Cutting Means Patents (Class 227/76)
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Patent number: 4162678Abstract: A surgical apparatus for the simultaneous resection of soft tissues and their suturing with metal staples comprises an anvil and a staple branches, hinge-connected and having longitudinal jaws situated one opposite the other. A longitudinal row of grooves is made on the jaw of the anvil branch for clinching the ends of staples, while slots for the staples with staple tappets placed therein are provided on the jaw of the staple branch opposite said grooves. A plank with a wedge bevel on its end intended for interaction with the staple tappets when ejecting the staples is situated in the slot of the staple branch, and is longitudinally movable therealong. Rotation shafts are set along each branch with needles set perpendicularly to them, intended for grasping the soft tissue.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1977Date of Patent: July 31, 1979Assignee: Vsesojuzny Nauchno-Issledovatelsky I Ispytatelny Institut Meditsinskoi TekhnikiInventors: Vladimir M. Fedotov, Boris A. Smirnov, Valery V. Revo, Sergei N. Lapchenko
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Patent number: 4146161Abstract: There is disclosed a pinning machine having an improved plunger, an improved guide track and an improved knife assembly. The plunger has relatively movable sections threadably connected together to enable the length of the plunger to be changed so that tags can be pinned to different thicknesses of merchandise by changing the plunger length. The guide track includes a one-piece leaf spring which acts against one edge of a web of record members to urge the other side of the web against an edge guide. The spring is resiliently held in captivity in a recess without being secured in the recess as by fasteners. The knife assembly includes a pair of fixed knives separated by a gap and a movable knife guided by guide means in the gap. The movable knife is floatingly or loosely mounted so that the guide means is the sole means for guiding the movable knife relative to the fixed knives.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1977Date of Patent: March 27, 1979Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventor: Richard W. Lewis
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Patent number: 4114793Abstract: A multi-purpose stapler is provided comprising a stapling means, a staple removing means and a hole punching means with shiftable actuator mounted on a common base. An actuator is provided which is movable between first and second positions. In the first position of the actuator, downward movement of a press handle of the stapler is limited so that stapling cannot occur but punching and staple removing can occur. In the second position of the actuator stapling can occur. The actuator functions to depress a punch rod when in its first position.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1977Date of Patent: September 19, 1978Assignee: EIC International CorporationInventor: Sheau-Po Hsu
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Patent number: 4047654Abstract: Anastomosis of hollow viscera is effected interlumenally by a surgical stapler. The stapler includes an ovoid-shaped staple head and an ovoid-shaped anvil which are mounted on the distal ends of an open ring support structure, the major part of which extends between the head and the anvil externally of the viscera. The staple head includes an ovoid-shaped tensor ring, an ovoid-shaped cutting blade and double ovoid-shaped rows of staple drivers. Closing of the instrument's handle grips moves the stapler head toward the anvil whereby the tissue between the head and the anvil is tensioned and stapled and the area within the rows of staples is cut away by the cutting blade.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1976Date of Patent: September 13, 1977Inventor: Alfredo Alvarado
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Patent number: 4040555Abstract: There is disclosed apparatus for attaching tags and the like to a variety of articles by means of fasteners. The apparatus is provided with a body and a one-piece needle having a piercing end extending outwardly of the body and having an enlarged portion. A bore extends lengthwise of the needle and an elongated first slot in the side of the needle extends into the bore. A second slot in the side of the enlarged portion enables entry of the bar section of a fastener into alignment with and into the bore. A one-piece knife is inserted into the enlarged portion of the needle. When a push rod is actuated the bar section is severed from a fastener assembly utilized by the apparatus, and thereafter the fastener assembly is advanced to bring a bar section of another fastener into the bore.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1976Date of Patent: August 9, 1977Assignee: Monarch Marking Systems, Inc.Inventor: William A. Jenkins
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Patent number: 4025030Abstract: An apparatus which incorporates a generally rectangular framework for receiving a supply of sheet plywood for cutting into individual strips, with each strip converted into a carpet-tacking strip. The apparatus receives and stores a supply of sheet plywood which is individually cut into a plurality of similar or identical strips. Each strip has a bevel on one edge. A number of nails, preferably in two files, are driven through the strip so that the point emerges from the backside. These nails provide a gripping means for engaging the carpet. Additionally, a number of nails for nailing the strips to the floor are inserted, at least partially, through the board from the opposite side. The apparatus simultaneously and consecutively forms a plurality of strips.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 1972Date of Patent: May 24, 1977Inventors: James V. Lowery, Charles L. Lowery, Vernon L. Lowery, Jimmy R. Lowery
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Patent number: 4002281Abstract: A multi-purpose stapler is provided comprising a hole punching means, a stapler removing means and a stapling means mounted on a common base.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1975Date of Patent: January 11, 1977Assignee: Eic International CorporationInventor: Sheau-Po Hsu
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Patent number: 3991926Abstract: Several different webs of textile material or other like fabric are simultaneously unwound from their respective rolls and are fed in intermittent stepwise fashion in superposed relation to one another to the bed of a cutting press. The press head is provided with cutting knives arranged to sever from each web along its leading edge a strip portion of predetermined area which in turn is subdivided by the cutting knives into sections each comprising a pile of individual swatches. The press head is also provided with a plurality of stitching devices arranged to bind together during each cyclic operation of the press head the several swatches of each section severed from the respective layers of web material so as to form a corresponding plurality of bound swatch pads. Upon the return stroke of the press head, the bound pads are removed from the bed of the press in preparation for the next web cutting and stitching operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1975Date of Patent: November 16, 1976Assignee: General Foods CorporationInventor: William M. Marks
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Patent number: 3990619Abstract: An improved hollow needle is provided for inserting through a material a fastener having a flexible filament with a retaining cross-bar at one end. The improved needle has an end for penetrating the material, a hollow central bore for slidably receiving the fastener cross-bar, a longitudinal slot along one side of the bore for slidably receiving the filament, and an upstanding flange at or adjacent one or preferably both edges of the slot for protecting the material and/or filament from damage during insertion of the fastener.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1975Date of Patent: November 9, 1976Assignee: Dennison Manufacturing CompanyInventor: David Bates Russell
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Patent number: 3984041Abstract: Plier-like grommet-setting tool has integral pyramidal punch and annular fabric cutter on one jaw and turntable on opposite jaw. Turntable presents two zones, one for cutting a hole in the fabric with the use of the cutter, and the other for setting the grommet eyelet with the use of the punch. Turntable may be readily shifted to present the proper zone under the punch. The tool is especially adapted for setting heavy-duty eyelets and grommets.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1975Date of Patent: October 5, 1976Assignee: Scovill Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Gerard Thomas LePage, Douglas Edward Sweeney
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Patent number: 3951325Abstract: A hand-operated stapler of the type comprising a base having an anvil die adjacent its front end, an open-top staple magazine pivotally coupled at its rear end to the base, and a lever also pivotally coupled to the base to depress the staple magazine onto the anvil die of the base whereby the foremost one of the staples within the magazine is dispensed therefrom to penetrate sheets of paper or the like and is further clinched by the anvil die to hold the sheets together. The stapler is characterized in that the staples within the staple magazine are urged forwardly by a feed element slidably mounted therein and a helical tension spring extending between the front end of the feed element and the front end of the lever, in such a manner that the spring is substantially folded over the rear end of the feed element.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1975Date of Patent: April 20, 1976Inventor: Yoshio Mitsuhashi
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Patent number: 3948128Abstract: A new and improved apparatus and method for feeding fastener attachments and stock having a plurality of spaced apart cross links coupled to side members, and severing the side members between adjacent cross members to form fastener attachment devices, i.e., fasteners.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1973Date of Patent: April 6, 1976Assignee: Dennison Manufacturing CompanyInventor: David B. Russell
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Patent number: 3945073Abstract: A machine for punching and subsequently binding packets of sheets to book form with wire binding elements comprises a punch and a press connected to, and driven from a common operating member through a mechanical drive, the mechanical drive being so arranged as to move the punch through a shorter distance and at a higher mechanical advantage than the press.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 1974Date of Patent: March 23, 1976Assignee: James Burn Bindings LimitedInventor: Sidney George William Adams
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Patent number: 3934776Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a piped opening for use in a garment and an apparatus for making the opening. The piped opening comprises corresponding die-cut slits or cuts formed in the front and facing portion of a garment with the flap or flaps defined thereby being reversely folded inwardly of the respective front and facing portions to define a corresponding opening therein. An edging patch having a complementary slit or cut and reversely folded patch flaps is secured to one of the portions with the patch flaps positioned contiguous to corresponding flaps of the adjacent portion to form a partially piped opening. The front and facing portions are then reversely folded to dispose the edging patch therebetween with the respective openings defined in each, disposed in coaxial alignment. The front and facing portions are then secured.The apparatus for locating and forming an opening in a garment, e.g.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1971Date of Patent: January 27, 1976Inventor: John L. Cruden, Jr.