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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7313851 | Method for monitoring the installation of blind rivets Apparatus is provided for monitoring the installation of a blind rivet to attach together top and bottom members. The blind rivet installation tool includes a housing having an anvil seated on the rivet head. A collet is reciprocable within the tool housing and carr... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305749 | Wire terminal crimper A wire terminal crimper is comprised of a frame, a crimping bolt, an anvil, a detent pin and a wire guide. The frame has an anvil bore, a threaded bolt opening and a detent pin opening. The bolt is screwed into the bolt opening. In use, the bolt is tightened upon a ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7293339 | Low swage load fastening system and method A low swage load fastening system is provided for installing swage-type fasteners to secure a plurality of workpieces together. The fastener includes a pin member having an elongated pin shank to be located in aligned openings in the workpieces. An enlarged head at ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290431 | Rivet squeezer A pneumatically operated rivet squeezer is described, having features that allow for the miniaturization of a squeezer to a size smaller than portable rivet squeezers presently available. A first feature of the invention is that a return spring is accommodated withi... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7237413 | Setting tool A tool and method for installing collapsible inserts. The tool includes a stabilizing handle which is threaded onto a tool body. The tool body is threaded onto a tool shaft. In use, a collapsible insert is threaded onto the tool and the insert is positioned in a hol... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7195438 | Swage type fastener A fastening system is provided that includes a fastener having a pin member with a lock groove and crest geometry that is optimized to receive swaged material from collars of materials of different strengths for securing workpieces for different load applications. T... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7146715 | Spin pressure power tool Apparatus for installing a rivet nut or the like having an intentionally threaded shaft wherein the apparatus includes a hydraulically geared power tool having an inner hydraulic fluid containing a chamber and a screw adapted to engage the threaded shaft of the nut ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7077613 | Method and apparatus for fastening steel framing using helical features A pin with threads that extend along a portion of a stem of the pin interact with framing members as the pin is driven through the framing members. The interaction of the threads with the framing members cause the pin to rotate as the threads pass through the framin... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7065855 | Installation tool for setting anchors The invention provides an installation tool for use with a battery operated drill or a corded electric drill for repetitive installation of caulk-in anchors. The installation tool utilizes the mechanical advantage of a threaded shaft to improve consistency of the ho... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7024746 | Method and apparatus for monitoring blind fastener setting A method of monitoring the setting operation for a blind fastener comprising the step of measuring, as a function of time, an electronic signal indicative of the load being applied to the fastener during the setting operation and, from which, determining a mandrel e... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6912776 | Pierce nut installation apparatus A pierce nut installation apparatus having a feed passage, a plunger passage and a plunger which reciprocates through the plunger passage to engage and install a pierce nut in a panel opposite the plunger passage, wherein the end of the plunger passage includes a nu... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6745451 | Adapter for machine for manufacturing buttons and method An adapter enables a universal assembly machine to manufacture buttons with either flat backs or formed backs. The machine comprises a rotatably indexable die table to which are mounted pickup and crimp dies. A ram die is advancable and retractable in a pickup strok... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6668439 | Apparatus for an improved gasketed aerosol mounting cup An apparatus for forming a double-segment overlapping gasket material for the mounting cup of an aerosol container comprising a punch mounted on a reciprocating ram having a central opening for the body of the mounting cup and a nose portion adapted to ex... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6405420 | Tool for applying punched rivets The invention relates to a tool for applying punched rivets, either full rivets or semi-tubular rivets. The tool having a blank holder for pretensioning assembly pieces, especially metal sheets; a rivet punch movable in an axial direction within a cylinde... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6298533 | Assembling device for disc cartridge A disc cartridge assembling apparatus in which a protuberance formed on the inner surface of one of cartridge halves of a thermoplastic resin making up a main cartridge body unit is passed through a through-hole formed in the other cartridge half in regis... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6233802 | Low swage load fastener and fastening system A fastening system including a two piece swage type fastener including a pin and a collar in which the pin has relatively wide lock grooves and in which the lock grooves have a generally smooth root contour with the collar having a shank portion with a wa... | 05/22/2001 |
| 5855052 | Fastener installation device A jig for use in attaching a first part of a fastener assembly to a structural frame member having a fastener opening and at least one connector hole adjacent the fastener opening. The fastener assembly is of the type used for removably connecting a panel... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5782444 | Cabinet skate The present invention comprises a dish-shaped cabinet skate made of an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, which is applied to furniture feet. The skate is adapted to be affixed in a permanent or semi-permanent manner on standard office furniture fe... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5722139 | Installation apparatus for attaching a fastener to a panel An improved installation apparatus and method of attaching a female fastener element, such as a self-riveting nut fastener, to a metal panel, wherein a small hole is first formed in the panel and the annular riveting portion of the fastener is driven thro... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5713116 | Clinch-type lock nut installation and formation process A two-tiered punch having an extending imprint head with impact surfaces is employed to deform the top threads of a clinch-type nut during installation to create a lock-type nut. As the deforming imprint is applied, a shoulder on the punch supplies the in... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5615481 | Method and apparatus for the production of circumferentially compressible pipe fittings To form a pipe fitting (90) having a body (92) formed with at least one outer bulge (93) defining an inner circumferential groove (93a), in which a sealing ring (93b) can be located, so that the fitting, upon circumferential compression, can sealingly eng... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5517743 | Method and apparatus for joining superposes metal sheets A method and a tool set for joining superposed metal sheets are disclosed. In a first step, a preferably ring-shaped free space is provided by dislocating material of at least one sheet. Thereafter, material of all sheets is squeezed within the confines o... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5419035 | Snap attaching tool A snap attaching tool for attaching stud and socket type snap assemblies to an edge or intermediate location of a fabric or other carrier material. Separable base, stabilizer and top elements respectively carrying a seat recess with a convex floor, a guid... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5329694 | Apparatus for attaching a fastener to an enclosed structure The disclosed method and apparatus is adapted to attach a self-attaching fastener, such as a pierce or clinch nut or stud to a metal wall of an enclosed structure, such as a tube, from inside the structure. The method includes rigidly supporting the self-... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5259102 | Clinching tool A clinching tool including a punch and a die. The die includes a sleeve, a riser, an elastomeric member, and a plurality of fingers. The riser is positioned within the sleeve and includes an upper reduced diameter anvil portion projecting upwardly through... | 11/09/1993 |
| 4928388 | Single station hemming tooling A single station hemming device for hemming the upstanding peripheral flange of an outer element to overlie the periphery of an inner element to thereby join the outer element to the inner element. The hemming device has a series of hemming tools position... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4893394 | Installation apparatus for attaching a female element to a panel A method of attaching a female element having an annular riveting portion to a panel and the installation apparatus. The method includes driving a punch through the female element into a panel supported on a die member forming an unsupported cone-shaped p... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4831698 | Method of attaching a female element to a panel A method of attaching a female element having an annular riveting portion to a panel and the installation apparatus. The method includes driving a punch through the female element into a panel supported on a die member forming an unsupported cone-shaped p... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4765057 | Self-attaching fastener, panel assembly and installation apparatus The present disclosure relates to self-piercing fasteners, such as studs, bolts or nuts, the method of attaching such fasteners to a panel and fastener installation apparatus, including the installation head and die button. The fastener includes a self-pi... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4760634 | Method of connecting thin plates A method and apparatus for performing the method, for connecting stacked thin plates 4, 5 (in particular sheet-metal plates) or plate sections, according to which stacked flat parts 10, 11 of both plates are first deep drawn together with one another, aft... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4757609 | Apparatus for joining sheet material There is disclosed an improved apparatus for joining a plurality of pieces of sheet metal or other sheet material items by first drawing and then laterally extruding portions of the material to be joined into an enlarged shape which will permanently mecha... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4738255 | Suture anchor system A suture anchor system that includes a drill for turning into a bone mass with sissoring blades pivotally connected in a longitudinal drill shaft slot proximate to a cutting end thereof, the blade ends to sissor to extend cutting edges outwardly therefrom... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4729163 | Die set assembly for attaching a fastener The present disclosure relates to self-piercing fasteners, such as studs, bolts or nuts, the method of attaching such fasteners to a panel and fastener installation apparatus, including the installation head and die button. The fastener includes a self-pi... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4727646 | Die set for securing a self-attaching element A die set for attaching a self-attaching fastener having an annular barrel portion to a panel. The die set includes a driving member and a die member having a concave annular die cavity which is generally hemispherical in cross-section and which surrounds... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4724610 | Fastener installation apparatus To attach a nut to a plate-shaped workpiece, especially to a metal sheet, in such a way that it has self-locking properties without additional aids or parts, the force fastening the nut and acting on a free thrust surface of the nut is divided into at lea... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4713872 | Method of attaching fastening element to a panel A riveting or self-fastening element such as a stud for permanent attachment to a panel preferably having a preformed panel opening, including the method of attachment and the panel assembly. The self-attaching element includes an annular barrel portion h... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4706365 | Method and apparatus for assembling a ring pipe arrangement Method and apparatus effective for emplacing a ring (52) at a selected axial location of a pipe (45) by reducing its diameter and establishing a circumferential bulge (146) adjacent to the selected location and ring (52), said bulge (146) cooperatively re... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4696086 | Die set apparatus for badges A die set for assembling badges and buttons includes a punch and two dies. The badge shell and artwork are loaded onto the first die. The punch descends during a loading stroke to load the shell and artwork therein by friction. The second die is positione... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4643345 | Combination staple and riveting gun A staple gun tacker having a staple driving blade is disclosed which is adapted to be used in driving and setting a rivet of the type having a pin member mounted in a rivet shank having an expandable workpiece piercing free end. The staple gun tacker incl... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4633560 | Self-attaching fastener, die set The present disclosure relates to self-piercing fasteners, such as studs, bolts or nuts, the method of attaching such fasteners to a panel and fastener installation apparatus, including the installation head and die button. The fastener includes a self-pi... | 01/06/1987 |
