Work Supports Patents (Class 15/268)
  • Patent number: 4660245
    Abstract: This invention is a stand for use by a painter when he manually cleans a bristle paint brush by combing it with a wire brush or brush comb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1987
    Inventor: Paul D. Anderson
  • Patent number: 4653038
    Abstract: A support apparatus which allows a user to hold a phonograph record in one hand without contacting any playing surface thereof. The apparatus has an elongated body wih a spindle extending normally from one end thereof and a substantially curvilinear hook extending from an opposite end in a plane substantially perpendicular to a central axis of the spindle. The spindle defines a notch therein facing the hook. Extending from the body at an intermediate portion between the spindle and hook is a record support pedestal having an upper surface of contact. When in operation, the spindle is inserted into the central opening of a phonograph record and the user engages a thumb in the hook and the remaining fingers of the same hand are engaged with the outer edge of the record. By squeezing the thumb and fingers together, the inner edge of the record engages the notch in the spindle, and a side of the record rests on the upper surface of the pedestal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1987
    Inventor: John C. Boudreaux
  • Patent number: 4641391
    Abstract: A compact digital disc cleaner apparatus (20) including a housing (22) having a top surface (24) with a pedestal portion (30) for receipt of a compact digital disc (32) and a bottom surface (26) having a plurality of receptacles (40) positioned thereon and configured for removably receiving corresponding cleaning pad assemblies (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1987
    Assignee: Geneva Group of Companies, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. De brey
  • Patent number: 4583257
    Abstract: A baseplate carries an axially-advanceable rotating cutter. A V-block and clamp head are aligned on the plate to locate and secure a robot-positioned welding torch nozzle in a vertical attitude. After clamping the nozzle in position, the rotating cutter is advanced into the nozzle bore to remove accumulated internal weld spatter. The machined-away weld spatter can therefore be discharged under the influence of gravity or by a blast of purging air applied to the torch nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1986
    Assignee: Cincinnati Milacron Inc.
    Inventors: Edward W. Bridges, Charles R. Winterford
  • Patent number: 4574418
    Abstract: A disk cleaning mat wherein in the surface of a mat body first, second and third annular recesses for holding an LP disk, EP disk and a compact disk, respectively, are provided, and grounding portions electrically connected to the reverse side of the mat body are mounted on the respective recesses. The first and second recesses are concentric with each other, while the third recess is centered at a point offset from the common center of the first and second recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1986
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nagaoka
    Inventor: Izumi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 4569098
    Abstract: A disc-cleaning device wherein a cleaner having a cleaning portion for wiping the surface of a disc provided on the under surface thereof and a knob on the top surface thereof is housed in a case made by securing a cover to a support for the disc so that said cover can be opened and closed. The cover has a recess on the inside thereof into which the knob is received. The support has a disc-supporting depression in which the disc fits, and a mat is laid in the disc-supporting depression to support the underside of the disc. Notches are made at either side of the disc-supporting depression in which the disc fits, and the edge of the disc fitted into the disc-supporting depression projects from both of the notches. A brush member is removably attached to the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nagaoka
    Inventor: Hirokazu Kawabe
  • Patent number: 4483039
    Abstract: A shoe support apparatus, particularly for supporting a shoe for cleaning and shining, in the form of a base plate that is designed for temporary mounting to a conventional door and that has an outwardly extending shoe support means which comprises a heel support and a spring-loaded adjustable toe support that is connected thereto in a manner permitting a slight amount of rocking motion of the toe support. For door mounting, the base plate has a tapered opening so that it can be received over a doorknob and hung from the doorknob stem, and further has clamping means for clamping the base plate securely to the door edge adjacent the doorknob. The apparatus may be partially collapsed and totally removed from the door for portability and storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1984
    Inventor: Cydney E. Breen
  • Patent number: 4476606
    Abstract: A wall-mounted foldable airing or carpet-beating stand comprising an attachment bracket secured to the wall to support the inner end of a bar which in position of use of the stand assumes a horizontal position, and two support legs pivotally mounted in pivot points at the outer end of the bar. The bar is mounted for pivotal movement about a horizontal shaft in the attachment bracket. The shaft is displaceable in the vertical direction along slits or channels formed in the attachment bracket from or towards a lower operational position of the bar and an upper position of rest. In this position the bar may be pivoted to a vertical position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: Promovo AB
    Inventors: Lars Bjorkman, Borje Bang
  • Patent number: 4361111
    Abstract: A disassemblable pallet or dry rack for supporting spherical objects, such as golf balls, during painting or coating. The rack includes a base, having a series of radially aligned perforations, and at least three elongate prongs having horizontal leg portions extensible through the perforations in the base and shank portions extending vertically above the base, so as to present at least three prongs engageable with the spherical surface. The rack may be used, also, for suspending the golf ball in an inverted position during "dip" painting or coating and in an upright position for drying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1982
    Inventor: Henry J. Groen
  • Patent number: 4347639
    Abstract: In a deburring apparatus having a housing with front and rear walls, a base and a power rotated deburring wheel within the housing and partly projecting through the front wall, a workpiece holder assembly is arranged forwardly of the front wall in registry with the deburring wheel. The workpiece holder assembly has an elongated feed tube guidably mounted upon the base. A feed screw assembly interconnects the base with the feed tube and is actuated from the rear of the housing. Vertical feed tube is coplanar with and at substantial right angles to the elongated feed tube and upon one end is secured thereto. A workpiece holder shaft is telescoped within the vertical feed tube and mounts a transverse workpiece support. A feed screw assembly interconnects the vertical feed tube and workpiece holder shaft and is adapted on actuation to raise and lower the workpiece holder shaft and connected workpiece support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: Richard A. Anthony
    Inventor: Walter Le Tarte
  • Patent number: 4326744
    Abstract: This invention relates to a work hook device which is particularly constructed for supporting castings as they are conveyed through a blast cleaning machine. The work hook device includes a suitable support which is of an inverted keystone cross section and which has mounted thereon one or more hooks, each of the hooks including a hanger portion and a hook portion, and the hanger portion having an opening therethrough for receiving the support, and an upper portion of the opening being of a tapered configuration for interlocking engagement with the support. The construction is such that each hook may be mounted on its associated support in a desired angular relation as opposed to being vertically disposed and so locked in that position so as to rigidly engage a workpiece to be cleaned. Normally a pair of hooks will cooperate with one another to carry a relatively large casting. Each support may be carried by a rotatable shaft so as to rotate the casting during the blast cleaning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1982
    Assignee: Kennecott Corporation
    Inventor: William W. Long, III
  • Patent number: 4308630
    Abstract: A protective device is provided for a front face deburring of workpieces or profiles, particularly pipes, in a deburring machine having a rotating tool, e.g., a brush or a grinding wheel, or the like, which acts on the workpiece. The device includes an adjustable retaining means mountable on a workpiece retainer means in front of the rotating operating tool for receiving an upstanding interchangeable protective guard and guide plate having an opening for the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Inventor: Rainer Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4227347
    Abstract: A drive mechanism for a wafer processing machine of the kind which holds a silicon wafer on a vacuum chuck and rotates the wafer for processing operations on the wafer periphery or upper surface incorporates a low-speed motor, a high-speed motor and an overrunning clutch. The low-speed motor is connected to a drive shaft for the chuck through the overrunning clutch and rotates the chuck and wafer at a relatively low and precisely-controlled speed while the edge of the wafer is contoured by a grinding wheel or while the upper surface is mechanically cleaned by a brush engaged with the upper surface of the wafer. The high-speed motor is directly connected to the drive shaft and, when energized for a rinsing and drying operation, rotates the chuck and wafer in the same direction of rotation as the low-speed motor but at high speed while the wafer is being rinsed and dried after the grinding or cleaning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Assignee: Silicon Valley Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Johann Tam
  • Patent number: 4216560
    Abstract: An apparatus for deburring workpieces such as profiles, tubes, metal sheets or the like, is provided which includes a housing and a deburring tool rotatably mounted within the housing about a horizontal axis such that the tool partially projects from the housing. A workpiece holder is located in front of the housing for holding the workpiece to be deburred level with and in abutment with the rotatable tool. The holder has a block portion, which is a workpiece retaining device. The block portion and the workpiece receiving device are displaceable into the housing in a direction towards the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1980
    Inventor: Rainer Schmidt
  • Patent number: 4194464
    Abstract: A stationary pad is disclosed for supporting, holding and protecting a record during treatment. The periphery of the pad is provided with a continuous raised lip, so as to prevent the inadvertent spillage of liquids from the pad onto an underlying surface or the like. Pedestal portions are distributed over most but not all of the area of the pad to raise the record above the surface of the pad so that the lower side of the record does not rest in the fluid which may flow off of the record during treatment. The pad is preferably made of a rubber-like, nonabrasive material having a high coefficient of friction and relatively low electrical conductivity. In one embodiment of the present invention, a central protrusion in the pad is provided on which the record is centered. In a second embodiment, the peripheral lip extends to a height greater than the height of the pedestal portions so as to prevent the record from sliding off the pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1980
    Assignee: Ball Corporation
    Inventors: John F. Dye, Virgil F. Friebel
  • Patent number: 4178189
    Abstract: A tool for mounting a cartridge case to a drill chuck for rotating the cartridge case about its longitudinal axis for the purpose of cleaning and polishing the cartridge case. The tool comprises a body member having a bore extending axially from one end thereof to the other end, with at least a portion of the bore being internally threaded. One end of the body member is provided with an undercut slot extending from the periphery thereof inwardly to encompass the bore therein. The undercut slot is adapted to receive the flanged end of a universal cartridge case shellholders. A shaft, at least a portion thereof having external threads, is positioned within the bore in the body member so that the threads on the shaft engage the threads of the bore. The shaft is of sufficient length to extend through the bore in the body member from said one end thereof to and beyond the other end so as to project outwardly from the other end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1979
    Inventors: Angelo J. Mancini, Ronald W. Galloway
  • Patent number: 4085474
    Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning scale, sludge, rust, concrete, or other unwanted material from the interior walls of sections of pipe, the apparatus including a honing tool which is insertable and rotatable in a section of pipe clamped on a transportable primary carrier, and has at its end a cutting tool with a pair of arcuate cutting edges to provide a desirable tangential contact with the pipe, and to facilitate cleaning of slightly bent pipes. The tool also has two pairs of diametrically opposed cutting elements resiliently mounted on the tool shank and urged outwardly in a self-centering action. The tool is mounted on a shaft which is loosely journaled on a secondary carrier, to provide tool flexibility and a desirable whipping action, and the secondary carrier can be telescoped into the primary carrier for transportation purposes. A hydraulic motor for driving the tool shaft is mounted on a carriage which can be translated linearly on the secondary carrier, to advance the tool into the clamped pipe section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Inventor: Herbert R. Murphy