Ball Patents (Class 16/88)
  • Patent number: 11519210
    Abstract: The present invention provides an annular roller device for a sliding window/door, which is proposed as a roller device having a new structure wherein the roller device installed under a door sash can move a sliding window/door having heavy weight, and can maximize the open glass portion of the window/door by minimizing the height of the space required to install the roller device, thereby providing a more open view. The roller device has a structure in which, even when a rail installed on a window frame is not horizontal or the bottom portion of a window is not completely flat, all multiple rolling members, which constitute a ring-shaped rolling unit wound around a load-bearing plate (1220) comprising segment bodies (1221, 1222) rotatably connected to each other by a pivot pin (1225) extending therethrough, form contact points with the rail or the bottom portion, and thus each of the rolling members is prevented from being loaded with excessive weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: FILOBE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Kwang-Seog Lee
  • Patent number: 11047160
    Abstract: A door mounting system for sliding translation of a door in one embodiment may include a longitudinally elongated support rail defining a mounting axis, a pair of wall mounts rigidly anchoring the support rail to a support surface, a door bracket slideably movable along the support rail, a door supported by the door bracket in a suspended manner, and a linear roller bearing disposed at an interface between the door bracket and support rail to facilitate movement of the door bracket along the support rail. The door is linearly translatable along the support rail in operation between open and closed positions. In one embodiment, an anti-sway clip disposed on the door bracket defines a stop surface configured to engage the support rail to arrest swaying motion of the door if a force is inadvertently applied to the door acting in a plane oriented transversely to the mounting axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventor: Salvatore Sisto
  • Patent number: 10450796
    Abstract: A sliding screen door assembly includes a door panel having an outer frame and a screen portion. A sliding assembly slidably couples an upper portion of the outer frame of the door panel to a portion of a wall adjacent a doorway and the sliding assembly facilitates a horizontal sliding of the door panel relative the doorway between a closed position in which the door panel substantially covers the doorway and an open position in which the door panel is located substantially to a side of the doorway. A first barrier member is located above the sliding assembly and a second barrier member is located below the sliding assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Home Improvement Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: David Seuberling
  • Patent number: 9962020
    Abstract: A hanging storage unit is provided. The hanging storage unit includes a lower frame structure including at least one roller assembly, an upper frame structure including at least one guide assembly, a plurality of posts coupled at a lower end to the lower frame structure and coupled at an upper end the upper frame structure, a guidance tube, moveably engaged with one of the at least one guide assembly, and a panel, an upper end of the panel attached to the guidance tube and a lower end of the panel moveably engaged with one of the at least one roller assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: Nelson B. Young
  • Patent number: 9894993
    Abstract: A slide rail comprises a longitudinal body and a pair of longitudinal supporting structures extended from two sides of the longitudinal body. Each of the supporting structures has a U-shaped cross section and includes a first supporting arm and a second supporting arm bent relative to the first supporting arm. A ball raceway is formed on one of the first supporting arm and the second supporting arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: KING SLIDE WORKS CO., LTD., KING SLIDE TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Ken-Ching Chen, Shun-Ho Yang, Chien-Li Huang, Chun-Chiang Wang
  • Patent number: 9532659
    Abstract: A sliding door assembly for a refrigerated display case is provided. The sliding door assembly includes a door frame having a top frame segment and a plurality of sliding bearings that slide along channels within the top frame segment. A plurality of display case doors are coupled to the sliding bearings and configured to slide, along with the sliding bearings, between an open position and a closed position. The display case doors may be suspended from the sliding bearings. The sliding door assembly may include an automatic closure system coupled to the display case doors and configured to apply a closing force that automatically returns the display case doors to the closed position. One or more magnets may apply a magnetic damping force as the display case doors approach the closed position to facilitate a soft closure of the display case doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Anthony, Inc.
    Inventors: Harvey Tsui, Matthew Walp
  • Patent number: 9349417
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an apparatus casing, using a cover mechanism, and a device unit, disposed inside the apparatus casing. The apparatus casing includes a casing body, a pivotal device, a pivot locking mechanism, and a door. The casing body structurally constrains the door to move in a direction at a side of the casing body. After sliding, the door is engaged with the pivotal device and drives the pivot locking mechanism to unlock the pivotal device so that the door can rotate to another side of the casing body by the pivotal device relative to the casing body. A manipulation area of the casing body is therefore exposed. Thereby, a user can manipulate the device unit through the manipulation area; the inner surface of the door keeps facing toward the casing body so that the apparatus casing can keep its aesthetic appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Zhong-hui Mao, Dong-Ying Chen
  • Patent number: 8974692
    Abstract: Provided are novel chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry compositions for polishing copper substrates and method of using the CMP compositions. The CMP slurry compositions deliver superior planarization with high and tunable removal rates and low defects when polishing bulk copper layers of the nanostructures of IC chips. The CMP slurry compositions also offer the high selectivity for polishing copper relative to the other materials (such as Ti, TiN, Ta, TaN, and Si), suitable for through-silicon via (TSV) CMP process which demands high copper film removal rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaobo Shi, Krishna Murella, James Allen Schlueter, Jae Ouk Choo
  • Publication number: 20140026359
    Abstract: Example trolleys and hangers for washdown curtains are disclosed herein. An example trolley disclosed herein includes features that simplify manufacturing and promote liquid runoff to avoid bacterial growth. Some example trolleys comprise U-bolts, shoulder screws and acorn nuts. In some examples, a frame of the trolley has a nestable V-shape profile that makes the frame readily blanked and formed from sheet metal with minimal waste. In some examples, an example trolley disclosed herein has a pair of rollers that are horizontally offset to a point from which the curtain hangs so that the weight of the curtain tilts the trolley to promote liquid runoff from the trolley's frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Gary Borgerding, Timothy J. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8544149
    Abstract: A gate stabilizer for reducing sag-inducing stress on a gate comprising a support member and a stabilizer assembly, said stabilizer assembly including a rotating member having a first end portion adapted to engage said support member and a fixed member. The present invention further relates to a fence system incorporating said gate stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Inventor: Eric Brett Faber
  • Publication number: 20130047375
    Abstract: A roller is essentially consisting of a resin composition that contains, as a base resin, a copolymer essentially consisting of a repeating unit expressed by a formula (i): where “a” denotes a number from 4 to 9, a repeating unit expressed by a formula (ii): and a repeating unit expressed by a formula (iii): where “b” denotes a number from 9 to 11, the roller being formed in an annular shape. In a roller device, the roller is arranged to cover an outer periphery of an outer ring of a rolling bearing that includes an inner ring, the outer ring, and rolling elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazunori MIYAKE
  • Publication number: 20100139037
    Abstract: A carriage includes body, at which at least one first roller is freely rotatably mounted, as well as a carriage suspension member with an upper terminal section is supported at or in the body and, with regard to the body, is pivotable about at least one axis of rotation extending parallel to the longitudinal extension of the carriage. A lower terminal section, the carriage suspension member is configured to extend in a downward direction towards a panel to be moved. The lower terminal section is adapted to suspend the panel to be moved therefrom. An axis of rotation of the at least one first roller extends transversely to the downward direction and transversely to a tangent of the travel path of the at least one panel to be moved in an area of the at least one first roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: Dorma GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Hufen, Axel Richstein, Andreas Finke
  • Patent number: 5832668
    Abstract: A guide assembly for a motor vehicle having a sliding door includes a track having longitudinally extending grooves in opposite surfaces thereof and disposed horizontally on the vehicle. The guide assembly also includes a support bracket having one end connected with the sliding door and another end including a bearing housing. The bearing housing has a longitudinal slot including sides having spacedly opposed bearing pockets. A plurality of ball bearings is rotatably mounted in the opposed bearing pockets and engages the longitudinally extending grooves in the opposite surfaces of the track for supporting and guiding the support bracket and sliding door for movement relative to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Faubert, Waine T. Brock, Terence W. Haskin
  • Patent number: 4955099
    Abstract: A movable support which includes a first axle, two stub axles which are in line with one another and which extend in opposing directions from the first axle at right angles thereto, and two hemispherical members which are mounted, with respective convex surfaces outermost, for independent rotation on the respective stub axles, on opposing sides of the first axle. The movable support finds particular application in supporting a cleaning head of a suction type pool cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Liberty Pool Products S. A.
    Inventor: Carl F. W. Supra
  • Patent number: 4845806
    Abstract: With a suspended sliding partition with a level track (1) and at least one panel-like element (3) is provided an upper mounting rail (4) which is suspended from the track (1) by two carrying bolts (2) which extend through a continuous slot in the underside of the track (1) into the latter and are there each connected to a carrying device (26, 27, 28, 40) which is supported in the track (1). The track (1) has two guide channels (12, 20) arranged at a distance one above the other and provided with lateral guiding surfaces (13, 21) on both sides, as well as a level supporting surface (17). On each carrying bolt (2) are mounted two lateral guiding elements (23, 30, 33, 34) which are guided in one of the guide channels (12, 20), as well as the carrying device (26, 27, 28, 40) which is supported on the supporting surface (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Inventor: Walter Hamacher
  • Patent number: 4194793
    Abstract: A telescoping guide rail construction comprising a plurality of telescoping rails, generally U-shaped in cross-section, and balls between the rails running in concave ball races formed by integral mouldings of adjacent rails. At least one of the integral mouldings is formed by a portion of a flange bent over at the end of a leg of one of the rails and bent back at least substantially into contact with the leg concerned. In order to resist deformative effects from the rolling action of the balls on their races in use, the free end of the curved-back portion of the flange is bent back towards the leg concerned to form a terminal edge bearing with its extremity on the leg in the vicinity of the base thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1980
    Assignee: Thomas Regout N.V.
    Inventor: Hubert G. Offermans
  • Patent number: 4159556
    Abstract: A suspension system primarily designed for use with operable walls and partitions can be constructed utilizing a plurality of identical tracks joined together in a system having a junction between such tracks and a trolley which is movable along the tracks and across the junction. Each of the tracks includes a pair of first spaced, parallel flanges and a second pair of spaced, parallel flanges located beneath the first pair. The trolley includes a bearing plate carrying a plurality of downwardly extending spherical bearings and a support plate located parallel to and underneath the bearing plate and the downwardly extending bearings. The trolley is adapted to be positioned in any of the tracks with bearings on the trolley supporting the trolley on the first pair of parallel flanges and with the support plate being located between the pairs of flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1979
    Assignee: Advanced Equipment Corporation
    Inventor: Wesley B. Dickson
  • Patent number: 4112539
    Abstract: A structural-reinforcement means for a precision, telescoping, bearing, slide mechanism having inner and outer slide members held together by ball bearings, or other well known means, such as frictional or roller bearings, the balls being operably disposed in a ball retainer between the inner and outer slide members, the outer slide member being adapted to be received and supported in an outer, elongated, structural-reinforcing bar member having a longitudinally-extending, center wall and laterally outwardly-extending, flange members integrally formed along each side of the center wall. An inner, elongated, structural bar member is arranged to be received and fixedly mounted within the inner slide member thereof, wherein each reinforcing bar member is formed from an aluminum material whereby structural strength, load-carrying capacity, and extended load-carrying capacity are established with respect to the outer and the inner slide members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Inventor: Magnus F. Hagen
  • Patent number: 4080686
    Abstract: A structural support mounting means for precision, telescoping, linear slide mechanisms of the type having an outer slide member and an inner slide member, each being held in sliding relationship by ball bearings or the like, the balls being operably disposed in a ball retainer between the inner and outer slide members. The structural support mounting means is defined by an elongated rail having oppositely disposed channels formed longitudinally therein, to structurally support and receive a pair of oppositely arranged slide mechanisms, wherein each adjacent slide member is affixed to a central, load-carrying bracket for longitudinal movement of the load secured to the bracket thereof, and wherein an elongated, structural-reinforcing bar member is adapted to be received and fixedly mounted within the inner slide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Inventor: Magnus F. Hagen
  • Patent number: 4001913
    Abstract: This is a door mounting consisting of a pair of hinges, each hinge having a component for mounting in the frame and a component for mounting on the door. The top hinge has a member for the door with a part-spherical recess for a corresponding head on a pin depending from the member on the frame so that the pin acts as a universal joint which can support the whole weight of the door. The lower hinge comprises depdning pins from the bottom edge of the door and a plate for sinking in the floor and having two arcuate slots, one for each of the depending pins. One or other pin defines a lower pivot point to one side of the top hinge axis and the other runs on its arcuate slot. The door can open either way and has a self-closing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1977
    Inventors: William John Bernard Ollis, Clive Beech Ansley Long