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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7252124 | Work feeding and conveying device for a planing machine A work feeding and conveying device for a planing machine includes a conveying unit assembled on an intermediate base of a planing machine. The conveying unit has a power source, a front shaft, a rear shaft and a conveying belt. The front shaft is secured at the fro... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7237309 | Milling machine for longitudinal profiled elements The present invention relates to a machine intended for the machining of profiled elements (10), of the type comprising a longitudinal frame (1) provided with holding dollies (11, 13) for holding the profiled element to be machined (10). ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7147595 | CNC machine tool A CNC machine tool includes a worktable supporting two workpieces and rotatable on a base so as to exchange the positions of the workpieces. A post member is fixed on the base. A first horizontal rail unit is movable vertically on the post member. A second horizonta... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7140089 | Processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device One embodiment of the present invention is a compact, low-cost, lightweight, versatile and easy-to-operate, processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device (“PCCMPS machine”). The PCCMPS machine that represents one embodiment of the present inventi... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7127976 | Guide for a cutting tool A guide comprises one or more brackets for securing the guide to a cutting tool, a horizontal support member secured to and moveable with respect to the brackets, and one or more arm assemblies secured to the horizontal support member and adapted to secure a working... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7013938 | Shiftable rolling feed device for a wood planing machine A drive shiftable rolling feed device includes front and rear feed rollers mounted on a support carriage of a wood planing machine for feeding a workpiece, a reduction gear train disposed to convert a primary drive of a cutter shaft into two reduction drives and cou... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7013543 | Vertical machining center In a vertical machining center, a spindle head is movable in three mutually transverse axes directions relative to a workpiece and a table is arranged below. A vertical stocker is disposed in the vicinity of a machining area and stocks the bar workpiece in a vertica... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6843622 | Apparatus and method for profiling optical disks An apparatus for the automated profiling the edge of successive optical disks, and including an optical disk supply assembly for holding a supply of optical disks to be profiled, a turntable for receiving an optical disk to be profiled, and for reciprocating between... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6836941 | Machine tool for machining a rod-shaped workpiece A machine tool for machining rod-shaped workpieces comprises a traveling column, to which a tool spindle rotatable about a spindle axis is fastened. The tool spindle is capable of swiveling about a swivel axis. The swivel axis is arranged perpendicularly to both the... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6826821 | System for machining work pieces comprising at least one machine tool An installation for machining work pieces (15) comprises at least a machine tool (36). It is provided with a supply and take-down equipment (41), which is disposed before the machine tool (36) on a side of the working area (14) tha... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6823572 | System for carrying out mechanical workings A machine for carrying out mechanical workings preferably by showing removal includes a frame arranged for receiving a semi-worked piece having a cross section exhibiting dimensions remarkably smaller than the length of the piece measured along its own longitudinal ... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6817814 | Inscribing system A system and method for inscribing an item is provided. The system includes a housing having a door, an inscriber, and a support. The inscriber is disposed in the housing and is operable to inscribe the surface of an item secured in an item carrier. The support has ... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6711804 | Machining center A machine tool in which a plurality of machining positions is orbited by a work spindle unit carrying a workpiece and capable of radial displacement relative to the central axis of rotation. The work spindle unit may be one of one or more such units mounted upon a b... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6647605 | Machine tool and its pallet changing device The present relates to a machine tool for machining a workpiece by moving a tool and the workpiece relative to each other and to a pallet changer thereof. The machine tool is provided with a spindle for mounting the tool thereon, a table for a pallet (P) ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6487937 | Computer-controlled band saw sharpener A computer-controlled band saw sharpener employing electrically powered, X and Y axis drivers, each having a reciprocating element. The X-axis driver actuates a feed finger mechanism, to index the saw in repetitive, stepped fashion, while each tooth is su... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6227776 | Machine tool A machine tool in which a feed member is fed in a feeding direction relative to a fixed member wherein the feed member is guided by a linear linkage mechanism including a first arm linked to the fixed member at its one end so as to swivel about a first ax... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6082937 | Method of reprocessing battery terminals A method and apparatus for converting a finished battery terminal suitable for a first application into a battery terminal suitable for a second application in one operation that does not require reforming of the finished battery terminals by picking the ... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6080039 | Table drive for multi-axis machine tool A machine tool comprising a bed, a worktable movable relative to the bed along a linear path and a tool movable to engage a workpiece on the worktable wherein drive means for effecting the movement of the worktable relative to the bed and therefore to the... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5966798 | Progressive-feed processing apparatus A long length product is conveyed by a conveyor to a propulsion mechanism into contact therewith. The product is gripped by a first conveyor line vise and cut at its tailing end side into a specified dimension. The product is advanced by the propulsion me... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5964016 | Long bar member machining apparatus In the case where a product having a free-curved surface is obtained, a machining work is performed by separate machine tools. Therefore, works of attaching and removing a half-machined product are necessary. Consequently, a lot of working time and labor ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5913646 | Table extensions for use with a milling machine Table extensions for use with a numerically controlled (CNC) milling machine are disclosed. A gauge table extension has a platform, and means for feeding a workpiece along the platform into the milling machine. A number of support means hold up the platfo... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5822078 | System for engraving a plurality of gravure rolls A gravure engraving system that capable of successively engraving each of a plurality of gravure cylinders through no intermediary of a manual operation, includes a transport device for transporting a gravure cylinder. The transport device is disposed bet... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5595464 | Crank adapter for a milling machine An improved crank adapter mounts on the end of a milling machine worktable and enables the operator to adjust the worktable lateral position with a forward facing crank. This relieves the need for the operator to reach past the worktable end and manipulat... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5556243 | Neck down cutter A neck down cutter for notching parallel sides in a rectangular sample of corrugated material to be subjected to edge crush testing is disclosed. The cutter comprises a suction box formed with a recessed surface in the top thereof through which a motor dr... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5533844 | Travelling platen with extended axis An attachment for a work supporting table of a-metal working machine is provided which will effectively substantially enable the supporting surface to be increased to enable an existing machine to handle large work pieces.... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5368538 | Method of and apparatus for machining structural shapes A boring apparatus provided with feed and discharge roller conveyors for drilling holes in heavy steel structural shapes can be constructed so that at least one boring unit is transformable into a milling unit, the computer being programmed with a milling... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5249896 | Apparatus for manufacturing lost foam pattern for use in full-mold casting A pit defining a machining cavity is positioned downstream of a loading conveyor. A workpiece such as a foam block to be machined into a lost foam pattern for use in full-mold casting is fixedly mounted on an invertable workpiece mount base that is positi... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5084952 | Method and apparatus for increasing a substrate processing area without increasing the length of a manufacturing line A manufacturing line along which PCB's are fed and operated on includes a processing fixture for receiving an individual board and displacing it clear of the line toward a router bit. The router bit is shiftable transverse of the line, and the processing ... | 02/04/1992 |
| 4679295 | Modular machine tool for series machining of parts in a bar The machine tool comprises one or several modules comprising a rigid chassis formed of a lower tubular frame (11) and an upper tubular frame (12). The lower frame forms a case containing a lubricating unit and an apparatus for the removal of chips (17). T... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4312110 | Automatic pallet-changing metal-cutting machine A metal-cutting machine includes a bed with slideways, a movable unit with a headstock and a drive for moving it in a horizontal plane over the bed slideways, a work table with stock guides for moving the pallets carrying the workpieces and provided with ... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4066728 | Method for specimen preparation The invention pertains to method and apparatus for specimen preparation, in conjunction with which at least one specimen surface is produced on a test piece embedded, if required, in a casting-resin mounting medium through chip or slice removal of materia... | 01/03/1978 |
| 3972262 | Printed circuit board support A printed circuit board support as such board is moved through processing operations and including a defined path having guide ways receiving side portions of a carrier for a board being processed and a plurality of fibrous members such as rotatable brush... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3954044 | Over and under milling machine Upper and lower milling cutters scalp the top and bottom surfaces of an ingot as the ingot is advanced between the cutters by a carriage. The carriage comprises a pair of laterally spaced and longitudinally movable slides which support sharp-pointed plung... | 05/04/1976 |
