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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6601489 | Cutting and transporting a sheet workpiece An apparatus for cutting sheets from an elongated workpiece is operated by first closing a pair of grippers on a workpiece leading end in an upper station and then cutting off the leading end of the workpiece to leave a sheet held in the grippers. The gri... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6602077 | Handle assembly for motor-vehicle door latch A handle assembly for a motor-vehicle door latch has an adapter plate shaped to fit on a motor-vehicle door and forming a pivot and a seat, an electrical connector sleeve snugly fittable in the seat, and a handle having an arm fittable in the connector sl... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6598661 | Cooled continuous-casting mold A continuous-casting mold has two parallel and spaced mold end plates having opposite ends and inner and outer faces and two parallel and spaced mold side plates extending generally perpendicular to the end plates, having inner and outer faces, and having... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6595527 | Chip-clearing drill chuck A drill has a drive-unit housing having an end wall, a drive-unit spindle projecting along an axis from the wall, and a chuck body fixed to the spindle, formed with an axially forwardly open tool recess, and formed with a plurality of angled guide passage... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6591650 | High-pressure bulge-forming apparatus A high-pressure bulge-forming apparatus has a multipart die having a cavity adapted to receive a hollow workpiece and having ends oppositely open along an axis. Respective actuators aligned with the cavity ends have stems extending axially toward the cavi... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6585139 | Draw roller for strip material Draw rollers for striplike materials (especially paper or cardboard strips, plastic or metal foils), having a sheath (1) that can rotate around a fixed inner component, whereby said sheath is provided with air holes along the entire surface thereof, are a... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6582180 | Separating conveyor for stacked objects An object-sorting system has a conveyor having a horizontally extending stretch, a plurality of pushers fixed on and spaced along the conveyor and extending upward from the stretch thereof, and an upright chute adapted to hold a stack of objects and havin... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6581990 | Power-closing bolt for motor-vehicle door latch A power-closing bolt assembly for a motor-vehicle door latch has a housing, a bolt pivotal in the housing about a pivot axis between a pair of angularly offset end positions, and interengaging bolt and housing abutments respectively on the bolt and on the... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6581942 | Drill chuck A drill chuck has a body formed with an axially forwardly open tool-receiving recess and with a plurality of angled guides opening axially forward in the recess. Respective jaws axially and radially displaceable in the guides are each formed with a row of... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6581302 | Dryer for goods in strip or panel form In known rack dryers, the drying effect is weaker in the outer area on the side of the air intake into the pipe chambers than in the other areas. Said weaker drying effect is caused by turbulence in this area, which leads to a drop in the static pressure.... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6574849 | Method for deforming through high inner pressure at least two hollow bodies having each at least one opening, especially metal tubes or metal hollow profiles First and second hollow bodies each having at least one opening are joined by first forming a fracture zone in a joint region of the first body and then juxtaposing the bodies in a closed cavity of an internal high-pressure shaping tool with the second bo... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6575478 | Drill chuck with cushioned full-open position A chuck body is formed with angled guides holding respective jaws. A tightening ring rotatable about the axis on the chuck body has a screwthread meshing with toothed edges of the jaws so that rotation of the ring in one direction moves the jaws axially f... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6575507 | Power-actuated motor-vehicle door latch A motor-vehicle door latch has a housing, a lock fork pivotal on the housing between open and closed positions, a latch pawl pivotal on the housing and engageable with the fork in the closed position to retain it therein and disengageable from the fork to... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6568056 | Hot continuous-rolling system with vertical-roll stand A rolling system has a plant producing a plurality of continuously advancing and parallel hot metal strands, a vertical-roll stand receiving the strands, and a horizontal-roll stand. The vertical-roll stand has an upstream row of vertical pairs of rolls a... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6568889 | Collet chuck A collet chuck for holding a mounting collar of an object to be rotated has a chuck body centered on and rotatable about an axis and formed with an axially forwardly open socket shaped to receive the collar. A plurality of jaws in the socket have front en... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6570306 | Lamp-socket contact A lamp holder has a socket housing forming a seat centered on an axis, and a contact fitted to the seat and formed unitarily with a pair of opposite generally axially extending sides flanking the axis. A front finger extending generally axially from one o... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6568888 | Collet chuck A collet chuck for holding a mounting collar of an object--tool or workpiece--to be rotated has a chuck body centered on and rotatable about an axis and formed with a forwardly open socket shaped to receive the collar. A plurality of jaws in the socket ha... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6568722 | Motor-vehicle door latch A motor-vehicle door latch has a housing, a part displaceable relative to the housing to release the latch, and mechanism on the housing operable to displace the part and release the latch. An actuating lever is pivotal on the housing between an unactuate... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6565123 | Latch for telescoping vacuum-cleaner tube A vacuum-cleaner wand has an inner tube formed with an axially extending row of radially outwardly open recesses, an outer tube, and a latch base part fixed to the outer tube and formed with an elastically deformable web carrying a latching block displace... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6565790 | Injection-molding an electrical-connector shell An electrical-connector shell is made by first casting of a first plastic in a first mold a body having an inner wall extending parallel to an axis and having a radially outwardly directed surface, an outer wall extending parallel to the axis and having a... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6565031 | Coil-laying device A coil-laying device has a body having a generally cylindrical outer surface centered on and rotatable about an axis and wall structure forming on the surface a radially outwardly open groove having an intake end, a center, and an output end. The groove h... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6561828 | Fluorescent-lamp socket A fluorescent-lamp socket has a hollow dielectric housing, and a pair of identical conductive contact elements in the housing, each contact element is unitarily formed with an outer lamp-contacting end adapted to engage a respective pin of the lamp, an in... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6561003 | Support system for cantilevered-roll shafts A rolling stand has a frame and a pair of support shafts centered on respective parallel shaft axes and each having an outer end projecting past the frame, inner and outer axially spaced bearing portions in the frame, and a gear between the respective inn... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6557911 | Power-open motor-vehicle door latch A motor-vehicle door latch has a housing, a fork pivotal on the housing between a bolt-retaining latched position and a bolt-releasing unlatched position, and a pawl pivotal on the housing between a holding position engaging the fork and retaining it in t... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6557812 | Swing-down ceiling mount for motor-vehicle mirror or monitor A mount assembly for a flat mirror or monitor has an outer frame fixed in a motor-vehicle roof and forming an opening, a member forming a side of the opening and pivotal in the frame about a horizontal first axis, and an inner frame fittable in the openin... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6554576 | Magnetically coupled and self-lubricated pump with bearing burnout protection A pump has a housing plate having a front face and a back face, a housing can fixed to the plate and defining a chamber on the back face thereof, a bearing sleeve in the can fixed to the plate and extending rearward from the back face thereof along an axi... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6554292 | Drill chuck for smooth- and hex-shank bits A drill chuck has a body formed with an axially forwardly open tool recess and holding a plurality of tool-gripping jaws. A socket formed with an axially forwardly open polygonal-section seat is nonrotatable in a seat of the chuck body and axially displac... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6550079 | Wall-mount adjustable bath hand shower A shower has an elongated C-section holder tube having a laterally open full-length slot open at both ends, a bracket securing the holder tube to the wall, and a shower head. The head has a guide part snugly engageable in and slidable along the holder tub... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6550501 | Tube formed of profiled strip A tube made of profiled strip has an inner edge and an outer edge parallel to the inner edge and projecting away from the inner edge. A double-thickness rib extends between the edges projects transversely in a direction from the strip. A channel extending... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6550785 | Lockable hammer-drill chuck A drill chuck has a chuck body rotatable about a chuck axis and formed centered on the axis with an axially forwardly open tool receiving hole, an array of axially extending guides opening axially forward into the hole, a rear axially forwardly directed s... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6550144 | Hollow-handle razor knife with blade slide A razor-knife housing has a neat part retaining a blade and displaceable in the housing through a front-end slot between an extended position with the blade mainly outside the housing and a retracted position with the blade wholly inside the housing. A re... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6544026 | Dual-speed mold-closing system A mold system has a pair of mold halves movable toward and away from each other, a threaded spindle coupled to one of the mold halves, and a nut threaded on the spindle and coupled to the other of the mold halves. A high-speed low-torque brakable spindle ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6543321 | Upstream guide for peeling machine A peeling machine through which a rod workpiece is moved along a main axis has an upstream guide and a downstream guide centering the workpiece on the axis and axially flanking a rotary scraper engaging the workpiece. The upstream guide has a plurality of... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6536782 | Quick-release drill chuck A chuck has a body centered on an axis and formed with a rearwardly open bore adapted to fit with a drive spindle. Respective jaws are displaceable in angled guides of the body and a ring rotatable on the body has an internal screwthread meshing with the ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6532670 | Utility knife with screw-down pivotal blade clamp A utility knife has a flat blade formed with at least one throughgoing hole, a housing member forming a seat adapted to receive the blade, and a retainer member engageable with the blade on the seat. A pair of respective pivot elements on the housing and ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6527210 | Hammer crusher A hammer crusher has a rotor disk centered on and rotatable about an axis, having a predetermined outside diameter, and formed with five angularly equispaced and radially outwardly open pockets. Respective support bolts in the cavities define on rotation ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6523609 | Borehole pressure gauge A gauge carrier comprises a main body capable of incorporation into a suitable drill string, and a separate instrument housing including a gauge, the instrument housing being securable to the main body. The main body includes a handling region suitable fo... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6520442 | Looping thick steel strip A looper for thick metal strip has a large-diameter outer basket centered on an upright axis and a small-diameter inner basket axially above the outer basket and centered on an upright axis. The strip is fed on edge and generally tangentially into the out... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6517136 | Removable electrically powered car cargo-space cover A cargo-space cover for a motor vehicle has a fitting permanently mounted in the motor vehicle and a housing having an end cap complementarily fittable in a seat of the fitting. A shaft rotatable in the housing carries a cover sheet windable by a drive mo... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6517088 | Lockable drill chuck A lockable drill chuck has a body centered on and rotatable about an axis and formed with a plurality of angled guides opening axially forward at a front chuck end, respective jaws axially and radially displaceable in the guides and each formed with a row... | 02/11/2003 |
