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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7281552 | Wood carving assembly and a method for making the same A carving assembly 10 for use in duplicating a blank or form. The carving assembly 10 includes stylus 112 and a tool holder 120 which are coupled together using a slidable carriage 14 to allow any movement of the stylus to cause a ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7054708 | Sheet material cutting system and methods regarding same A system and/or method for cutting designs of text and/or shapes out of sheet material, such as paper, vellum, and other materials used in, for example, the scrapbooking and card making industries. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6916141 | Three dimensional tool guide A three dimensional tool guide includes first, second and third elongate guide arms mounted orthogonally and in series so as to provide X, Y and Z axes for the guide. The arms are interconnected by carriage means allowing free relative movement between adjacent arms... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6905293 | Machine tool for the production of base structures for false teeth The invention relates to an automatic machine tool, for the production of base structures, for false teeth, in particular, for tooth crowns and/or tooth bridges of exact three-dimensional shape. Said base structures may be fixed to prepared natural and/or artificial... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6641340 | Apparatus and method for machining a prosthetic tooth restoration The present invention is directed to enhancing the accuracy with which tooth restorations are performed, including the manner by which a tooth is prepared and fit with a dental prosthetic, such as a crown or bridge. Further, the present invention is direc... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6527550 | Apparatus and method for producing a dental prosthetic with a device having a linear rotary bearing The present invention is directed to enhancing the accuracy with which tooth restorations are machined, using a device which can accurately copy mill a dental prosthetic blank from a previously formed dental prosthetic model, and which can closely replica... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6132150 | Three-dimensional apparatus for a router for producing copies variations of templates A three-dimensional apparatus for a router for positioning and guiding the router to produce, from a workpiece, at least one of a substantial duplicate of a three-dimensional configuration of a template and a substantial variation of such three-dimensiona... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6095726 | Coping apparatus A coping device includes a circular blade, a template having an end provided with a coped profile, a stylus which traces the coped profile of the template and which preferably has substantially the same width and radius of curvature as the blade, clamps f... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5979520 | Device for smoothing panels or battens An apparatus for smoothing a workpiece has a housing that is displaced relative to the workpiece in a direction and that carries a pair of augers provided with respective screwthreads having outer edges in contact with the workpiece. These augers are rota... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5813859 | Method and apparatus for tooth restoration The present invention is directed to enhancing the accuracy with which tooth restorations are performed, including the manner by which a tooth is prepared and fit with a dental prosthetic. Further, the present invention is directed to reducing the skill d... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5782590 | Apparatus for contour shaping and finish beveling edges of eyewear lenses A portable, rotary power tool includes a guide roller and a special designed cutter mounted to the spindle of the tool. The rotary tool is presented to a lens blank mounted to a lens defining pattern. The guide roller engages and follows the shape definin... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5256011 | Machine tool The cutter and the tracer of the machine tool are slaved together for movement along the three major axes, and for pivoting about two different axes. The cutter and the tracer can be pivoted together about an axis through the cutter and the axis. The cutt... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5186226 | Woodworking machine with means for providing 3-dimensional cutting tool movement A woodworking machine having first and second carriages controlled by a work handle to carry a cutting tool carrier in X-Y direction, which cutting tool carrier can be directly moved by the work handle in Z direction, a chucking slide and a workpiece reta... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5135393 | Process and apparatus for producing fabricated parts in dentistry The apparatus has a copying mechanism (1), which is mounted in a support fork (2) and comprises a feeler (17) and a toolholder (20). The copying mechanism (1) is supported on a support fork (2), which is arranged swivellably and displaceably on a foundati... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5112170 | Casting fin removing apparatus for aluminum wheel An apparatus for removing a casting fin created on the tire-mounting surface of an aluminum wheel comprises: a chuck for positioning the center of the aluminum wheel at a predetermined position in the apparatus and positioning the casting fin on a predete... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5080539 | Tracer for router head A tracing head is disclosed which will allow a programmable router to trace he programmed path of the router on an inexpensive media to check the programming. This avoids the time and material wastage resulting from cutting metal plated circuit boards with... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5040580 | Fixture for holding a workpiece and guiding a router or the like A workpiece is clamped to the upper side of a horizontal base. An upper plate is spaced above the workpiece and is supported on the base to move downwardly toward and upwardly away from the workpiece. The plate is transparent and defines a surface upon wh... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4909292 | Boring, mortising, tenoning and duplicating woodworking machine A boring, mortising, tenoning and duplicating woodworking machine including a horizontally movable workpiece support platform and vertically movable cutting tool support member. A tracing element is preferably mounted to the cutting tool support structure... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4865093 | Apparatus and method of producing chair mats and the like An apparatus and method for forming a workpiece or chair mat with cleats on the underside thereof, and with a marginal peripheral area void of cleats, and for trimming the edge of a generally planar workpiece. A rotatable work table is provided for positi... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4787430 | Duplicating router A duplicating router of the type in which a cutter unit provided with a motor and a cutter is fed vertically and horizontally with respect to a base. A cutter unit feeding screw rod is installed parallel with guide bars and rotates for operation on a vert... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4749013 | Woodworking machine with floating tool and work carriages A woodworking apparatus including a work carriage having a base mounted on a bed for rectilinear sliding movement along a first axis in a first plane and a work platform mounted on the base for rectilinear sliding movement along a second axis parallel to ... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4627772 | Carving attachment for table saws A wood carving attachment that mounts onto a table saw provides a carriage for holding a pattern, and a workpiece that will be engaged by the circular saw blade to duplicate the pattern configuration on the workpiece. The pattern and workpiece are mounted... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4624609 | Apparatus for milling sign cutouts and letters from templates A router is coupled to a pair of pivotally connected arms for free swinging movement about a horizontal plane in a space between a template and a workpiece. The router has an upwardly extending guide pin that is engageable with the template and a downward... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4593735 | Boring, mortising, tenoning and duplicating woodworking tool Apparatus for woodworking including boring, mortising, tenoning, forming dovetails, duplicating a three dimensional object, and the like. The invention embodies means for providing movement of a workpiece in a horizontal plane or X-Y direction, and means ... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4588338 | Follower mechanism and control for rotary metal removing tools A mechanism and control for mechanically moving a rotary metal removing tool such as a milling cutter or grinder in a path determined by a regular or irregular contour of a work part. The control is such that the tool may move at a constant feed rate or a... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4579158 | Work support jig and method of making routered components A pneumatically operated work support jig which selectively retains a workpiece in an aligned relationship with a template having at least one tool guiding slot therein so that the workpiece may be formed into a predetermined shape by a routing or other c... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4364695 | Carving machine with auxiliary frame A carving machine which has a tubular framework that allows easy attachment of one or more supplemental frames and additional carving spindles to the base frame. The length of the machine frame also can be extended very easily to accommodate longer workpi... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4354780 | Making formed milled cutters and key cutters A machine forming teeth about the periphery of a round blank which has two faces at an angle to each other, and a peripheral edge. The teeth are to appear at both faces and the edge. A single rotary tooth cutter is given a single path to cut each tooth an... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4319615 | Router attachment for ornamenting a workpiece Undulatory rails on a track can be oriented in any given direction by placing the track on a turntable. A wheeled carriage rides to or fro on the track and carries a router. The router bit rises and falls in response to the particular profile of the rails... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4297060 | Engraving machine A mechanism for duplicating an image includes a pantograph mechanism which is carried on a slide which may be selectively moved axially to position the pantograph. Carried on the pantograph is a cutting or marking device which may be readily interchanged.... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4288185 | Outboard tracing station for carving machine A carving machine which has universally movable multiple work spindles mounted on a frame, and movable along rails in a normal manner. The tracing station (the station which holds the pattern used in the carving operation) is located outboard of one later... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4248282 | Template generator An adaptor for use in a woodworking machine that utilizes a conventional router as a cutting means. The adaptor is mountable upon the router support carriage of the machine and enables the router to be used to cut a template generated from the profile of ... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4227557 | Replication apparatus An apparatus for replicating three-dimensional articles which comprises a frame means for supporting, in parallelly disposed relationship, the article to be replicated and a blank workpiece. A parallelogram working frame is supported on the base frame mea... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4134002 | Down spouts provided with heating elements Down spouts have at least one section that is a length of an extruded conduit having lengthwise portions extending from end-to-end thereof with a backing, substantially coextensive in length connected thereto and with a heating element between the backing... | 01/09/1979 |
| 4077301 | Apparatus for cutting expanded foam blocks to provide a predetermined surface configuration thereon In the manufacture of modular chairs, couches and lounges, an apparatus shapes a block of an expanded plastic foam into a predetermined surface configuration by cutting by means of a hot wire tautly mounted on a frame for two dimensional manually guided m... | 03/07/1978 |
