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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8006878 | Splitting method and device for connecting rod A splitting devices for a connecting rod, having a fixed stage fixed on a base, a movable stage installed so as to be approachable and departable from the fixed stage, a load mechanism for applying a breaking load to a press fit direction of a wedge member, and seco... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7673778 | Tablet cutter The invention is directed to a pill cutter that has a protected cutting edge. The pill cutter includes a guard, a base, and a cover. The components are arranged such that the guard slides over the cutting edge when the pill cutter is in an open position and the guar... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7350446 | Wafer dividing apparatus A wafer dividing apparatus for dividing along dividing lines a wafer whose strength is reduced, along the dividing lines, comprising a tape holding means for holding a protective tape affixed to one surface side of the wafer; and a wafer dividing means comprising a ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341551 | Flush mounted presser assembly A presser assembly is provided for a die cutting machine. The presser assembly includes a support member and a channel extending along an axis. The channel has an opening directed towards the support member and is movable between a first retracted position wherein t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7279403 | Plate-like workpiece dividing apparatus Disclosed herein is a dividing apparatus for dividing a plate-like workpiece, which is put on the top surface of a protective tape affixed to an annular frame and which has reduced strength along dividing lines. The apparatus includes a frame holder for holding the ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7243826 | Pill box and splitter with blade guard A pill box having a base, a lid with a blade, and a blade guard. The base has a bottom side to which the blade guard is coupled. The base also has a top side with a pill storage compartment, a pill cutting surface, and a pill grip coupled to the pill cutting surface... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7185797 | Rail assembly for blanking tool insert A rail assembly is provided for supporting a blanking tool insert on an outer frame for a lower blanking tool of a die cutting machine. The rail assembly includes an elongated insert receiving structure for receiving a portion of the blanking tool insert. A plate me... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7182235 | Frame assembly for carton die cutting machine A jogger is provided for aligning carton blanks die cut from a sheet supported on inner grid mounted to an outer frame for a lower blanking tool of a carton die cutting machine. The jogger includes a plate member defining inner and outer faces. The plate member havi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7143916 | Connection device for interconnecting a grid element to lower frame assembly of a blanking tool A connection device is provided for interconnecting a grid element to a support rail for a lower blanking tool of a carton die cutting machine. The connection device includes a generally flat base having first and second sides and an inner surface for engaging the g... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143915 | Process to fracture connecting rods and the like with resonance-fatigue A process to fracture connecting rods and the like, that are made of high strength materials, comprises of the following mechanisms: (a) Fatigue: fluctuation of stresses in a pre-notched connecting rod due to the use of harmonic excitation will extend t... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7128703 | Flush mounted presser assembly A flush mounted presser assembly for a die cutting machine. The presser assembly includes a support member having an upper surface which defines a substantially horizontal plane, a presser movable vertically in a plane perpendicular to the horizontal plane of the su... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7080766 | Manufacture of singulated supports comprising arrays Apparatus and methods are disclosed for cutting a sheet of material into single supports where each of the single supports has an array area to which is bound an array of chemical compounds. The sheet comprises a plurality of score lines. The apparatus comprises an ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7063246 | Brittle material rotating and aligning mechanism for use in a brittle material scribing and/or breaking apparatus A brittle material rotating and aligning mechanism including a bearing, a rotary table, and a driving mechanismU, and installed in the worktable of a brittle material scribing and breaking apparatus; carries brittle material, for example, a semiconductor wafer for s... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7063083 | Wafer dividing method and apparatus A method of dividing a wafer whose strength is reduced along a plurality of dividing lines formed on the front surface in a lattice pattern, along the dividing lines, comprising: a tape affixing step for affixing a protective tape to one surface side of the wafer; a... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7051898 | Blister pack rupturing device A device (10) for releasing a pill (101) from a blister pack (100) wherein, the device (10) includes a generally E-shaped housing member (20) having an upper tier (21) and an intermediate tier (22) provided with align... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7000815 | Universal pill splitter A pill splitter including a support body with an inclined plane having a triangular shaped recess with sidewalls incorporating a plurality of alternating linear sectors and inwardly curved sectors for centering a wide variety of shapes and sizes of pills to be split... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6997364 | Locator bracket for the lower frame assembly of a blanking tool A bracket for properly locating a lower blanking tool with respect to a pull-out frame during a blanking operation in a carton die cutting machine. The bracket is mounted on the inner side of a side rail for the lower blanking tool and includes a projecting spring m... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6966873 | Flush mounted presser assembly A flush mounted presser assembly for a die cutting machine. The presser assembly includes a support member having an upper surface which defines a substantially horizontal plane, a presser movable vertically in a plane perpendicular to the horizontal plane of the su... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6942132 | Stiffening assembly for stiffening the lower frame assembly of a blanking tool A stiffening assembly is provided for stiffening an outer frame for a lower blanking tool of a carton die cutting machine to discourage the flexing thereof. The stiffening assembly includes an elongated rod and a clamping piece defining a vertically extending inner ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6932259 | Brittle material breaking apparatus A brittle material breaking apparatus using a lifting mechanism to lift/lower a carrier wherein the lifting mechanism is controlled to lift the carrier for holding the brittle material for breaking, and then to lower the carrier from the brittle material to a distan... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6913177 | Blanking method and device into a cutting machine for plate elements Blanking device in a cutting machine for plate elements in a sheet, such as a paper, cardboard or plastic sheet, which had been previously cut into several blanks that are maintained together in the sheet by a number of nicks: a lower tool, an upper tool movable tow... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6901663 | Hand-held tool for piercing and scraping A hand-held tool for piercing and scraping includes a handle with a short wedge-shaped blade having a pointed end for concentrating tearing forces for piercing, and a large radius tapering away from the pointed end for scraping. A thumb-rest portion is located a sho... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6869001 | Device for the maintenance of semi-autogenous grinding mills used in large-scale mining A nut cold cutter devise is used in the assembly and maintenance of semi-autogenous grinding mills for large-scale mining. The device includes a front body, a back body and a hydraulic cylindrical chamber located between the front and back bodies. The front body has... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6796474 | Jogger for lower frame assembly of blanking tool A jogger is provided for aligning carton blanks die cut from a sheet supported on inner grid mounted to an outer frame for a lower blanking tool of a carton die cutting machine. The jogger includes a plate member defining inner and outer faces. The plate member havi... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6776748 | Device for breaking the nicks connecting the blanks of a pile of cardboard sheets A stack of sheets, e.g. cardboard, with each sheet having lines of cut longitudinally and/or transversely. Apparatus for breaking the nicks connecting two edges of line of cut on the stacked sheets includes a first support and transport moving longitudinally and a f... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6739488 | Tablet cutter The present invention is a tablet cutter. The tablet cutter has a blade support portion, a cutting blade and a tablet support portion. The blade support portion has a hollow rectangular box shape portion with five sides and one open end. The cutting blade is affixed... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6712254 | Stiffening rail support A stiffening rail support is provided for attaching a stiffening rail to an outer frame for a lower blanking tool of a carton die cutting machine to discourage the flexing thereof. The stiffening rail support includes a clamping piece defining a vertically extending... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6708858 | Clamp pieces for lower frame assembly of blanking tool A clamp piece is provided for interconnecting an inner grid to an outer frame of a frame assembly of a lower blanking tool of a carton die cutting machine. The clamp piece includes a plate member having inner and outer faces and a cavity formed therein for receiving... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6644528 | Family of pill splitters and method of manufacture A family of pill splitters is formed from a standard, substantially cylindrical lower body which contains a distinct bed for each one of a number of different complex pill shapes, and an upper body, integrally affixed to the lower body, which contains a p... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6609644 | Method of dispensing perforated tickets A lottery ticket dispensing machine includes a ticket dispensing mechanism for advancing a continuous strip of lottery tickets therethrough and subsequent separation of the selected number of tickets from the continuous strip. The machine includes a frami... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6578747 | Tool for angled cleaving of optical fibers or the like An improved device or tool is provided for cleaving angled ends on to at least one optical fiber (1) (FIG. 1) in which spring means (6) and co-operating pivotally mounted clamping blocks (7a, 7b) are employed to clamp and tension the optical fiber (1) wit... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6557740 | Device for removing a pill from its package A device for removing a pill from its package including a lower base portion having a generally rectangular configuration. The lower base portion has a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall, and opposed side walls. The front wall has an upper... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6467382 | Extractor for extracting cut partially cut parts from a sheet of material An extraction apparatus for extracting or separating cut or partially cut pieces or parts from a cut sheet at an extraction station comprises: a sheet gripping and moving device for gripping and moving a cut or partially cut sheet through an extraction st... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6434974 | Device for dividing laminated glass A device for dividing laminated glass (3) has two supports for laminated glass (3) which has been scratched (13, 14) on both sides and in a gap (4) between them two beams (5) which are made as suction beams. The beams (5) can be swivelled using drives (8)... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6418922 | Method and tools for cutting semiconductor products A method of cutting a wafer of a semiconductor material, including breaking the wafer along cutting paths using a knife hitting a sheet supporting the wafer in a frame. The method includes using knives of different lengths according to the wafer region in... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6402004 | Cutting method for plate glass mother material The present invention is directed to a method of cutting glass mother material involving preparing the plate glass mother material in which a plurality of grooves are scribed, disposing the plate glass mother material with the grooves turned inward; and p... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6341771 | Method of stacking strips of flexible material A method of converting at least one strip of flexible material 12 into at least one stack of folded members 46. The method includes the step of conveying a number of festoons 20 formed from a strip of flexible material 12. The method is characterized by t... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6321964 | Continuous paper cutting unit A continuous paper cutting unit including a press mechanism for pressing and holding both sides of the perforations of continuous paper by a press means link mechanism, and a cutting mechanism like a blunt instrument using a cutting means link mechanism. ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6308877 | Device for forming triangular glass knives A device for forming two triangular glass knives from a glass square, such as for ultramicrotomy, has a rotary table and a holding device for receiving, aligning, and fixing the glass square to be broken positioned on the rotary table. The holding device ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6279805 | Continuous paper cutting unit A continuous paper cutting unit including a press mechanism for pressing and holding both sides of the perforations of continuous paper by a press means link mechanism, and a cutting mechanism like a blunt instrument using a cutting means link mechanism. ... | 08/28/2001 |
