"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186268 | Roller press for embellishing sheet media A new and improved roller press for embellishing media includes a pair of spaced apart roller press members supported for rotation by bearing blocks. A handle having a ratchet mechanism is connected to a first roller for turning the roller during pressing. A gear se... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8037815 | Marking device support on pivotable cradle carried by trolley The invention concerns a marking device comprising a support frame, marking means including a marking member and means for moving the marking member parallel to two mutually perpendicular movement planes and to the surface to be marked to produce, on the surface to ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7913618 | Punch press tool for stamping successive multicharacter impressions into a workpiece A punch press tool for stamping successive multicharacter impressions into a workpiece such as a piece of steel, sheet metal, or other workpiece, includes a guide body in which a stamp driver is slidably mounted for being driven downwardly toward the workpiece by a ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7546800 | Roller press for embellishing sheet media A new and improved roller press for embellishing media includes a pair of spaced apart roller press members having convex shaped radially outer press surfaces. A handle having a ratchet mechanism is connected to a first roller for turning the roller during pressing.... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7516696 | Mezzotint rocker machine The rocker machine of the invention can be worked to produce uniformly engraved plates of any size and suitable for mezzotint engraving. The rocker machine includes a table, a rocker assembly and a guide assembly. The table can be rotatable or fixed, and is inclined... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7500431 | System, method, and apparatus for membrane, pad, and stamper architecture for uniform base layer and nanoimprinting pressure A nanoimprinting system incorporates a patterned media contact architecture to provide a uniform imprinting pressure across the target imprinting area on a disk substrate. The system leverages the unique disk substrate characteristic of an inner diameter hole by inc... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7421947 | Roll-forming apparatus with sensor driven gates Roll-forming apparatus is provided together with a conveyor system utilized to transport raw dough rolls. A stop gate is movably positioned in the path of the rolls and, when placed in an interfering position, temporarily stops the rolls while the rolls maintain sli... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7401550 | Laser-assisted replication method The invention concerns an apparatus and a process for producing a marking on a substrate. Substrates marked in that way are applied to documents such as for example credit cards, personal identity cards or banknotes as security features to provide protection from fo... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401549 | Arrangement for transferring information/structures to wafers An arrangement for transferring information/structures to wafers uses a stamp on which the information/structures to be transferred have been applied as elevated structures. The wafer is fixed on a chuck and is provided with a plastically deformable auxiliary patter... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7383768 | Rapid prototyping and filling commercial pipeline Methods and apparatus provide a means to rapidly develop and modify prototype surface coverings for customer review and approval, and fill the commercial pipeline while more conventional production equipment is obtained, installed and tested. The present apparatus t... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7377215 | Structure of pattern pressing roller A structure of pattern pressing roller comprises a shaft and a plurality of pattern pressing loops suitable for slipping onto the shaft, wherein each loop consists carved pattern on its surface. The pattern pressing loops are slipped onto the shaft, and they are ali... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7367210 | Punch press and deburring device for the punch press The present invention provides a deburring device for a punch press which can remove burrs produced along a slot or a cut portion formed in a plate material by punching or cutting using a punch press so that the removal is carried out as a process with the same punc... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357075 | Laser-supported reproduction method The invention concerns an apparatus and a process for producing a marking on a substrate. Substrates marked in that way are applied to documents such as for example credit cards, personal identity cards or banknotes as security features for affording protection from... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357077 | Data carrier, method for the production thereof and gravure printing plate The invention relates to a data carrier having a security element that is at least visually testable and has an embossing in at least a partial area, the embossing being a halftone blind embossing executed by inkless intaglio printing, and to a method for producing ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7335612 | Mesh cotton with separating net and method for its manufacturing Disclosed are a mesh cotton with a separating net on a surface thereof and a method of manufacturing the same. The mesh cotton (10) is manufactured by layering a plurality of cotton sheets (13) and adhering the layered cotton sheets to each other with ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331283 | Method and apparatus for imprint pattern replication Provided is a method and system for imprinting a pattern formed on a surface of an imprint mask into a substrate. A method includes deforming at least one of the surface of the imprint mask and a surface of the substrate to produce a deformed surface having an arc t... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7299748 | Locking embosser stamp A locking mechanism for an embosser stamp in which the embosser stamp has an operating lever for controlling movement of the seal or embossing plates. Holes are disposed in the sides of the embosser stamp and through the operating lever. When the holes in the operat... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296513 | Texture tool A texture tool comprising a body to which is coupled an upper cap and a lower cap. A ball holder fits in a socket defined by the body and the lower cap. The ball holder includes a plurality of balls which come into contact with a sheet of material to be embossed or ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7284478 | Mold assembly for embossing thin products A mold assembly for embossing thin products includes a first carrier with a female mold connected to an inside thereof and a second carrier with a male mold connected to an inside thereof. The female mold faces the male mold, and the thin product is sandwiched betwe... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7273006 | Method for embossing container walls A method and apparatus for embossing the sidewalls of heavy gauge sheet metal containers involves clamping over a top edge of an opening into the container using a press carrying complementary embossing dies. The clamping apparatus can be a portable punch press havi... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7252855 | Method and apparatus for making an adhesive cleaning sheet A method of selectively applying pressure-sensitive adhesive to a nonwoven web and thereby forming a cleaning sheet having adhesive free peaks and adhesive containing valleys includes coating an adhesive transfer roll with adhesive, transferring a portion of the adh... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7225731 | Sheet punching and embossing machine A sheet punching and embossing machine includes a device for stripping waste from a punched and embossed sheet at a stripping station, the device having a stripping plate for supporting the sheet. Also included are gripper carriages fixed to revolving chains, for gr... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219432 | Stamping and die-cutting tool with a quick mould change design A stamping and die-cutting tool with quick mould change design comprises: a casing and a pushing member. The pushing member has a pushing portion to be fixed at an extended position and a retracted position alternatively after being pressed repeatedly. The pushing m... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7212424 | Double-high DIMM with dual registers and related methods One memory module includes a printed circuit board comprising an upper row of memory integrated circuits, a lower row of memory integrated circuits, and a first addressing register and a second addressing register, the first addressing register and a second addressi... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7204181 | Reversible floating punch retainer for punch change retainer tool A punch change retainer for positioning a floating punch in a retracted, disengage position and an extended, engage position. The change retainer includes a change retainer body and a punch retainer receiving aperture extending upwardly through the change retainer b... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7201101 | Punch capable of punching an object at four directions A punch includes a jig having four punching regions, each punching region having a pattern hole and a concave embossment; guide columns extended upward from a border of the punching regions on the jig; a base for fixing the jig; a punching member punching and emboss... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197980 | Engraving sheet and method of engraving the same An engraving sheet includes a support layer fabricated of biaxially oriented high-density polypropylene, and an engraving layer formed on the support layer and having an opacity of 40%. The engraving sheet is engraved from the engraving layer down to the support lay... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191529 | Apparatus and method for controlling a programmable marking scribe A programmable marking scribe having a material displacement stylus movable in three mutually orthogonal axes to displace material from an object being marked and create a two-dimensional matrix of recessed areas formed of grooves and surrounded by ridges, the groov... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7178456 | Roll-forming apparatus Roll-forming apparatus is provided together with a conveyor system utilized to transport raw dough rolls. A stop gate is movably positioned in the path of the rolls and, when placed in an interfering position, temporarily stops the rolls while the rolls maintain sli... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7178457 | Foil look printing technique A process of manufacturing envelopes and a product manufactured in accordance with such process is disclosed. The process requires printing of an ink design on an envelope, coating of the ink design with a varnish and subsequently embossing the combined ink and varn... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7168364 | Method and apparatus for marking workpieces A method and an apparatus are provided for marking a sheet-shaped workpiece using a marking tool. The marking tool is mounted in a punch holder of a punch press and a counter-support is fixed in place on a side opposite of a marking surface of the workpiece to be ma... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7127988 | Screen printing repetition systems and methods A screen printing manual repetition system semi-automates use of a screen with a manual printing press. The screen has a screen frame and a screen mesh. The manual repetition system (MRS) has an MRS frame mountable to the screen frame, a track system, and a height a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127987 | Two-piece die for simultaneously cutting and embossing A two-piece die for simultaneously embossing a pattern into a web of material and cutting out that pattern from the web includes a flexible die member having male embossing patterns surrounded by a male die cutting edge. A base die member has female patterns into wh... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121196 | Device and method for applying patterns and/or labels to a substantially flat surface of an article A device creating patterns on greeting cards and the like has at least one stencil for applying a pattern onto a flat surface. A stencil holder that has securing elements for securing the at least one stencil in a predetermined position relative to the stencil holde... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7118135 | Embossed paper A sheet of embossed paper including a sheet-like body portion, at least one embossed or depressed line located on the body portion, and at least one printed line located on and extending at least partially along the embossed or depressed line. The invention may also... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7104192 | Hinged cover for a cutting and embossing die set A hinged cover for a cutting and embossing die set by which a sheet material can be simultaneously cut and embossed. The cutting and embossing die set includes a die and a counter-die. A hinged cover includes first and second adjacent backing members that are hinged... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7080744 | Vented cooler door shelf device A shelf device for mounting on an inside surface of a cooler door comprises a bottom panel and left and right mounting flanges connected to the bottom panel along left and right side edge portions thereof. Each flange has a pair of openings therein vertically spaced... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7059243 | Positive piece engagement indicator for marking tool A positive piece engagement indicator for marking tool is provided in which a metal workpiece is contacted with a workpiece contact probe for providing physical contact with, as well as electrical communication with the metal surface of a workpiece. A test voltage a... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055426 | Positive piece engagement indicator for marking tool A positive piece engagement indicator for marking tool is provided in which a metal workpiece is contacted with a workpiece contact probe for providing physical contact with, as well as electrical communication with the metal surface of a workpiece. A test voltage a... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7031027 | Method and apparatus for setting the idle distance of an engraving stylus from the cylinder surface of a rotogravure printing cylinder An idle distance of an engraving stylus for engraving a rotogravure printing cylinder is set from the cylinder surface of the rotogravure printing cylinder by use of a sliding element that is provided for the guidance of the engraving stylus connected to the sliding... | 04/18/2006 |