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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7208000 | Surgical cutting device The present invention provides a single-use surgical cutting device for cutting a planar piece of tissue into a predetermined shape. The cutting device comprises a housing having one or more side walls, a top, a base, and a hollow interior portion. A blade retaining... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7134374 | Safety cable cutter for cutting a cable used in servicing an oil and gas well A safety cable cutter used for cutting a cable used in servicing an oil and gas well. A centrifugal arm roller and a guide roller are mounted on top of a frame. The cable is received on the rollers as the cable is lowered down a well bore. Mounted on ends of the cen... | 11/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6969535 | Method for pitting and slicing olives with spring-loaded, adjustable slicing knife assembly A method and apparatus for pitting olives (or other fruit) and slicing the pitted fruit. In preferred embodiments, a pitting knife and a coring knife horizontally translate each olive to be pitted while the pitting knife, coring knife, and olive revolve together abo... | 11/29/2005 |
| 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 |
| 5447108 | Snap action thread and gimp trimming on a buttonhole machine The invention relates to thread trimming devices for eyelet buttonhole machines. The invention comprises a thread trimming device having a snap action spring arm knife. As the thread hook positions the thread and gimp, a cam lifts up the end of the spring... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5226336 | Apparatus for manufacturing a surgical suture An apparatus for cutting at least one end of a surgical suture is described. The apparatus comprises a first pair of feed rollers which advance the surgical suture through a hole (or opening) in a cutting assembly. The first pair of feed rollers is driven... | 07/13/1993 |
| 4716801 | Rapid cut-off apparatus for high speed moving yarn Rapid cut-off apparatus for high speed moving yarn whereupon any excessive force exerted upon the yarn causes the apparatus to be triggered into a yarn cut-off operation with the apparatus being accelerated to the speed of the moving yarn upon frictional ... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4690091 | Securing arrangement so executed as to be tripped on actuation A securing arrangement so executed as to be tripped for release on actuation for the purpose of changing the state of an attached item of equipment. It is so executed as to secure the equipment by means of a loadable link (8) in a securing position. The e... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4667862 | Cleaving apparatus and method Apparatus for cleaving an optical fibre (115) under axial tension, is provided with a cleaver blade (116) which is mounted as part of a rotatable cleaver assembly. The assembly is balanced about its axis of rotation and, as described, comprises a wheel (1... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4604855 | Wrapping apparatus for round bales in baling presses Wrapping apparatus for use with a baling machine of the type having a forming chamber in which a round bale is formed and into which a wrapping material is fed to wrap the bale, includes a housing, a feeding device mounted on the housing for feeding a wra... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4550621 | Container piercing device A container is positioned on an electrically insulated support and pierced by a spring actuated piercing device while a stream of gas flows adjacent the support.... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4493236 | Mailing machine tape knife A device for cutting roll tape, including a frame, a serrated rotary blade pivotably mounted in the frame, the rotary blade having a plurality of cutting teeth formed by grooves running perpendicular to the axis of the rotary blade and a flat surface cut ... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4420964 | Method of and apparatus for the pressworking of articles A press and press method wherein an article is shaped by displacing a tool thereagainst in a plurality of time-spaced main strokes separated by intervals in which the energy for the main strokes is stored in a force-storing element such as a rod under ten... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4343175 | Power press A power press in which low inertia motors with speed control circuitry are connected to a cam which acts upon a lever or cam follower which, in turn, cooperates with a force-storing element which has a spring action and is coupled, e.g. by the same lever,... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4309929 | Trim press having hammer drive for punch A trim press employs a hammer assembly to deliver a hammer blow to the punch of the press at the moment the punch begins to apply shearing pressure to material being trimmed. A spring system applies a steadily increasing spring loading to the hammer as th... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4250783 | Bale cutting apparatus Apparatus for cutting straps wound on a bale of material in which the bale of material is brought into contact with a cutter blade which is forcibly retracted against the action of a spring whereafter the cutter element is released under the pressure of t... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4151773 | Defect scriber This disclosure describes a device for repeatably scribing a V-shaped scratch having sharply defined dimensions on the interior surface of a nuclear reactor fuel rod tube. A cutting tool having a V-shaped cutting tip is supported within the fuel rod tube ... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4112801 | Knife assembly for photographic strip cutter A knife assembly capable of cutting photographic strip material with high accuracy at extremely high speeds includes a base, a stationary blade, a source of rotary power, a crank shaft, a spring-wrap clutch mechanism, first and second linear drive shafts,... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4060366 | Tube perforator A tube perforating device for forming outlet openings in a tube, such as a plastic tube, having discharge openings for passage of air, or the like, where it is desired to diminish the sound of the discharge to a minimum, and the method of accomplishing su... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4047300 | Method and apparatus for repairing damaged materials particularly suited to repairing knit or polyester materials Apparatus for repairing portions of damaged material such as clothing fabric is described. A piece of mending cloth identical to the damaged material is placed over the damaged area of a fabric to be repaired, aligned and further placed upon a flat cuttin... | 09/13/1977 |
| 3998118 | Roll fed copier A roll fed copier is provided with mechanism responsive to depression of a copy button to start or turn on power to the machine and thereby initiate the feed of copy paper from a supply roll and to cock a sprng-powered knife which is tripped by linkage op... | 12/21/1976 |
