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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156864 | Workpiece deforming press including a safety device A workpiece deforming press, including a safety device, comprises a press housing for housing therein a plurality of dies and punches arranged in a horizontal plane, wherein a press housing delimiting wall comprises a top horizontal guide bearing a sliding slide, wh... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7431837 | Mixing vessel and method of use A mixing vessel contains a septum, dividing a first chamber from a second chamber. By relatively moving the septum with respect to the ends of the vessel, and flowing a fluid through the septum, the fluid is treated as it moves from the first chamber to the second c... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7293499 | Strapping machine A strapping machine feeds strapping material around a load, positions, tensions and seals the material around the load. The machine includes a work surface, a portion of which is upwardly pivotal. A conveyor mounted within the work surface has a friction belt drive.... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7219678 | Dishwasher A dishwasher includes a main body being generally of a box shape with an open front, a washer tub being slidably extracted from and retracted into the main body through the open front, the washer tub having an open top, and a covering member for blocking a gap to be... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7175070 | Apparatus for modified garbage collector for commercial establishments The Modified Garbage Collector for Commercial Establishments fulfills the need for an apparatus that can be used to help users collect and dispose garbage in a hygienic way. Once the tray with contents to be disposed is placed inside the Modified Garbage Collector, ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7127931 | Tandem press shuttle area isolation gate system and method of use The present invention is directed to a tandem press shuttle area isolation gate system and its method of use. The system and method of the present invention allows workers to safely enter the shuttle areas between tandem presses concurrently with a die change, there... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7089852 | Waste compactor A trolley suitable for aircraft or use in all space constraint situations comprising a waste compactor comprising a metal horizontal plate driven by an electric motor reducer that, by a mechanical reducer, drives two telescopic screws responsible for pushing the hor... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7013799 | Calender Calender that includes at least one supporting bracket, and a roll stack having at least two rolls. At least one axial end of each of the at least two rolls are supported by the at least one supporting bracket. A connection arrangement includes a fluid connection co... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6931987 | Vertically retractable door system for a stamping press A vertically retractable door system for a stamping press includes a pair of vertical mounting plates having generally vertical opposing door guide channels with inwardly curved lower portions. A door with windows extends between the plates and includes support bloc... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6910412 | Garbage container with a compress device for compressing the garbage received therein A garbage container with a compress device includes a first cylinder having a first receiving space defined therein. A compress plate is reciprocally and movably received in the first cylinder for compressing the garbage in the garbage container. A cover is pivotall... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6688150 | Roll grooving apparatus Roll grooving apparatus for rolling a circumferential groove in a pipe comprises a first support rotatably supporting a first grooving roll, a second support rotatably supporting a second grooving roll and being displaceable relative to the first support ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6530313 | Slide locking mechanism A threaded member projecting from a press slide includes a projection on its upper end. A motor raises and lowers the threaded member in tandem with a slide adjustment mechanism. A plate disposed on a lower surface of a press crown is moved to slidably en... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6453708 | Press for forming workpieces A reciprocating press for forming workpieces includes a tilting table that supports the workpiece and positions it with respect to the press tooling as the press closes, and then is pivoted upward into an inclined orientation as the press opens so that th... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6217265 | Printed circuit board drilling machine and its maintenance method A printed circuit board drilling machine, with a well-designed outer shape, providing excellent operability and maintainability, which sequentially makes a number of holes in at least one printed circuit board, placed on a table 22 moved in an XY plane, b... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6148504 | Operator safety device for attaching apparatus A cycle of operation of an attaching apparatus begins with determining whether an operator's extremity is in an area in which it can be struck by a downwardly moving ram during attachment of two fasteners to each other and to a material therebetween. If i... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6105491 | Guard for press brake A guard includes a housing which is mounted on the movable ram of a press brake. The housing supports a pivotally and slideably mounted guard plate and a fluorescent light bulb. The guard plate is positioned in front of the male and female dies of the pre... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6047634 | Fail-safe automatic sliding operation control apparatus for press The present invention relates to a fail-safe automatic sliding operation control apparatus for a press. The entrance and withdrawal behaviors of an operator's hand relative to danger zones (D, DN) on a bolster of the press are detected by an ou... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5884556 | Trash handling device An improved trash handling device for receiving trash in a trash container enclosed within a housing where the housing has a completely enclosed manually operated trash compactor for selectively compacting the trash received in the container, wherein the ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5875714 | Protective device on printing presses A protective device is provided on printing presses with a two-dimensional protective cover. The cover is mounted pivotably around a pivot axis in a press frame and shields a cylinder pair from access by an operating personnel and grants access to the sai... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5850786 | Apparatus for progressively flattening meat A meat flattening machine having two vertically stacked rows of non-sharpened edge stainless steel rollers adjacent to one another in an aluminum frame. Each row has at least two and preferably six rollers wherein the top row is spaced further apart from ... | 12/22/1998 |
| 5819645 | Baler feed gate safety sequencing circuit A baler feed gate safety sequencing circuit which prevents successive operation of a compactor baler with the feed gate in the open position. The circuit requires the raising and lowering of the feed gate after each compaction cycle for operation of the b... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5588358 | Trash handling device A trash handling device for receiving trash in a trash container enclosed within a housing where the housing has mounted therein a trash compacting device for selectively compacting the trash received in the container, and a safety lock prevents delivery ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5517907 | Refuse compactor with folding compaction plate A refuse compactor especially designed for fast food restaurants is of a predetermined limited height dimension allowing its upper surface to function as a serving tray storage rack. The refuse compactor is characterized by having a foldable compaction pl... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5461973 | Drum crusher A drum crusher crushes differently shaped and/or sized empty containers such as 55 gallon steel drums to facilitate recycling of the material in the make-up of the container. A compacting press actuated by remote controlled hydraulic pressure moves in the... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5427020 | Finger-protection device for a roller gap A finger-protection device for a roller gap of a paper-calender with heated rollers has a hollow body (4) extending along the roller gap, with a front wall (5) facing a roller (3), defining the roller gap, a dome shaped rear wall (6), and two end walls (8... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5241903 | Guard for the nips of rolls in calenders and the like A safety guard for the nip of two neighboring rolls in a calender has an elongated support which is located in front of the nip and has two elongated strip-shaped barriers each adjacent but spaced apart from the peripheral surface of one of the rolls. The... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5138941 | Wooden crusher for recyclable metal cans There is disclosed a can crusher formed entirely of wood components that can be easily fabricated by an amateur wood worker. The can crusher has a channel body which, at its upper end, provides a slide for a mechanical wooden ram and, at its lower portion... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5044271 | Compactor door and interlock An improved manually fed waste baling compactor has a single interlock switch which controls movement of a vertically oriented ram and platen such that the ram cannot move unless both a chamber door and a guard door of the mechanism are properly positione... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5024151 | Refuse compactor Disclosed is a refuse compactor particularly designed for aircrafts, which comprises a compaction chamber having a movable wall panel that extends parallel to one of the side wall of the compaction chamber, and can be moved away from this side wall throug... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4432278 | Can crushing apparatus Can crushing apparatus wherein mutually angularly disposed convex and flat conical disks are rotated to define an open, wedge-shaped receiving region which progressively diminishes about a circular locus to an exit position of close adjacency of the surfa... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4424741 | Press machine safety apparatus Safety apparatus for use on press machines of the type including a barrier guard. The apparatus isolates the kinetic energy source from the point of operation by removing a section of the ram whenever the barrier guard opens to provide access to the die a... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4114529 | Safety structure A guard sleeve for die stop blocks, guide posts and the like, including an elongated, accordion shaped, plastic sleeve having resilient wire reinforcing therein and means for securing the opposite ends of the sleeve over die stop blocks, guide posts and t... | 09/19/1978 |
| 3988980 | Safety guard structure A safety guard structure for protecting personnel from injury while operating a machine such as a punch press. The guard member is supported at three points for vertical movement between upper and lower positions. At two upper points the guard is supporte... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3948163 | Refuse compactor A horizontally oriented tubular housing is provided at one open end in its circumferential wall with a cut-out at the upper side of the housing, which cut-out resembles a segment of the tubular housing. A ram is reciprocable in the housing axially thereof... | 04/06/1976 |
| 3933089 | Safety guard for press Safety apparatus for a press or the like having dies which are movable relative to each other and which define an open area therebetween for receiving an article includes a gate that is pivotable about a primary pivot axis from an open position to expose ... | 01/20/1976 |
