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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7676909 | Apparatus for assembling a closure tab to a lid A method and apparatus for assembling a first thermoformed workpiece, such as a tab closure, to a second thermoformed workpiece, such as a lid. ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 6941631 | Optical component plastic deformation control process A process for aligning an optical component by plastic deformation comprises finding a desired position of an optical axis of the optical component relative to a rest position of the optical axis of the optical component. Then, a deformation force is exerted, which ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6915571 | Automobile assembling system and method of assembling automobiles An automobile assembly system 1 for assembling plural types of automobiles including a type equipped with a slide door and/or a tailgate, comprising: a front door sub-line 7 for assembling front door assemblies; a rear door sub-line 8 for assemb... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6792664 | Device for transferring a material in the form of a film applied to a carrier strip onto a substrate A device for transferring a film from a carrier strip onto a substrate such as a sheet of writing or drawing paper comprises a housing in which a supply reel and an empty reel are arranged. The film-coated carrier strip is guided over an applicator foot which is loo... | 09/21/2004 |
| 5709022 | Method and apparatus for assembling photographic film cassette An apparatus for assembling a photographic film cassette whose cassette shell is constituted of a pair of shell halves, and contains a spool having a filmstrip wound thereon. A bucket conveyer successively conveys a plurality of buckets through a series o... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5485666 | Rotor assembly apparatus and method A rotor assembly machine for assembling spring biased starter pawls to a rotor. The machine includes three loaders. A first loader positions a coiled spring around a post of a rotor. A second loader connects the starter pawl onto the post. The third loade... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5285566 | System for assembling clothes hangers with index-coded caps The specification discloses 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 locat... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5208954 | Machine for the automated fitting of insulative foam inserts into masonry building blocks Machine for the automated fitting of insulative foam inserts into the cores of masonry building blocks includes a frame for straddling, in superposed relation, a masonry block conveyor. The machine has a magazine section for sequentially feeding pairs of ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 5060368 | Apparatus for assembling plastic cases for cassette tapes An apparatus for assembling plastic cases consisting of a male case member and a female case member for cassette tapes comprising a robot for removing the male and female case member for an injection mold to an assembling position and assembling the male ... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5014417 | Apparatus for assembling ink ribbon feeder roller assemblies of ink ribbon cassettes An apparatus for automatically and successively assembling ribbon feeder roller assemblies of ink ribbon cassettes, comprises a fixed base, shaft supplying means for supplying a horizontally positioned shaft to a first predetermined position on the fixed ... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4984356 | Apparatus for manufacturing a pre-assembled, two-part merchandise display hook An improved method and apparatus of forming and assembling two-part merchandise display hooks, including new design features of the hook itself, enable two-part hooks to be manufactured and assembled at extremely low cost. Wire from a continuous length is... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4967472 | Automatic apparatus for securing fastener having torque and rotational indicating means An apparatus for automatically tightening a tapped member such as a nut are disclosed. A socket of an open end air wrench mounted on a nut tightening robot is coupled with the tapped member. The robot rotates the socket in a first direction, i.e., a tight... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4913707 | Automated assembly apparatus To assemble nuclear fuel bundle spacers comprised of a multiplicity of rod-positioning ferrules, automated apparatus is provided comprising an indexing table mounting a plurality of identical, angularly spaced ferrule fixtures which are successively posit... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4738013 | Method and apparatus for attaching a ring-like part to the outer periphery of columnar material The present invention provides a method and apparatus for attaching a ring-like part to the outer periphery of a columnar material, as, for example, in the assembling of a catalytic converter. The columnar material is positioned and supported with its axi... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4724991 | Apparatus for adjusting direction of two component fasteners for attachement to garments An apparatus for adjusting direction of two component fasteners having a head element and a backing element for attachment to garment. The apparatus is a reciprocable driving device (8) for receiving the head element (7a) fed in from a hopper feeder (4a) ... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4630364 | Apparatus for applying fastener tape to fabric pieces An apparatus for securing a pair of elongated cooperative interlocking tapes to the corresponding edges of a pair of fabric pieces, for guiding the edge portions of the fabric pieces to an overlapping vertically aligned position, and for pulling and compr... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4494283 | Device for filling spacing mounting frames with hygroscopic material A device for filling spacing mounting frames of insulating glass with hygroscopic material. Spacing mounting frames have corners that are formed integrally by bending from a single hollow profiled bar. A mounting support (8,18) is provided for the spacing... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4279071 | Apparatus for installing rolls on a conveyor shaft A carriage for moving urethane rings along a shaft is driven by an air motor powering a rack and pinion arrangement.... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4279065 | Machine designed to fill hollow profile rods with a granular material The invention concerns a machine design to fill hollow profile rods, such as spacer rods for insulating window panes, with a granular material which serves as a desiccating agent. The purpose of the machine is to mechanize to a large extent the filling op... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4178672 | Apparatus for assembling and banding an expansion shell An automatic machine for assembling and banding together the components making up an expansion shell so that the assembly can be conveniently packaged and shipped. In one embodiment, the machine contains a series of work stations arranged to assemble the ... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4177548 | Method and device for assembling coaxially interfitting parts A method and device for assembling pre-shaped pairs of coaxially mating parts in interfitting assembled relationship one within the other and briefly embodying the concepts of rotating the mating parts in unassembled positionally oriented relationship thr... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4070756 | Apparatus for holding hypodermic needles straight and placing sheaths thereon Apparatus for placing a sheath on a vertically oriented elongated member, the sheath having an open end for receiving the elongated member, comprises an upright magazine for containing a stacked plurality of the sheaths with the openings thereof oriented ... | 01/31/1978 |
