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A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337936 | Continuous paper transporting mechanism and printing apparatus having the same A printing apparatus having a mechanism for transporting continuous paper includes: a frictionally transporting section for frictionally transporting the continuous paper; a paper braking section provided on an upstream side of the frictionally transporting section;... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7257976 | Spiral cooling of steel workpiece in a rolling process A hollow cooling box for a steel mill to be used to cool a hot steel work piece as it passes through the cooling box; the box having an interior plenum formed by the members forming the cooling box. The plenum is supplied with coolant under pressure, and the coolant... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7158207 | Film projector with high efficiency illumination A motion picture film projector including a lamp house section having a lamp bulb and a reflector; a head section located in front of the lamp house section; and an optical member located proximate a junction between the lamp house section and the head section. The ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6966474 | Web accumulator having limited torque disturbance A control arrangement decoupled two driven inputs for driven belt web accumulators using gear trains, gear trains with torque feed-forward control or gear trains with toque feed-forward control and velocity feedback control. ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6834823 | Supply device for supplying rubber material to a cutting device Supply device for supplying rubber material (11) to a cutting device (3). In the direction away from the cutting device the supply device contains a supplying table (3) having a supplying mechanism (4), an unwinding trestle (7) con... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6616026 | Device for applying spatially limited elements, in particular, flexible elements In a device for applying spatially limited, flexible elements (26) to a continuous web (14), in particular for applying holograms, the speed of the continuous web (14) is reduced In the application zone and the flexible element is applied at this time.... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6557741 | Storage carriage and method of storing a longitudinal component in the storage carriage A storage carriage for longitudinal components. The storage carriage has a pair of continuous belts. The belts are arranged to form a nested zigzag pattern. As the component is feed through the nested zigzag pattern, substantially the entire length of the... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6516987 | Horizontal strip accumulator A horizontal strip accumulator for metal strip includes a looper car which is moveable along a travel path at at least one swivel gate which is moveable, when the looper car is moved, by the looper car between a starting position and an end position. For ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6378750 | Method and apparatus for applying stripes to a moving web An apparatus for applying stripes on a carrier to a moving web includes a first drive to advance the carrier continuously from an unwind reel to a take-up reel at a generally constant speed. A nip is intermediate the unwind reel and the take-up reel throu... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6349867 | Apparatus for transporting continuous elongate material webs An apparatus for transporting continuous elongate material webs is provided including structure for transporting a material web at a constant speed along a transport path and at least two material web guides arranged along the transport path, at least one... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6095391 | Method and apparatus for loop stabilization with forced air A method and apparatus is presented for stabilizing a free loop of web material between two web handling devices. The present invention employs fans or other forced air sources, directed toward the inner surface of the free loop, to maintain a stable free... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5707024 | Method and an apparatus for the parallel displacement of a material web A method and an apparatus for the parallel displacement of a material web (1) are disclosed, in that the material web (1) is, between two driven bending rollers (6,8), caused to form a freely depending bight or loop (11) whose lower end is read-off by a s... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5595335 | Infeed station for converting a continuously moving web-like sheet into an intermittently fed web-like sheet for a subsequent processing station An infeed station comprises an eccentric roller fitted between two rotary plate around which a web-like sheet travels so as to have the sheet's speed transform from a constant inlet speed into a varying outlet speed according to the preconditions of the t... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5447296 | Cloth spreading system A spreading system for spreading cloth in flat, aligned and vertically arranged layers on a spreading table comprising a reciprocally driven spreading machine arranged on a spreading table, and a stationary supply of cloth arranged near one end of the spr... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5407513 | Apparatus and process for cyclically accelerating and decelerating a strip of material The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for cyclically accelerating the leading end of a slower moving first material web to match the faster speed of a continuous second material web. The apparatus is comprised of a set of upstream meterin... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5371521 | Packaging machine with thermal imprinter and method A thermal transfer printing apparatus for printing an elongate continuous web of items. The apparatus comprises a frame structure having an imprinter mounted thereon. A plurality of idlers supports the web of items and defines a path of travel for the web... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5301865 | Strip storage unit for a continuous operation of rolling mill trains A strip storage unit for a continuous operation of rolling mill trains, particularly a loop-forming strip storage unit for sheet metal strips in strip treatment plants. The strip storage unit includes a loop carriage having at least one deflection roller ... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5251988 | In-line printer for packaging process The thermal transfer printer is an on-line printer to print on a web in packaging apparatus adapted to print either when the web is in motion or during a stop cycle. The printer is configured to interface with a computer having a RS 232C serial port to pe... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5230147 | Electrical hardness termination apparatus and method Right connector pieces (R) are terminated to the right ends of the cores of said insulated wires and left connector pieces (L) are terminated to the left ends of the core conductors of the insulated wires or the left ends of the insulated wires may remain... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5223854 | Apparatus for and method of recording an image with means for feeding a material A travel roller moves between the initial and the end points in a loosening unit while supporting a photosensitive material to thereby form a loop thereof. A first sensor, for detecting that the travel roller locates on the end point, is provided in the l... | 06/29/1993 |
| 4903100 | Long strip material handling apparatus An apparatus handles and transports long strip materials between a first processing section, with a first transporting roller assembly which transports a long strip material lengthwise at a first speed therein, and a second processing section with a secon... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4886199 | Strip drive for advancing materials for processing A strip treatment apparatus, for example for metal strips includes a strip drive and a strip store disposed both at the apparatus entry and apparatus exit with a processing section being disposed between the two stores and a strip drive being disposed aft... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4842178 | Band storage system for moving bands A band store includes a plurality of horizontally movable loop carts, of which one loop cart drive is traction controlled and the other loop cart drives are speed controlled, and this control is effected as a function of the speed of the traction controll... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4811879 | Apparatus for moving a carriage or the like An apparatus is disclosed which serves to move a carriage in one direction over a predetermined distance at a substantially uniform velocity and to return the carriage at a varying velocity so that a film web delivered at a constant velocity is intermitte... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4798353 | Web slitting system and slack inducing apparatus and method useful therein Apparatus for inducing a controlled quantity of slack in a web traveling along a travel path from a web supply roll to a web slitter comprises first and second supports movable relative to one another. First and second sets of rollers are secured to the f... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4778093 | Film transport assembly An improved film transport assembly is provided for intermittently advancing film, without pulldown claws or similar mechanisms for engaging film perforations to obtain intermittent transport, with extended dwell period past the film gate of a camera or p... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4777513 | Web transport system A web transport and metering system provides the continuous delivery of a web to a developer while providing intermittent delivery of the web to an exposure station. An exposure station is defined between a pair of spaced-apart rolls, and a supply of web ... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4662554 | Apparatus for processing photosensitive material A clip 12 is engaged with the leading end portion of a photosensitive material 10 of continuous length which has been printed with images. The clip is propelled by a driving force to convey the photosensitive material. In a clip removing device 56, rotati... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4609336 | Apparatus and method for extrusion A rotatable accumulator roll which may move substantially horizontally or vertically is disposed between the die of an extruder and a take-away conveyor to minimize the effects of output surging of the extrudate from the die of the extruder in order to ma... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4573620 | Apparatus for absorbing a force applied to a cable or the like Apparatus for controlling the jerk or shock loading of the wire rope used to apply tension to move a galvanizing or pickle line's horizontal looper car. The apparatus includes a vertical spindle affixed to the frame of the looper car. A drum having a radi... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4561581 | Web accumulator with arcuate guide supports Double-faced corrugated board issuing continuously from a double backer is fed into an accumulator pit forming a downwardly extending loop therein. The web is withdrawn intermittently from the upper end of the pit and fed to a reciprocating cutting and cr... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4503592 | Felting machine for sliver or yarn A tension adjusting device for the oscillating guide tubes in a sliver felting machine comprises a lever mechanism with a first tension adjuster for exerting a tension simultaneously on a plurality of guide tubes. A second tension adjuster is included for... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4474321 | Control unit for driving plural loopers A novel control unit for driving plural loopers provided with a tension constant automatically adjusting circuit in which a looper speed on its slave side is controlled such that a plurality of loopers having different amounts for moving the loopers and d... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4391400 | Apparatus for storing a variable length of strip A looper device of the horizontal type for forming a loop of strip for storage and intended to be used in a strip material processing line. Rollers for separating the upper strip from the lower strip of a loop formed by a moving cart are stored on the car... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4387842 | Bulk material handler and feeder A bulk material feeder (10) has two rollers (12,14), at least the lower (14) of which is driven (24,26). Strip material (34) is threaded around the side of the upper roller (12) toward the direction of feed, between the rollers (12,14), around the side of... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4343421 | Tensionless fabric feeding apparatus An apparatus for feeding fabric in a tensionless and distortion free manner to a fabric treating device. The fabric feeding apparatus comprises a loop forming station, a feeding station and an operator-collector station. The loop forming station continuou... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4293881 | System for priority transcribing of dictation A method and system for priority transcribing of a particular unit of dictation in a dictation-transcription system in which units of dictated material may be simultaneously recorded on, and transcribed from, a single continuous recording medium. The port... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4289085 | Bobbin loading apparatus for sewing machines A device for automatically supplying thread to the bobbin of a sewing machine of the kind wherein there is a thread feed tube arranged to receive the thread from a bulk source, a predetermined length of the thread is delivered to a rapidly rotating bobbin... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4281784 | Magnetic strip separator A magnetic strip material supporting looper system including one or more traversing looper cars with looper rolls thereon, operable in a moving magnetic material strip processing line to accumulate and store, and refeed, strip material for continuous stri... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4244313 | Automatic, in situ bobbin spool loading Thread-loading apparatus for loading a bobbin spool with a predetermined length of thread between sewing operations wherein there is a reciprocal loading tube arranged to receive and draw thread from a package of thread, deliver its leading end to the bob... | 01/13/1981 |
