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A vest or belt is integrally formed with tubular, pet receiving passageways which extend around the wearer's body and terminate in pocket-like chambers for feeding and retrieval.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8104774 | Hand-held instrument for dental or surgical use A hand-held instrument, for dental or surgical use, intended to rotate a rectilinear detachable tool (13) includes a tubular sheath (1); a hollow shaft (3) rotatably mounted inside the sheath with an upstream portion (5) and a downstream ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7371036 | Tool holding device and method for positioning a tool Disclosed is a tool holding device (22, 50, 58) for retaining a tool (24) on a tool chuck (20). Said tool holding device (22, 50, 58) comprises a tool-accommodating area (32, 52, 66) for at least partly receiving the tool (24 | 05/13/2008 |
| 7331738 | Drill adapter for a power screwdriver A drill adapter for a power screwdriver and including a locking device for releasably securing the drill adapter (28) on the support region (66) of the screwdriver (4) and having a push-on sleeve (30) supportable on the support region ( | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331585 | Machining adapter having a collet and positive axial stop An adapter for holding a workpiece to be machined in an accurately located axial position can include a main sleeve having an interior wall defining a passage extending therethrough with at least one inner surface angled inwardly toward a centerline of the passage, ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328903 | Chuck A chuck has an attachment device for attaching the chuck to a machine spindle and a collet with clamping jaws defining an insertion opening at an end of the chuck opposite the attachment device. A sliding sleeve surrounds the clamping jaws and is axially moveable in... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320568 | Tool holder A tool holder is equipped with a tip run-out correction mechanism for correcting run-out of the tip of the tool. The tip run-out correction mechanism includes an annular stepped portion formed on a cylindrical support portion of a holder body; a ring member rotatabl... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7290968 | Extension fixture for turning tool An extension fixture for a turning tool includes a shank, a pull rod, a clamping sleeve, and a fixing member. Thus, the fixing member presses the rotation head of the pull rod to prevent the pull rod from being rotated, thereby preventing the clamping sleeve from be... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7273214 | Chuck A chuck to this disclosed which has a central body for including a nose section 6 and a tail section 8. A central portend is formed through the chuck to and a plurality of passageways 12 are angled thereto. Jaws 14 may move through the pa... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7264429 | Tool free collet assembly A collet assembly, for selectively attaching a tool accessory to a tool, having a collet nut rotatably connectable to the tool, a collet compressible by the collet nut, and a torque application feature movably connected with the tool. The torque application feature ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261302 | Collet and lock nut assembly A collet and lock nut assembly includes a collet for receiving a cutting tool shank and a lock nut for creating a gripping force between the collet and the shank. The collet has a nose portion and a body portion separated by an annular groove. The lock nut has a plu... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7249540 | Connector adapter An adapter for installing a connector to a terminal post, wherein the connector is attached to a cable, is presented. In an embodiment, the adapter is comprised of an elongated collet member having a longitudinal axis comprised of a first collet member end, a second... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7234902 | Milling tool holder with camming plug A milling tool holder apparatus includes a tool holder having a male structure received in a female opening of a shank, and a camming plug received in a transverse plug-receiving opening in the shank and the tool holder. Turning the camming plug in one direction mov... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7219581 | Adjustment tool An adjustment tool, having a body with a bore extending between a first end and a second end. A shaft is positioned within the bore having a plurality of outward spreading spring fingers coupled to a tool end. A spring biases the shaft towards the second end of the ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7210212 | Bayonet collet pickup tool for agile fixturing A bayonet collet pickup tool includes a collet chuck having a collet portion including a bore disposed therein. A collet is held in the bore and is operable therein. A bayonet cap is mounted to an outer surface of the collet chuck proximate the bore. The bayonet cap... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7178811 | Chuck capable of drawing in and pushing out collet A chuck is composed of a collet sleeve, a sliding member, at least one linkage member, a collet, and a driving member. The collet sleeve includes an axial hole running therethrough and at least one opening in communication with the axial hole. The sliding member is ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7137633 | Wrench-free manual chuck turbine A manual chuck includes a turbine having a centrally disposed aperture and a spindle including an elongated shaft portion positionable into the aperture in a substantially vertical direction. The spindle further includes a head portion integral with the shaft portio... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7137632 | Force limiting workpiece holding device A force limiting workpiece holding device for holding a workpiece in a workpiece processing assembly having a spindle and a closer that applies a force, comprises a workpiece holder slidably mounted to the spindle. The workpiece holder includes a plurality of circum... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7044478 | Coaxial mounting seat for the shank of a toolholder A mounting seat (1) for machine-tools allowing coaxial engagement of the shank (2c) of a toolholder member (2) includes internally a cylindrical bush (3) supporting a plurality of ball bearings (4i) arranged without p... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7044477 | Chuck assembly with a cooling mechanism A chuck assembly includes a housing formed with a hydraulic fluid inlet, a sleeve mounted in the housing and formed with an annular groove, a shaft mounted rotatably in the sleeve and formed with a fluid passage, a chuck unit mounted in the shaft, a piston subdividi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6966561 | Spacer element for a collet chuck and collet chuck Collet chucks (20) comprise at least two tensioning segments (21). Adjacent tensioning segments are connected to each other by way of elastic spacer elements (30). The tensioning segments (21) have back-cuts (22), whilst the spacer... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6923451 | Tool holder In order to provide a tool holder which greatly reduces frictional resistance between a locknut and a taper collet, and eliminates a twisting of the taper collet during tightening of the locknut, in a tool holder comprising a locknut 13 which pushes a taper c... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6908085 | Rotating tool chucking device A Chucking device comprising a collet with an external taper and a collet holder with a taper socket for the chucking of a rotating part, wherein the taper socket of the collet holder and the external taper of the collet have a taper angle which is smaller than the ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6908086 | Chuck The chuck (10) is comprised of a chuck body (11) having an inner cone surface and a grip head (12) with a corresponding outer cone surface. The grip head (12) is subdivided into individual clamping jaws (21) by several seperating s... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6854741 | Universal collect adapter tool A one-piece constructed adapter collet tool, for adapting a smaller standard collet to a standard oversized spindle on a machine tool. Said one-piece constructed adapter collet having an external configuration constructed to mate said oversized standard spindle conf... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6751875 | High-speed, hand-held reciprocating method for cutting, carving, sawing, chiseling, filing, sanding, and engraving A high-speed, hand-held attachment for flex rotor shafts of power rotary tools, and also for direct attachment to power rotary tools without flex rotor shafts, that converts rotary motion to reciprocating motion for precision control of cutting, carving, sawing, chi... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6598884 | Method and apparatus for adjusting a collet in a machine tool A collet adaptor and method is provided for adjusting a collet (2) in a machine tool. The collet adaptor has a body or arbor (10) with a cylindrical bore (14) for receiving a cylindrical portion (20) of the collet (2) and a tapered surface (18) at its fro... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6554288 | Collet adapter An adapter for facilitating use of a bullnose mounting fixture on the spindle of a unit of machining equipment with a collet having a collet head larger than the bullnose bore includes a collet-receiving component disposed symmetrically about an adapter r... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6520508 | Keyless router chuck A tool receiver or chuck is provided which may receive a cutting tool, such as a router bit or the like, therewithin and non-rotatably retain the tool relative to a rotary driving device. The tool receiver includes a plurality of blades substantially enca... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6497417 | Collet chuck provided with a driven movable member which can be driven hydraulically in two opposite directions for operating a collet A collet chuck includes a tubular body and a rotating shaft assembly that is journalled within the tubular body and that defines a frustoconical recess therewithin. A belt pulley is sleeved fixedly on the rotating shaft assembly. A collet is disposed oper... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6280125 | R-8 collet The present invention comprises an improved R-8 collet for insertion and attachment within a spindle of a milling machine. The R-8 collet comprises an elongated member having a first end of generally conical configuration with a bore arranged longitudinal... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6270086 | Collet actuator for tool holder A tool holder includes a body, a collet, and a collet mover. The body is formed to include a collet chamber and a collet-mover chamber arranged to communicate wit the collet chamber. The collet includes a tool-gripping surface arranged to define a tool-re... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6260855 | Workholding apparatus An apparatus for holding a workpiece in a predetermined position in a machine tool. The apparatus has an axis of rotation and comprises an outer body having an outer surface, an inner bore, a first end and a second end with the second end being insertable... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6213478 | Holding mechanism for a susceptor in a substrate processing reactor A collet assembly coupled to a rotary-linear drive unit allows easily placement of a susceptor shaft within a collet of the collet assembly when the collet assembly is in a first position. After the susceptor shaft is placed into the collet, the collet as... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6193591 | Loading system and collect assembly for grinding a workpiece An assembly for holding a cylindrical workpiece for grinding, including a support frame having at least one support arm extending to initially hold the workpiece and operable to disengage from the workpiece during grinding, a tailstock slidably mounted on... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6149165 | Collet assembly and manufacturing process An Improved Collet Assembly and Manufacturing Process is disclosed. Also disclosed is an improved collet that includes a spindle, a center portion comprising several tabs and a collar. The disclosed collet is manufactured from a single piece of stock, and... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5979911 | Procedure for fastening an object and a hydraulic fastening apparatus The invention relates to a procedure for the fastening of objects, e.g. working tools and work pieces, and to a holding device. The invention comprises a self-locking holding collet (2, 22) which fastens the object by means of an actuating element (3) whi... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5964690 | Mechanism for fixing a blood centrifuge bowl to a rotating spindle A mechanism for fixing a blood centrifuge bowl to a rotating spindle is disclosed having two parts. The first part converts downward movement of an outer collar of a chuck into inward and downward pressure against a blood bowl to be secured in the chuck. ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5957468 | Collet device The invention relates to a collet device, in particular for snap closure attachments for gaseous and/or liquid media which comprises a clamping plunger and a plurality of collets each with a connection end and a bearing end. The bearing ends of the collet... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5957467 | Clamping chuck A clamping chuck with a chuck body, a conical receptacle for a collet chuck provided therein, a tension sleeve extending over the collet chuck, and a clamping nut disposed on the chuck body, which can be screwed together with the tension sleeve, wherein a... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5947485 | Collet assembly and manufacturing process An Improved Collet Assembly and Manufacturing Process is disclosed. Also disclosed is an improved collet that includes a spindle, a center portion comprising several tabs and a collar. The disclosed collet is manufactured from a single piece of stock, and... | 09/07/1999 |
