Patents Issued in September 22, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160271785
    Abstract: An ergonometric utility handle having a main body portion having an end that fits in a cupped palm and concavities emanating from the end that lengthwise substantially conformingly receive palm sides of a thumb and at least one finger. The concavities are widely dish shaped or bound and defined by gently sloped surfaces disposed in laterally outwardly spaced relation to the utility object or a mounting element therefor and against which the thumb and finger or fingers can be positioned and pressed to control and exert useful mechanical advantage. Additional features include a cantilever element against which a finger can be pressed to enhance control and mechanical advantage, an ability to remove and reorient a utility object, such as to reverse the diagonal cut of a brush tip, and an ability to attach an extension in one or more ways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Riccardo Hayes
  • Publication number: 20160271786
    Abstract: A screwdriver handle configured to provide optimal performance when used in certain handholds to provide high-torque turning with two hands, normal turning with a single hand or low-torque, repetitive turning with two hands. The handle includes a forward zone that is generally circular in cross-section, a central zone that is generally triangular in cross section and has an arrangement of progressive stepped regions and a rear zone that combines a generally cylindrical region with a domed end. The forward zone may in profile follow a shallow somewhat hourglass-like shape. The central zone includes at least two stepped regions that generally increase in diameter toward the rear of the handle. The rear stepped region may be convex having an apex forward of the rear zone. The generally cylindrical region of the rear zone may taper down toward the rear of the handle. The domed end may be a semi-spherical dome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Joshua L. Harrison, Benjamin E. Harrison
  • Publication number: 20160271787
    Abstract: A hand tool includes a handle having a first end and a second end. A first tool extends from the first end of the handle and a second tool extends from the second end of the handle. The first tool is electrically isolated from the second tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: John Edward Sakmar, III
  • Publication number: 20160271788
    Abstract: An end piece of a tool suspension rack is mounted onto a distal end of a metal rack of the tool suspension rack. The metal rack has at least one slide structure formed thereon for slidably multiple tool holders, wherein at least one distal end of the metal rack has an end piece mounted thereon. The end piece has a groove structure defined therein for allowing the tool holder passing through the end piece such that the tool holders is slidably mounted on the metal rack. The groove structure has a curved protrusion formed on an inner periphery thereof to prevent the tool holders, which are slidably mounted on the metal rack, from accidently detaching from the metal rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Chih-Chien HSIEH
  • Publication number: 20160271789
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a measuring and marking tool may include a triangular base member with a right angle and two complementary opposite angles formed by a first leg, a second leg, and a hypotenuse. A pivotal coupling element may pivotally couple an arm element to the right angle of the base member, allowing the arm element to pivot towards and away from the first and second legs. Preferably, a leveling device may be coupled to the arm element. A locking element may be operably connected to the arm element for arresting the pivotal movement of the arm element relative to the base member. An elongated marking aperture, which may have a plurality of marking indentations, may be disposed on the base member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Britton Foster
  • Publication number: 20160271790
    Abstract: A system provides for relative movement between two plates that are substantially parallel to a plane defined by a first direction and a second direction. The system includes a first unit that is configured to allow a relative movement between the two plates in a third direction that is orthogonal to the plane. The first unit also independently prevents a relative movement between the two plates in the plane. The system further includes a second unit that is configured to allow one plate to relatively travel with respect to the other plate about the first and second directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: MICRO-CONTROLE SPECTRA-PHYSICS
    Inventors: Bertrand de Saint Leve d'Aguerre, Alain Jeanne
  • Publication number: 20160271791
    Abstract: A gantry robot system may include a workpiece support, a workpiece feeder for engaging the workpiece and moving the workpiece in a first direction relative to the workpiece support, a gantry, a slide movably mounted on the gantry and movable in a second direction different from the direction of movement of the workpiece by the workpiece feeder, an articulated arm mounted on the slide and having an end effector at an end of the articulated arm opposite the slide, and a computer control connected to actuate the workpiece feeder, the slide, the articulated arm, and the end effector in a coordinated manner to perform a preselected machining operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: PRODUCTION DESIGN SERVICES, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey R. Schultz
  • Publication number: 20160271792
    Abstract: A robot operation apparatus comprising: a touch panel that receives input of a touch operation and a movement operation from a user; an operation detector that detects the touch operation and the movement operation to the touch panel; and a behavior command generator that generates a behavior command operating a robot based on a detection result of the operation detector. The behavior command generator performs a behavior speed determination process that determines a behavior speed of the robot based on an operation speed of the movement operation, when the operation detector detects the movement operation to an operation graphic provided on the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Daisuke YUI, Motoki KANADA, Atsuko SUGANO, Hirota TOUMA
  • Publication number: 20160271793
    Abstract: The robot control system includes: a control device for controlling a machine; a portable wireless operation panel for performing wireless communication with the control device to control the machine; a distance measuring unit for measuring the distance between the machine and the portable wireless operation panel; and a warning generator that emits a warning to the operator or stops the machine when the distance between the machine and the portable wireless operation panel exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ryoutarou INABA, Yoshiki HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160271794
    Abstract: A robot control system of the present invention includes: a control device for controlling a machine; a portable wireless operation panel that can perform wireless communication with the control device to control the machine; a distance measuring unit that measures the distance between the machine and the portable wireless operation panel; a communication monitoring unit that monitors the communication quality of wireless communication between the control device and the portable wireless operation panel; a warning generator that emits a warning to the operator or stops the machine when the communication quality becomes lower than a predetermined criterion; and, a criterion changing unit that changes the predetermined criterion in accordance with the distance between the machine and the portable wireless operation panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Ryoutarou INABA
  • Publication number: 20160271795
    Abstract: A method includes maneuvering a robot in (i) a following mode in which the robot is controlled to travel along a path segment adjacent an obstacle, while recording data indicative of the path segment, and (ii) in a coverage mode in which the robot is controlled to traverse an area. The method includes generating data indicative of a layout of the area, updating data indicative of a calculated robot pose based at least on odometry, and calculating a pose confidence level. The method includes, in response to the confidence level being below a confidence limit, maneuvering the robot to a suspected location of the path segment, based on the calculated robot pose and the data indicative of the layout and, in response to detecting the path segment within a distance from the suspected location, updating the data indicative of the calculated pose and/or the layout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Jasper Vicenti
  • Publication number: 20160271796
    Abstract: A method, a drone device, and an adaptive robot control system (ARCS) for adaptively controlling a programmable robot are provided. The ARCS receives environmental parameters of a work environment where the drone device operates and geometrical information of a target object to be operated on by the programmable robot. The ARCS dynamically receives a calibrated spatial location of the target object in the work environment based on the environmental parameters and a discernment of the target object from the drone device. The ARCS determines control information including parts geometry of the target object, a task trajectory of a task to be performed on the target object, and a collision-free robotic motion trajectory for the programmable robot, and dynamically transmits the control information to the programmable robot via a communication network to adaptively control the programmable robot while accounting for misalignments of the target object in the work environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Rahul Babu
  • Publication number: 20160271797
    Abstract: An apparatus for automated contact tasks and a related method are described. The apparatus includes a mechanical interface for connecting the apparatus to a manipulator, a holder for receiving a tool and being movable in relation to the mechanical interface, at least one actuator for positioning the holder in relation to the mechanical interface, a sensor unit that senses the actuator force provided by the at least one actuator, and a control unit that sets the actuator force to a desired minimum force to press the holder against a stop, while there is no contact between the tool and a surface, and detects contact when the holder moves in relation to the mechanical interface in opposition to the direction of the desired minimum force. The control unit further regulates the actuator force according to a pre-programmed contact force time-characteristic, when contact between the tool and the surface has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ronald Naderer, Paolo Ferrara, Andreas Rohrhofer
  • Publication number: 20160271798
    Abstract: An integrated intelligent system includes a first intelligent electronic device, a second intelligent electronic device, a transferable intelligent control device (TICD) and a cross product bus. The first intelligent electronic device performs a first function and the second intelligent electronic device performs a second function. The cross product bus couples the first intelligent electronic device to the transferable intelligent control device. The TICD partially controls behaviors of the intelligent electronic device by sending commands over the cross product bus to the first intelligent electronic device and the TICD partially controls behaviors of the second intelligent electronic device to perform the second function. The TICD is first attached to the first intelligent electronic device to partially control the behaviors of the first electronic device, then detached from the first electronic device, and then attached to the second intelligent electronic device to perform the second function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Dooley, Nikolai Romanov, Paolo Pirjanian
  • Publication number: 20160271799
    Abstract: A trajectory generation apparatus for robot includes a load judgement unit which compares a load applied to a component of a robot when the robot is operated on a reference trajectory with a load judgement value and a speed reduction unit which reduces a speed of the robot when the load is greater than the load judgement value. The trajectory generation apparatus includes a comparison trajectory generation unit which sets a comparison teaching point obtained by changing a position of a reference teaching point when the speed is reduced and generates a comparison trajectory based on the comparison teaching point and a trajectory selection unit which compares a transit time of the comparison trajectory with a transit time of the reference trajectory and selects a trajectory of which a transit time is shorter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Kenji SUGIO
  • Publication number: 20160271800
    Abstract: Short range transmissions are used to identify potential interactions between warehouse workers and warehouse robots in automated warehouses. The robot can be equipped with one or more short range transmission tags, such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, while the warehouse worker can be equipped with a short range transmission reader, such as an RFID reader. The robot can detect a warehouse worker that is within range when the RFID tags on the robot are written to by the RFID reader. The warehouse robots and warehouse workers can also be equipped with one or more cameras to identify fiducials in the automated warehouse and to report their positions. A central control or interaction server can ensure that warehouse robots and warehouse workers are routed appropriately to avoid incidents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew Stubbs, Matthew David Verminski, Stephen Caldara, Robert Michael Shydo, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160271801
    Abstract: An inspection system for an electronic device of a vehicle includes a vision camera detecting a front state. An ultrasonic wave radiator, which is disposed at a lower side of the vision camera, radiates ultrasonic waves forwardly and senses ultrasonic waves reflected from a front obstacle. A touch screen operating finger moves forwardly and backwardly to touch a touch screen. A button operating finger is mounted to one side of the touch screen operating finger to press a button. A position of a body is controlled in a three-dimensional coordinate system such that the vision camera, the ultrasonic wave radiator, the touch screen operating finger, and the button operating finger are mounted thereto. A driving unit is configured to push forwardly or pull backwardly the touch screen operating finger and the button operating finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Haseung SEONG
  • Publication number: 20160271802
    Abstract: A robot executes sequential works at each work point based on point-based work data. An external instrument attached to the robot executes a main work at each work point in the sequential works. A controller controls the external instrument based on control data including structural point blocks arranged in sequence and bundling the sequential works at each work point. An external instrument driver transforms data format exchanged between the external instrument and the controller. A driver generator generates driver data indicating the detail of transformation of the data format by the external instrument driver. The driver selector selects the driver data to be utilized by the external instrument driver in accordance with the external instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Kenichiro HIRUMA
  • Publication number: 20160271803
    Abstract: A robotic platform is provided having a disinfection unit configured to disinfect a technical area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Michael Stewart
  • Publication number: 20160271804
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet glass alignment system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Yawei LIU
  • Publication number: 20160271805
    Abstract: The invention involves a vacuum generator apparatus with an electrically driven primary vacuum generator with a suction connection for sucking in a primary suction flow, and with at least one ejector apparatus, which has an inflow opening open to the environment, an outflow opening, and a suction opening that can be streamed through by a suction stream created at the suction opening from the inflow opening to the outflow opening, whereby the suction connection of the electrically driven primary vacuum generator is connected by flow with the outflow opening of the ejector apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Harald KUOLT, Jan GAUSS
  • Publication number: 20160271806
    Abstract: A robot includes a robot arm, a balancer, and a first mounting portion and a second mounting portion. The balancer is pressurized in advance by a predetermined amount of pressure and contracted to a dimension smaller than a predetermined mounting dimension of the robot arm. The first mounting portion and the second mounting portion are disposed on the robot arm to respectively accept a first end and a second end of the balancer so that the first end and the second end of the balancer are mounted on the robot arm. At least one mounting portion among the first mounting portion and the second mounting portion accepts the corresponding end, among the first end and the second end, of the balancer in a direction approximately parallel to a direction in which the balancer is expanded and contracted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Kentaro TANAKA, Ryuta KAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160271807
    Abstract: A manipulator includes an arm, a plurality of servo motors, a plurality of servo amplifiers, and a bellows container. The arm includes a plurality of joints and links. The plurality of servo motors is disposed in a first space in the arm and capable of driving each of the joints. The plurality of servo amplifiers is disposed in the first space and controls each of the servo motors. The bellows container includes a second space which is connected to the first space. In the manipulator, each of the first space and the second space is filled with oil, and the plurality of servo amplifiers are connected with a cable for serial communication or power-line carrier communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Naoto KAWAUCHI, Kiyoshi HIROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160271808
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a rotary joint, comprises a wiring unit having a main portion of a flexible printed circuit (FPC) board therein. Said rotary joint further comprises a protective unit fixed to said wiring unit, in which an end portion of said FPC board is connected to a group of cables. The present application also provides a robot comprising said rotary joint. Compared with the existing prior arts, the proposed solutions prevent the damage of FPC during assembly and/or disassembly of robots, while not losing compactness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Tao Feng, Kaiyuan Cao, Yun Ha
  • Publication number: 20160271809
    Abstract: A knife is provided that includes a replaceable blade element. The knife employs a blade carrier that is fixedly interconnected to or foldable with respect to a handle. The blade carrier selectively receives the replaceable blade element that is locked into the blade carrier by way of a hook and movable pin combination. The replaceable blade element is designed to be inserted within the blade carrier quickly, easily, and safely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: David R. Bloch, Chen Haisheng, Liang Houkun
  • Publication number: 20160271810
    Abstract: The device is a combination of an inexpensive, disposable utility razor blade and a human breath powered audible noise making devide, or whistle. The disposable blade is held in place with a pin or other means and can easily be replaced with another blade. The whistle is integrated into the design to also act as the handle for the utility razor. The whistle designed is a tri-tone whistle that generates three distinct audible beat frequencies in order to create a distinct sound. The three primary frequencies are approximately 3 KHz but with slight differences in frequencies that generate a 30 Hz beat frequency between the two lowest frequencies and a 45 Hz beat frequency between the two highest frequencies. The difference between these beat frequencies generates a secondary beat frequency of 15 HZ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Jean-Robert Charles Macgregor Cassie
  • Publication number: 20160271811
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a pair of sampling scissors and a method for using the sampling scissors. With the sampling scissors and the method, a sample of a rubbing cloth for testing may be obtained in a single operation, and damage to the rubbing cloth during the sampling process is thus decreased, so that the rubbing cloth will meet the requirement of uniformity of rubbing alignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Jie Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160271812
    Abstract: A locking structure for a shears contains: a first cutting member, a second cutting member, and a connection post. The first cutting member includes a first handle and a first blade, and the second cutting member includes a second handle and a second blade. Between the first handle and the first blade of the first cutting member is defined a first connecting portion, and between the second handle and the second blade of the second cutting member is defined a second connecting portion. The first connecting portion has a first orifice, and the second connecting portion has a second orifice corresponding to the first orifice. The connection post is inserted through the first orifice and the second orifice and includes a ring, a tab, and a fixing section, wherein a total thickness of the tab and the ring is less than 4.5 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Ching Chen YANG
  • Publication number: 20160271813
    Abstract: A joint for a cutting tool includes a bolt with a head in a first end, with a thread in a second end, and with an intermediate section between the first end and the second end, which during attachment of two objects rotatably to each other protrudes trough openings in said objects. A nut is received on the thread. In order to provide an easy solution for adjusting the tension of the joint and at the same time preventing accidental loosening of the joint, the bolt is provided with a cavity. An expansion bolt with a threaded end protrudes into the cavity and expands the second end of the bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Fiskars Finland Oy Ab
    Inventors: Mikko Heine, Mika Sokka
  • Publication number: 20160271814
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hair cutting appliance (10) comprising a blade set (20), and to a blade set (20) of a hair cutting appliance (10). The blade set (20) is arranged to be moved through hair in an assumed moving direction (28) to cut hair. The blade set (20) comprises a stationary blade (22), a movable blade (24), and a lateral protecting element (56). The stationary blade (22) comprises at least one toothed cutting edge (32, 34), a lateral end (30), and a first surface (48) that is arranged, when in use for shaving purposes, as a skin-contacting surface. The movable blade (24) comprises a toothed cutting edge (32, 34). The stationary blade (22) and the movable blade (24) are arranged to be reciprocally moved with respect to each other in a cutting direction (Y) that is basically perpendicular to the assumed moving direction (28).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: JAN BENNIK, ROBBERT FREERK JOHAN VAN DER SCHEER, MARTINUS BERNARDUS STAPELBROEK, ALBERT JAN AITINK, EVERHARDUS JOHANNES HOEXUM
  • Publication number: 20160271815
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hair cutting appliance (10) comprising a mounting unit (30) for coupling a cutting unit (18) and a housing (12) thereof, and to a mounting unit (30), the mounting unit (30) comprising a swivel mechanism (32) comprising a base portion (38) arranged to be coupled to a housing (12), and a top portion (46) arranged to be coupled to a cutting unit (18), wherein the base portion (38) and the top portion (46) are movable with respect to each other, such that, during operation, the cutting unit (18) is pivotably supported by the swivel mechanism (32), wherein the swivel mechanism (32) defines a virtual pivot axis (p) for the cutting unit (18), the virtual pivot axis (p) being substantially parallel to a cutting edge (29) of the cutting unit (18),wherein, in a first state (I) of the swivel mechanism (32) in which the cutting unit (18) is adapted for shaving, the virtual pivot axis (p) is located at a first position (p) with respect to the cutting unit (18), and wherein, in a second s
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: JEROEN MOLEMA, ALBERT JAN AITINK, BRAM TUIJP, HENDRIK KLAAS LOUWSMA, MARTINUS BERNARDUS STAPELBROEK, ROBBERT FREERK JOHAN VAN DER SCHEER
  • Publication number: 20160271816
    Abstract: A replaceable fluid dispensing cartridge for a liquid dispensing razor having a fluid interconnect member with a pivotable support member and a base member with a fluid port and an engagement surface for removably and fixedly mating to a corresponding engagement member of a handle. A cartridge housing is mounted to the pivotable support member. The cartridge housing has a guard, a cap, and at least one blade between the cap and the guard. A fluid applicator defining an opening is fixedly joined to the interconnect member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Xiaolan Xu, Kevin James Wain
  • Publication number: 20160271817
    Abstract: A pizza cutter is provided. The pizza cutter includes a first member that has a first handle. A rotary knife is pivotally attached to the first member such that the first member extends beyond the radius of the rotary knife. A second member, that also has a handle, is affixed to the first member such that the second member also extends beyond the radius of the rotary knife. The second member also extends in a direction relative to the first member such that an obtuse angle is formed between the first member and the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Peter PATRICK
  • Publication number: 20160271818
    Abstract: A roofing shingle speed square has a substantially rectangular board shaped body with side ridges aligned perpendicular to one another along adjacent first and second side edges of the board. A plurality of grooves defined in the surface of the board in spaced apart relation. The grooves providing a cutting guide for a blade to be drawn across and to cut the shingle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Matthew Paul Papiese
  • Publication number: 20160271819
    Abstract: Severing apparatus (1) for severing a string of pasty foodstuff material, in particular of meat or doughs, into individual portions, comprising a movable and drivable severing knife (2, 2?) having a knife edge (12), and at least one preferably stationary shear bar (8, 8?) associated with the severing knife (2, 2?). The knife edge (12) of the severing knife (2, 2?) has a cutting edge (20, 20?) which is at least portion-wise concavely curved in the longitudinal direction of the severing knife.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ruben Zeidler, Uwe Pankoke, Uwe Flammann
  • Publication number: 20160271820
    Abstract: A perforating apparatus has a first roll and a second roll, each being operatively engageable with a support. The first roll has a first longitudinal axis about which the first roll rotates and a first anvil disposed on the first roll and having a first design. The second roll has a second longitudinal axis about which the second roll rotates. A second anvil is disposed on the second roll. The second anvil has a second design. At least one blade is disposed on the support so as to cooperate in interacting relationship with one of the first anvil and the second anvil when the support is operatively engaged with the one of the first anvil and the second anvil. The apparatus comprises two alternative paths for the web material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Deborah Sue Slovut, Laura Marie Tanno, Kathryn Christian Kien
  • Publication number: 20160271821
    Abstract: A vegetable processor having a drum-like container with an inner cylindrical cavity shaped and sized to house a plurality of vegetables. The cavity has an inlet shaped and sized to allow vegetables to pass into the cavity there through, and an outlet positioned at least in part on the side of the container and shaped and sized to allow portions of said plurality of vegetables placed in the cavity to extend out of the cavity through the outlet. A pair of blade, positioned transverse to one another are attached to the side of the drum at the outlet. Vegetables in the drum are forced against the blades and out of the inner cavity by a set of paddles that rotate within the cavity, such that the blades substantially simultaneously cut the vegetables being processed in more than one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Zhui Chen
  • Publication number: 20160271822
    Abstract: There is disclosed a food slicing device for slicing food products which has a pre-cooling device for cooling the food product before the slicing and a cutting device with a cutting blade. A temperature registration device for measuring the temperature of the food product and a control unit are provided, wherein the control unit is designed to calculate, based on the temperature measured by the temperature registration device, an instruction for the operation of the pre-cooling device, wherein the pre-cooling device is controllable depending on this instruction. The disclosure furthermore relates to a method for slicing a food product in which the food product is pre-cooled in a pre-cooling device, the temperature of the food product is measured after the pre-cooling and before or after the slicing of the food product, and the operation of the pre-cooling device is adjusted depending on the measured temperature level of the food product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Burk, Michael Knauf, Jochen Gerlach, Philip Kahl, Christian Nietsch, Andreas Runkel, Thorsten Schneider
  • Publication number: 20160271823
    Abstract: A method for providing a nonlinear line of weakness on a web material includes: providing a counter component comprising a nonlinear shape, where the nonlinear shape has a shape width, W; providing a blade in operative relationship with the counter component and comprising a plurality of teeth; rotating at least one of the blade and the counter component into interacting relationship with the other of the blade and the counter component; feeding a web between the counter component and the blade such that while in interacting relationship the blade cooperates with the counter component to perforate the web, wherein the web is moving in a machine direction; and reciprocally shifting one of the counter component and the blade for a distance, D, in a shifting direction, wherein D is at least the translational distance that one tooth travels to cover the shape width, W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Deborah Sue Slovut, Laura Marie Tanno, Kathryn Christian Kien
  • Publication number: 20160271824
    Abstract: A perforating apparatus has a base having at least one counter component. The counter component has a length, LCC, and a nonlinear shape having a shape width, W. A support is operatively engaged with the base. A blade having a length, LB, is disposed on the support so as to cooperate in interacting relationship with the counter component. The blade has a plurality of teeth. A web material is perforated as it passes between the base and the support and the blade cooperates with the counter component. A driving means is associated with one of the support and the base to reciprocally shift the one of the support or the base for a distance, D, in a shifting direction. The distance, D, is at least the translational distance that one tooth travels to cover the shape width, W.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Deborah Sue Slovut, Laura Marie Tanno, Kathryn Christian Kien
  • Publication number: 20160271825
    Abstract: A flexible carrier for carrying a plurality of containers within a plurality of corresponding container receiving apertures is formed using a rotary die within a rotary die press resulting in carriers having complex configurations including close tolerance cuts and complex perforation patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Paul SIEWERT
  • Publication number: 20160271826
    Abstract: An anti-kickback device is disclosed where the device includes a plurality of flexible members, and at least a compliant contact surface in contact with a moving workpiece, where the flexible members provide a biasing force against the workpiece and also resist or prevent kickback of the workpiece as it engages a tool such as a shaper, saw blade, etc. The configuration of the flexible members assures an opposing force to resist kickback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: D. Keith Bow
  • Publication number: 20160271827
    Abstract: A frame member is provided for fixing wood and concrete and a method for adjoining wood and concrete to form hybrid wood/concrete furniture. The frame member includes a series of lag bolts spaced apart wherein a first portion of the lag bolts is screwed into the wood and a second portion of the lag bolts is left exposed from the wood. The second portion of the lag bolts is welded to a steel rebar frame. The frame member is then framed in a melamine, rubber or wood form in order to allow concrete to be poured around the frame member and held in place until cured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Keith Wyman
  • Publication number: 20160271828
    Abstract: An apparatus for the production of concrete molded parts in a molding machine includes an upper mold part having at least one pressure punch for transfer of a force to at least one pressure plate, wherein the pressure plate can be introduced into an opening of a mold insert in a lower mold part in the vertical direction, wherein the lower mold part is surrounded by a frame that has a guide connected with the upper mold part and configured so that, the lower mold part can be tilted from the vertical direction, relative to the upper mold part, during engagement of the pressure plates into the openings of the mold insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: KOBRA Formen GmbH
    Inventors: Holger STICHEL, Juergen BRAUNGARDT
  • Publication number: 20160271829
    Abstract: An apparatus for the production of concrete molded parts in a molding machine includes an upper mold part having a pressure plate arrangement having multiple pressure plates, each facing an opening of a mold insert, wherein each of the pressure plates is screwed onto an intermediate plate, wherein the intermediate plate is connected with a punch plate on the upper mold part on the side facing the upper mold part, by way of at least one pressure punch. The intermediate plate is braced against the punch plate, in that at least one bolt that can be screwed on is passed through an accommodation on the intermediate plate, which bolt releasably engages into the punch plate and has a hollow body that encloses the bolt, between the intermediate plate and the punch plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: KOBRA Formen GmbH
    Inventors: Holger STICHEL, Juergen BRAUNGARDT
  • Publication number: 20160271830
    Abstract: A mold for a concrete bench support structure including a closed base, a continuous wall projecting up from the circumference of the base, and structure attached to the wall that stiffens the wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Robert Merusi
  • Publication number: 20160271831
    Abstract: An integrated closing tool is inserted into a part of hexagonal cells in a green honeycomb molded body including a plurality of hexagonal cells that open in an upper surface and a lower surface of a columnar body and are mutually partitioned by partition walls to join the partition walls together, thereby closing the hexagonal cells. A part of the integrated closing tool is separated, and tool separated pieces separated from a part of the hexagonal cells into which the closing tool has been inserted are removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Masashi INOUE, Hiroyuki IKAWA, Teruo KOMORI
  • Publication number: 20160271832
    Abstract: The present invention discloses novel solar autoclave equipment, which comprises an autoclave and a steam providing device, wherein said steam providing device is a solar heating device and comprises a plurality of vacuum tubes which are fixedly arranged outdoors and a connecting tube, a tubular water tank is installed in each said vacuum tube in an insertion manner, each said tubular water tank is in the shape of a straight tube with a closed lower end and an open upper end, the upper end of each said tubular water tank stretches out of said corresponding vacuum tube and is communicated with said connecting tube, and a space between the outer surface of the upper end of said tubular water tank and the inner wall of the upper end of said corresponding vacuum tube is sealed; and an inlet of said connecting tube is connected with a condensate water drain outlet of said autoclave, and an outlet of said connecting tube is connected to a steam input port of said autoclave through a compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Kai LIU
  • Publication number: 20160271833
    Abstract: A system for blending cement and at least one additive during a blending job to create a cement slurry for use in an underground hydrocarbon well includes a mixing tub, at least first and second blenders and a rotatable platform upon which the blenders are mounted. Each blender includes at least one elongated, rotatable, mixing blade extending into the tub to mix the cement and at the additive(s) to form the cement slurry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Virgilio C. Go Boncan
  • Publication number: 20160271834
    Abstract: One example of correlating energy to mix well cement slurry under laboratory conditions to field conditions can be implemented as a method to determine energy to mix cement slurry. Electrical power supplied to an electric mixer in mixing a specified well cement slurry is measured. An energy to mix the specified well cement slurry is determined from the measuring. The determined energy to mix the specified well cement slurry and specifications of field equipment for use in mixing the specified well cement slurry at a well site are compared. The field equipment is a different configuration than the electric mixer. Based on the comparing, it is determined whether the well cement slurry needs redesigning according to capabilities of the field equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Singh Sodhi, Pauline Akinyi Otieno, Vivek S. Goel, Benjamin John Iverson