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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4325775 | Delabeler A delabeler (11) provides a conveyor (12) which sandwiches a series of containers (13) to positively rotatably move such containers through a plurality of processing stations. A strip brush section (31) includes a series of stations (32-35) each including... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4308630 | Deburring apparatus A protective device is provided for a front face deburring of workpieces or profiles, particularly pipes, in a deburring machine having a rotating tool, e.g., a brush or a grinding wheel, or the like, which acts on the workpiece. The device includes an ad... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4293970 | Belt cleaning apparatus Disclosed is a cleaning apparatus for continuous, abrasive belts of essentially any dimension, which apparatus has a base having elongated belt supporting mandrel means mounted thereon, and belt drive roll means rotatably mounted on the base and having it... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4286449 | Machine for mechanical pickling of wires with the aid of rolling An apparatus for cleaning small diameter metal wires employing two sets of brushes arranged in pairs on the sides of the wire advancing into the apparatus. The respective sets of brushes each are at perpendicular planes to one another and define an enclos... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4272301 | Tire cleaning system with tire spreader The cleaner includes an elevator for moving a tire vertically toward a stationary cleaning head which is made up of spreader rollers for spreading the tire beads a sufficient distance to admit a powered cleaning brush, along with cleaning fluid applicatio... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4227347 | Two motor drive for a wafer processing machine A drive mechanism for a wafer processing machine of the kind which holds a silicon wafer on a vacuum chuck and rotates the wafer for processing operations on the wafer periphery or upper surface incorporates a low-speed motor, a high-speed motor and an ov... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4217733 | Method of and apparatus for effecting combined surface finishing operations for a tapered roller bearing cup A method of and apparatus for effecting combined surface finishing operations for a cup for tapered roller bearings. The apparatus will accept cups of random sizes, will automatically load them onto an indexing mechanism, index the cups through necessary ... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4216560 | Deburring apparatus An apparatus for deburring workpieces such as profiles, tubes, metal sheets or the like, is provided which includes a housing and a deburring tool rotatably mounted within the housing about a horizontal axis such that the tool partially projects from the ... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4208760 | Apparatus and method for cleaning wafers Apparatus and method in which a number of thin, disc-like wafers are moved in an arcuate path while supported in a generally upright position. While so supported, the wafers are indexed between a plurality of cleaning stations which may include a scrub st... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4202071 | Apparatus for washing and drying phonograph records An apparatus for washing and drying phonograph records including a tank to contain a washing solution, and a phonograph record to be cleaned is mounted vertically for rotation within the tank. The washing solution is drawn in the bottom of the tank by a p... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4199150 | Nipper type record cleaner The present invention relates to an improved record cleaner, comprising mainly two cylindrical brushes, an axial lever slightly bent at one end, an L-shape axial lever, a handle body, an operation rod, an operation trigger, a brake button, a connecting pl... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4173849 | Electric hand drill powered portable grinder A portable grinder utilizing a standard electric hand drill as a source of mechanical power has a support base structure upon the upper surface of which is journalled a drive spindle one end of which is adapted to receive, in driving engagement, the chuck... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4137594 | Rotary cleaning brushes The invention relates substantially to brush consisting of a number of wire bundles forming knots and extending radially from the periphery of a heat conducting disc supporting the wire bundles, all being covered by a first layer of elastomer which has at... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4123816 | Fingernail cleaning apparatus Fingernail cleaning apparatus includes an electric motor having a drive shaft. A bristle brush is drivably connected to the motor drive shaft for rotation therewith. A reservoir for a cleaning liquid is positioned beneath the brush in such relation therew... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4109337 | Automated two-sided cleaning apparatus Apparatus is disclosed for automatically and simultaneously cleaning both sides of a plurality of workpieces. The workpieces are illustratively thin, fragile slices of brittle material, such as single-crystal silicon wafers. These workpieces are supplied ... | 08/29/1978 |
| 4107807 | Portable tack cleaning machine A portable, tack cleaning machine having a housing which supports a horizontally-mounted rotary, cylindrical feeder-brush at least partially immersed in a cleaning fluid tank located in the bottom of the housing, and a rotary, scrubbing brush vertically m... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4063962 | Method and apparatus for cleaning nuclear fuel elements In a method and apparatus for cleaning nuclear fuel elements to remove carbonized pitch residue and the like, the cleaning operation preferably being conducted within an enclosure to permit containment of the removed residue, each fuel element being intro... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4061136 | Portable washer and massager apparatus for bathtubs A portable, power driven washer and massager apparatus for use with bathtubs, including a pair of roller brushes rotary driven by an electric motor, heater and blower apparatus for directing hot air to the user, and means for readily mounting and dismount... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4042993 | Poultry shackle scrubber A scrubbing mechanism is disclosed that is constructed and arranged for use with an overhead poultry or animal shackle conveying mechanism having a vertical hoisting mechanism with a bifurcated platform operable to a selectable vertical position that is s... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4024596 | Apparatus for cleaning slices of material Both sides of thin slices of material are cleaned simultaneously in the apparatus of this invention. A slice of material rotates about its axis as it passes between opposed rotatable cleaning surfaces. The apparatus includes a stop which maintains the sli... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4021199 | Automatic cleaning apparatus for electrodes of pH meter An apparatus for automatically cleaning the electrodes of a pH meter comprising a measuring tank containing a sample solution supplied from a tank of purification section to be subject to measurement of the pH value, a cleaning tank juxtaposed with the me... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4013497 | Method and apparatus for delabeling Mechanical delabeling apparatus includes a slotted tubular feed conduit containing drive belts, an open delabeling zone at the end of the conduit circumscribed by adjacent, circularly arranged members comprising an abrading wheel, an article turning wheel... | 03/22/1977 |
| 4009499 | Apparatus for treating the surface of an article Apparatus for treating the surface of an article, for example a metallic automobile wheel, comprises a rotatable clamping table for holding the article, the clamping operation being performed by dogs manually operable by a bell crank for engaging the arti... | 03/01/1977 |
| 4008503 | Rotary shower brush A driven rotary brush is mounted on an adjustable plate, and the adjustable plate is mounted through rails and runners to a wall plate. The wall plate has quick mounting devices such as suction cups for quick attachment. The rails and runners provide easy... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3987511 | Device for separating cylindrical screen stencil from an ink tube and washing the stencil A frame has an inclined surface over which slides a carriage having a pair of screen mounting elements for supporting opposite screen ends of a stencil. A washing tube having spray nozzles and a brush is fixedly positioned such that movement of the carria... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3983888 | Method and apparatus for cleaning conveyor belts, with inclined flexible fingers Apparatus for cleaning conveyor belts includes a cylinder, and drive means for causing the cylinder to rotate. A plurality of fingers extend from and are spaced about the curved exterior surface of the cylinder with the fingers being inclined in a directi... | 10/05/1976 |
| 3974538 | Turquoise scrubber A turquoise scrubber comprising a base and a casing upstanding from the base and having closed and open ends. A motor driven shaft extends through the casing centrally thereof and is journalled in supports upstanding from the base. A cylindrical screen is... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3973286 | Foot cleaning apparatus having soap supply and brushing means A foot to be cleaned is placed on a treadle in a housing. In response to depression of the treadle, a bellows is pressurized causing a foot cleaning solution to be dispensed from the bellows to a conduit. A port in the conduit is positioned above a pair o... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3971097 | Cylindrical brush with stub shaft support A separable stub shaft connection for a rotatable surface treating member, such as a brush, having a tubular hub. The connection includes a stub shaft having a preselected length thereof projecting into one end of the hub. A pair of diametrically opposed ... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3970471 | Methods and apparatus for treating wafer-like articles Wafer-like articles are inserted through an input port into one of a plurality of slots in a rotatable disc having a slotted periphery. The disc is disposed in a vertical plane between a pair of closely-spaced parallel plates which laterally retain the ar... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3957155 | Conveyor cleaning device Device for cleaning a side of a continuous or apron-type conveyor as it travels. The frame of the conveyor cleaner is in the form of a first-class lever, a transversely disposed cylindrical brush being journalled on the frame adjacent the end of one arm t... | 05/18/1976 |
