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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7207868 | Cutting apparatus A cutting apparatus jets, at a high pressure, water containing abrasive grains to cut a workpiece along cutting lines extending in intersecting directions. The cutting apparatus includes: a fixing table fixing the workpiece; groove portions provided in the fixing ta... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7101268 | Grinding table for liquid crystal display panel and grinder apparatus using the same Disclosed is a grinding table apparatus for a liquid crystal display panel and a grinder using the adapt to various sizes of unit liquid crystal display panels for grinding edges of the corresponding liquid crystal display panel by adjusting a variable moving distan... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6629877 | Precision glass grinding Improved accuracy of grinding glass pieces for use in stained glass art and the like. The pattern of the final outer boundary of each piece of glass is traced onto frosted mylar tracing paper to create a mask. The mask is then cut to the traced pattern an... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6514122 | System for manufacturing semiconductor device utilizing photolithography technique A product pattern and a test pattern for managing a focus offset value are patterned onto a product wafer by means of exposure, and is patterned onto the product wafer by means of exposure. The exposed product wafer is developed. A measurement section mea... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6428402 | Glass machining apparatus A glass machining apparatus is provided to machine large-scale glass sheets. The apparatus includes a base plate with an operating use hole, a functional section support with a base end section that pivots on the base plate, a glass machining disk at the ... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6068547 | System for the profile machining with templates of slabs of marble, stone, glass and the like A system for the profile machining of slabs (23) of marble, stone, glass and the like, using templates (31), comprises a plurality of mechanically adjustable pneumatically operating distance pieces or supporting blocks (1). Each distance piece or supporti... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5887325 | Transfer method and apparatus This device includes a machine tool for cutting and breaking out parts such as a glass template, a positioning shuttle for moving the glass from the cutting station to the different grinders, and multiple grinders for grinding the edgework of the glass. T... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5628677 | Apparatus for machining glass An apparatus for machining glass has a housing forming an upwardly open water-holding reservoir, a horizontal screen forming a support surface and covering the housing, a drive motor in the housing having an output shaft extending upward through the scree... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5409417 | Numerically controlled grinding machine for plate glass A numerically controlled grinding machine 60 for plate glass, comprising a table 3 for supporting the glass plate 5; a motor 35 connected to a grooved grinding wheel 38 that grinds by rotation thereof the periphery edge of the plate glass 5 supported by t... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5327686 | Chamfering width maintaining and glass plate shape sensing apparatus for use in a glass plate chamfering machine A chamfering width maintaining and glass plate shape sensing apparatus for use in a glass plate chamfering machine is disclosed. Two chamfering width maintaining and glass plate shape sensing rollers are provided so that they serve as function sharing rol... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5085011 | Method and apparatus for mounting and faceting gemstones Apparatus for grinding or polishing flat facets of gemstones comprising a mirror lap wheel base adapted to be mounted to a rotary drive and a lap film adapted to be mounted flushly upon the mirror lap wheel base.... | 02/04/1992 |
| 4934112 | Multiple head abrasive cutting of glass The invention pertains to cutting irregularly shaped glass parts from glass blanks, and providing interior openings or cutouts in the parts, at a relatively high volume. Glass blanks are conveyed one-by-one to a transfer position beneath a shuttle carrier... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4833832 | Production of polished flat glass A method of polishing a glass sheet which includes the steps of supporting the glass sheet in a substantially horizontal position with one of its major faces uppermost, providing a substantially horizontal gantry (11) supported so that it can be traversed... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4551948 | Glass shaping machine A glass shaping apparatus having a housing including a work surface integrally formed to the housing top and a variable-speed drive motor mounted within the housing with a drive shaft, including a grinding surface, protruding through a penetration onto th... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4053288 | Hand fed glass beveling apparatus A hand fed glass beveling apparatus comprises table means for slidably supporting a hand manipulated glass piece to be beveled under a grinding and polishing head including a spindle selectively carrying a grinding wheel or a polishing wheel and driven by... | 10/11/1977 |
