With Additional Mans To Engage Work And Orient It Relative To Tool Station Patents (Class 83/418)
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Patent number: 4455906Abstract: Sheet metal shears are located at one end of a table over which sheet metal is moved toward the shears. A lateral stop of positioned along one of the table edges extending transversely of the shears. The table surface is inclined downwardly toward the lateral stop. Clamping members are located adjacent to and are movable along the edge where the lateral stop is located.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1981Date of Patent: June 26, 1984Assignee: Karl Mengele & SohneInventor: Harro Reiff
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Patent number: 4441537Abstract: An apparatus for aligning lumber, especially blocks from which the first pair of cants is removed, comprising a conveyor for transferring the blocks in longitudinal direction, a measuring station and a microprocessor or equivalent. Before feeding the blocks into a saw mill, they have to be aligned correctly in order to ascertain a maximum amount of wood products. In conventional apparatuses for aligning blocks, the alignment is performed on the unsawed surfaces of the block. In practice this leads to errors. In the present invention the errors can be eliminated by arranging the aligning members to comprise one or several short conveyors located in connection to the conveyor. The short conveyor can be shifted transversally both below and above the level of the conveyor, and it can be given a horizontal adjusting movement impulse according to the adjusting values received from the calculating unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1981Date of Patent: April 10, 1984Assignee: Plan-Sell OyInventor: Jorma Vartiainen
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Patent number: 4411180Abstract: An apparatus and process is described for deflecting a continuous yarn moving along a first to a second path to lay flat on a surface of an upstream roll of a pair of rolls at least adjacent a cutting zone defined by the circumferential contacting surfaces of the rolls of a cutting machine. The first path of movement is above and in a zone between the sides of one roll, the blade-carrying roll, which may comprise either the upstream or downstream roll, and the yarn is deflected at such time that it is being drawn at an operational speed of movement and at a speed equalized with the drawing speed of movement of other yarns.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1981Date of Patent: October 25, 1983Assignee: Vetrotex Saint-GobainInventor: Giordano Roncato
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Patent number: 4399728Abstract: A saw workpiece pushing device is operably attachable to a table saw and is utilized to facilitate the cutting of styrofoam or other similar material. The device includes an elongated pushing member which is attachable to the saw's miter gauge and which includes an U-shaped frame defining an opening through which the saw blade may pass without interference with the pushing member. Additionally, a side guide member is attachable to the saw's fence so as to permit an outward expansion of the styrofoam once the same has been cut. The side guide member is fixedly securable to the fence through the use of a C-clamp positionable between the fence and a slot cut in the guide member, while the pushing member may be fixedly secured by conventional means to the miter gauge. A safety extension is provided on one side of the U-shaped frame which operates to push the cut styrofoam off the table without the necessity of an operator using his hand near the saw blade to remove the styrofoam.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1981Date of Patent: August 23, 1983Inventor: Leo L. Davis
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Patent number: 4392403Abstract: A portable apparatus that can be wheeled to a pallet supported by a conveyor for selective removal of nails that interconnect the stringers with the deckboards. The portable apparatus has a platform that is moveable in a vertical direction to position the cutting means at the juncture of the stringer with the deckboards. Such apparatus has a pair of pivotal cutting means that are moveable toward each other into intermeshing contact to shear nails.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1981Date of Patent: July 12, 1983Assignee: The B. F. Goodrich CompanyInventor: Troy E. Martindale, Jr.
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Patent number: 4391123Abstract: The punching machine of this invention comprises a punching head provided with a plurality of punch/die pairs for effecting punching operations of a metal sheet. In the punching head there are defined a plurality of operative positions in each of which there is positioned and actuated a punch/die pair of the said plurality of punch/die pairs. Each punch/die pair is operated independently from the others. The punching machine further includes a numerically controlled programmable manipulator equipped with pincers for gripping a metal sheet and displacing it between the punchs and dies of said plurality of punch/die pairs.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1980Date of Patent: July 5, 1983Assignee: Salvagnini Transferica S.p.A.Inventor: Guido Salvagnini
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Patent number: 4329900Abstract: A bacon slicing machine having a rotating slicing blade and a feed bed adjacent said blade across which it moves forwardly into the path of the blade by a conveyor arrangement; a hold down device laterally disposed above said bed and send product when thereon comprising rotatable grippers biased toward said bed into engagement with the upper surface of the product during operation to provide for a controlled feed of the product adjacent the blade, compensating for the pull of the blade, with the rotation of the gripper sychronized with the feed of the product via the conveyor arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1980Date of Patent: May 18, 1982Assignee: Cashin Systems CorporationInventors: Edmund G. Dennis, C. Edward Brandmaier
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Patent number: 4291601Abstract: A shake resaw feed system is used with a band saw for lengthwise sawing of tapered wood shingles from shake blanks or slabs. The feed system includes an endless chain conveyor having flights or push paddles spaced equidistantly apart along the chain for pushing each slab longitudinally toward the blade of the band saw. Along the conveyor are guides including a fence on one side of the conveyor and flexible fingers on the other side of the conveyor for urging the slabs against the fence as they proceed along the conveyor. The fence is automatically shifted laterally during sawing of the slab to produce a tapered cut through the slab. The system also includes apparatus for sensing the thickness of the slabs and for automatically repositioning the fence laterally to equalize the thickness of the shingles cut from the slab.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1979Date of Patent: September 29, 1981Inventor: William J. Guynup
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Patent number: 4262569Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating a slide fastener chain having a certain length and reinforcement tapes at its ends from a manufactured, continuous length fastener chain which is provided with space sections each of which entirely consists of a reinforced tape. According to the method, the original length fastener chain is held first by a pair of pressers on a die at one side of the main crosswise cutting line, then by another pair of pressers at the other side to form a right position so that the reinforced space section is cut along the crosswise line and at the same time, the lengthwise lines by a cutter blade. This method is performed using an apparatus with a linkage motion of its individual parts whereby working efficiency is improved and a good cutting finish is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 1978Date of Patent: April 21, 1981Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K. K.Inventors: Keiichi Yoshieda, Kazuki Kuse
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Patent number: 4249437Abstract: A device for automatically and simultaneously making two parallel straight cuts of predetermined length in a mat comprising a transporting means, a pair of cutting means, a single driving means for said cutting means and a pair of signalling means for activating said driving means.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1979Date of Patent: February 10, 1981Inventor: Leo J. Hagenson
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Patent number: 4237763Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for slicing or scoring bakery products which comprises a stationary horizontal bed over which muffins or other bakery products are sequentially moved at high speed. Movement of the muffins is effected by first and second endless conveyor belts, each having a flight disposed adjacent the stationary bed and in opposition to the other. A hold down plate is suspended in overlying relation to the stationary bed, so that travel of the bakery products is bounded on the top and bottom by stationary surfaces, and on the sides by the conveyor belts. A disc cutting blade rotating at high speed projects into this travel space (in the preferred embodiment, one of the conveyor belts comprises dual belts which are spaced apart to permit projection of the blade therebetween), and the scoring or slicing function occurs as the bakery products move sequentially in slicing engagement with the rotating blade.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1979Date of Patent: December 9, 1980Assignee: International Multifoods CorporationInventor: Frank D. Chipchase
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Patent number: 4235139Abstract: Automatic power shearing apparatus and method for trimming sheet material into finished blanks comprising blade means, x and y axis feeding means and sheet feeding means including a first power driven means for moving the sheet in x and y directions and a second means responsive to a control acting to move the sheet in preselected directions by a constant counter balance against the first power driven means.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1978Date of Patent: November 25, 1980Assignee: Haemmerle A.G.Inventors: Eduard A. Haenni, Christian Ragettli
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Patent number: 4212213Abstract: A web severing device which includes a web transport means and a web lifting means so that a transported web is lifted away from the surface of the transport means for severing by a cutting means, thus, preventing damage which would occur on contact between the transport means and the cutting means.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1978Date of Patent: July 15, 1980Assignee: American Can CompanyInventors: Robert O. Wolfelsperger, William R. Pasco
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Patent number: 4173238Abstract: An improved trimmer section is provided for use in a sawmill, together with method and means for automatically selecting timbers and the like to be trimmed, and for automatically routing trimmed timbers to a preselected one of a plurality of different storage and loading points in the sawmill. In particular, the operator is required to select which of several stations is to receive each timber after it has been cut to a designated length. Thereupon, the timber is automatically transferred through several stages of mechanical manipulation to the designated station while, simultaneously therewith, another un-trimmed timber is promptly conducted to the trimming saws. Actuation of the entire operation is effected by merely selecting the station to receive the trimmed timber, since the cycle will repeat as long as there are timbers to be trimmed.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 1976Date of Patent: November 6, 1979Inventors: Roy R. Pryor, Harold A. Pryor
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Patent number: 4170156Abstract: A lead wire cutter which comprises an automatic conveyor mechanism for print circuit boards which conveys said print circuit boards one by one from one end to the other and a cutter mechanism placed in the path of conveying said print circuit boards and provided with a rotatable blade which faces lead wires of parts soldered to and extending beyond said print circuit boards. This lead wire cutter is used for quickly and automatically removing lead wires in the portion extending beyond the opposite side of print circuit boards.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1977Date of Patent: October 9, 1979Inventor: Kenshi Kondo
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Patent number: 4151772Abstract: A machine for continuously conveying slabs of meat, such as bacon, to a revolving blade and slicing same into accurate, weight controlled groupings, preferably by control of the conveying system. The machine has a plurality of longitudinally spaced, generally transversely extending rollers and a plurality of finger means mounted on the front roller that is adjacent to the blade, but rearward of the front roller, to apply downward and rearward forces to the conveyor supported slab to positively control the slab travel to, and particularly adjacent, the blade.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1978Date of Patent: May 1, 1979Assignee: Chemetron CorporationInventor: Arthur A. Johnson
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Patent number: 4144786Abstract: In an envelope edge slitter having a base, apparatus for feeding the envelopes one-by-one from the bottom of a stack at an input station to slitter blades in which an endless elastic belt extending around an eccentric pulley has an upper reach disposed in a slot n the base at the input station. The eccentricity of the pulley alternately brings the belt into and out of engagement with the lowermost envelope in the stack while the elasticity of the belt, the eccentricity of the pulley and the speed with which the belt is driven are such as to produce a whipping action of the upper reach of the belt which ensures that adjacent envelopes of the stack are separated and are fed one-by-one to the slitter blades.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1977Date of Patent: March 20, 1979Assignee: Stephens Industries, Inc.Inventors: James D. Beard, Gene F. Beck
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Patent number: 4123955Abstract: This mitering device comprises: a unit composed of a slotted panel slidably mountable on a saw table for longitudinally-guided stock-mitering and return movements and a pair of panel-mounted left and right abutments cooperatively presenting front edges which converge forwardly at 45.degree. toward the panel slot and at 90.degree. toward each other and which terminate adjacent the panel slot; and length-measuring stop means including means calibrating the front edge of the right abutment from a zero reference point, where a projection of the front edge intersects the saw plane, and a mitered stop member mounted for adjustment along the right abutment to a selected calibrated position wherein its miter mates with the mitered right end of the stock to set the length of the perimetric surface of the rabbet to a precisely measured value approximating a given mat length plus a desired tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1976Date of Patent: November 7, 1978Inventor: Glenn Marlow
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Patent number: 4106379Abstract: The present trimming apparatus is capable of trimming the margins of three-dimensional workpieces with the aid of strip steel knives which are driven, preferably by pneumatic piston cylinder means in any desired direction. The workpiece such as the dashboard of a car, is held on the outside thereof by a workpiece support which has such a shape and cut-outs that the strip steel knives may be moved through the workpiece support. A counter-holder presses the workpiece against the outer support. In this combination of elements the workpiece may be trimmed from any direction from its outer side inwardly. The trimming tools may be operable in sequence and may also be supported on a carriage which shuttles back and forth between a trimming station and a loading and unloading station. Power savings may be in the order of 90% as compared to the power requirements of conventional stamping tools.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1977Date of Patent: August 15, 1978Assignee: Stanztechnik GmbH R & SInventor: Ernst Maximilian Spengler
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Patent number: 4098393Abstract: An apparatus for laterally separating a group of elongated magnetic elements, for example steel bars which are moving longitudinally along a conveyor. A rotatable fanning roll extends transversally across the path of the bars. The fanning roll has a magnet associated therewith. The magnet attracts the bars towards the fanning roll while simultaneously creating repulsion forces tending to laterally separate the bars. A deflecting roll located in advance of the fanning roll is employed to deflect the bars out of their normal path of travel in relation to the surface of the fanning roll to thereby produce a momentary separation between the front ends of the bars and the fanning roll. During this momentary separation, the magnetically induced repulsion forces are not impeded by frictional resistance between the bars and the surface of the fanning roll, and this in turn improves the resulting lateral bar separation.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1977Date of Patent: July 4, 1978Assignee: Morgan Construction CompanyInventors: Robert D. Wykes, Colin Roy
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Patent number: 4090703Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for feeding rectangular metal sheets from a supply to a cupping press in which can body blanks are cut and drawn from the metal sheets. The apparatus includes a table providing a flat conveying surface, and three sheet feeding mechanisms are provided at locations along the table between the opposite ends thereof. A sheet to be transferred is deposited on one end of the table and is transferred therefrom to a second position by an endless chain and feed finger arrangement. At the second position, the trailing edge of the sheet is engaged by a reciprocating feed finger arrangement to advance the sheet one step to a third position on the table in which the sheet is accurately spaced longitudinally relative to a reference point in the press.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1977Date of Patent: May 23, 1978Assignee: Gulf & Western Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Peter Jon Straube
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Patent number: 4089355Abstract: A plurality of rows of vertically spaced discs are located on opposite sides of the path of movement of a shake blank as it is pushed along a cutting plane into the path of a bandsaw blade. The discs on each side of the cutting plane have respective radii either uniformly progressively increasing for a portion of their perimeters or uniformly progressively decreasing for a portion of their perimeters so that as the discs rotate they engage opposite side faces of the blank, advancing the blank in the cutting path and simultaneously skew the rearward end of the shake laterally of the cutting plane so that the shake blank is cut along a diagonal. The framework supporting all of the discs can be moved to simultaneously shift all discs laterally to accommodate cutting characteristics of a particular saw blade. Initial positioning of the forward end and final positioning of the rearward end of the blank for overly thick blanks is obtained by cam surfaces on the two rows of discs closest upstream of the blade.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 1977Date of Patent: May 16, 1978Inventor: Gerhard G. Dueck
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Patent number: 4078592Abstract: A log feed mechanism that will longitudinally move successive logs toward the cutting and/or chipping mechanisms of a sawmill while holding the successive logs along a prescribed path of movement such that the successive logs may be efficiently sawed into standard size lumber. The feed mechanism includes a roller device by which the successive logs may be rotated about their longitudinal center axes in order to determine the most desirable position for the log to be in when cut into lumber. The successive logs are fed onto a first conveyor assembly that performs the functions of centering the successive logs and moving the logs in a forward direction while maintaining the centered condition. Press rolls are provided over the first conveyor on either side of a rosser. The rosser operates to remove knots and enlarged butts of successive logs to provide a relatively smooth surface for gripping by a downstream second conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1976Date of Patent: March 14, 1978Inventor: George M. Standal
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Patent number: 4072077Abstract: Printed circuit boards are moved in a conveyor with the underside of flat boards spaced a prescribed distance above the top surface of a rotating cutting disk. In order to protect the circuit patterns on the underside of the board and the board itself, a V-shaped wheel is loosely rotatably supported on a shaft with the wheel being in front of and orthogonal to the cutting disk. The height of the wheel is adjusted such that the uppermost point on the circumference thereof is in the line of travel of the boards. Movement of a board that is bowed downward in the direction of the disk causes the wheel to roll on the underside of the board and to raise the board above the top of the cutting disk. In this manner, the underside of warped circuit boards is maintained at least a prescribed distance above the top surface of the cutting disk as the board moves over the leading - cutting edge of the latter and component leads are trimmed thereby.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1976Date of Patent: February 7, 1978Assignee: GTE Automatic Electric Laboratories IncorporatedInventor: John H. Morgan
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Patent number: 4046042Abstract: The device includes a frame, a pair of circular blades having overlapping peripheral portions, and means for conveying tree lengths transversely toward the blades. The conveying means cooperate with a first blade to move the tree lengths to the overlapping peripheral portions of the blades where they are subject to a shear cutting action.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1976Date of Patent: September 6, 1977Assignee: Forano LimiteeInventor: Marcel Payeur
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Patent number: 4034634Abstract: An apparatus or system for the aligning and severing of fabric webs which have a thickness differing in the longitudinal direction, for example a terry cloth fabric with napless lanes extending crosswise to the longitudinal direction and lanes which have a nap arranged in an alternate pattern comprises aligning means which cooperate with the boundary areas between adjacent lanes of the fabric web and which extend crosswise to the web pull off direction. A cutting device is arranged crosswise to the web pull off direction at a location after the aligning means and braking means in the form of individually adjustable brake elements which extend across the width of the fabric are arranged between the aligning means and the reel supply of the fabric material.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 1976Date of Patent: July 12, 1977Inventor: Conrad Arbter
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Patent number: 4022314Abstract: An improved assembly for aligning elongate pieces of wood such as cants on a roller conveyor and for rotating them about their lengthwise axes includes a plurality of kicker arms extending radially from a rotatable shaft up between the rollers of the conveyor, so that rotation of the shaft allows the kicker arms to press a cant against a guide plate extending along one side of the conveyor surface. A plurality of pusher arms slidingly mounted on the kicker arms and extendable to engage a lower corner of the cant to rotate the same.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1975Date of Patent: May 10, 1977Inventor: Cyrus J. Cornell
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Patent number: 3995515Abstract: A bakery product slicer and method for forming vertical slits extending along proof lines between adjacent buns in clusters of buns. The slicer includes a rotary vertical slicing blade located in the path of movement of clusters past the slicer at the nominal location of the proof line and a fixed aligner having a heel portion with a curved bow and divergent flanks located upstream of the blade with plates extending from the heel portion to either side of the blade and beyond the downstream edge of the blade so the blade is fitted in a slot between the plates. As clusters are moved toward the aligner the open crease above the proof line is moved adjacent the heel portion of the aligner so that the flanks engage the buns and assure that the proof line between the buns is held in alignment with the fixed blade so that the vertical slit extends along the actual proof line.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1975Date of Patent: December 7, 1976Assignee: Alto CorporationInventor: David Laverne White
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Patent number: 3985055Abstract: A sawmill assembly allows a single operator to selectively control both cutting to length and gang sawing of cants to make pallet stock, eliminating the danger and labor of hand feeding a gang saw, and allowing efficient use of wood by operator selection of gang saw cut direction. A rapidly-acting improved cant turner is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1975Date of Patent: October 12, 1976Inventor: Cyrus J. Cornell
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Patent number: 3943807Abstract: An automated envelope opener receives a stack of unopened envelopes of varying sizes, types and shapes, and feeds these envelopes individually to a cutting station. An edge of each envelope is automatically aligned with a reference surface, whereby each such aligned envelope edge can be cut at the cutting station by a rotating multi-toothed cutter and stationary anvil which are also aligned with the reference surface. In a preferred embodiment, means are additionally provided for shingling and stacking the envelopes after they have been cut open.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1975Date of Patent: March 16, 1976Assignee: Omation CorporationInventors: George H. Bingham, Edward A. Krupotich
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Patent number: 3942402Abstract: A movable table-like surface formed from a continuous loop-belt member is provided to carry drapery material along a straight edge which keeps the material in a proper squared alignment as it is conveyed in a time-saving manner to a cutter that is adjustably movable along the edge of the belt member. The cutter is mounted on track means that is at a right angle with respect to the straight edge and the movement of the material on the belt such that any desired length of material can be cut off as measured from the straight edge.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1974Date of Patent: March 9, 1976Inventor: John J. Miceli
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Patent number: 3935773Abstract: Box capacitors are loaded onto an in-line track feeder with the capacitor leads extending downward between a pair of tracks. Vibration of the tracks moves the capacitors thereon so that the capacitor leads pass between the meshing teeth of a drive gear and an idler gear that is caused to turn by the former. The tracks are spaced from the gears to prevent damping of vibrations of the former. The leading edges of the teeth on the gears have a radius thereon for providing smooth feeding action of the capacitor leads between the gear teeth. The drive gear also has a chamfer on the top edges of the teeth thereof to reduce the possibility of jamming on components with bent leads. A disk is attached to the underside of the idler gear for cutting the component leads to a prescribed length as they pass between the disk and the drive gear. The ends of the teeth on the idler gear are truncated such that a cut lead is compressed into a valley between teeth on the drive gear to thereby straighten these leads.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1975Date of Patent: February 3, 1976Assignee: GTE Automatic Electric Laboratories IncorporatedInventor: Donald H. Daebler