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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181555 | Machine for boring, turning, and face grooving Embodiments of the present invention provide a machining tool including two spaced apart flange members adapted to be coupled with a turbine rotor while the rotor is in a first portion of a turbine casing. A carousel may be coupled to the flange members and adapted ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7677146 | Cutting tool using one or more machined tool tips in a continuous or interrupted cut fast tool servo A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with at least one machined tool tip and possibly other tool tips. The actuator provides for control of the movement of the tool tip in an x-direction ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7607376 | Paring apparatus with pivotable paring head An apparatus for paring tubular articles (R), especially for plastic tubes, has at least one support unit (10) for supporting the article (R) to be pared, a paring unit (40) which has a paring head (44) with at least one blade assembly (46 | 10/27/2009 |
| 7441485 | Apparatus for dismantling a radioactively contaminated installation part and method for dismantling the installation part An apparatus for dismantling a radioactively contaminated tubular installation part which is located under water contains a base part which can be fixed to the installation part and in which a rolling cutting apparatus is mounted. The rolling cutting apparatus can b... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7398717 | CNC central cutting and turning machine The present invention provides a CNC central cutting and turning machine includes a holding head, wherein the rear end of the holding head has a holder, which can turn, mounted thereon, and the holder has at least three claws mounted thereon for jointly holding an o... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7337698 | Adjustable pipe shaving device A pipe shaving device for removing a uniform layer of material from the outer circumference of a pipe is provided. The device comprises a first frame member providing at least two support surfaces for the pipe, a second frame member slidable with respect to the firs... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7293487 | Cutting tool having variable and independent movement in an x-direction and a z-direction into and laterally along a work piece for making microstructures A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with a tool tip. The actuator provides for independent and variable control of the movement of the tool tip in an x-direction into the work piece and ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7275469 | Planetary tubing cutter The planetary tubing cutter of the invention provides a gearing assembly having a pair of ring gears and a number of pinions with a blade affixed to each pinion. The ring gears are parallel to one another and are individually driven. The pinions are rotatably mounte... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7117774 | Automatic lathe An automatic lathe (10) is provided with a first spindle (14) having an axis of rotation (14a), a first tool rest (18) capable of holding a plurality of tools (22) in a parallel arrangement, a second tool rest (20) ca... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7093525 | Chipless trimming of plastic bottles Method and apparatus for trimming the neck of plastic bottles includes means for rapidly rotating a cutting blade around the neck being trimmed while progressively moving the cutting blade through the thickness of the neck. During the cutting, a flat surface of the ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7047850 | Paring apparatus with pivotable paring head An apparatus for paring tubular articles (R), especially for plastic tubes, has at least one support unit (10) for supporting the article (R) to be pared, a paring unit (40) which has a paring head (44) with at least one blade assembly (46 | 05/23/2006 |
| 7028452 | Packaging device for fitting and heat-shrinking packaging film A packaging device includes a film fitting mechanism, a film shrinking mechanism and a controller. The film fitting mechanism fits a tubular heat shrinkage film over a film cylinder and moves the film a distance along the cylinder and cuts a length of the film off. ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013567 | Hand held pipe cutters A pipe cutter comprises a rotary head having an axis of rotation, and a housing gear is coaxial with the rotary head such that the housing gear and rotary head have a common axis of rotation. A pipe slot extends into the rotary head and the housing gear, and a pipe ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7000512 | Blow molding trimming A blow molded container (10) having a trimmed nonround opening (12) is blow molded from a preform (36) and then positioned by a positioner (50) of a nonround trimmer (16) that includes a rotary driven arm assembly (56) havin... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6981437 | Pipe cutting machine A pipe cutting machine comprises a clamping device for holding a pipe to be cut and a pipe cutting apparatus for cutting the pipe by revolving a rotating disc-like cutting blade around the circumferential surface of the pipe held by the clamping device. The pipe cut... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6935030 | Spiral cut craft tool A spiral cut craft tool and method of making a spiral cut is provided. The spiral cut craft tool has a housing with a cutting guide in the housing. A cutting edge is provided that is projecting into the cutting guide. The cutting edge is coupled to the housing. The ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6928909 | Automatic lathe An automatic lathe (10) is provided with a first spindle (14) having an axis of rotation (14a), a first tool rest (18) capable of holding a plurality of tools (22) in a parallel arrangement, a second tool rest (20) ca... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6920812 | Centrifugal cutting apparatus A multiple blade centrifugal cutting machine having a planetary gear system for coordinating the motion of the blades so that the blades move into the work at the same speed to an equal depth to either sever the work element or strip away one or more layers of coati... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6901833 | Automated tube trimming system An automated tube trimming system accurately trims tubes to the correct height and angle. The tube trimming system is a combination of an automated trimming saw and a unique spherical tube clamping system. A spherical clamp having a fixed clamp section and an intern... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6886437 | Device for opening plastic bottles by cutting the dome A device for opening blown plastic bottles that are hermetically closed by a dome and mounted in a duct by cutting the dome using a cutting knife mounted in a cutting head that can move relative to the dome along the periphery thereof. The opening device includes ho... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6862967 | Boring unit for complex parts, particularly for door handles, with differential control systems The invention is a new boring unit for complex parts, including a fixing pin, suitable for holding the piece in its hole, and two concentric cylinders coaxial with the pin that are set rotating in the same direction by two electric motors. The inner cylinder is prov... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6786118 | Method and feed device for effecting the advance movement of at least one tool support that rotates around a rotationally symmetrical part A method and apparatus for carrying out an advancing movement of a tool support rotating about a rotationally symmetric component, and an associated feed device, are described. The tool support is capable of being fed via a leadscrew, is supported on a component, an... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6751867 | Tube cutter A pliers-type pipe or tube cutter includes first and second members pivotably movable with respect to one another. At least one adjustable cutting wheel is supported on one of the opposing jaw portions to be operably engagable with a tube or pipe to be cut. In addit... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6142044 | System for trimming excess material A system is provided for trimming excess vinyl film from a hoop assembly. The hoop assembly may be used to manufacture semiconductor workpieces. The system uses a pressure applying member applied to the excess film with a bearing surface sufficient to rec... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6109151 | Method and device for position exact and dimension exact chamfering of a pipe end In a method for machining a chamfer at a pipe end, clamped in a radial clamping device, to exact positional and dimensional tolerances as a function of a measured course of an inner and an outer diameter of the pipe, an actual position of the pipe end cla... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6095021 | Electrically powered hand held pipe cutter A hub assembly includes a sector gear with teeth that extend over a segment of a gear circle. The sector gear has a lip along an interior circle within the gear circle and concentric therewith. The sector gear is bracketed by a pair of sector plates that ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6055893 | Machining unit with a rotating head The machining unit is composed mainly of three essential elements which are the rotor, the phase displacement device and the tool drive mechanism. The rotor (100) includes a rotating shaft (1) and is equipped, for example, with four bores, extending paral... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6050159 | Facing head with rotary slide A facing head includes a housing with a center axis and a rotary slide with a rotation axis offset from the housing center axis. At least one cutter plate is provided on the rotary slide and rotatable therewith. A centrifugal drive is located in the housi... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5992277 | Apparatus for cleaning of the peripheral surface on a cylindrical part The apparatus for scraping a cylindrical part includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor is equipped with power-driven arrangements which cooperate with power-driving arrangements on the stator for turning of the rotor relative to the stator. The rotor is f... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5933963 | Tube saw A tube saw has a housing body with a first side, a second side, and a central opening. Surfaces of the first and second sides are machined parallel to each other. A cutter with a rotating blade is mounted on the first side and a vice is mounted on the sec... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5894771 | Pipe cutting machine and process for cutting pipe pieces from a pipe blank Process and arrangement for cutting and/or chamfering pipe front rims of pipes, in particular thick-walled pipes which are used for manufacturing ball bearings. The process includes the steps of measuring the actual external diameter of the pipe or inputt... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5881618 | Tool block slide assembly for automated cutting tool A shield slide mechanism for moving the cutting tool of a clamshell lathe is provided. By shielding the mechanism, metal chips created during the cutting process are precluded from jamming the mechanism and preventing the controlled movement of the cuttin... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5826470 | Cam operated quick return feed control for lathe machine tool A feed control for a tool bit carried by a headstock of a lathe includes a driving cam having a profiled lobe that permits automatic quick return of the tool bit following each cutting operation. The cam is driven in a forward feed direction by a cam actu... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5596914 | Foil cutting device A foil cutting device is disclosed to be used in a packing machine for applying a heat-shrinkable plastic capsule and/or a heat-shrinkable plasti-shield and/or a heat-shrinkable plastic wrap onto a package. The cutting device comprises a rotatable disk de... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5335570 | Automatic pipe cutting device An automatic pipe cutting device chiefly cuts a metal pipe of small thickness. This pipe cutting device has a pipe fixing element for clamping and releasing the pipe and a pipe cutter incorporating cutting bits. A pipe cutting length adjuster means with a... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5056388 | Blind cutting machine A cutting member and machine for cutting elongate members is disclosed. The cutting member comprises a body having a cutting edge defining a cavity such that the cutting edge contacts a surface to be cut at at least two points. The cutting machine compris... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5001819 | Apparatus for forming perforated tubes The invention provides that a strip of flat steel is formed at its edges with channels which face in opposite directions and the strip is perforated between the channels. The strip is spirally coiled into tube form and a flange of one of the channels enga... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4991475 | Method and apparatus for sawing bar-shaped workpieces into slices The invention is a method and apparatus for sawing bar-shaped workpieces o slices by means of an annular saw. The saw blade deviation, from its nominal position in the axial direction during the sawing operation, is compensated for. According to the inve... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4944205 | Ratchet feed drive for clamshell lathe The present invention pertains to a cam-actuated ratchet feed drive for a clamshell lathe having a guide block attachable to the rotating ring gear of the clamshell and which slidingly supports a tool holding block in a dove-tail guideway. A threaded lead... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4858316 | Tubing cutter A tubing cutter uses a plier type action for providing cutting force on the tube, and has four cutters that are distributed around the tubing so a small arc of oscillation can be used to cut a tubing. A pair of cutters is mounted on each jaw of the plier-... | 08/22/1989 |
