Including Elevator Patents (Class 473/91)
  • Patent number: 10479539
    Abstract: A centrifugal bowl parts feeder system for various relatively heavy parts feeding including automotive bearings, gears, castings and other small, rugged and heavy part—1 to 6 inches in diameter and ½ to 5 pounds apiece. The components for this heavy duty centrifugal parts feeder system embraces a feeder bowl system with a durable, high impact bowl and surface, a drive assembly and a shaft connected to an inner disk, a set of selection tooling to separate and organize the parts, and a heavy support structure contiguous and beneath the inner disk. The system also contains both an input and output parts conveyor. All the components permit the heavy duty centrifugal bowl parts feeder system to feed and orient the relatively heavy, rugged and small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Inventor: Greg Schombert
  • Patent number: 8500567
    Abstract: An elevator assembly having a looped track assembly and a chain assembly having rollers which roll on the looped track assembly. The chain assembly includes spaced apart pin holders extending from the chain. A sprocket drive assembly engages the chain assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUBICAAMF Worldwide LLC
    Inventors: Samuel R. Namala, LeRoy T. Warren, Jr., Charles A. Lee, Mark D. Kilpatrick
  • Patent number: 8444509
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to custom fitting an individual with golf clubs. To accomplish such, a three-dimensional swing display may depict a golf swing prior to impact of a golf ball by a club head of a golf club. The club head may approach the golf ball at a particular attack angle. The attack angle may be defined relative to a horizontal plane that may be substantially parallel to a ground plane and intersect an optimal impact area on a golf ball. The attack angle may be a negative attack angle or a positive attack angle as defined by an angle of approach by a club head to impact the golf ball during a downswing portion of a golf swing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory J. Swartz, Roger J. Cottam
  • Patent number: 5624323
    Abstract: An automatic pinsetter employing magnetically responsive bowling pins, an elevator mechanism for retrieving bowling pins from a pit area adjacent an end portion of a bowling alley and for transporting the same to a pin discharge station above a transfer mechanism. The pins are arranged in bowling array on a transfer mechanism which is thereafter moved horizontally beneath a pinsetting mechanism. The pinsetting mechanism employs magnetic means for elevating the pins, the transfer mechanism is retracted from beneath the pinsetting mechanism, and the latter thereupon deposits the pins on the bowling alley in bowling array. The pinsetting mechanism is also adapted to pick-up and replace remaining upright pins after a first ball has been thrown whether the pins reside in "on spot" or "off spot" positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1997
    Assignee: Mendes Inc.
    Inventors: Francois Delaney, Viateur Guay, Carol Simard, Jean-Yves Dion, Lucien Rochefort