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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4265254 | Apparatus for perforating cigarette paper or the like Apparatus for perforating a web of wrapping material or tubular wrappers of discrete filter cigarettes of unit length or double unit length in a filter tipping machine has a laser which is energizable at a frequency depending on the speed of the main prim... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4250374 | Process and apparatus for the surface heat treatment of steel products by a laser beam A single laser beam transmitter directs a substantially parallel laser beam toward a substantially V-shaped steel surface including first and second flank surfaces. A convex lens has a focal length (f) which meets the condition of r/fࣙ0.268, wherein (r)... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4250372 | Process and apparatus for the heat treatment by high energy beams of surfaces of steel products A first high energy beam is projected against a first flank surface of a substantially V-shaped steel surface, and simultaneously thereto a second a high energy beam is projected against a second flank surface of the V-shaped surface. The high energy beam... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4223202 | Apparatus and method for welding boat subassemblies utilizing laser radiation An apparatus for welding T-frame stiffeners circumferentially to the interior surface of a cylindrical shell at selected axial positions to fabricate reinforced hull sections suitable for boat construction is disclosed. The apparatus is adapted for provid... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4218606 | Apparatus for perforating webs with high intensity, coherent radiation A system is provided for controlling the porosity of a web or film as perforated by high intensity, coherent radiation. In particular, there is included a laser for providing at least one beam of high intensity, coherent radiation that is directed onto a ... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4215263 | Drawing optical waveguides by heating with laser radiation In drawing an optical waveguide, the blank is heated by a beam of laser radiation which has substantially zero power from the axis of the blank to a prescribed radial position and substantially uniform power from that position to a greater radial position... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4201559 | Method of producing a glass-ceramic There is disclosed a method of converting a thin glass body, such as a glass fiber or coating, to a corresponding glass-ceramic body by a heat treatment comprising a plurality of heating-cooling cycles.... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4174476 | Laser cutting of tubular articles Method and apparatus for cutting tubular material with two separate laser beams having a constant power ratio by using a laser source having a single output beam of random polarization. A beamsplitter is positioned so that the output of a laser source str... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4146380 | Method and apparatus for subdividing a gas filled glass tube with a laser A focused laser beam is directed at the wide side surface of a long, sealed, gas-filled, glass tube having a longitudinal axis and an elongated cross section. Repeated relative back and forth movement is introduced between the laser beam and the wide surf... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4135077 | Laser bread browning apparatus Apparatus for heating the outer surface of an object such as a loaf of bread. The object is conveyed through a heating chamber which has a plurality of apertures therein. A plurality of laser beams of a wavelength that is readily absorbed by the outer sur... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4128752 | Laser micromachining apparatus Laser micromachining apparatus for producing a selectable machining pattern on a workpiece, for example a substrate of paper or rubber or for producing a silicon integrated circuit. A high power laser beam carrying a controllable sequence of light pulses ... | 12/05/1978 |
| 4121595 | Apparatus for increasing the permeability of wrapping material for rod-shaped smokers products Webs which are to be converted into wrappers for filter rod sections, cigars, cigarillos or cigarettes, or the wrappers of such articles, are perforated by one or more laser beams in the machine wherein the articles are produced. The permeability of wrapp... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4118619 | Rotary beam chopper and scanning system An optical laser beam chopper for converting a continuous beam into a series of scanning impulses for use in perforating a moving web is disclosed. The system utilizes a coherent light source which produces a beam for use in perforating a thin paper web o... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4116542 | Method and apparatus for reducing coherence of high-power laser beams Method and apparatus for reducing the coherence and for smoothing the power density profile of a collimated high-power laser beam in which the beam is focused at a point on the surface of a target fabricated of material having a low atomic number. The ini... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4088865 | Laser beam welding apparatus Welding apparatus featuring a right angle beam handling tube for directing a fixed laser beam from an entrance to the tube to a rotatably supported output reflector in a focus head mounted on an outlet of the tube. The tube has upstream and downstream duc... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4084988 | Method and apparatus for making instantaneous scarfing cuts An instantaneous scarfing cut on the surface of a metal workpiece can be made by: (a) causing relative motion between the workpiece and a stream of scarfing oxygen gas, and simultaneously therewith (1) impinging at least one laser beam on the work surface so a... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4083629 | Beam splitting system for a welding laser A beam splitting system for use with a welding laser and having means for distributively directing an incoming welding beam along a pair of output optical paths is disclosed whereby a single welding laser may weld either sequentially or simultaneously at ... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4081654 | Methods and apparatus for selectively removing a metallic film from a metallized substrate A metallized substrate is flexed to conform to the surface of a segment of a right circular cylinder. The metallized substrate is arcuately rotated and a planar apertured mask is simultaneously moved linearly in spaced tangential relationship to the flexe... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4069080 | Method and apparatus of bonding superposed sheets of polymeric material in a linear weld A cylindrical lens system is used to focus a laser beam into a line upon thermoplastic sheets in their area of contact thereby linearly welding the sheets together. By this method flattened thermoplastic tubing may be converted into bags with either strai... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4060816 | Scanning apparatus, for producing masks for micro circuits A scanning device for providing rapid accurate mechanical line scanning of a preferably flat surface includes a radiation source, a radiation sensitive medium and apparatus for providing relative movement between the radiation source and the medium. The a... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4020319 | Method of forming a knitting needle latch pivot High energy heat, such as the high energy obtained from a laser or a maser, is applied against both wall portions of a latch pivot formed by displacing portions of the opposite walls of the slot in the needle. The applied high energy heat melts portions o... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4014964 | Process for making metal powder using a laser A process for producing high purity metal powders in which a metal or metal alloy of the desired composition is molten and introduced into a chamber in the form of a stream of a controlled cross sectional area which is fragmentized into a plurality of mol... | 03/29/1977 |
| 4012213 | Apparatus for forming refractory fibers Apparatus for forming fibers of refractory materials. A melt volume is continuously formed on a feed rod of the material to be fiberized and a fiber drawn therefrom. The melt volume is formed by introducing the feed rod at a predetermined velocity into a ... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4000391 | Nuclear reactor fuel element splitter A method and apparatus are disclosed for removing nuclear fuel from a clad fuel element. The fuel element is power driven past laser beams which simultaneously cut the cladding lengthwise into at least two longitudinal pieces. The axially cut lengths of c... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3989778 | Method of heat sealing thermoplastic sheets together using a split laser beam Thermoplastic materials, particularly material in sheet form, may be sealed or thermowelded together using the energy from a single laser beam source by splitting the beam and directing it by mirrors to desired seal areas on the opposed sides of the mater... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3953706 | Laser bent beam controlled dwell wire stripper A device for enabling the stripping of a selected portion of the insulation from an electrical lead on a rapid basis without damage to the conductor portion of the lead, involving the use of a rotatable optical unit. Our novel optical unit is equipped wit... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3943324 | Apparatus for forming refractory tubing Refractory tubings approaching theoretical density, either in polycrystalline or single crystal form, are made by moving a preformed tubing of a refractory material and a heated zone relative to each other, the heating zone providing sufficient heat to me... | 03/09/1976 |
