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A pizza mold for forming a plurality of concentric raised ridges of dough (i.e., crust) on the surface of a pizza pie.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7665213 | Metal stamping process using a wire preform Metal parts can be economically fabricated by a metal stamping that comprises preforming a piece of wire to have a shape corresponding to the 2-dimensional configuration of a desired product workpiece, flattening the wire to form a metal blank, and subjecting the me... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7356927 | Method for making ceramic spheres A method of making ceramic sphere, a pair of rollers and a core drill with a stopper are employed. The rotating core drill in cooperation with the rollers machines a cylinder-shaped ceramic core to make a ceramic sphere. The rotating core drill continuously machines... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7273409 | Process for forming spherical components A process is disclosed for forming a spherical component using a centrifugal processing machine. The process includes the steps of providing a component having an initial shape with at least a portion that is non-spherical, placing the component into a container in ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7146734 | Rolling elements for rolling bearing, method of producing the same, and rolling bearing A method of producing rolling elements for a rolling bearing comprises mixing to process rounded elements made of steel balls and spherical rolling elements having outer diameter portion portion becoming a rolling contact face. The rolling contact face has curvature... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7109425 | Low alternating current (AC) loss superconducting cable A low alternating current loss superconducting cable is provided, including a plurality of superconducting tapes spirally wound around a longitudinally extending core. The tapes are provided in a path between about 5° and 85° relative to the longitudinal axis of t... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7073425 | Method of making an environmentally safe substitute for lead shot A shot pellet that, has an inner core of a material such tungsten carbide, that is coated with a layer of bismuth. This coating is molecularly bonded to the tungsten carbide and is not an alloy. The unique properties of the shot pellet allow its density to be tailor... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7013786 | Method of making an environmentally safe substitute for lead shot A shot pellet that, has an inner core of a material such tungsten carbide, that is coated with a layer of bismuth. This coating is molecularly bonded to the tungsten carbide and is not an alloy. The unique properties of the shot pellet allow its density to be tailor... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7000525 | Method of making an environmentally safe substitute for lead shot A shot pellet that, has an inner core of a material such tungsten carbide, that is coated with a layer of bismuth. This coating is molecularly bonded to the tungsten carbide and is not an alloy. The unique properties of the shot pellet allow its density to be tailor... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6745472 | Manufacturing method of steel ball for rolling bearing A method of manufacturing a steel ball for a rolling bearing, said method comprising: a molding step of forming a steel wire cut at a predetermined length into a raw ball having a band portion by a pair of molding forms having respectively hemispherical concave port... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6390740 | Non-circular dimples formed via an orbital pantograph cutter A method for forming non-circular dimples in a spherical surface is characterized by the use of a pantograph to repeatedly translate a master dimple configuration into the spherical surface. A drill bit is drilled into a portion of the spherical surface t... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6018854 | Method of making surface-hardened metal shot When a shot having a hardness equal to or higher than a ferrous or nonferrous metal shot material is blasted against the surface of the metal shot material at a blasting speed of 80 m/s or above, the collision causes heat to be generated only in portions ... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5816943 | Golf balls and their production process A golf ball includes a cover and a coating formed on the cover, and dimples are formed in a layer composed of the cover and the coating. The coating is formed of a material having contraction and expansion properties and a higher heat resistance than the ... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5761779 | Method of producing fine metal spheres of uniform size A method of producing soft fine metal spheres for semiconductor packaging from a material selected from soft metals and soft alloys. A plurality of fine wires made of the material are arranged in parallel on a flat base plate. Each of the wires has a diam... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5720676 | Golf ball In a golf ball having at least a set of large and small diameter dimples, the large and small diameter dimples are of the same cross-sectional shape in their lower portion. The small diameter dimple (2) has the same shape in cross-sectional view from a de... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5692973 | Golf ball This invention relates to an improved golf ball center having a substantially spherical portion and a plurality of protrusions extending outwardly from the spherical portion, the ends of which support the center when it is placed in a spherical mold, and ... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5624332 | Golf ball core patching method A method of producing a sealed, liquid filled spherical object for use in a golf ball core comprising the steps of; (a) providing a hollow spherical object; (b) injecting a flowable material into said spherical object wherein said injecting produces an apertur... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5609535 | Method of restoring used golf ball A method of restoring a used golf ball in which a small portion of the old cover is removed and a new layer of material added, which new layer includes dimples. The new layer may be transparent with an indicia on its outer surface or on the outer surface ... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5516481 | System for containerless processing of materials under a state of compensate-gravity A pressure medium composed of plural kinds of fluids each of which have a different density is charged in a pressure chamber forming, for example, fluid layers. A material is suspended by way of buoyancy brought by this pressure medium. By properly contro... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5480155 | Golf ball An improved golf ball comprising a hollow, spherical shell of a polymeric material; a unitary, noncellular core of a material which, at the time of introduction into the shell, is a liquid and a one-piece spherical cover over the center. The spherical she... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5470059 | Soft spherical playing ball and method of making same The invention pertains to a soft spherical playing ball consisting of a pair of yarn type socks rolled together to form a spherical ball simulating a baseball. The first sock is rolled into a cylindrical core and then rolled end over end in the second soc... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5456008 | Process for hard-coating a ball This invention relates to a process for hard-coating a ball, consisting in: hollowing in the outer surface of the ball a depression whose periphery lies at a certain distance from the two polar faces of the ball in order that it is bordered by elevated zones; ... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5427377 | Reclaimed golf-ball and a process for producing the same A reclaimed golf ball having approximately the same flying properties (e.g. flying distance, rolling, ballistic height, etc.) as those of a new golf ball, the reclaimed golf ball being obtained by grinding the dimpled surface of a one-piece solid golf bal... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5390932 | Method for making like-new golf balls from reclaimed golf balls Like-new golf balls are made from used golf balls by first reducing the diameter of the used ball, to provide an intermediate ball, and then molding a new dimpled cover on the ball. The diameter of the used ball is uniformly reduced by compression molding... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5203560 | Production of a sound-producing PU-ball The production of a sound-producing polyurethane foamed ball is disclosed in which the sound producing hardware having a sound generating circuit connected to a battery set by a spring switch, is placed in a mold for producing a polyurethane foam ball in ... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5150906 | Multi-piece golf balls and methods of manufacture An improved golf ball having a coefficient of restitution of at least 0.700 and comprising a hollow, spherical shell of a deformable polymeric material which is filled with either a liquid or a unitary, non-cellular core of a material which, at the time o... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5149681 | Melt texturing of long superconductor fibers A pre-existing superconductor ceramic which is bonded to a substrate is passed through a relatively short heating zone to melt the ceramic superconductor. As the superconductor is subsequently cooled after it has passed through the heating zone, a tempera... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5149089 | Method of locating gripping holes in bowling ball A bowling ball having a mass of preselected density and a spherical surface equidistant from the center of the mass. The improvement being a weight block of a greater density than the preselected density in which the weight block has a first elongate sect... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5112055 | Golf ball including sound emitting means A signal-emitting golf ball, having a chamber formed into its outer surface as a manufacturing step after the ball has been formed into its generally spherical shape. The chamber is of a form providing a reception chamber for the signal-emitting means bei... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4457064 | Apparatus for grinding off the outer shell of a spherical body Spent nuclear fuel elements of spherical shape are stripped of their outer graphite shell surrounding the graphite matrix in which fuel particles are embedded by being admitted one by one to a work space between a rotary milling disk and an axially shifta... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4160719 | Iron-containing refractory balls for retorting oil shale Iron-containing refractory balls, in a retorting process for oil shale, permit effective magnetic separation of the balls from the spent shale.... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4150905 | Spheres obtained by vapor deposition for use in ball point pens A sphere particularly suitable for ball point pens having a core capable of withstanding temperature in excess of 800° C. and a chemically vapor deposited coating on the core, the combined diameter of core and coating ranging from approximately 0.5 to ap... | 04/24/1979 |
| 3965549 | Manufacture of solid metal spherical articles Method and apparatus for making lead shot by barrel tumbling a charge of non-spherical preforms in a liquid coolant, involving the evaporation and condensing of the coolant while the preforms are progressively deformed to spherical shape.... | 06/29/1976 |
