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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7694616 | Spindle drive support There is provided a machine for processing workpieces. In one embodiment, there is provided a workpiece processing machine including a processing tool movable along a tool drive axis to engage a workpiece with a force, a spindle coupled to the processing tool and ha... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7217059 | Fixing and release systems A connecting means adapted to fix or release a first element (4) and a second element (5) includes a locking pin (1) which is moveable to remote activation means between a locked position. In which leg (8) expends wall (9) into rec... | 05/15/2007 |
| 6979153 | Deep-grooving insert having stepped cutting edge A deep-grooving chip-forming cutting insert includes a rear mounting portion, a front cutting portion, and a pair of side walls, each side wall extending along the front and rear portions. The front cutting portion includes a front end surface, a top surface, and a ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6779441 | Automatic metal printer Disclosed is an automatic metal printer which prints a camera-photographed and computer-processed image on a surface of a hard material, such as a metal sheet, through a dot matrix printing type method wherein brightness of the printed image is expressed in accordan... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6651538 | Microtome Disclosed is an apparatus for cutting a specimen with a blade that moves forward with oscillation. The apparatus is free from vertical wobbling of the blade even after a long period of use, so that the cutting is carried out without killing cells present ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6298761 | Thin film hole making apparatus An apparatus for fabricating holes in a thin film has an elongated holding block for holding a column of electromagnetic driving coils. The holding block acts as a single unit, and is magnetically attached to a punch diebar. The magnetic attraction betwee... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6216576 | Plotters An object of this invention is to provide a simple construction for preventing a collision of the cutter with the surface of paper at a high speed, and the construction provides a controller 20 that minimizes the impression voltage to a cutter drive actua... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6196095 | Method and apparatus for cutting continuous paper web A continuous paper web is severed transversely in between the transportation cycles at the paper's maximum allowable rate of feed. The transverse cutter device has a stationary bottom blade 6 and a driven upper blade 5 fixed to or integral with a permanen... | 03/06/2001 |
| 5911807 | Apparatus for cutting a continuously flowing material web Improvements are provided to improve an apparatus and method for processing a substantially constant velocity flow of a web of material, including a cutting mechanism and a web accumulator upstream of the cutter. The improvements include stopping the web ... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5317943 | Method and apparatus for ultrasonically cutting mat board A method and apparatus for cutting mat board, and more specifically for cutting apertures including non-linear boundaries in mat board. The preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention includes an automatically controlled ultrasonic cutt... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5269213 | Punch apparatus Punch apparatus develops momentum of a desired magnitude. The momentum is transferred to a punch for driving the punch from a reset position to a punch position.... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5092209 | Method and device for cutting gas concrete In order to decrease shocks and vibrations to plastic gas concrete during cutting thereof with wires, the cutting wires are guided and driven separately from one another in a cutting frame.... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5090284 | Mechanisms for driving punch pins in punching apparatus In a punching apparatus, a die set supports, in mutual opposition, an upper die part on which a plurality of punch pins upwardly urged by a plurality of springs are axially slidably disposed at predetermined intervals, and a lower die part formed with a p... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5086633 | Opposed motion, momentum balanced-at-impact punch press A punch press is oriented horizontally with the first and second opposed tools being mounted on first and second members both of which are movable horizontally. These motion members are driven with rapid acceleration toward each other for impacting the fa... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5063803 | Tape cutting and dispensing machine A tape cutting and dispensing machine including upper and lower plastic blocks held between spaced frame members, a recess in one block containing a drive roll and a recess in the other block containing a nip roll, mechanism effectively mounted relative t... | 11/12/1991 |
| 5024127 | Punching mechanism A punching mechanism includes a permanent magnet and a pole-piece connected to one pole of the permanent magnet and spaced from the other pole by a gap. A movable coil is disposed at least partially within the gap. A punch actuator is connected to the mov... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4955272 | Device for cutting gas concrete In order to decrease shocks and vibrations to plastic gas concrete during cutting thereof with wires, the cutting wires are guided and driven separately from one another in a cutting frame.... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4799413 | Cutting arrangement for intermittent cutting of web material A cutting arrangement for the cutting to shape of a web-shaped material, such as paper webs (2) in printing presses. The arrangement consists of a cutting element (8) and a backing element (3) over which the paper web runs, in conjunction with which one e... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4730529 | Cutting and grooving device for paper and cardboard webs A cutting or grooving device for paper or cardboard webs, comprising at least two rotatably driven shafts having at least one tool carrier for a cutting or grooving tool arranged thereon, the tool carrier having at least one radially movable chuck adapted... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4603614 | Electromagnetic jigsaw The saw is of the type comprising a blade one of whose ends is firmly fixed to a plate capable of vibrating under the effect of an electro-magnet fed with AC current. In accordance with the invention, the vibrating plate (3) is provided with at least one ... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4223511 | PVC Foil cutter A severing device for use in a semiautomatic machine for facilitating the wrapping of an article with thermoplastic film material. The device is designed as an adapter to fit into a presently known machine to permit the removal of the hot wire presently u... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4222296 | Lead chopper A cutting tool for cutting soft ductile materials such as came (a lead or lead alloy extrusion used for leaded glass) without distortion. A thin steel blade is rapidly accelerated by impulse to cut the came. The blade is accelerated either by an electrica... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4195541 | Apparatus for perforating webs of photosensitive material in copying machines or the like Apparatus for making holes in a web of photosensitive material which is transported in a copying machine has an electromagnet with a reciprocable armature connected to one leg of a U-shaped carrier. The other leg of the carrier supports a material removin... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4157221 | Strip printer adjustable mask and marker In an apparatus for exposing a strip of photographic positive paper to light shining through a strip of photographic negatives for producing latent photographic images, an adjustable length mask for defining the outline of each photographic image print on... | 06/05/1979 |
| 4022090 | Electrically actuated punch press The power stroke of the within punch press results from the electrical interaction of an armature, attached in depending relation from a superposed positioned die set, and a solenoid coil located in the supporting base of the press. In assembling each com... | 05/10/1977 |
| 3963229 | Device for manipulating yarns A device for manipulating yarns, comprises a part movable between an operative and an inoperative position, which cooperates with an electric coil according to the principle of "magnetic pressure".... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3954037 | Linear motor band saw A band saw in which a continuous, electrically conductive band having cutting teeth along one edge is mounted about spaced apart support pulleys. A linear induction motor drives the band about the pulleys; the motor has a stationary induction field system... | 05/04/1976 |
