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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7392681 | Wire rod cutting apparatus of spring manufacturing machine To easily adjust and change a locus of a leading end (an endless locus) of a cutter, a wire rod cutting apparatus of spring manufacturing machine has structure so that a slide may vertically slide via a connection rod by rotating a rotation shaft, and a cutter mount... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7258051 | Arrangement for cutting an optical fibre An arrangement for cutting an optical fibre comprises a fibre cutter for cutting the fibre. A motor is provided to operate the cutter. To start a cutting movement, the motor is controlled by a control unit in response to a start signal. The start signal is generated... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257897 | Trimmer for cutting a coiled strand A cutting device for trimming a coiled strand, such as an arterial, urinary or other intraluminal stent made from metal or plastic wire, has a pair of articulating arms connected at a pivot joint. One of the arms has a holding jaw for holding the coiled strand. A se... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7055356 | Wire rod cutting apparatus of spring manufacturing machine To easily adjust and change a locus of a leading end (an endless locus) of a cutter, a wire rod cutting apparatus of spring manufacturing machine has structure so that a slide may vertically slide via a connection rod by rotating a rotation shaft, and a cutter mount... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6769336 | Clutchless wire cutting apparatus A clutchless wire cutting apparatus for successively cutting off leading end portions of a predetermined length of wire from a wire stock. The wire is advanced through a cutting station which includes the cutting apparatus. The cutting apparatus includes an electric... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6708591 | Clutchless wire cutting apparatus A clutchless wire cutting apparatus for successively cutting off leading end portions of a predetermined length of wire from a wire stock. The wire is advanced through a cutting station which includes the cutting apparatus. The cutting apparatus includes an electric... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6578784 | Twine cutting assembly for bale processor Disclosed is a twine cutting assembly for a rotary drum type bale processor. The twine cutting assembly comprises a twine cutter and a locking mechanism. The twine cutter, comprising a rod and a cutting member, is adapted to extend through a hole in the s... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6508152 | Clutchless wire cutting apparatus A clutchless wire cutting apparatus for successively cutting off leading end portions of a predetermined length of wire from a wire stock. The wire is advanced through a cutting station which includes the cutting apparatus. The cutting apparatus includes ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6383567 | Multiple cut to core tape roll A roll of web and a method of making it has a total web width that is divided into n+1 portions by n circumferential slits. Each portion has a width less than the total web width such that the sum of the width of the portions equals the total web width an... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6345561 | Wire measuring and cutting apparatus and method of measuring length of wire A wire measuring and cutting apparatus 1 is provided with an U-turn guide section 6 which serves to guide a wire W being fed into a guide passage 5b for bending the wire W in a substantially U-shaped manner. In the section 6, a movable guide part 5 is con... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6227091 | Outer-turn trimmer for wire coils on hook conveyor A hook conveyor moves a succession of coils having outer turns through a trimming station in a transport direction with each coil lying at the station in a plane generally parallel to the direction. A trimming apparatus has a pair of supports flanking the... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6196100 | Device for cutting wire windings A device and a method for cutting a continuously travelling wire which emerges in the form of windings from a winding layer, wherein a cutting device arranged immediately following the winding layer. The cutting device includes a catching device for the t... | 03/06/2001 |
| 5865589 | Bale feeder The present invention provides a bale feeder for breaking down large cylindrical bales of hay and like animal feeds and spreading it in rows for feeding. The bale feeder comprises a feeder body, a bale lifting means for lifting and positioning a bale with... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5826472 | Method and apparatus for processing a wire A wire processing apparatus is provided with a prefeeder 120, a feeding unit 12 and an accumulator 110 therebetween. A detector is provided to determine if there is a cause for stopping the prefeeder 120. In response to such a detected cause, a controller... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5819614 | Method for dispensing reinforcement fibers A method for dispensing reinforcement fibers to make a preform or laminate includes winding a continuous length of a reinforcement fiber into coils around a form having a longitudinal axis, moving the coils axially with respect to the form to engage a cut... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5727435 | Severance control for sinuous wire forming machine Apparatus for cutting, from a continuously extending sinuously formed wire, a variably selected predetermined length thereof having a plurality of sinuously formed generally identical coils, which apparatus comprises a frame, a mechanism on said frame for... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5676008 | Apparatus and method of forming needle blanks from wire stock There is disclosed an apparatus and method for forming curved and pointed needle blanks from a coiled length of wire needle stock material. The apparatus includes an inner mandrel having a circumferential wire receiving groove and at least one longitudina... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5463919 | Apparatus for cutting wound coils A wound coil which is rotating about its axis is cut and severed against a stationary member by moving a rotatable cutting blade incorporating a circular cutting edge towards the rotating coil and the stationary member such that the cutting blade rotates ... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5042337 | Cable shear A shearing device for wire rope or cables. The device incorporates a shear block system having a first cylindrical block adapted for mainly engaging an eccentric recess formed in a housing. Both the housing and the block are constructed with apertures the... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4995251 | System for trimming leading and trailing ends from a wire coil The instant invention is an improvement on a method of making wire coils comprising the steps of rolling a length of wire having a leading end and a trailing end and displacing the wire in a longitudinal travel direction and coiling the wire into succeedi... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4498505 | Apparatus for separating a coil from following coils of coiled wire rod Apparatus for separating coils of coiled wire rod from following coils travelling along a moving conveyor includes a coil engaging device mounted above the conveyor. The coil engaging device is advanced in the same direction as the conveyor from a first p... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4449435 | Apparatus for bunching and severing wire coils A wire coil bunching and severing apparatus has an intermediately located pair of bottom halves which project into the bunching shaft. The side wall of the shaft, near the bottom halves, is provided with two sets of shears. The bottom halves are formed wi... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4350311 | Wire coiling machine In a wire coiling machine, wherein wire is continuously formed into coils, comprising a wire bundling assembly mounted on a frame and including a coil forming capstan and an accumulator drum axially mounted under the capstan and surrounded by a rotatable ... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4313356 | Method of removing front and rear segments of wire rod A method of removing the front and rear segments of a rolled wire fed in winding packages subdivided into good stock and into scrap windings separated by cutting movements corresponding substantially to the transporting movement of the winding packages. T... | 02/02/1982 |
| 4302994 | Method of and apparatus for removing front and rear segments of rolled wire A method of and apparatus for removing front and rear segments of rolled wire or wire rod which, in the form of winding packages, is supplied to the apparatus (connected before a collecting device) and is subdivided by separating procedures into good wind... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4285084 | Method and apparatus for making lock washers A method and apparatus for making split lock washers consists of an automated machine wherein the diameter and gap of a lock washer can be accurately controlled. The apparatus includes a drive mechanism for driving the cutter and a transmission unit drive... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4185668 | Method and means for inserting, cutting and binding spiral wire binders A method and apparatus for inserting and forming spiral wire binders in a manner which insures uniform cutting and crimping of the coil ends and alignment of the inbent crimps. The method comprises the steps of feeding the spiral wire into the book its fu... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4165766 | Device for subdividing spirals into binders of note books or the like A device for severing a spiral whose convolutions are threaded through the perforations in aligned marginal portions of two immediately adjacent note books has shears whose halves are provided with cutting edges and deforming shoulders. A system of cams i... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4129156 | Method and construction for spiral wire binding of pads A machine for feeding and simultaneously binding pairs of relatively small spiral wire bound pads. Groups of sheets of twice the final desired size are fed serially to a station where they are split and separated. Pairs of the split pads are then fed thro... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4090425 | Wire coiling machine fluid cutoff Wire coil cutoff apparatus for a wire coiling machine that forms an axially advancing, rotational, helical wire coil, the advancing coil being momentarily biased into indexing engagement with the cutter blade by pneumatic pressure, and the indexed blade t... | 05/23/1978 |
| 4064916 | Arrangement for intermittent feeding of cable coils arresting on a distribution conveyor An arrangement for intermittent feeding of cable coils cut by means of a cutting arrangement, with the aid of ring laying apparatus onto a rotary conveyor wherein there are several separately driven conveyor bands each of which is fed at a different perio... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4011780 | Apparatus for trimming and/or subdividing mill product at a coil forming station An apparatus is disclosed for trimming and or subdividing rod or other similar mill products at a coil forming station. The rod, which may have previously been formed into overlapping rings on a conveyor, is carried to the upper end of an upstanding cylin... | 03/15/1977 |
| 3972109 | Cutting fixture for spiral binders and method of manufacture A fixture for cutting and inwardly bending the ends of spiral binders. The fixture comprises a body having parallel sides formed by a milled slot, the lower end of one side having an arcuate inward extension. A cutter pivotally mounted between the body si... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3972214 | Machine for manufacturing wire coils In a machine for manufacturing wire coils, wire is fed by a feeder and is shaped in a winding station to form a continuous helix the convolutions of which may adjoin each other or may be spaced predetermined distances apart. This continuous helix is cut b... | 08/03/1976 |
