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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7568880 | Micro-manipulator A compact micro-manipulator with low energy consumption accurately and quickly positions a micro-material in a visual field of a microscope. A micro-manipulator operable to grip micro-material by bringing leading ends of the gripping fingers in close proximity inclu... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7350587 | Pipe guide A guide is disclosed for facilitating the movement of tubulars in well operations. In one aspect, the guide is a pipe guide with a base, an upper extension apparatus, a lower extension apparatus with a first end pivotably secured to the upper extension apparatus and... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7344352 | Workpiece transfer device A workpiece transfer assembly for manipulating one or more workpieces, such as semiconductor wafers includes a plurality of coacting arms that include one or more arcuate portions corresponding to an outer diameter of a workpiece. The arcuate portion has a workpiece... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7249637 | Method and device to clamp control lines to tubulars The inventions relates to an apparatus for connecting a control line to a tubular string. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a guide boom pivotable around a location adjacent the string and with a guide member at an end thereof to guide the control line. The ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7214025 | Lifting apparatus for scaffold and method A lifting apparatus to facilitate lifting and maneuvering of a scaffold or the like by a forklift is provided. The lifting apparatus includes two identical portions, each portion including two end structure portions and a backbone portion. The end structure portions... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7204535 | Lifting apparatus Apparatus for gripping and lifting objects such as fence posts. A frame carries a pair of grippers that are slidingly movable along the frame to grasp a post or other object. The grippers may pivot so that the object remains in essentially constant vertical orientat... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7121781 | Surgical instrument with a universal wrist A robotically controlled endoscopic medical instrument that includes an end effector coupled to a wrist. The wrist provides two separate degrees of freedom about the same pivot point. The end effector can be moved and actuated by pins. The pins allow for a compact m... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7111419 | Thumb for a backhoe A digging implement (10) including an extendable linkage (12) including a bucket (14) and a thumb assembly (34) for holding materials in the bucket (14). The thumb assembly (34) is configured to rotate as the linkage (12 | 09/26/2006 |
| 7014412 | Fork and jaw grapple A fork and jaw grapple having two forks and a jaw for wedging under, prying up, gripping, moving and handling materials. The forks have tips with angles for prying between and under materials. The jaw being a hydraulically actuated upper jaw that moves about a pivot... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6722843 | Material handling apparatus A material handling apparatus includes a frame attachable to a front-end loader vehicle. A tine is attached to the frame, and a top clamp arm is pivoted to the frame and extends over the tine. The clamp arm is movable between a closed position where teeth on a forwa... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6676125 | Actuator-gripper control A pre-gripper driving device for a pre-gripper cyclically driven oscillatingly and serving for transporting individual sheets in a sheet-processing machine, includes sheet grippers disposed at a free end of a rocking lever pivotable about a pivot pin fixe... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6616399 | Gripper arm assembly An improved gripping arm assembly including a two-piece gripper arm body construction which includes an arm clamp having alignment pins, and an arm main body with corresponding alignment holes for receiving the clamp pins, and a means for securably attach... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6601891 | Grapple attachment A grapple attachment is presented for use with motorized vehicles. The grapple attachment is comprised of upper and lower jaws having a plurality of elongated, substantially angular tines that are adapted for dislodging, lifting and carrying whole concret... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6592315 | Self-feeding apparatus with hover mode A robotic self-feeding device uses a multiplicity of dishes, utensils and control methods to handle a wide variety of food, including sandwiches. Its operating sequence has a hover mode in which a utensil is automatically steered over a food holder and is... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6494515 | Pole handler attachment The pole handler attachment includes a base frame that is pivotally attached to an arm of an earth moving machine for pivotal movement about a transverse horizontal axis. A trunnion is fixed to the base frame. A sleeve is journaled on the trunnion for piv... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6484601 | Bellows actuation device, specially for robotic manipulator, and method to operate said device An actuation device uses, for the active element, a flexible bellows operated by a pressurized fluid (usually, but not necessarily, at a pressure higher than the ambient one). The bellows is housed, for the most part of its length, inside a cylindrical ca... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6176531 | Grapple system The grapple system of the present invention is intended for use with a front-end loader or other type equipment which specialize in gripping and moving heavy loads. The grapple system includes a stationary jaw assembly that is comprised of a series of spa... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6092971 | Wafer gripping device adapted to swivel wafers taken from a horizontal position in a storage container For removing and transporting several spaced, parallel wafers stored in a container, a gripping device is provided. The gripping device has a holding rake and several gripping heads which can be rotated with respect to the holding rake. In one swivel posi... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5865492 | Hydraulic grapple assembly with side rotation mechanism A hydraulic grapple assembly couples to a link pivot and to a dipper pivot of an arm of an equipment. The assembly includes a grapple having a fixed jaw and a movable jaw. The fixed jaw extends in a direction substantially parallel to an imaginary line dr... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5820333 | Twin gripping apparatus for loading component This invention discloses a twin gripping apparatus for loading components comprising of two grippers, each composed of two pairs of fingers, disposed at an angle of predetermined value so that the components are held and carried to and from a work station... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5729920 | Attachment for a grab implement A grab implement comprising a fixed part (31) and a movable part (30) pivotally coupled thereto to form a grab, the fixed part (31) having a continuous rear wall member (2) and a continuous floor member (4) projecting forwardly therefrom, the floor member... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5628611 | Metallic waste disposal device for industrial machinery A metallic waste disposal device for industrial machinery, wherein a working unit attached to the distal end of a movable arm of a construction machine is provided with a permanent magnet assembly which attracts and disposes of metallic wastes produced wh... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5486085 | Bladed vehicle with load gripping arms A vehicle having an earth moving blade equipped with log gripping devices at the ends thereof. The log gripping devices consist of a mounting assembly which is attached to the rear of the earth moving blade. Mounted on the assembly is an arm which in its ... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5292079 | Concrete breaker with protective cover A lower jaw 4 is tiltably connected to the front end of a swing arm 3, an upper jaw 6 openably and closably connected to the lower jaw 4, a hydraulic cylinder 8 interposed between the upper and lower jaws to open and close the jaws, and a protective cover... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5244338 | Gravity-steered grapple A gravity-steered grapple is created by retrofiting the boom plate of an excavator which has a longitudinally rotatable boom. The grapple includes a freely-turning, swivel joint with an axis of rotation which is offset from the center of the grapple jaws ... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5230151 | Heavy duty shear head and mounting support A heavy duty shear attachable to the boom of a mobile machine, such as a backhoe, comprises a support structure of welded steel plate construction, and a shear head of steel plate construction mounted on the support structure and having pivotally intercon... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5199845 | Article handling machine An article handling machine comprises a base, a support supported at its lower end portion on the base rotatably around the vertical axis of the base, an arm having the proximal end portion pivoted to the upper end portion of the support, and an article-p... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5197193 | Apparatus for cutting an article into sheets An apparatus for cutting an article into sheets includes an upper jaw pivotally mounted to a lower jaw. The lower jaw includes three coplanar cutting edges, and the upper jaw includes three cutting edges which cooperate with those of the lower jaw. Longit... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5184934 | Gripping device and method of use A gripping device for use in combination with a front-end loader for lifting and transporting heavy objects, comprising a slot-entering jaw means, second jaw means, jaw adjusting means to effect movement of one of said slot-entering jaw means and said sec... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5183366 | Rod handler apparatus An extendable boom assembly is mounted on a platform or a base for longitudinally pivotally moving a drill rod between a rod rack and a drill rig in a position in alignment with the drill string axis regardless of whether the drilling direction is vertica... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5150936 | Grapple assembly for attachment to workhead A quick connect grapple attachment including a first grapple jaw that attaches to one jaw of a work head and a second grapple jaw that attaches to another jaw of a workhead with the first grapple jaw and the second grapple jaw pivotally connect to each ot... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5114301 | Rotator for backhoe equipment A rotator for use on backhoe boom to rotate attachments thereon relative to the boom. The rotator has a main support frame pivotally secured to the boom with a rotating extension mount onto which the attachment is secured. A rotary joint for hydraulic con... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5103551 | Machine for holding workpiece For holding a plurality of different, in shape, workpieces, a holding unit comprises a laminated body with a number of thin identical shaped elongate plates which have one ends forming a workpiece supporting surface, a vibrator unit for moving the elongat... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5062227 | Device for breaking objects consisting of concrete or similar material The invention relates to a device for breaking objects such as concrete or similar material, which device is provided with a pair of jaws having teeth which are pivotable relative to each other about a pivot pin. The device is designed to be coupled to th... | 11/05/1991 |
| 5040776 | Automatically operating system for taking up and discharging cloth articles or portions thereof from ironing apparatus A system for taking up and discharging ironed cloth articles from ironing apparatus comprises a column mounted on a base and supporting an articulated rotary arm at one end of which there is mounted a ball member for engaging an ironed cloth article and r... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5018937 | Shearclip-handling tool A robotic tool is provided for temporarily positioning shearclips against structural members. The device incorporates a movable jaw linkage which provides sufficient clamping force for withdrawing a shearclip from an adhesively retained position in a stor... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4936743 | Hydraulically controlled gripper tool A hydraulically controlled gripper tool for positioning, mounting and retrieving parts in poorly accessible locations and areas, such as in nuclear power plants, includes a support body. A pivot shaft is supported on the support body in a given plane. A b... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4911491 | Modular bale handling apparatus with plurality of bale pick-up devices Bale handling apparatus comprises a main frame including transverse supports and devices mounted on the main frame for picking up bales. These bale pick-up devices comprise a plurality of substantially identical modules which are transversely adjustably m... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4897921 | Metal cutting shear with changeable multiple cutting edge portions A material handling and metal shear attachment for a backhoe is mounted on the boom or dip stick of the backhoe for actuation by the hydraulic system of the backhoe. A fixed blade is pivotally secured to the boom or dip stick and a movable cutting blade i... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4808062 | Apparatus for picking up rocks An apparatus for picking up rocks, which attaches to an agricultural tractor and functions to pick up rocks located on or partially embedded in the soil of a field, is provided. The three embodiments disclosed all function in a similar manner with one fix... | 02/28/1989 |
