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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7198008 | Device for the training of scent discriminating detector dogs The Scent-A-Wheel device consists of several different parts connected together to form a device that acts like a carousel. The device consists of a hub (ball bearing or axle design), arms attached to the hub (“spokes”), a two-piece, adjustable shaft to support ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7124680 | Solar powered compaction apparatus A trash compactor designed for public use is powered by a photovoltaic cell array. This allows the trash compactor to be placed in locations where no power is available, but with frequent human traffic. The compaction feature allows the unit to be emptied less often... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7007600 | Selectively positionable trash compressing apparatus A trash compressing method and apparatus (10) including: a tower unit (11) having a vertical support shaft (20) provided with a plurality of support legs (21); a support unit (12) having a support column (30) slidably dispos... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6938662 | Bonding machine for lamellar pieces of wood to be joined to a board and method for pressing lamellar pieces of wood to boards A bonding machine for lamellar pieces of wood to be joined to a board has at least one clamping and pressing device and at least one drive. The clamping and pressing device has at least two pressing members which are configured to be loaded independently of one anot... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6860198 | Press having a slide A press has a slide which can be driven by way of one or more one knee link element by a driving device in order to carry out a stroke movement. The knee link element or elements is or are connected by at least one connection element with another knee link element w... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6823776 | Multi-ram bale and tie baler system and method of operation A baler system for baling of waste or other products having high output and having a sequenced method of operation. A previously formed bale formed in accordance with the invention is urged in incremental stages from a secondary bale chamber through a bale exit cham... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6550378 | Waste compactor A vertical waste compactor that includes a pair of side-by-side packing rams that provide increased compaction force on waste materials contained within an open-top trash receiving container that can be conveniently moved inwardly and outwardly of a suppo... | 04/22/2003 |
| 5915296 | Multi-slide machine press In a machine press with at least three slides, the phases for the stroke of a leftmost slide and a rightmost slide are made identical. The strokes for other slides interposed between the leftmost and rightmost slides are out of phase with the leftmost and... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5761994 | Multi-slide mechanical press with phase difference A multi-slide mechanical press comprising a plurality of slides, wherein each of the slides is provided with a guide that reciprocatingly drives the associated slide, without having to increase the pitch between slides, and that makes it possible to elimi... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5727457 | Hydraulic press for forming door frames and panels or the like A rigid frame hydraulic press that includes a frame on which are mounted a series of movable columns that are used for vertical pressing and an end column that is used for horizontal pressing. The end column has a complementary support in its lower part l... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5711845 | Device for gluing an ornamental body A device is disclosed for gluing an ornamental body (S) onto a shaped body (W). The device aims to minimize the elongation of the ornamental body and the residual stress in it when it is fitted in a concave part (B) of the shaped body (W) to provide a pro... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5694742 | Method and apparatus for producing a strapless bale of compressed fiber An apparatus and method for producing strapless bales of highly compressible textile fibers is disclosed, wherein a compressed block of the fibers is ejected and expanded into a flexible bag. The apparatus includes a supply chamber for supplying loose fib... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5413661 | Method for producing a laminated structural component with a hard foam reinforcement A structural component such as a car door panel or door trim insert panel is produced in a single molding operation. For this purpose at least one premolded hard foam material block or member is inserted in a respective nesting mold cavity. Then an interm... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5326417 | Method and apparatus for producing trim panels To form a seam of attractive appearance, a heated platen having a shaped lip acts to engage and press the central surface of an adhesively-backed sheet of a polymeric fabric against the top appearance surface of a panel and the peripheral edge of the shee... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5249906 | Press machine for chip type electronic components Pin head mounting members are rotatably mounted on a horizontal spindle above a table which horizontally supports a holding, plate holding chip type electronic components. The spindle is vertically movable by a vertical cylinder. Each pin head mounting me... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5240549 | Fixture and method for attaching components A fixture (10) for bonding multiple components together includes a bottom plate (20), a middle plate (22) and a top plate (24). The plates (20), (22) and (24) are aligned by dowels (26) and clamps (30). Bottom plate (20) has a rectangular pocket (32) for ... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5238375 | Pressure molding machine for various stepped articles A pressure molding machine for molding various types of stepped articles having, a nest of ram adapters receiving thereon pressure rams and a common base support having cylindrical walls positioned coaxially. The end faces of the walls are at the same lev... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5181463 | Integrated precompacting trash compactor A trash compactor is provided that has a single ram that simultaneously precompacts trash in an auxiliary precompacting chamber and compacts trash that has already been precompacted in a main compacted and storage chamber. The ram has a single actuating d... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5179895 | Trash compactor A residential trash compactor with two compartments suitable for separating recyclable from non-recyclable trash.... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5176922 | Press for making pizza beds A press for making pizza beds includes a mold plug having a plurality of pressure rings fitting telescopically and being guided within one another. Double-acting cylinders sequentially actuate the rings from the innermost one to the outermost one to act o... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5172630 | Trash separation and storage system The present invention is related to a trash storage system suitable for multiple compartments for selectively compacting and storing the trash generated in a home for subsequent recycling. This trash storage system preferably has a programmable micro cont... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5163363 | Device for multiple-point application of equal forces An apparatus and method for applying equal forces to a workpiece or a plurality of work pieces having differing heights above an opposing surface and particularly adapted to use in a furnace for sintering of multi-layer ceramic (MLC) stacks. A combination... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5119722 | Solid waste compactor with multiple receptacles A solid waste compactor having multiple waste receptacles for separately receiving, temporarily holding, and compacting separate classes of solid waste, for example paper, glass, aluminum cans and steel cans. In one preferred embodiment there is a single ... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5076880 | Apparatus for manufacturing trim panels including several trim components In a method of manufacturing trim panels which are made of several trim components or trim materials, such as door trim panels of automobiles, the trim panel is essentially finished in a single work operation in one work station. A vinyl cover film (12) i... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5074944 | Method for manufacturing a layered article having a beveled edge A device and method for manufacturing a layered article having a beveled edge and including a flexible outer layer and an internal elastomeric layer. The device comprises independently operative bearing surfaces wherein a first surface exerts a first pres... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5032206 | Apparatus and method for applying an overlay to a curved surface A press for applying an overlay to a substrate which includes multiple, individually reciprocal and selectively controlled depressers actuatable to force the overlay in a progressively expanding area against the surface of the overlay.... | 07/16/1991 |
| 4968376 | Bonding device for manufacturing vehicle seat A bonding device for manufacturing a vehicle seat, in which a foam cushion member secured on an upper die is pressed against a top cover member placed on a lower die for bonding those two members together. In the upper die, provided are main and auxiliary... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4959003 | Device for die-casting of concrete goods such as block stones in a cellular mould A system for die casting of concrete goods such as block stones comprises a cellular casting mould having a plurality of cells and a device for supplying concrete for filling the cells. A dolly including a common base member with protruding pistion portio... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4943339 | Apparatus for manufacturing corrugated plywood composites A method and apparatus for forming corrugated plywood composites is disclosed. The apparatus includes a fixed mold component having a corrugated surface and a series of movable mold components having complemental corrugated surfaces movable toward and awa... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4896593 | Vertical trash compactor A vertical trash compactor (10) comprises a dual ram assembly (18) for compacting trash which has been placed into an open top container (16) through a loading door (28). A primary ram unit (20) is pivotally mounted to a housing (12) for movement between ... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4892608 | Automatic transverse splicing device for uncured elastomeric sheet material An automatic splicing device (7) for splicing the opposed transverse edges (4, 5) of strip elements (2, 3) of uncured elastomeric sheet material, particularly used in the assembly of pneumatic tires, the splicing device (7) including a roller (51) designe... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4834777 | Fuel pelletizing apparatus and method Fuel pellets are produced by reciprocating punches and complementary stationary dies across which waste solid or particulate organic materials are continuously passed. The reciprocating punches force the material into a reduced cross-sectional bore within... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4802836 | Compaction device for concrete block molding machine A compaction device for a concrete block molding machine, comprising a mold formed with cells opened at the top and at the bottom, and filled with a no-slump concrete mix. The mold freely rests either on a pallet or vibrating table, which acts as bottom w... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4793392 | Bending device A bending device for curving sheet-like members, comprising a row of double roller clamp means, each having a pair of parallel rollers adapted to receive and clamp the sheet-like member therebetween. Hinge means are located between each adjacent pair of c... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4755253 | Splicing apparatus An overlapping layer (24) of a first body of deformable material is pressed by an edge (78) of each of a plurality of blade members (42) into an overlapped layer (26) of a second body of resilient material forming slots (74) in the second body with ribs (... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4726916 | Method for embedding and storing dangerous materials, such as radioactive materials in a monolithic container The present invention relates to a method for immobilizing and packing radioactive "ashes" in a mineral matrix, said method consisting in adjusting the coefficient of expansion of said ashes, molding around said ashes a porcelain in the raw state and taki... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4724757 | Press control and arrangement for compressing particleboard A press having a stationary upper bolster and a movable lower bolster carried by two outer and two inner frame plates located near the ends and center of the platens respectively. Through the use of strain gauges measuring the load on the product provided... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4647273 | Hydraulic tire curing press A hydraulic tire curing press comprises a center column and two outer columns respectively located at the apex and ends of a shallow V, and a pair of press cavities each located between the center column and a respective outer column. The press cavities e... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4547255 | Press construction A press for securing a plurality of workpiece elements in substantially coplanar, side-by-side, pressurized engagement during a gluing operation. The press comprises a bed, a retaining wall adjacent one edge of the bed, a plurality of pusher shoes mounted... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4493250 | Portable cheese press frame assembly A portable assembly for supporting cheese hoops in an inclined position from the vertical and including means for pressing the hoops so as to press the whey therefrom and permit it to drain downwardly from one hoop to the other to be collected therebelow.... | 01/15/1985 |
