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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7163185 | System, method and article of manufacture for three dimensional bride and groom cake kit A baking system that allows the user to create a three-dimensional cake having the form of a bride and groom, or man and woman. The substantial part of the human forms is accomplished by a molding process using cake, candy or chocolate. Utilizing 2 piece pans; havin... | 01/16/2007 |
| 6955015 | System for interconnecting wall blocks A wall is constructed from precast concrete blocks stacked in tiers in which adjacent blocks are secured together to increase the strength of the wall. Anchors are embedded in the tops of at least some of the blocks. The ends of the blocks have vertical grooves whic... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6854702 | Form for manufacturing concrete blocks for freestanding walls A form for manufacturing concrete blocks for constructing freestanding walls. The form includes a base and four side panels which are mounted on the base to pivot between a first position for casting a block and a second position for removing a cast block from the f... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6767000 | Manufacturing platform A manufacturing platform has one or more tables for producing construction components such as walls, floors, decks and roofs. The tables are pivotally mounted on second and/or third axes at the outboard edges or rear end of a pair of rectangular horizontal frames wh... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6605240 | Over the top hinged concrete form and method of using the same A concrete form has a pair of opposed upstanding and spaced apart side panels. A space is defined between the side panels. Each side panel has a respective upper edge and a respective lower edge whereby a top opening is defined between the upper edges and... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6565351 | Apparatus for fabricating composite structures An apparatus (100) for fabricating composite structures is provided that includes first and second tooling portions (110, 120) that are configured to support at least one layer (160) of composite materials during curing to form a composite structure. The ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6557818 | Form for manufacturing concrete retaining wall blocks A form for manufacturing concrete retaining wall blocks. The blocks are cast in the form with a front face of the block down. A resilient face insert at the bottom of the form imparts an ornamental appearance to the front face of the block. The form has f... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6502625 | Hand-held casting device for molding a hollow pointed, grooved, and twice throughbored bullet A hand-held casting device for molding a hollow pointed, grooved, and twice throughbored bullet including a pair of handles, a pair of jaws, a mold, a pin, and a bracket. The mold includes first and second halves and two rods passing at different elevatio... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6395319 | Padded handle A padded handle (1) comprising preferably one piece of flexible filling material, which is arranged to be guided through two or more handle grips and where two opposing edges of the padded handle (1) have assembled corresponding locking mechanisms (2, 5) ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6290202 | Apparatus for molding thin resin sheets A mold (10) for molding thin resin sheets includes a center mold plate (12) and two side mold plates (14, 16) disposed on opposite sides of the center mold plate. The mold plates are oriented generally vertically and parallel to each other, and the side m... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6212911 | Mould with pivoting drawer A mold having a pivoting slide. The mold is made of two shells. An element is rotationally mounted on one of the shells with a part of the element coinciding with the internal cavity of the mold. The element is closed by the second shell which has bearing... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5925282 | Method of manufacturing a foil-wrapped breast prosthesis and a shaping tool for use in performing the method When manufacturing a foil-wrapped breast prosthesis with a filling consisting of a curable compound, the curing is performed after placing a filled prosthesis bag formed by two joined foil sheets in a mold cavity without closing the mold cavity and mainta... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5736167 | Mold device for making safety shoe A mold device for making a safety shoe includes a last and a post secured on a board. The last includes a number of spacers and a number of cone-shaped supports formed on top for engaging with a protector and for spacing the protector from the last. Two m... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5707661 | Forming cup for torroid forming machine A composite torroid forming cup for an automated torroid-forming apparatus has a molded plastic upper closure and a bottom reinforced cup section. The upper closure has a hinge pin and an upper non-stick partial torroid forming surface. The bottom reinfor... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5656194 | Assembly jig for prefabricated concrete walls The apparatus is an assembly jig for constructing prefabricated concrete wall sections. Two parallel elongated "L" cross section members, each with an outer vertical wall, are connected to a base structure with pivots, and several separated sections of in... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5632926 | Snowman mold A snowman mold having a snowman mold cavity defined within a base member, a torso member, and a head member that are integral relative to one another, with each of the members having doors opened for access to the mold cavity permitting ease of removal of... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5616349 | Movable slab form unit A movable slab form unit is provided and has a movable base plate, a slab form, an elevation motion device that connects the slab form to the base plate while maintaining the freedom of being raised and lowered, and a stabilizer device for stabilizing the... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5593699 | Apparatus for manufacturing form-fitting insoles An apparatus for manufacturing form-fitting insoles, including two trays on the bottom of each of which a piece of load-deformable fibrous spongy material is placed; the material is impregnated with a foaming reagent preparation and is covered in its uppe... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5445864 | Method of manufacturing glass reinforced concrete building products Reinforced concrete building products are manufactured using a two-part mould (2, 3), the two parts being hinged together about an axis (4) which is adjacent an edge of each part-mould (2, 3). Glass-reinforced concrete is applied to each part-mould (2, 3)... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5352105 | EVA sole molding die assembly An EVA sole molding die assembly for molding integral EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) soles having different color layers, the molding die assembly including a bottom die for molding the bottoms of EVA outsoles, an outsole molding die hinged to the bottom di... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5186874 | Method for casting stairs within pools A method of constructing arcuate cement stairs in a pool includes (a) attaching a first arcuate form having a first form radius to the wall of the pool; (b) attaching a second arcuate form having a second form radius smaller than the first form radius to ... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5074777 | Apparatus for making a split pie A pie dividing assembly adapted to be inserted into a conventional circular pie pan once it is covered with a bottom sheet or layer of pie dough for separating the pie into a plurality of separate and distinct pie sections, preferably two, each adapted to... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5039291 | Foam molding assembly Molding a foamed product is carried out by using a front and a rear mold for molding a front and a rear portion of the foamed product and a core interposed between the front and rear molds. The front and rear molds are closed at a moment when a lapse of t... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4969626 | Adjustable form for casting concrete culverts An adjustable culvert form facilitates fabrication of rectilinear culverts and skewed culverts that is, culverts having an angular relationship between sidewalls and span. It is particularly useful for the production of three-sided culverts. The form gene... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4958800 | Locking hinge mechanism A locking hinge mechanism for concrete forms includes parallel hinge strips connected together by hinges positioned at intervals along the length of the strips. Each hinge includes provision for a wedge lock which, when fully inserted, positions the hinge... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4838339 | Mold for hollow point bullet A mold for a grooved hollow point bullet having a pair of separable mold halves which are mounted in a bullet molding apparatus for movement between a closed position and an open position. Each mold half has a flat parting surface which has a bullet shape... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4828217 | Molding apparatus for production of concrete box-units The invention relates to an open type box-unit with multi-purpose application for the complex industrial construction of prefabricated houses, of buildings with different numbers of stories, and to molding apparatus for its production. The box-unit has a ... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4799982 | Method of molding monolithic building structure Methods of manufacturing a modular, monolithic, integrated, multi-layered, mold building structure including the steps of constructing a dismantleable mold having an outer rigid matrix and an inner inflatable plug, wherein the inside dimensions of the mat... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4793586 | Quoin molds A reusable mold and method for applying stucco to intersecting planar surfaces to create a quoin is disclosed. The mold is a generally rectangular framework of non-adhering surfaces. Preferably, each mold has two longitudinal members and at least two non-... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4778144 | Concrete slab and beam forming system A concrete slab and beam forming system including first and second shoring towers that are adjustable in height and which can be adjusted to provide for concrete beams of different depths. The forming system also includes a first plank with an integral fa... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4729541 | Formwork for round or polygonal construction There is disclosed a formwork for round or polygonal constructions with a formwork face having an adjustable curvature or circumference. The formwork has a chain of booms which are spaced apart from the formwork face and are composed of individual boom po... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4717330 | Apparatus for making a structural component A structural component having a curved wall, such as an aircraft fuselage pipe, has a grid structure formed of box frames produced by winding tapes of fiber reinforced synthetic material, so-called prepregs, onto mold bodies. These mold bodies are then a... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4624439 | Apparatus for manufacturing concrete posts A base is provided including first, second and third adjoining marginal portions and a first stationary upstanding wall is fixedly secured to and projects upwardly from one of the marginal portions. Second and third upstanding walls are provided and pivot... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4614324 | Mold for producing concrete pipe A mold is provided for use in the production of concrete pipe sections. The mold has an inner mold part including an arch-shaped mold member; a pair of substantially L-shaped side mold members each flexibly connected to an adjacent end of the arch-shaped ... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4556191 | Mold for the manufacture of shoe soles A shoe mold device having a base mold portion containing a cavity and a top mold portion with two or more mold surfaces and rotatably associated with the base mold portion. A shoe sole comprised of a plurality of different colored or shaped layers is manu... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4544126 | Molding apparatus for simultaneously forming a cavity and encapsulating a frame in a foamed body A dual lid molding apparatus for a two-stage molding process which provides for frame encapsulation in a foamed article also having a molded-in cavity. The molding apparatus is constructed by pivotally connecting two mold closure members at each side of a... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4540540 | Method for molding elongated workpieces A mold for molding elongated workpieces is comprised of three vertically oriented quadrants and a fourth quadrant pivotally mounted relative to the three quadrants between a mold open position and a generally vertically oriented mold closed position. A wo... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4451022 | Ready pad for concrete A reusable form for a formed in place concrete pad positioned near a structure. The form including two spaced side beams of a predetermined length beam having first and second ends, each of the first ends are adapted to engage the structure in an abutting... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4431393 | Method and machine for molding elongated workpieces A mold for molding elongated workpieces is comprised of three vertically oriented quadrants and a fourth quadrant pivotally mounted relative to the three quadrants between a mold open position and a generally vertically oriented mold closed position. A wo... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4418884 | Double-hinge corner for a concrete forming structure A concrete forming structure for culverts, tunnels, elevator shafts and the like, having side panels and chamfered corners. Novel two-way hinge assemblies are provided adjacent the chamfered corners and comprise two hinges and an angle iron disposed there... | 12/06/1983 |
