Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7308757 | Intermediate product manufacturing apparatus, and intermediate product manufacturing method An intermediate product manufacturing apparatus for carrying intermediate products and processing the intermediate products with a plurality of processing apparatuses is provided, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of carrying means for carrying the intermediate ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7255337 | Oscillating transport unit for post-processing device A post processing apparatus for processing image-recorded sheets, having: a transporting unit for transporting a booklet comprising a plurality of image-recorded sheets; a trimming section for trimming the booklet; and an oscillating mechanism for oscillating the tr... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7228999 | Clincher for stapler In a clincher device 1, 11 of a stapler adapted to be engaged with staple legs S1 which have been ejected from a driver unit by a driver 10 toward sheets of paper and have penetrated through the sheets of paper, thereby to clinch the staple legs... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222843 | Sheet post-process apparatus A sheet post-process apparatus has a standby tray for putting a sheet delivered from an image forming apparatus on standby, a process tray arranged under the standby tray for stacking the sheet dropped from the standby tray or the sheet delivered from the image form... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216863 | Sheet processing apparatus above image forming means and image forming apparatus A sheet processing apparatus, which is configured in a simple construction and at low cost, includes a first sheet stacking portion for temporarily stacking a sheet discharged thereon, an alignment member for aligning the sheet discharged on the first sheet stacking... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7140525 | Cap feeding device for roofing guns A cap feeding device for a roofing gun includes a moving member and a pressing member which is pivotably connected to the moving member. Both of which are engaged with the rail unit of the container for receiving stack of caps. A torsion spring is biased between the... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7140099 | Pallet jig An apparatus for building pallets comprises a jig frame adapted to maintain a plurality of deck boards in deck board locations on top of a plurality of stringers in parallel stringer locations. A gantry frame is mounted above the jig frame and a plurality of nailing... | 11/28/2006 |
| 6968945 | Cap assembly and cap for automatic fastener driver A cap assembly for an automatic cap feeder and fastener driver comprises a plurality of relatively thin, domed metal discs that can be pierced by fasteners discharged from a fastener driver such as a nail gun without bending the nail or jamming the driver, with the ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6968605 | Tagging apparatus and method A tag apparatus and method includes a nail gun with a tag positioning device. The tag positioning device is connected to a nail gun safety probe. Flexible tags are held in a tag magazine. Upon depression of the safety probe, a tag is rotated from its storage positio... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6931717 | Apparatus for mounting an electronic part onto a circuit substrate A mounting apparatus capable of coping with high density mounting, narrower pitch mounting, cavity mounting and the like. In the apparatus, displacement amounts of a chip that is picked up from a wafer by a pick-up nozzle to be held by the pick-up nozzle, with respe... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6908079 | Compiling platform to enable sheet and set compiling and method of use Substrates are received by a compiling mechanism and compiled into sets. Incoming sheets are tamped by a tamping system into position on the compiling platform to register the sheets. The compiler platform mechanism includes two narrow, low-friction panels that are ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6814272 | Nailing machine A nailing machine for pallets, comprises nailing grippers supported by a beam which is controllably movable in a vertical plane and includes feeding bins for feeding nails to the grippers, with a plurality of gripper holding beams movable in a vertical plane, a cent... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6779700 | Cap assembly and cap feeder for automatic fastener driver A cap assembly for an automatic cap feeder and fastener driver comprises a plurality of relatively thin, domed metal discs that can be pierced by fasteners discharged from a fastener driver such as a nail gun without bending the nail or jamming the driver, with the ... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6773005 | Sheet post-processing apparatus with fixed and auxiliary guide members A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a head portion for driving a staple into a sheet bundle, an anvil portion opposingly arranged to the head portion for receiving and bending the staple driven from the head portion, a feeding device for feeding the sheet bun... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6736303 | Mobile fastener driver tool A fastening system for driving fasteners through fastener caps. The fastening system includes a nail gun, an actuator system and a fastener cap dispenser, all mounted on a rolling chassis. The actuator system includes a wheel and an actuator in communication with th... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6688589 | Sheet post processing device with auxiliary guide A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a head portion for driving a staple into a sheet bundle; an anvil portion opposingly arranged to the head portion for receiving and bending the staple driven from the head portion; a feeding device for feeding th... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6666367 | Component processing center Apparatus having automated loading 15, nailing 22, and stacking 24 areas for wood components, wall panels or wall components is described. The apparatus includes a control panel 14 that allows automated selection 94 of the type of sub-component to be hand... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6571463 | Rivet carrier A rivet carrier for use in association with a driver for driving rivets into a work piece. The rivet carrier includes mounting structure for mounting the rivet carrier on the driver. A body portion of the rivet carrier is in communication with the mountin... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6405916 | Apparatus for connecting wooden components Apparatus for connecting wood members with a connector plate segmented from a continuous strip of connector plates. The connector plates have integral nails extending from one face of the plate. The apparatus includes a feeder for feeding the strip forwar... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6330963 | Apparatus for connecting wooden components Apparatus for connecting wood members with a connector plate segmented from a continuous strip of connector plates. The connector plates have integral nails extending from one face of the plate. The apparatus includes a feeder for feeding the strip forwar... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6283354 | Sheet processing apparatus A sheet processing apparatus has a function of stapling sheets together, wherein the sheets are fed from an image forming apparatus one by one after images are formed on the sheets. The sheet processing apparatus includes a stapler to staple the sheets to... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6089434 | Automatic frame maker A fully automated frame maker which makes rectangular frames includes a controller device for controlling a cycle of operation and preferably multiple cycles of operation to form a plurality of frames. The apparatus also broadly includes a framing device ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6010053 | Device for fitting bar components in a frame A device for assembling sash elements (12) in a frame (11) disposes over instruments (8) for clamping the frame (11). An angle template (7) is provided for inserting the sash element (12) which is freely movable on a predefined plane in relation to the cl... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5634583 | Roofing gun attachment for dispensing tin tags A tin tag dispensing apparatus for a nailing gun includes a support member having a tin tag dispensing groove, a shuttle slidably disposed within the support member, a tube receptacle containing a plurality of stacked tin tags, a slide member slidably mou... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5113732 | Apparatus for preparing wire pieces for a stapling machine A wire piece forming device includes a wire piece dispenser with a cutting mechanism, a receiver member which receives wire pieces from the dispenser and a take-over member. The wire piece dispenser includes a feed device for the stepwise feeding of the w... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5102375 | Telescoping mast assembly A telescoping mast assembly includes a plurality of interconnected mast sections nested within each other for movement between a fully retracted height and a fully extended height. A novel, rigid drive assembly, disposed within the interconnected mast sec... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5092509 | Sheet stapling apparatus A sheet stapling apparatus includes sheet accommodating contain for accommodating discharged sheets, a stapling device for stapling the sheets received by the sheet accommodating contain, a reference for confining edges of the sheets accommodated in the s... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5021837 | Apparatus discharged sheet stacking A sheet post-processing apparatus includes stacking device for stacking sheet materials discharged; a processing device for processing the sheet materials stacked on the stacking device; a discharging device for discharging from the stacking device the sh... | 06/04/1991 |
| 5014896 | Staple gun for attaching labels A pneumatic label stapling gun including a label feed attachment and a cutting device which rapidly feeds a label into alignment with the staple gun head and severs the label from the remainder of the label roll after stapling. A pair of pneumatic cylinde... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4998661 | Needle assembly for fastener dispensing apparatus A needle assembly for dispensing plastic fasteners as part of a tool having a feed track through which a fastener assemblage is fed, such needle assembly including the needle which is encased in a holder which may be easily secured to and removed from suc... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4988029 | Finisher accessory for hard copy printers A finisher for stacking and stapling, or binding, sheets of paper from printers and the like. The finisher accommodates two sizes of paper, one frequently being twice the size of the other. Staples are positioned in the smaller size papper along an edge a... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4917364 | Sheet processing apparatus A sheet post-processing apparatus. It includes a first post-processing device for effecting a processing to the sheet material and a second post-processing device for effecting to the sheet a processing different from the aformationed processing. The appa... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4858289 | Dimpling and riveting apparatus Dimpling and riveting a workpiece wherein the workpiece is clamped, the dimpling, drilling and riveting occur sequentially while the workpiece is clamped, and the workpiece is heated prior to dimpling. During clamping a pressure foot force is applied to o... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4850520 | Cylindrical stitching device for binding single sheets A cylinder stitching device for binding single sheets for thread sealing, modified French sewing, as well as for wire stitching, includes a stitching cylinder that is controlled by central cams. The stitching cylinder is equipped with stitching heads whic... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4753382 | Component insertion apparatus This invention relates to an apparatus for inserting components into workpieces, particularly for insertion of electrical components into printed circuit boards. Multiple component magazines are provided on a shuttle which places the desired component ben... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4691427 | Tape fastening system An apparatus for clip-stapling a cover which encloses a pre-fab building construction section which includes a pneumatic driving casing having interchangeable heads, wherein the shape of the head is flat for permanent fastening or flat only in the center ... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4657167 | Automatic fastening machine for roof and deck coverings An apparatus for feeding and positioning disks upon insulation or roofing membrane for attachment to a roof or deck by fasteners driven through the disks into the underlying layer. A support frame is provided with two wheels on only one side to avoid wrin... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4655381 | Machine for automatically applying hooks to elastic belts The machine according to the invention comprises a device for feeding at least a continuous belt from a coil, a punching unit provided with at least a punch for punching holes into the belt; a cutter for cutting the continuous belt in segments of the desi... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4650174 | Method and system for routing a signature for stitching A method and system of routing a signature or stitching, and including taking folded signatures from a raceway and onto support bars or fingers and moving the signatures to a rotary stitcher where they are stitched and then removing them from the bars or ... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4650104 | Positioning device for button setting machines A positioning device comprises a reciprocably movable support table having a surface extending in a plane above a clinching die of a button setting machine for supporting a garment fabric to which a button is to be attached, and a pair of guide members di... | 03/17/1987 |
