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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7823272 | Systems for producing assemblies This invention relates to methods and systems for attaching components to strips of material to form assemblies, e.g., a system for fastening pre-sharpened razor blades to individual support strips on a continuous band of material, such as a metal, to form discrete ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7404253 | Process for manufacturing a catalytic converter and plant therefor A process is provided for manufacturing a catalytic converter formed from at least one monolith being held in a catalytic converter housing, especially a motor vehicle catalytic converter. A mounting mat (14) is placed on the outer circumferential surface ( | 07/29/2008 |
| 6921446 | System and method for producing tire A ply station 12, a band station 13, a shaping station 14, and a belt-tread station 15 are disposed along one side of a conveyor line 11 which extends linearly. A first feeding apparatus 16 disposed between the stations 1... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6915572 | Method and plant for continuously producing construction Method and apparatus for the continuous manufacture of structural members, in which two parallel, flat wire mesh mats comprising longitudinal and transverse wires intersecting with each other and welded together at the points of intersection are advanced on a produc... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6763589 | Process for the manufacture of insulating formwork panels Disclosed is a process for the industrial manufacture of a formwork panel in a continuous manner. In this process, a corrugated reinforcing metal core is manufactured in the form of a continuous metal core band. The metal core band is supplied onto a main conveyor. ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6497031 | Apparatus for manufacturing drainage line units and associated methods An apparatus and method for manufacturing a drainage line unit. The apparatus includes a mandrel having an inner cavity. Rear, upper and front openings communicate with the mandrel cavity. Preferably, a controller connected to at least one sensor is opera... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6493914 | Reinforced composite product and apparatus and method for producing same A rebar forming apparatus includes a malleable material supply station for continuously supplying a malleable planar material and a malleable material forming station for forming the malleable material into first and second corresponding shell portions an... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6425970 | Method for grounding EBP processing A method for grounding reinforcement (12) and composites (17) on a calender line reduces static build up on the composite (17), and makes it possible to subject a wire reinforced composite to electron beam processing (EBP). The method employs a slip ring ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6327767 | Method and apparatus for the continuous manufacture of fiber-optic cable The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for continuous manufacture of a fiber-optic cable. According to the method, single optical fibers of certain length are formed into a fiber-optic cable enclosed by a secondary sheath. Further, a cert... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6256872 | Guitar string manufacturing auto start winding process The improved musical string includes a prior art core wire assembly including a core wire and a terminal end. The cover wire has an end portion that is bent around the terminal end portion of the core wire, and the cover wire is then wound the core wire t... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6173483 | Apparatus for manufacturing drainage line units and associated methods An apparatus and method for manufacturing a drainage line unit. The apparatus includes a mandrel having an inner cavity. Rear, upper and front openings communicate with the mandrel cavity. Preferably, a controller connected to at least one sensor is opera... | 01/16/2001 |
| 5632082 | Unit for producing a tube with a tube wall composed of flexible material webs A tube with a tube wall composed of flexible material webs for covering pipe lines and for producing pipes and a unit for producing same. The tube wall is composed as a tube of two outer webs with longitudinal edges fused with one another and consisting o... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5335415 | Apparatus for winding and pressure-fitting a small width strip to a rotating body An apparatus for winding a belt-like member and a method of feeding a belt-like member for helically winding a belt-like member of a small width around an outer periphery of a rotating body which is rotatable about an axis of rotation and whose radius fro... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5175930 | Method and apparatus for attaching belt-shaped member to forming drum The front end and rear end of a belt-shaped member having a predetermined length are grasped by front end grasping pawls and rear end grasping pawls, respectively, movable in synchronism with and independently from each other when required. The front and ... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5167715 | Apparatus and method for impregnating superconductor windings A method and apparatus for impregnating the superconductors on a superconductor winding with epoxy such that a vacuum/pressure containment vessel, in which the winding is placed, allows epoxy to be introduced into the vessel whereby the epoxy eventually i... | 12/01/1992 |
| 4917316 | Method and apparatus for winding wire to form coil using hook A method for winding wire on a work and an apparatus therefor are disclosed in which wire an end of which is grasped by a clamp, is hooked with a hook, the hooked wire is inserted into a hole provided in the work and, the clamp is then moved according to ... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4590752 | Method and device for the manufacture of flexible tubular bodies The invention refers to a method and a device for the manufacture of flexible tubular bodies in which one or more profiled strands are deformed spirally in a permanent manner before proceeding to winding it or them spirally in order to form a cylindrical ... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4320564 | Coil winding machine A coil winding machine for winding a coil on a cylindrical core having peripheral slots such as the rotor core of an electric motor, particularly suitable for use in the coil winding on a core having small intersecting angle of a pair of the peripheral sl... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4291460 | Apparatus for providing taped coils of sheet material Apparatus for providing taped coils of sheet material comprises an intermittently operable feed roll mechanism for feeding a continuous web of sheet material through an intermittently operable web shear mechanism to an intermittently operable coiling mech... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4117582 | Apparatus for producing parallel wire strands for bridges and the like by winding and unwinding strand of large cross-section and for simultaneously applying corrosion protection thereto Process for winding and unwinding a parallel wire strand consisting of a multiplicity of individual wires onto and from a cable drum, and apparatus for performing such process. In the winding process, the parallel wire strand which is supplied in generall... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4089108 | Filter sleeve stuffing machine A machine for gathering and packing a long length of filter sleeve, e.g. 500 feet, onto a short cartridge tube, e.g. 5 feet, for subsequent dispensing therefrom onto a continuous length of soil drainage tubing as such tubing is laid in the ground. The car... | 05/16/1978 |