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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7337861 | Method and a device for preventing pipeskidding A method and device for preventing a pipe string (5) clampingly arranged in a slips (2) from slipping out of the slips (2) in the event of the pipe string (5) slipping in the slips (2), wherein a pipe clamp/tong (22) is clam... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7228913 | Tubular clamp apparatus for top drives and methods of use An apparatus for releasably clamping and holding a member for wellbore operations, the apparatus having a main body, two opposed clamping apparatuses in the main body, the two opposed clamping apparatuses spaced-apart for selective receipt therebetween of a member t... | 06/12/2007 |
| 6915868 | Elevator apparatus and method for running well bore tubing An elevator apparatus for manipulating well bore tubing includes a circular body having a top and a central cavity around a body axis. The cavity has a diameter allowing the collar portion of the tubing to pass longitudinally therethrough. A plurality of cavity rest... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6450385 | Clamping ring in particular for oil duct The invention concerns an annular clamping ring in particular for laying oil ducts including a rigid annular base (2) supporting with support apparatus a coaxial ring-shaped assembly of vertical jaws (4) mobile in the diametral planes; said apparatus incl... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6195877 | Apparatus for and method of attaching items to a hang strip An apparatus having a base for automatically opening interdigitated tab fingers formed on a hang strip. The base includes an item advancement station and an item attachment station is disposed at an edge of the base. A supply of hang strip material is pro... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6152399 | Fiber entry whip reduction apparatus and method therefor An apparatus and method for reducing or preventing fiber entry whip as the loose end of a fiber being wound on a spool enters a fiber winding device. A fiber winding device comprises a spool winder entrance, a winding spool and a fiber whip shield substan... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5964431 | Fiber entry whip reduction apparatus and method therefor An apparatus and method for reducing or preventing fiber entry whip as the loose end of a fiber being wound on a spool enters a fiber winding device. A fiber winding device includes a spool winder entrance, a winding spool and a fiber whip shield substant... | 10/12/1999 |
| 4925126 | Fiber guide A fiber guide includes a sleeve having a longitudinal slot therealong a first member, having a notch, is fixed in the sleeve with the notch substantially aligned with the slot. A second member, also having a notch, is rotatably disposed in the sleeve. Thu... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4647239 | Paper loading system for use in a printer A paper loading system for use in a printer has a platen and a paper bail mounted with two rollers. A carriage having a projection is provided to move parallelly to the platen. At the free end of the projection, a photodetector is provided to detect an ed... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4605145 | Sheet separating structure A structure is disclosed primarily but not exclusively as a supplement to an existing printer or typewriter or the like, which structure includes a clamping shaft, either for clamping endless sheet stock against the traction device for the stock, or again... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4257327 | Label strip inserting device The disclosure concerns a label strip inserting device for use in a label printing machine of the type in which a tape-like label strip is carried between a label feed wheel and a label depressing member. The label strip inserting device comprises a plate... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4251162 | Form band alignment device for a form printer A perforated form band is introduced into a form printer through an input passage or shaft. The passage is formed by spaced walls and is pivotally mounted on the printer for movement between an input position and a working position. In the input position,... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4176603 | Label strip inserting device A label strip inserting device for use in a label printing machine; the inserting device comprises: a platen pivotally secured to the machine frame, a label guide member pivotally secured to the frame, an operating member interlocked with the platen and t... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4131358 | Device for moving a path of a moving data carrier toward and away from a surface area of a sub-carrier A device for moving a path of a moving data carrier toward and away from a surface area of a sub-carrier characterized by two pivotal support members which are mounted to pivot about respective pivot points and are pivotable between a first or forward pos... | 12/26/1978 |
| 4033494 | Stamp dispensing mechanism A stamp dispensing mechanism has a cylindrical feed wheel, with axially-parallel rows of projections, rotatably mounted on a front portion of a vertical support plate that is constructed to rotatably support a roll of stamps on its rear portion. A Geneva ... | 07/05/1977 |
| 3979036 | Paper guide for tape perforators with an automatic pitch-adapted threading mechanism for the feed element zone A guiding and threading device for automatic pitch-adapted threading of data carriers such as punched tape. The device includes a base member having a tape support surface thereon, a feed wheel carried by the base member with a portion projecting above th... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3972461 | Guide chute arrangement for web feeding apparatus A guide chute arrangement for an apparatus used to feed a computer form printout web to the original document platen of a copying machine which includes a pivotally mounted copyboard overlying the platen over and about which the web is fed, includes an up... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3970231 | Method and device for starting up injector nozzles To facilitate the introduction of running yarns into injector nozzles the cross section of the inlet openings of the said nozzles are enlarged before the yarns are laid in, the yarns are sucked into the enlarged openings and subsequently the openings are ... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3957190 | Cassette tape loading apparatus Apparatus includes a support with a bucket for receiving a tape cassette, the support being swingable to a position in which the part of a tape is delivered from the cassette so as to be inserted into a tape travelling path of a tape travelling device. Th... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3941290 | Flexible chart feeding guide or chute A chart recorder has a drawer containing a supply of chart paper fed to the chart marking area, and an accumulation of marked chart paper received from the chart marking area. A flexible curved guide is connected to the drawer and to a permanent fixed gui... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3934835 | Chart carrier for recorder An improved chart carrier for a recorder permitting use with a take-up spool for relatively long periods of time, and without the take-up spool for shorter periods of time, a cylindrical enclosure being employed for rolling and enclosedly retaining the us... | 01/27/1976 |
