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Assignee: Emhart Industries, Inc.


Location: Hartford, CT
No. of patents: 30

NumberTitleIssue Date
4995662Suction pick-up apparatus for electrical or electronic components
A pick-up head (10) of the apparatus has three alternative pick-up surfaces (24,34,64) formed respectively on a body (16), a first piston member (30), and a second piston member (60). The first piston member (30) is slidable in a cylinder (22a) formed in ...
02/26/1991
4953739Container of solid composition for use as a hot-melt
An improved, moisture-proof container of solid, moisture-curable composition for use as a hot-melt in the apparatus described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,586,636 in which the composition in the container is further retained within a sealed bag of heat-resistant, r...
09/04/1990
4938407Inactive feeder for radial component insertion machine
An inactive feeder supports a lead tape having evenly spaced sprocket holes and components within a feed channel. Pairs of ball detents spaced at the same pitch forcefully enter corresponding sprocket holes when the lead tape is incremented to precisely l...
07/03/1990
4936134Rivet-setting tools and gripping jaws therefor
A rivet-setting tool for pull-to-set blind rivets having mandrel-gripping jaws in which the teeth are widely-spaced at a level of only 8-15 teeth per inch; preferably the teeth in each jaw have non-uniform spacing, the spacing between some pairs of teeth ...
06/26/1990
4934891Component supply structure
It is necesary to supply electronic components to a precise location in a transfer station 26, the components being supplied in a plurality of magazines 22 e.g. for a component placement machine. Desirably the magazines may be readily exchanged without si...
06/19/1990
4932100Anti-rattle wedge assembly
A wedge assembly to be secured to a vehicle door to prevent door rattling during vehicle operation. A slide element is captured by a base plate and stops are provided to prevent inadvertent disassembly....
06/12/1990
4929828Inspecting glass containers for line-over finish defects with bifurcated fiber optic bundle
Apparatus for detecting line-over defects at the finish of a glassware container. A bifurcated fiber optic bundle includes sender and receiver fiber branches; one of the branches terminates at a modulated visible red high intensity LED light source, the o...
05/29/1990
4924740Adjustable mounting for multigob apparatus for straight line shearing
The improved apparatus for straight line shearing of multiple gobs from columns of molten glass includes a shear frame to which multiple shear blade assemblies and shear blade adjustment mechanisms are mounted to facilitate changeover between single, doub...
05/15/1990
4921523Mechanism for opening and closing at least one mould of a glassware forming machine
The mechanism comprises a piston and cylinder assembly operable to move mould side portion supports between mould open and mould closed positions thereof. A check valve (72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82) is mounted in a passage (66) into the cylinder to allow fluid...
05/01/1990
4919701Feeder assembly for a glass container manufacturing machine
When the tube of a feeder assembly for a glass forming machine is lowered into engagement with the spout bowl, the separation of the jack and the tube support lifts a ring assembly which normally rests on the jack housing. This exposes a pressurized air c...
04/24/1990
4917568Suction pick-up apparatus for electrical or electronic components
This invention relates to suction pick-up apparatus of an electrical or electronic component placement machine. A pick-up head 16 has a body 82 with a pick-up surface 84 and a piston 94 with a smaller pick-up surface 98 slidable in the body 82. The piston...
04/17/1990
4896852Bundling band
A bundling band is provided comprising a strip-like band having a plurality of teeth and a holder portion with a hole in which the strip-like band is inserted and retained by a pawl contacting the teeth. The edge of the strip-like band is provided with a ...
01/30/1990
4893396Method of setting up apparatus for handling electrical or electronic components
A component placement machine comprising an X-Y table, at least two pick-up tools movable between an up-position and a down position is set up to allow for movement of each tool in a horizontal plane in moving between its down position and its up position...
01/16/1990
4892183Take-out mechanism for a glass container forming machine
The take-out mechanism comprises first and second container gripping structures (50a, 50b) and independently operable moving structures (58a, 70a, 72a; 58b, 70b, 72b) therefor. Each moving structure comprises a first horizontally-disposed linear motor (70...
01/09/1990
4888040Neck ring/plunger assembly for a glassware forming machine
An assembly for preventing a flanged finish on the neck portion of a glass container by permitting continuous engagement between the neck ring and the guide ring even though the guide ring is subject to wear and by forcefully maintaining this continuous e...
12/19/1989
4811012Electronic locking system
An electronic locking system comprises an electronic lock for an external door of a building, and a plurality of electronic locks associated respectively with internal doors of a building accessed via the external door. The lock of each internal door incl...
03/07/1989
4339264Glassware forming apparatus
A glass forming machine of the rotary table type which utilizes a plurality of individual forming units each of which has a plurality of blank molds and a plurality of blow molds whereby a plurality of glassware articles may be made in a single unit durin...
07/13/1982
4299371Neck ring assembly
A neck ring assembly including ejector pins for engaging a parison finish for holding a parison centrally within a neck ring upon the initial opening of the assembly in a positive stripping action. After a small amount of neck ring opening, the neck rings...
11/10/1981
4208894Cam lock
A key operated cam lock including a shell and a rotary key plug and having axially elongated pin tumbler assemblies each comprising a plurality of tumbler elements including a pin tumbler carried by the key plug and a driver carried by the shell. A projec...
06/24/1980
4151723Refrigeration system control method and apparatus
A refrigeration system contains a common compressor supplying refrigerant to a plurality of evaporators that are refrigerated and defrosted independently of one another. Individual refrigeration/defrost controls are provided in solid state form for the re...
05/01/1979
4151722Automatic defrost control for refrigeration systems
A defrost control scans, in a predetermined sequence, the several evaporators of a refrigeration system of the type that is installed in a supermarket and that typically comprises a series of refrigerated food display cases in which the evaporators are mo...
05/01/1979
4138870Lock cylinder plug stop
A lock cylinder having a key plug stop comprising an elongated arcuately formed wire received in an annular groove in the key plug. One end portion of the wire stop is retained in a slot in the cylinder shell. Opposite end portions of the stop are dispose...
02/13/1979
4098597Rotary snubber for linear actuator
Two rotary snubbers are shown, one having two movable vanes which force oil through two sets of successively closed openings in a stationary ring to achieve the snubbing force, and another version having one stationary vane and movable ring with the snubb...
07/04/1978
4070174Glassware forming machine of the I.S. type with in-line mold motion
An individual section of a Hartford I.S. type glassware forming machine is modified to provide for in-line, or parallel motion, of the split mold halves at both the blank and blow stations. Vertically extending rock shafts move the blank and blow mold hol...
01/24/1978
4048783Case loader with invert grid and pushdown feature
Articles are fed in a plurality of lanes from an infeed conveyor, across a deadplate, and into a grid which has lane defining structure adapted to expand and to hold the articles while the grid is inverted. After a charge is formed in the grid, means is p...
09/20/1977
4037206Ionization smoke detector and alarm system
An ionization smoke detector particularly suited to residential use is battery-operated and is connected with a non-latching, pulsating alarm circuit. The detector has a sensing chamber formed by a perforated metallic shell and an electrode within which a...
07/19/1977
4012921Refrigeration and hot gas defrost system
A refrigeration system including at least one compressor, a condenser for receiving hot gaseous refrigerant from the compressor and condensing same, a discharge line for supplying hot gaseous refrigerant from the compressor to the condenser, a plurality o...
03/22/1977
4002454Glassware forming machine of the I. S. type for upright press and blow process
The individual section of a Hartford I. S. type machine is modified to permit forming the parisons in an upright orientation, and also for transferring the upright parisons from the blank to the blow side of the section without disturbing this upright ori...
01/11/1977
3986319Wrap-around packer
Arrays of articles are stacked one on top of another in a U-shaped shroud structure which includes vacuum means to retain the upper array while the lower array of articles is positioned therebeneath. A carton blank is simultaneously fed from a stack to a ...
10/19/1976
3981122Apparatus for applying adhesive to carton flaps
Erected cartons are fed downstream on a dead plate by the various flight bars of a flight bar conveyor system, and between upper and lower pairs of side guides which are adjustable both laterally to accommodate cartons of various widths. Plows associated ...
09/21/1976
 
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