Richard W. Ryai
  • Publication number: 20080247835
    Abstract: A main body of a machine tool is covered with a cover. A ceiling portion of the cover that is situated over a spindle motor is provided with an opening portion. The cover is provided with hanging portions that hang down from the opening portion with a predetermined clearance from side surfaces of the spindle motor other than the rear surface. Air that is mixed with a misty cutting fluid in a space inside the cover is sucked in through a suction pipe by a mist collector. The outside air flows into the space inside the cover through the clearance. The outside air that passes through the clearance is driven to flow through vents by a built-in cooling fan of the spindle motor, thereby cooling the motor, and is then discharged to the outside. In consequence, the temperature in the space inside the cover can never be increased by heating of the spindle motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: FANUC LTD
    Inventors: Masahiro MUROTA, Hiroki TEZUKA
  • Publication number: 20080247836
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present subject matter includes an apparatus for securing an ATV with a ball hitch to a transport having a transport surface and an eyelet. The embodiment includes an elongate housing having a length and a cantilever beam coupled to the elongate housing at a beam portion proximal to the elongate housing, the cantilever beam extending away from the elongate housing. The embodiment includes an elongate bolt extending through the elongate housing along the length of the elongate housing, the elongate bolt including threads which are adapted to screw to the eyelet of the transport, securing the elongate housing to the transport, and a hollow receiver connected to the cantilever beam at a beam portion distal to the elongate housing, the hollow receiver sized to receive a ball hitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Erb, Bruce Zierden
  • Publication number: 20080247837
    Abstract: An apparatus for restraining a mobility aid in the interior of a vehicle includes two or more retractor spools contained within a common housing. The retractor spools carry flexible webbed belts, and are operated by common actuator mechanism having a direct mechanical attachment to the spools. The various elements of the apparatus are contained within a common housing which is easily mounted to a bulkhead or under a foldable seat. A third retractor is mounted in opposition permitting both the front and rear of the mobility aid to be easily secured by the occupant of the mobility aid without assistance of the operator of the vehicle. The operative portions of the retractor are designed to be positioned so as not to present an obstacle to other users of the vehicle in which the apparatus may be installed. A timing mechanism is provided for at least one of the retractor spools to allow at least one of the retractor spools to be freely manipulated during a predetermined time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Edgardo Cardona
  • Publication number: 20080247838
    Abstract: A load securing device for stacked cargo comprises a body member having contact surfaces adapted to engage a side portion of a cargo item that is stacked on a pair of each of a pair of stacked cargo items. One end of a flexible member such as a strap is attached to the body member. The flexible member extends through a space created between the stacked items or the stacked items and a carrier surface, with its other end being secured to a carrier supporting the stacked items. Optimally, and when expecting forces to be applied to both sides of the stacked items, a load securing device is placed on either side of the stacked items so that forces arising during the transport of the stacked items are resisted in both directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: 2SECURE CARGO SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Marvin Wiebe
  • Publication number: 20080247839
    Abstract: A cable thread insert, the insert integrated into a multiwire cable to provide a threaded portion of the cable. The threaded cable is capable of being used as part of a tensionable cable bolt apparatus and system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Ben L. Seegmiller
  • Publication number: 20080247840
    Abstract: A fastener that includes a head part having an internally threaded hole extending from one side of the head part to another side of the head part, an externally threaded shank in threaded engagement with the internally threaded hole of the head part, the shank being externally threaded for threaded engagement with a nut, and an externally threaded locking part in threaded engagement with the internally threaded hole of the head part, wherein the shank and the locking part are in contact with each other inside the threaded hole, such that the locking part resists against travel of the shank through the threaded hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Brian Davies
  • Publication number: 20080247841
    Abstract: A low swage load fastening system is provided for installing swage-type fasteners to secure a plurality of workpieces together. The fastener includes a pin member, having an elongated pin shank to be located in aligned openings in the workpieces. An enlarged head at one end of the pin engages one side of the workpieces. A grooved pin portion extends past an opposite side of the workpieces. A collar includes a shank portion adapted to be swaged into the pin lock grooves in response to a relative axial swage load applied by an installation tool. As one aspect of the system, the collar is as-headed and does not require thermal processing yet provides an optimum balance of reduced collar shank wall thickness and increased hardness, whereby the swage load is minimized. A low swage load thread form for the lock grooves of the pin is also provided, a reduced diameter, relatively short pull portion pin extension, installation tool improvements, and an associated method of use are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Larry D. Mercer, Robert J. Corbett
  • Publication number: 20080247842
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device to be connected to a screw. Said device comprises a plurality of connecting elements (5, 6, 7) which have respective openings (14) and which can be engaged with a thread of the screw. Said connecting elements (5, 6, 7), in a preassembly configuration, are loose pieces. Along the edge of the opening (14) of the connecting elements (5, 6, 7), a pitch section (15) of a threaded structure is configured. A connecting system (8) allows to maintain, in a final assembly configuration, the connecting elements (5, 6, 7) in a predetermined spatial relationship to each other, thereby increasing the variability of use of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: A.RAYMOND ET CIE
    Inventors: Uwe Motsch, Klaus Hullmann, Harald Dorst
  • Publication number: 20080247843
    Abstract: A fastening system including a fastener having a head, shank, and tip. The shank further includes a knurled section formed between the head and tip portions of the fastener. A washer made of a compressible material is applied over the tip of the fastener and tends to engage and compress against the head of the fastener as the fastener is driven into a sheet of material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Robert J. Shluzas, Thomas E. Willcutt
  • Publication number: 20080247844
    Abstract: The invention concerns an industrial robot (4) comprising a machining tool (2) attached to one hand (3) of the robot, designed to perform a hydraulic-driven movement relative to the hand (3) and connected therefor to a hydraulic unit (10). The hydraulic unit (10) is placed directly on a mobile part of the robot, in particular directly on the robot hand (3). Therefore there is no more need for hydraulic supply lines along the arm of the robot. Further, when the robot hand (3) changes tool, no separation of hydraulic lines is required. The machining tool (2) is in particular a device for placing blind rivets, thereby enabling an entirely automated process for placing blind rivets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Gerd Hartrampf, Christian Bohner, Klaus Dehlke
  • Publication number: 20080247845
    Abstract: A processing apparatus configured to process a substrate under a vacuum environment includes a holding unit configured to hold the substrate, a dust collection part having a surface opposite to the substrate held by the holding unit, a vacuum chamber configured to accommodate the holding unit and to have an internal space that can be decompressed, a temperature controlling unit configured to control a temperature of the surface of the dust collection part opposite to the substrate to a temperature lower than a temperature of the substrate, and a driving unit configured to bring one of the holding unit and the dust collection part close to the other after the temperature controlling unit controls the temperature of the surface of the dust collection part opposite to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Mochizuki, Takashi Kamono
  • Publication number: 20080247846
    Abstract: There is provided a method for exchanging an atmosphere of a vacuum chamber of a processing apparatus configured to process a substrate under a vacuum environment. The method includes the steps of holding the substrate using a holding unit provided in the vacuum chamber, and exchanging the atmosphere of the vacuum chamber through exhaustion or air supply, wherein the exchanging step maintains a pressure of the vacuum chamber in a range between 10 Pa and 10000 Pa for a period between 10 seconds and 600 seconds while controlling a temperature of a dust collection unit provided in the vacuum chamber lower than a temperature of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinya Mochizuki