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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4875280 | Vehicle assembly line A vehicle assembly line in which a vehicle body is conveyed by a hanger from station to station is provided between a first working area and a second working area with a vehicle body reversing system for reversing the orientation of the vehicle body with ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4869865 | Method of manufacturing nuclear fuel bundle spacers In the automated production line manufacture of nuclear fuel bundle spacers, rod-supporting ferrules are cut from tubular stock, checked for length, laser cut to create predetermined features in the ferrule sidewall, formed with rod-centering stops in the... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4863092 | Apparatus for making a diaphragm assembly and method of making the apparatus An apparatus for automatically brazing the opposed ends of a capillary tube respectively to connecting parts of a bulb and a diaphragm unit and a method of making the apparatus are provided, the apparatus comprising a rotatable table and a plurality of wo... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4860421 | Method for assembling plate type heat exchangers Pairs of standard plates and special plates are assembled and inserted into a fixture along with side plates and intervening fins at respective assembly stations along a conveyor in accordance with a programmed order of insertion. The fixture separates el... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4856698 | Installation for automatic assembly of components and, in particular, components of motor vehicle bodies Installations for assembling by welding or other means comprising means for positioning the various constituent parts, at least one programmeable means for assembly by welding or other means. An installation characterised in that it comprises at least one gant... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4850101 | Dual-station flexible hairpin tube expansion apparatus A flexibly programmable belling and tension expanding device for plate fin heat exchanger coils is carried on a shuttle or carriage that moves between first and second work stations. An operator assembles a fin plate heat exchanger unit at a work table at... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4846531 | Bristle filled sleeve and method of filling and using same A cylindrical brush is formed to have multiple interfitting and interconnected sections which may consist of synthetic resin; holes are controllably and automatically drilled in the sections in selected patterns so that bristles may be filled into certain... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4839958 | Method of using a robot for installing weather stripping in a door or like opening The present invention disclosure provides for an apparatus and method for installing weather stripping in a body door opening. In its preferred embodiment the present disclosure provides a robot which can load itself from a weather stripping station, tran... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4831710 | Method of assembling a vehicle door The vehicle door construction contains an inner door panel and an outer door panel with a skeleton juxtaposed by the inner and outer door panels and mounted with interior door parts. The vehicle door construction is assembled with the vehicle body by moun... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4831718 | Process for laminating plate packs, in particular transformer cores Positioning of the individual portions is no longer effected on the laminating station but on a positioning station which is arranged upstream of the laminating station. In the positioning station the individual portions of a layer are deposited and posit... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4829651 | Method of and apparatus for manufacturing and vertically stacking panels for two-by-four wood construction residence A method of and apparatus for manufacturing panels for forming walls, roofs, or floors of a timber-framed residence constructed by a two-by-four construction method and of setting these panels on a pallet. A panel formed on a frame manufacturing table is ... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4827598 | Automatic assembling method and apparatus for vehicle bodies An automatic assembling method and apparatus for vehicles including providing a pallet with a plurality of supporting devices for supporting under-floor parts including an engine unit, at least the supporting device for supporting the engine unit among th... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4815190 | Method for automated assembly of assemblies such as automotive assemblies Method and system for the automated assembly of power train components along a plurality of interconnected, closed loops within cells of the system wherein parts and/or subassemblies of the components are assembled on the same assembly pallet on which the... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4811473 | Method of manufacturing electric lift trucks A material handling truck utilizing a battery box on which a plurality of truck components and controls are sub-assembled in a location different from a main frame assembly station or stations, which battery box is then transported to an assembly line sta... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4807350 | Method for binding coils Method and an apparatus for binding coils, for example, of sheet steel, which enable the whole process, from the formation of the coils to the completion of the ready-to-be-shipped bound coils, to be automated. Provision is made so that the strips, produc... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4799581 | Apparatus for loading spare wheels on vehicle bodies An apparatus for loading a spare wheel on a vehicle body comprises a robot operative to load the spare wheel on a predetermined portion provided in the vehicle body supported and transported by a carrier mounted on a vehicle body conveying device, a speed... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4789417 | Vehicle windowpane mounting system A windowpane mounting system for mounting a windowpane on a vehicle body comprises a vehicle body conveyor for intermittently feeding the vehicle body, and a windowpane mounting robot for mounting a windowpane on the vehicle body at a windowpane mounting ... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4787801 | Transport unit for flexible assembly system A transport unit usable in a flexible assembly system and comprising an automatic guided vehicle and a work carrier positioned to the rear thereof. The work carrier is of a U shape with a pair of spaced legs extending from a base and having free ends, eac... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4782570 | Fabrication and assembly of metal catalytic converter catalyst substrate Method of fabricating and assembling metal catalytic converter catalyst substrates by sequentially laying strips of foil of predetermined widths onto a strip of sheet metal as the latter is formed into a single seam tube about the layers of foil to contai... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4779932 | Bristle filled sleeve and method of filling and using same A cylindrical brush is formed to have multiple interfitting and interconnected sections which may consist of synthetic resin; holes are controllably and automatically drilled in the sections in selected patterns so that bristles may be filled into certain... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4776085 | Apparatus for use in automobile assembling In a transfer method for use in automobile assembling a vehicle body is transferred with the variation of its direction or orientation depending on the assembling characteristics in a plurality of assembling positions in which various parts are assembled ... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4776080 | Workpiece transport system with individually characterized offsets A workpiece carrier and positioning system determines the particular orientation of each workpiece upon an individually identifiable carrier or frame to which it has been affixed. The carriers themselves are precisely registered at each workstation where ... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4765776 | Convertible barge A convertible barge having self-contained modules positioned thereon containing pipeline processing equipment. The modules are removably attached to the deck of the barge and are provided with a closable opening on at least one end thereof for passing a p... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4760729 | Dual ram press A metalworking press for forming easy open can ends. The metalworking press includes a primary ram for suspending an upper tooling member and designed to vertically reciprocate; a primary press bed stationarily positioned beneath the primary ram for mount... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4759489 | Automobile body building methods and apparatus In a method of building an automobile body separate upper and lower body modules (50, 78) are formed, incorporating the roof area and the floor area of the automobile respectively, precision mating locations (62) on the body modules are used first as refe... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4757608 | Door installing apparatus in vehicle assembling line A vehicle body assembling line includes a door installing station where vehicle side doors are installed on the body. In the installing station, there is an installing robot which is planned to operate in a predetermined sequence to install the doors on t... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4756579 | Brush filling method and filled brushes A brush filling process employs longitudinally axially spaced rotary heads, and a core and includes the steps: (a) releasably coupling three of the brush cores to two of the heads, with the cores spaced about the axis, (b) rotating at least one of the heads ab... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4752352 | Apparatus and method for forming an integral object from laminations An apparatus and method for forming an integral three-dimensional object from laminations of the same or gradually varying shape. The apparatus includes a supply station, a work station for forming a material into a plurality of laminations for the three-... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4738022 | Vehicle assembling-and-feeding system A vehicle assembling-and-feeding system comprises an engine/suspension feeding line which travels through an engine assembly line and a first suspension assembly line for assembling one of front and rear suspensions to feed the engine and said one suspens... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4736515 | Plant for automated mounting of a door or similar closure component within the relative opening formed in a body, in particular an automotive vehicle body The present invention relates to a plant for the automated mounting of a door or similar closure component within the relative opening formed in a body, particularly an automotive vehicle body, comprising in combination: a device (10) for stably supportin... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4734979 | Weighty object mounting systems A weighty object mounting system includes a mounting table provided in a mounting station established in an assembly line for supporting a weighty object placed thereon to be mounted on a transportable object transported into the mounting station, a lifti... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4728383 | Method of mounting ready-made headliners into bodies of automotive vehicles A method of automatically mounting read-made headliners into automotive bodies consecutively moved along an assembly line by a conveyor system, by loading a headliner provided with a coating of adhesive on its upper surface onto a support at a first posit... | 03/01/1988 |
| 4716650 | Method of assembling magnetic recording disk cartridge A magnetic recording disk cartridge comprises a magnetic disk unit rotatably accommodated in a casing. A method of assembling the magnetic recording disk cartridge comprises a first conveying step of conveying a lower half of the casing by a first conveyo... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4711467 | Method and means for lift truck assembly and servicing A material handling truck utilizing a transverse frame plate on which a plurality of operating components are sub-assembled, which sub-assembly is transported to a selected assembly station on the main assembly line at which it is secured, as by bolting, ... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4693358 | Vehicle body conveyance in assembly line A conveyor system in an automobile assembly line which comprises a slat conveyor for conveying a vehicle body structure past a door fitting position at which at least one door assembly is fitted to the body structure being conveyed, and having at least on... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4685187 | Method of loading magnetic recording tape in cassette cases This invention loads tape into cassettes which have a zigzag shaped tape track. Positioning pins, which are located apart from the cassette's guide pins, shape the tape to conform to the cassette's zigzag pattern. When the reels are lowered to the cassett... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4674594 | Silencer and a method of manufacturing the silencer A silencer comprising a cylindrical casing assembled from two half-cylindrical shell members is produced by placing in one of the shell members a row of modular channel blocks and then completing the silencer by mounting the other shell member over the ro... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4674181 | Working/assembling system A working/assembling system including a dosed loop endless track, moving units adapted to travel on the endless track, at least one robot supported on one of the moving units for a working or assembling operation, and a control unit mounted on the other m... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4670961 | Process and assembly device intended particularly for body production lines Process for assembling bodies, particularly for vehicle production lines, of the type adapted to a plurality of models of vehicles and their variants, in which a perfect geometry of a body at a work station is assured by means of a machine module and a st... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4667866 | Car body assembling apparatus and method Different car body parts needed for a complete main body are preworked at a subassembly station and then are releasably attached to corresponding jig units, each unit having a universal frame on which is mounted a set of special jigs conforming to the kin... | 05/26/1987 |
