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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7412992 | Wire strapper for waste material baler A wire strapping or tying device (46) is provided having a rotatable pinion-type knotter assembly (56) for twist-knotting of a pair of adjacent wire sections (50a, 50b), together with a shiftable knotter cover (266) m... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7104287 | Wire-untwisting tool Wire-untwisting tools and tool bits are disclosed. The wire-untwisting tool comprises a tool body, a movable member, and a spring. The tool body has a first channel extending inwardly from a first surface and a second channel extending inwardly from a second surface... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6283017 | Apparatus for tying and binding bales of compressed materials A mechanism for tying a bale of compressible material comprises a housing, a gear rotatably mounted with respect to the housing, and a drive mechanism operable for rotating the gear. A twister pinion is rotatably mounted with respect to the housing and is... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6041833 | Wire clamping and twisting device for use with cordless electric screwdriver A wire clamping and twisting device includes a base member with a radial projection,; an inner member rotatably held in the base member and having a hexagonal shaft engageable by a cordless electric screwdriver to rotate the shaft in the base member, an i... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5983494 | Method of switching over telecommunications cables without interruption, and switchover plug for use in the method A changeover plug-in device (50; 60) for a wire connecting strip device (34; 68) for the uninterrupted changeover of wires (26) of a telecommunications cable (24), the wire connecting strip device (34) preferably having a wire connecting strip (36), a bas... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5921289 | Method and apparatus for tying and binding bales of compressed materials A mechanism for securing together the overlapped ends of an elongated binding device wrapped around a bale of compressible material for binding the bale comprises a housing and a twister pinion rotatably coupled to the housing and configured to receive ov... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5778945 | Automatic wire twister A method and apparatus for automatically twisting two ends of a wire protruding from a stack of rotor lamination parts employs a holder for holding and positioning the parts stack. A rotatable collar is provided having an aperture through which the two en... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5494081 | Wire twister pinion and assembly There is disclosed a wire twister pinion having a slotted body with a central gear portion presenting radially extending teeth defined an imaginary circle of predetermined diameter. The body also includes opposite end journal portions having a diameter at... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5477893 | Knot-tying mechanism Disclosed herein is a coil spring knotting machine comprising a frame, a support arm mounted on the frame for movement between a knot-tying position and a retracted position, a camshaft rotatably mounted on the frame about an axis fixed relative to the fr... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5467804 | Wire twister-cutter assembly There is disclosed an assembly mountable as a unit in a wire-tieing machine, including a bearing block in which a twister pinion is rotatably disposed. Wire restraining yoke members and cooperating cutter members are mounted to opposite ends of the bearin... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5433255 | Wire knotter head yoke cover with replacement inserts A yoke cover assembly for attachment to a wire tieing machine includes a body member which has recesses therein and wire engaging inserts removably attached thereto. The inserts are secured to the body member by roll pins. The inserts are seated in the re... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5305804 | Apparatus for connecting two mutually crossing cable portions Apparatus for connecting two mutually crossing cable portions (2, 3) at respective intersections (17) of a netting formed from one or more cables, with two wires to be wound around the cable portions at the intersections, comprises two hollow wheels (4, 5... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5280812 | Wirewrapping method and machine A support wire is placed through the hole of a device such as a ceiling clip for suspending an acoustical ceiling, and the wire is bent to provide a layover loop to which the device is slidingly attached, the tail of the layover loop being as long as a si... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5184651 | Wire winding apparatus A wire winding apparatus for connecting a plurality of fine wires and a surface-insulated solid wire such as an enamel coated wire. Clamp members clamp an end of the solid wire. Then a winding mechanism pinches an end of the plurality of fine wires with a... | 02/09/1993 |
| 4705080 | Bundle tying machine A bundle typing device is provided with a pair of jaws which are mounted so that the jaw ends move toward and away from each other and are adapted to receive tie stock thereacross. The jaw ends with the tie stock are drawn over a bundle, the tie stock emb... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4512828 | Cable holding and positioning apparatus and splicing method An apparatus for holding and positioning a cable is used to help splice large diameter multi-conductor cable end portions to each other. The apparatus includes a support frame having a first clamping mechanism for clamping a first cable end portion movabl... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4356846 | Apparatus for stranding multi-layer cable An apparatus for stranding an outer layer of wires on an inner layer cable core is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a tubular stranding machine comprising a rotating tube within which are stationary mounted on the same axis a series of cradles each supp... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4270804 | Puff duster and mop-making machine A machine for making mops, such as dish mops and puff dusters. The machine is fed with a U-shape wire, between the legs of which extends a bundle of flexible mop strands. The machine twists the wire legs which lock the strands against the bight of the U-s... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4223705 | Wire knotting machine A machine operable to twist the end portion of a cross wire around a longitudinal wire disposed at right angles to the cross wire, and then to twist the cross wire end portion about the standing portion of the cross wire, to form a "knot". The machine con... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4207928 | Process for manufacturing twisted wire articles with variable direction of twist and a machine for accomplishing same This process provides for twisting continuously supplied wires in one of preset directions with an essentially uniform pitch of twist ensuring the maximum number of lays in the zone of preliminary twisting, while simultaneously twisting the wires in the o... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4177842 | Tying machine In a wire twisting machine in which the ends of the tie wire are clamped while these ends are being twisted together to complete the tying of the product, there is proposed improved clamps which, unlike prior art clamps that have clamping strokes of a pre... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4167202 | Wire twisting apparatus An apparatus for twisting two or more electrical conductors into a single cable, each of the conductors having a portion of their insulation stripped at each end. Wires of a desired length are cut and stripped and fed through a twist die having a belled e... | 09/11/1979 |
| 4160469 | Twisting device for a machine for binding packages with wire A twisting device for a machine for binding packages with wire, of the type comprising a twisting head in the form of nippers with means for rotating them and causing their opening and closing about the ends of the binding wire. This device comprises furt... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4132250 | Wire twisting system A system is disclosed for use in twisting together two or more wires precisely to a predetermined number of turns. The apparatus includes a pair of spaced chucks adapted to grip opposite ends of the wires which are placed therebetween for twisting. A manu... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4114527 | Bale tying device and knot produced thereby A bale tying device whereby a wire is secured by knots around a bale of material, the device comprising means for receiving the distal portions of the wire in spaced, parallel relationship with the wire ends extending past each other in the opposite direc... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4084624 | Method of fabricating a pot hanger An improved wire pot hanger and method of manufacturing the same, which hanger comprises a large-diameter wire-supporting element having a hook-like shape at the one end and a shank portion extending therefrom at the other end, a plurality of smaller-diam... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4077440 | Reinforcement elements for elongate concrete building blocks manufactured by sliding form casting and a method and a machine to produce such elements A reinforcement element intended for essentially U-shaped elongate building blocks manufactured by using the sliding form casting technique. The reinforcment element consists of a plurality of first pretensioned equidistantly spaced steel wires deposited ... | 03/07/1978 |
| 3985162 | Knotting gear A rotary knotting head for a wire tying machine containing an axial bore and radial slot to the bore for receiving the wire and a wire wrap surface spaced from the bore at the opposite side of the radial slot characterized in that wear resistant inserts a... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3957092 | Apparatus for forming twisted pairs of conductor wire Apparatus for forming twisted pairs of electrical conductor wire cut to predetermined lengths and having one wire end of a pair longitudinally offset from the adjacent end of the other wire of the pair. The apparatus includes plural wire preparation units... | 05/18/1976 |