Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7313861 | Electric drive for a shaping die A driving mechanism for operating a shaping die to join stacked plates by a deep-drawing and swaging operation is implemented as an electric drive, such as a linear motor or a rotary motor, which is operatively connected to the shaping die. ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7290693 | Cable holding assembly for cable stapler A cable holding assembly for cable staplers is provided, which is housed inside a slot in front of the muzzle of a cable stapler. The cable holding assembly contains a spring blade, a holder blade, and a resistance blade. The spring blade is configured on the wall o... | 11/06/2007 |
| 6994241 | Power square and stationary nail bridge conveyor system for sheathing pre-framed exterior wall panels The invention discloses a method and apparatus for squaring wall panel assemblies prior to nailing sheathing material thereto. A preformed wall section having a frame and studs has a sheathing member placed thereover and fastened thereto whereby said components form... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6974065 | Adapter device for placing clips instead of staples in a frame assembling machine An adaptor (8) located underneath the work surface (1) is arranged to occupy a position locking the hammer (6), which is movable in an upward direction under the action of an actuator, when the machine is required for fixing in place a hanging c... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6954979 | Frame joiner press system A frame joiner press system for efficiently driving a V-nail into two adjacent members of a picture frame. The frame joiner press system includes a base, a plurality of support shafts extending upwardly from the base, a support platform slidably positioned upon the ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6131786 | Device for setting rivets, buttons or the like on textiles The device is used for fixing rivets, buttons, etc., which comprises an article lower part and an article upper part, to a fabric. It has a lower gripper (1) supporting the article lower part and a plunger (2) performing the riveting stroke. With the lowe... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6065661 | Automatic loop forming tag attacher apparatus and method Standard tag attaching fasteners in continuous strip form are intermittently moved toward an attacher along a guide track which gradually changes shape from planar to semicircular. The T-bars are feed to the attacher, which is mounted upright on a base. A... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5957362 | Device for fitting rivets or control therefor An apparatus for attaching rivets, buttons or the like to textiles or the like, having a plunger which performs the riveting stroke and whose upward and downward movement is controlled by the interaction of the top end of the plunger with a cam plate rota... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5908148 | Device for fitting rivets, buttons or the like A device for fitting articles including rivets, buttons and the like, to a fabric, comprising a lower tool serving as an abutment for an article, and a ram executing a riveting stroke. A lower end of the ram joins with an upper tool for impinging upon an ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5234147 | Setting machine having moveable upper receiver A vertically moveable upper receiver is suspended on the machine by spring means and has a central vertical cavity therethrough. A pair of opposed springs bias together jaws in the receiver having aligned notches therein which receive the part. The upper ... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5044539 | Apparatus for affixing fasteners to a conveyor belt An apparatus for affixing conveyor belt fasteners (12) to a conveyor belt (10) comprises locating device (54) for locating a plurality of fasteners at equally-spaced intervals with the legs (14, 16) of the fasteners embracing an edge of the belt. A fasten... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4978049 | Three staple drive member A staple drive member for a surgical stapling apparatus. The staple drive member is capable of driving up to three staples at a time and comprises a body portion having a camming surface at its proximal end contacted by a transversely moving cam, and thre... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4962875 | Parts applying apparatus A parts applying apparatus for applying buttons, rivets and other fastening parts to a garment fabric is disclosed which essentially comprises a reciprocating ram, a punch including an annular flange, a punch holder carrying the punch and a parts gripper ... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4848638 | Punch assembly A punch assembly comprising a cylindrical clamper holder, a ram reciprocatingly movable therein and having an axial bore, a punch carried on the ram, a pair of clampers pivotally mounted on the clamper holder and releasably holding a fastening element, a ... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4736880 | Punch assembly for garment fastener attaching apparatus In an apparatus for joining together a pair of fastener elements of a garment fastener, such as a snap fastener, a button or an ornamental article, with a garment fabric sandwiched between the two fastener elements, a punch assembly for forcing one fasten... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4703882 | Press for applying articles of hardware to garments and the like A riveting press wherein the female component of a composite button, knob or a like article of hardware is introduced between the jaws of first tongs below a sheet of textile material whose marked side faces upwardly, and wherein the male component of the... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4586641 | Apparatus for attaching pairs of fastener elements onto garment fabrics An apparatus for attaching a pair of fastener elements onto a garment fabric comprising a cooperating pair of an upper die unit and a lower die unit, a stationary anvil mounted in the lower unit, a plunger reciprocably mounted in the upper unit, a punch m... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4579270 | Apparatus for attaching fastener elements onto a garment An apparatus for attaching a pair of fastener elements onto a garment includes a gripping mechanism for temporarily holding one fastener element and for releasing the latter immediately before a reciprocally punch arrives at the predetermined lowermost po... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4538755 | Apparatus for fixing belt-fasteners or the like This apparatus for fixing a row of assembling U-shaped fasteners to the end edge of a conveyor belt or the like by means of a pair of likewise U-shaped staples for each fastener, the staples having pointed ends adapted to pass through the fastener arms an... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4436234 | Frame fastener A clamp assembly 11 holds two frame elements 2, 3 in a common plane and in angled abutment to form a mitered joint 1. A fastener tool 13 is held with its discharge opening 125 positioned on one side of the location where the mitered joint is to be formed,... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4384403 | Building erection tool A positioning tool for use in attaching the cover panels to support members in a prefabricated building system using self-drilling and self-tapping fasteners and a locking member which includes locating means for positioning the locking member behind the ... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4344554 | Stapling apparatus An apparatus in which a plurality of articles are stapled to one another. The apparatus includes a commom member for actuating sequentially the stack clamper, staple driver and staple clincher.... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4334554 | Removable orifice Orifices which are removably attached to individual tubes of a steam generator.... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4333217 | Apparatus for stapling belt An applicator unit is provided for fastening a plurality of sizes of belt fasteners to a belt by staples being guided and clinched by the apparatus. A staple guide block means is provided with fastener engaging and positioning portions which are shiftable... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4315587 | Powered attaching assembly An assembly for inserting attachment members through thick, bulky goods, the attachments being of the type including two end pieces connected by a thin, flexible filament. The assembly includes a fluid powered fastener inserting device, a receiver cylinde... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4296881 | Surgical stapler using cartridge A surgical stapling tool 10 using disposable cartridge elements includes an actuator 13 that moves toward and away from a staple folding anvil 20, a holder 22 for an array of staples oriented toward anvil 20, staples and a pusher 23 for pushing staples fr... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4288016 | Corner bead and installation tool A support for a pair of generally 90° relatively angulated staple guns is provided and the support defines a pair of aligned generally 90° V-shaped notches for embracingly engaging an outside dry wall corner structure. The inner portions of the V-shaped... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4258873 | Machine and method for stapling door fames Machine and method of stapling mitered joint frame members of rectangular cabinet doors and the like characterized by corner abutments or v-blocks for moving the joints together, and while clamped thereat, simultaneously applying a staple across each join... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4237779 | Automatic attaching apparatus The apparatus is designed for automatic attachment of a header, a tag or the like to a softgoods article by means of a plastic fastener. A commercial fastener attacher of the non-automatic, hand-held variety is fixedly mounted on a support and has a stati... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4216891 | Surgical stapler A surgical stapler having a jaw including spaced apart front and rear legs rigidly interconnected by a cross leg at one end and having opposite free ends. An anvil is mounted on the front leg. A movable frame is located between the front and rear legs and... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4215807 | Insertion means for flexible filaments An assembly for inserting attachment members through thick, bulky goods, the attachments being of the type including two end pieces connected by a thin, flexible filament. The assembly includes a fluid powered fastener inserting device, a receiver cylinde... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4157778 | Binding system A binding system is disclosed for binding volumes comprising a cabinet having a trough herein for the receipt of an edge of a stack of sheets with power compressor means on one side of the trough for compressing the stack of sheets and power operated stap... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4127226 | Combined kerfing and joint nailing machine A woodworking machine for fastening together wood picture frames, cabinet doors, case goods, and the like, with joint nails driven into sawed kerfs. The machine combines the two operations of sawing the kerfs and inserting the joint nails. Workpieces to b... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4126259 | Frame pinning device A device for use without an external power source and comprising two hand-operated pinning assemblies arranged at 90° to each other with a foot operable jaw assembly for holding mitred picture frame moulding against the pinning assemblies during pinning,... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4062108 | Stick insertion apparatus For mounting a food product, such as a frankfurter or an apple, on a stick, an apparatus includes relatively reciprocable jaws which converge on and hold the food product in position on an insertion axis. Individual sticks are gravity fed through a supply... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4039111 | Pallet nailing device An automatic nailing machine for fabricating wooden pallets. The device has a hammer pin support bar vertically movable within a frame and horizontally aligned by a first horizontal alignment bar mounted on the frame. A nail feed and support bar is mounte... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4033498 | Apparatus for stapling heels Staples are delivered to guides in a vertical column by a plurality of slides which move out of the way after the delivery. A boot or shoe and a heel to be stapled is fitted upside down over a heel-shaped last at the top of the column. A pneumatic cylinde... | 07/05/1977 |
