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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7222418 | Device for the assembly of direct antipinching systems These systems comprise sensors formed of an optical fiber conductor (4) fitted inside a sheath (8). The device comprises a support (1) provided with cylindrical revolving rollers (2, 3) made of a soft material which rotate in reverse dire... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7213490 | Wildlife guard placement tool A tool for placement of a wildlife protection guard on an insulated bushing on a transformer is provided. The tool includes a body, a hook, a connector, a first and second tension member and a tensioning mechanism. The body has a first end, a second end operable to ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 6959797 | Piston-cylinder assembly with braking device In a piston-cylinder assembly comprising a cylinder in which a piston rod is installed with freedom of axial movement and which is filled with a blocking medium, a braking device becomes active when the piston-cylinder assembly moves faster than a defined speed and ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6943301 | Wildlife guard placement tool A wildlife guard placement tool for installing a wildlife protection guard on an insulator of an elevated, electrical power distribution system has been provided that includes a first end, a second end, an opening, a near side, and a far side with a slot formed ther... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6729508 | Mechanical beading system A mechanical beading system is disclosed. Specifically, the beading system rotates a stiff but flexible beading wire inside an appropriately-shaped container of beads, causing them to slide onto the open end of the beading wire. The beading wire engages the beading ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6704971 | Product stocking method and device A product stocking device is disclosed that retains a plurality of display packages, so that the plurality of display packages are readily aligned for simplified mounting onto a display hanger. The stocking device has a first section and a second section, the second... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6671954 | Rubber plug insertion apparatus and rubber plug insertion method The rubber plug insertion apparatus 10 is provided with upper and lower rubber plug holders 36, 37 holding a rubber plug 14 which is to be mounted on the end of an electric wire 67, and upper and lower insertion guides 38, 39 for guiding the end of the el... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6643907 | Medium fixing method and medium support apparatus In a medium fixing method of fixing one or a plurality of mediums on a shaft while the one or plurality of mediums each having a circular opening portion in a substantially center are stacked and the shaft is inserted into the opening portions, the medium... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6557234 | Medium fixing method and medium support apparatus In a medium fixing method of fixing one or a plurality of mediums on a shaft while the one or plurality of mediums each having a circular opening portion in a substantially center are stacked and the shaft is inserted into the opening portions, the medium... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6473953 | Wire gripper and method of installing decorative wire strings A wire gripper device has upper and lower gripper members. The upper gripper member is movably engaged to the lower gripper member to alternate between closed and open positions. Moreover, the lower gripper member has a lower gripper section. A lower notc... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6467823 | Device for the installation and removal of a wire at an elevated location The tool comprises a body having a top portion within which is formed a generally U-shaped notch with a width and depth that are much larger than the diameter of the wire to be handled. The sides of the notch are outwardly tapered so that the notch is wid... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6402122 | Method for drawing cables into cable channels or pipes A method for drawing a cable which inherently lacks tensile strength into cable channels or cable pipes includes providing a tensile yarn skin on the end of the cable before the step of drawing the cable into the channels or pipes. The yarn skin can eithe... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6190997 | Device for mechanically aligning a carrier substrate for electronic circuits To avoid damage to carrier substrates in a device for mechanically aligning carrier substrates for electronic circuits, the carrier substrates having two main surfaces and a peripheral surface and being supplied to a horizontal fixture of the device, cent... | 02/20/2001 |
| 5966789 | Apparatus for assisting in the insertion of an elongate plastic pipe within an existing pipe A corrugated plastic service pipe 20 is inserted together with a flexible guide assembly 22 through an accessible end 11 of a steel service pipe 14, 10, which extends from the end 11 to a main 18. The flexible guide assembly 22 comprises a flexible guide ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5950298 | Method for inserting a cable-like element into a tube coiled in or on a holder A cable (5) is inserted in a tube (2) wound on a tube reel (1). The cable is fed from a cable reel (6) through a cable-advancing unit (4) into a free inlet end (2.1) of the tube (2). Compressed air is applied to an air inlet (8) of the advancing unit (4),... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5946788 | Method and device for inserting a cable-shaped member into an elongated, tubular sheathing wound around, or in, a holder A cable (5) is inserted, by way of a free end (2.1), into a tube (2) wound around a tube reel (1) which is fixed, with its winding axis (y) vertical, onto a carrier (7). The carrier with the tube reel is subjected to a periodical movement having a vertica... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5701664 | Method and apparatus for needle-suture attachment An apparatus for microsurgical needle suture attachment includes a clamp for holding a needle such that the needle aperture remains in a fixed position; at least one guide member defining an angled guide area having a relatively wide portion and a vertex ... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5673468 | Device for jacketing elongated members A hand-held device has motor driven gears for propelling a longitudinally slit, corrugated tube along a guide track to a spreader which spreads the tube apart to enable the tube to encompass an elongated member, such as a cable, which passes through the s... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5664707 | Bead installing tool and method of use A tool for installing perforated beads on a strand of fibers, such as a strand of hair. The tool comprises a rod terminating in a closed loop at one end, and having a removable cap at the other end. When the cap is removed, perforated beads are sequential... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5634252 | Apparatus for attaching protective tubing to a component A tubing attachment apparatus is provided which automatically severs a preselected tubing segment from a continuously fed length of tubing, moves the tubing segment toward an operative position, slits the tubing to form an axial slit along its length, spr... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5634290 | Device and method for making a fishing lure A harness lure tying device comprises a plurality of beads and a spinner disposed on a shaft having an axial bore therethrough and removable retainers at opposite ends of the shaft. The removal of one or the other retainers permits the beads and spinner t... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5528808 | Wire installation tool An installation tool for stringing a tensioned wire between an anchor point and a retaining point, including a sleeve having a slidably mounted pin inside. A tip of the pin holds a loop end of the tensioned wire (such as a coronode in a corotron wire asse... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5390402 | Apparatus for installing guide tubes for instrumentation signal bearing wires in the bearing housing of a turbine Segmented guide tubes for the signal-bearing wires for journal and thrust bearing instrumentation are received in the lower bearing housing section without removal of the rotor or major tear-down of the turbine. Guide tube segments for the thrust bearings... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5272806 | Machine for injection molding and stacking indexing caps for clothes hangers A system for producing and distributing index coded hangers to a plurality of locations, wherein the index indicia is correlated to the characteristics of the garment to be hung from the hanger at each of the plurality of locations. A unique hanger and in... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5245740 | Method and apparatus for passing threadlike pieces through tubular products A coil of a tube is formed. The coil is vibrated while a threadlike piece is passed in through the inlet end of the tube so that a given point of the tube reciprocates along a helical path. Provision is made to ensure that inlet end of the tube does not c... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5228179 | Bellows tube installation device A bellows tube installation device comprises a first clamp mechanism 4 for holding a bellows tube T placed over a tube guide 1. The first clamp mechanism 4 is displaced toward the distal end portion of the tube guide 1 along tube guide, so that a slit of ... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5212884 | Device for the series production of moebius-type ribbons An apparatus for the series production of Moebius ribbons comprises a threading robot having its four degrees of freedom (X,Y,Z,R). A second robot, movable in one direction, with two degrees of freedom (Z',R') is mounted on the first robot. The two robots... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5197175 | Rotating bead stringing apparatus A bead stringing device to enable an individual quickly to asssemble a large quantity of beads on a wire or string comprises an assembly of a pedestal base which supports a rotatable bowl. The bowl includes a bottom panel and a circumferential side wall t... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5179771 | Apparatus for assembling slats of venetian blinds A machine for production of finished lath packs for Venetian blinds, which have holes at the ends for draw cords and ladders consisting of bands or strings, every cross band of which carries a lath, and where two neighboring cross bands of a ladder are pl... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5113570 | Method and apparatus for shaping belt straps to enable them to be pulled through support roller stations A process and a device enable tubular straps to be pulled or guided through support roller stations. The strap is rolled until the diameter (D) of the roll is less than the operating diameter (D') and is held in this position by a clamping means which mov... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5068960 | Device for the insertion of filling wires into a wire jointed-band A device for the insertion of filling wires into a wire jointed-band is described, being positioned in the conveying direction of a machine for the production of the wire jointed-band behind a feeding device for the plugging wires. By means of a guiding p... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5058259 | Method and apparatus for passing threadlike pieces through tubular products A coil of a tube is formed. The coil is vibrated while a threadlike piece is passed in through the inlet end of the tube so that a given point of the tube reciprocates along a helical path. Provision is made to ensure that inlet end of the tube does not c... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5044057 | Apparatus for making blasting mats An apparatus and method for fabricating heavy duty blasting mats. A plurality of parallel spaced curved steel rods are clamped at their lower ends in a frame so that reclaimed automobile tire sections can be threaded in a prearranged pattern onto the free... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5007164 | Method and apparatus for producing linear body with waterproof plug A method for mounting a waterproof plug to the front end of a covered electric wire, comprising the steps of feeding waterproof plugs to a first position of a transfer path one by one from a magazine in such a manner that the opening of each waterproof pl... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4938397 | Hat adjusting technique A flap is inserted in a similarly shaped and sized tubular opening with the aid of a tool, slots in the flap being engaged by hooks on the tool and being entrained thereby. The tool is inserted into the opening with the flap, and upon withdrawal of the to... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4910856 | Method of aligning and assembling disk-shaped works having projections on outer peripheries thereof There is disclosed a method and apparatus for aligning and assembling disk-shaped works having projections on outer peripheries thereof. A vessel-shaped work is positioned and a plurality of disk-shaped works in a stacked condition are guided to a positio... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4907335 | Tool for assembling optical fiber Apparatus 11 and a method for assembling an optical fiber 6 in a passage 4 of a connector 1 by applying axial force to the fiber 6 to maintain an optical face 8 of the fiber 6 in abutment with an optical face 9 of an optical device 7 mounted to the connec... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4866832 | Process and apparatus for closing one end of a tubular bar A process is described in which a tubular bar (27) which is substantially but not entirely filled with flowable solids (28), is closed at one end. To close the tubular bar (27) at its end, a thread (3) is introduced into the tubular bar (27) and is caused... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4841629 | Apparatus for threading a wire through magnetic cores of a memory matrix An apparatus for weaving a wire through magnetic cores of a memory matrix include a housing accommodating a shaft connected to a rotation drive and having an axial passage and a cavity in its central portion, the interior of the cavity accommodating a spo... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4802270 | Apparatus for passing optical fibers through tubular products A tube is wound into a coil, and the resulting coil of tube is vibrated so that a given point of the tube reciprocates along a helical path. An optical fiber is fed into the coil of tube that is being thus vibrated. Because of the vibration, the inner wal... | 02/07/1989 |
