Work Supports Patents (Class 15/268)
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Patent number: 4660245Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 6, 1985Date of Patent: April 28, 1987Inventor: Paul D. Anderson
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Patent number: 4653038Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 8, 1985Date of Patent: March 24, 1987Inventor: John C. Boudreaux
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Patent number: 4641391Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 31, 1985Date of Patent: February 10, 1987Assignee: Geneva Group of Companies, Inc.Inventor: Robert J. De brey
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Patent number: 4583257Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 14, 1985Date of Patent: April 22, 1986Assignee: Cincinnati Milacron Inc.Inventors: Edward W. Bridges, Charles R. Winterford
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Patent number: 4574418Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 18, 1985Date of Patent: March 11, 1986Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha NagaokaInventor: Izumi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 4569098Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 1984Date of Patent: February 11, 1986Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha NagaokaInventor: Hirokazu Kawabe
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Patent number: 4483039Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 29, 1983Date of Patent: November 20, 1984Inventor: Cydney E. Breen
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Patent number: 4476606Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 27, 1983Date of Patent: October 16, 1984Assignee: Promovo ABInventors: Lars Bjorkman, Borje Bang
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Patent number: 4361111Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 23, 1981Date of Patent: November 30, 1982Inventor: Henry J. Groen
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Patent number: 4347639Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 13, 1981Date of Patent: September 7, 1982Assignee: Richard A. AnthonyInventor: Walter Le Tarte
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Patent number: 4326744Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 7, 1979Date of Patent: April 27, 1982Assignee: Kennecott CorporationInventor: William W. Long, III
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Patent number: 4308630Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 21, 1980Date of Patent: January 5, 1982Inventor: Rainer Schmidt
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Patent number: 4227347Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 14, 1978Date of Patent: October 14, 1980Assignee: Silicon Valley Group, Inc.Inventor: Johann Tam
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Patent number: 4216560Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 1978Date of Patent: August 12, 1980Inventor: Rainer Schmidt
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Patent number: 4194464Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 3, 1978Date of Patent: March 25, 1980Assignee: Ball CorporationInventors: John F. Dye, Virgil F. Friebel
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Patent number: 4178189Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 1978Date of Patent: December 11, 1979Inventors: Angelo J. Mancini, Ronald W. Galloway
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Patent number: 4085474Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 23, 1976Date of Patent: April 25, 1978Inventor: Herbert R. Murphy