With Work-overlying Clamp Patents (Class 269/54)
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Patent number: 10029762Abstract: An anchoring device is provided that is adapted to tether a structure to a fixed support, such as a dock or floating kelp. The anchoring device comprises a reel assembly that enables a user to secure their boat without the use of an anchor. The assembly includes a reel housing, a retractable line, a clamp assembly, and a line guide. The reel housing comprises a pair of control buttons, a gripping handle, and an attachment strap. The first button is adapted to unlock and lock the retractable line in place, whereas the second button is adapted to retract the line back into the housing. The clamp assembly is adapted to secure the anchoring device onto a fixed or floating surface, whereby the clamp assembly comprises a first and second clamp member in biased relationship with one or more of peripheral teeth, inner tines, and a high friction inner surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Inventor: Phillip Padick
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Patent number: 8827253Abstract: A hand-strung jewelry construction board. A plurality of holes is drilled into the board. One or more pins are inserted into the holes. Also, one or more clamps are inserted into the holes. A jewelry string is looped around the pins and clamped in position by the clamps. In a preferred embodiment, second and third strings are wrapped around the jewelry string adjacent the pins at each end of the jewelry string. The second and third wrapped strings are glued into place. When the jewelry string is removed from the jewelry construction board, permanent loops are formed into the jewelry string.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Inventor: Sandra Younger
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Patent number: 8608144Abstract: An assembly of a cable gripper and a cable that has an outer protective layer formed from plastically deformable material, over an inner tensile strength portion). The cable gripper includes at least one gripper member having a supported outer end and an active inner end penetrating the outer protective layer and gripping the inner tensile strength portion beneath the outer protective layer. The active inner end includes a material of sufficient hardness to penetrate the outer protective layer by movement of the gripper member through the outer layer from an inoperative to an operative position.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2007Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Ocean Cable Technologies LimitedInventors: Andrew James Thomas, Jeremy John Richard Featherstone
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Patent number: 8579272Abstract: A clamping apparatus for securing a workpiece is provided. The clamping apparatus includes a fixing base and a first and a second clamping device mounted on opposing sides of the fixing base. The first clamping device includes stacked clamping sheets, each of which is moveable and comprises an inclined clamping edge for contacting the workpiece. A support assembly supports the plurality of stacked clamping sheets; and an operating member is slidable relative to the support assembly and contacting the plurality of staked clamping sheets. The operation member is capable of moving at least one of the plurality of stacked clamping sheets relative to another one when the operation member slides relative to the support assembly, and moving at least one of the inclined clamping edge toward or away from the second clamping device to accommodate workpieces of varying sizes.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shen-Chun Li, Shou-Kuo Hsu, Hsien-Chuan Liang
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Patent number: 8292280Abstract: A clamp rod (5) is vertically movably inserted into a housing (3), and a detection hole (58) is formed in a lower end wall (3b) of the housing (3), substantially concentrically with an axis of the clamp rod (5). An inlet hole (71, 72) for supplying compressed air is opened in a peripheral surface of the detection hole (58). Into the detection hole (58), a detection member (62) is fitted vertically movably, the detection member (62) having a closing surface (68) which closes an opening portion (71a, 72a) of the inlet hole (71, 72), and a recessed portion (69) through which the opening portion (71a, 72a) is communicatively connected to outside air. The detection member (62) is connected to a downward projecting portion (5a) of the clamp rod (5). The detection member (62) is urged by an elastic member (91) toward the opening portion (71a, 72a).Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Kosmek Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Yokota, Ryota Kojima
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Patent number: 8256754Abstract: A lift pin is provided for manipulating a substrate above a support surface of a substrate support and uniformly transferring heat from the substrate support to the substrate. The lift pin includes a pin shaft. The pin shaft includes a cross-section having at least three equal edges and round corners configured alternatively. A pin head is an end portion of the pin shaft, wherein the pin head has a convex support surface larger than the cross-section of the pin shaft. A flat portion is disposed on a central area of the convex support surface for directly contacting the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Alexander N. Lerner, Mehran Behdjat, Paula Valdivia
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Publication number: 20110260385Abstract: A clamping apparatus for securing a workpiece is provided. The clamping apparatus includes a fixing base and a first and a second clamping device mounted on opposing sides of the fixing base. The first clamping device includes stacked clamping sheets, each of which is moveable and comprises an inclined clamping edge for contacting the workpiece. A support assembly supports the plurality of stacked clamping sheets; and an operating member is slidable relative to the support assembly and contacting the plurality of staked clamping sheets. The operation member is capable of moving at least one of the plurality of stacked clamping sheets relative to another one when the operation member slides relative to the support assembly, and moving at least one of the inclined clamping edge toward or away from the second clamping device to accommodate workpieces of varying sizes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: SHEN-CHUN LI, SHOU-KUO HSU, HSIEN-CHUAN LIANG
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Publication number: 20110204554Abstract: A hand-strung jewelry construction board. A plurality of holes is drilled into the board. One or more pins are inserted into the holes. Also, one or more clamps are inserted into the holes. A jewelry string is looped around the pins and clamped in position by the clamps. In a preferred embodiment, second and third strings are wrapped around the jewelry string adjacent the pins at each end of the jewelry string. The second and third wrapped strings are glued into place. When the jewelry string is removed from the jewelry construction board, permanent loops are formed into the jewelry string.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2011Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventor: Sandra Younger
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Patent number: 7918181Abstract: A stent mandrel fixture for supporting a stent during the application of a coating substance is provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2008Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Fuh-Wei Tang, Syed F. A. Hossainy, Dorrie Happ, Ty T. Hu
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Patent number: 7677542Abstract: A vacuum-mounted clamp for clamping a first component to a second component. The clamp includes a substantially rigid body having an application face, a back face opposite the application face, a side, and a vacuum port extending between the application face and the back face. The application face has a step adjacent the side for engaging the first component. The clamp includes a flexible seal connected to the rigid body adjacent the application face. The seal has a vacuum port in fluid communication with the vacuum port in the primary body and a periphery for contacting the second component to create a vacuum area between the clamp and the second component. The vacuum port of the body and the seal are in fluid communication with a vacuum generator for generating a vacuum in the vacuum area.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2005Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Donald J. Grzina, Scott A. Martin, Dustin D. Ribble
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Patent number: 7370856Abstract: A clamp includes a body, a lead pin moveable relative to the body and an actuator supported by the body. The actuator is axially moveable between an extended position and a retracted position. The actuator includes a camshaft drivingly coupled to the lead pin. Axial movement of the camshaft causes the lead pin to rotate between a first positioned aligned with a first longitudinal axis and a second position aligned with a second longitudinal axis laterally offset from the first longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2005Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: BTM CorporationInventors: Edwin G. Sawdon, Michael D. Miller, Brian D. Petit
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Patent number: 6761101Abstract: A receiver block particularly configured for an AR-15/M-16 receiver includes an upwardly extending tongue adapted to be received in the receiver cavity with oppositely positioned ears on the receiver being received in apertured slots on the receiver block with pins being received in the aligned openings to lock the receiver to the receiver block thereby providing substantially total exposure and access to the receiver.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Inventor: Randy E. Luth
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Patent number: 6604326Abstract: A holder comprising a rigid base bar having a pin end and a stabilizing end; a rigid stabilizing bar having a base end and an opposite end, with the base end of the rigid stabilizing bar being rigidly attached to the stabilizing end of the rigid base bar, and extending perpendicular to the rigid base bar; two nails being each having a head end and a pointed end, with the head end of the each nail being rigidly attached to separate points along the rigid stabilizing bar, and with the pointed end of the each nail being extended perpendicular to the rigid stabilizing bar and parallel with the rigid base bar and toward the perpendicular direction of the rigid base bar; and the rigid base bar having a bore through it in a direction parallel with the length of the rigid stabilizing bar.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2002Date of Patent: August 12, 2003Inventor: James Cooper Noble
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Patent number: 5639336Abstract: A method and fixture for adhering a label onto a surface of an object. The fixture is a sheet body and has a hollow space in its central area for receiving the label to be adhered. The sheet body has at least a positioning structure for being accurately positioned on the nearby area of the location where the label to be adhered.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1994Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignee: Acer Peripherals, Inc.Inventor: Hung Huan Hsu
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Patent number: 5508985Abstract: A method for detecting and processing synchronization marks extracted from a prerecorded wobbled groove formed in a compact disk in order to produce pseudo-sync signals using a high frequency phase locked loop servoing to the disk speed to generate the signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1994Date of Patent: April 16, 1996Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael G. Fairchild, Gzim Derti, Mark A. Barton
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Patent number: 5459309Abstract: The present invention ensures successful focus acquisition in an optical disk drive independent of a travelling speed of an objective lens at the time when a focus servo circuit loop is closed. The present invention provides sending a signal to a focus actuator for bringing an objective lens close to an in-focus position while a focus servo circuit loop is opened; closing the loop by shutting off the signal sent to the focus actuator; adding an offset of a predetermined level to the focus error signal; detecting that the focus error signal to which the offset is added reaches a predetermined level; and closing the loop when it is detected that the predetermined level is reached, and gradually decreasing the value of the offset to be added to the focus error signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1993Date of Patent: October 17, 1995Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Kagami, Makoto Takekoshi
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Patent number: 5026222Abstract: A pin for use in a chuck for clamping a discoid portion of a workpiece, the chuck including a base, at least to fixed clamps secured on a front end surface of the base, a movable clamp adjacent to the front end surface of the base and the pin secured to the front end surface of the base. The pin is adapted to fit in a hole formed in a discoid when the discoid is mounted on the chuck wherein the hole has a larger diameter than the pin. The pin has generally rhombic transversed section with a long diagonal and a short diagonal. The pin is truncated by a predetermined amount at each end along the long diagonal to allow the workpiece to move a limited distance relative to the pin along a line formed by the short diagonal. The limited distance may be a function of an initial clearance between the discoid portion and the chuck or a function or a variation between the diameter of the discoid portion and its design diameter, or a function of both.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1990Date of Patent: June 25, 1991Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventors: Satoshi Kawano, Yoshio Kimura, Eiji Fukushima
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Patent number: 4930955Abstract: A chuck for clamping a discoid portion of a work piece includes a base, at least two fixed clamps secured on a front end surface of the base, a movable clamp adjacent to the front end surface of the base and a pin secured to the front end surface of the base. The pin is adapted to fit in a hole formed in the discoid when the discoid is mounted on the chuck wherein the hole has a larger diameter than the pin. Furthermore, the pin is positioned radially inwardly of the movable clamp toward the chuck center and oriented so that the two fixed clamps are equiangularly spaced about and equidistantly spaced from the pin. As a result, the discoid may move relative to the pin and toward the two fixed clamps, without rotation thereof. Accordingly, the centroidal axis of the discoid may be aligned with the rotational axis of the chuck so that precision machining may be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1989Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Sanden CorporationInventors: Satoshi Kawano, Yoshio Kimura, Eiji Fukushima
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Patent number: 4543868Abstract: The invention relates to a device for holding and advancing the stock to be sliced on a cold meat slicing machine. At the free end of a base mounted pivotably on the carriage for the stock to be sliced and slidably displaceable transversely to the direction of displacement of the carriage, there is likewise pivotably mounted a gripper with at least two fingers protruding from its pivot axis, and one curved, pointed needle protruding from each finger. The gripper furthermore comprises a manual lever by means of which the curved needles may be pressed into the stock to be sliced.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1984Date of Patent: October 1, 1985Assignee: Bizerba-Werke Wilhelm Kraut GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Albrecht Maurer, Karl Frey
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Patent number: 4291868Abstract: Clamping apparatus for clamping a work piece onto a work table remote from the edges of the work table. Apparatus includes a main support member and first and second engaging members spaced along and extending from the support member so that outer ends of the engaging members cooperate with the work table. Jacking apparatus cooperates with one of the engaging members to move the engaging member relative to the support member. This clamps the work piece onto the work table with a clamping surface associated with the main support item. Each engaging means can be quickly adjusted to accommodate work pieces and work tables of different depths. The clamping surface can be resiliently mounted relative to the support member to increase versatility of clamping apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1979Date of Patent: September 29, 1981Inventor: Barry R. Giles
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Patent number: 4212698Abstract: A laterally elongated plate is provided with anchors in a transversely elongated tape support area of the plate by which to secure the opposite ends of a length of pressure sensitive adhesive tape extended across the tape support area, with the adhesive side of the tape facing upward. A stitch indicator line is provided on the plate inwardly of and parallel to the tape support area to indicate an ultimate stitching line, and loop size guide lines also are provided on the plate spaced inwardly from and parallel to the stitch indicator line to orient cloth loop material according to the size of loops desired to be formed. Laterally spaced markings are provided on the plate adjacent the tape support area to aid in spacing loop units desired distances apart.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1978Date of Patent: July 15, 1980Inventor: Thomas O. Blair