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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7069632 | Coaxial and concentric cutting machine and a method for use thereof A concentric coaxial cutting machine which cuts cylinders, cylindroids or cones using a chain saw from a single larger object such as a wood tree trunk, a block of ice or a block of plastic. An embodiment of the invention comprises a transverse support member having... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6669541 | Abrading method and holding device A method for grinding, polishing, buffing, scaling, and grooving a finish onto and into a workpiece. This method provides the versatility of a hand held type angle grinder to be used while being supported frog, a clamping device. Also provided is a means ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 5507686 | Brake-disk grinding An apparatus for grinding a metallic workpiece rotating about and centered on an axis and having an annular surface also centered on the workpiece axis has a tool support radially offset from the workpiece axis, continuously rotating about a support axis ... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5500989 | Sliding chip guard for a brake lathe Applicants' invention is an enhanced chip guard assembly particularly adapted to be used in conjunction with a vehicular brake lathe having a tubular slide cross-feed with an integral dove tail mount for longitudinal feed. The enhanced chip guard assembly... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5363597 | Eyelgass lens edging machine Eyeglass lens edging machine with coaxial shaft halves to hold and rotate an eyeglass lens, an edging tool located radially to the eyeglass lens to form a notch or groove at the circumference of the eyeglass lens or to bevel the edge of the eyeglass lens ... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5174071 | Lathe and grinder apparatus with two or more side-by-side arranged manipulator-interfaced dual-spindle units The invention relates to a lathe and grinder apparatus for turning and/or grinding works and for any like machining thereof requiring spindles to be used, which comprises two dual-spindle units (T1, T2), that may be even more than two in number, arranged ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5152104 | Rotor finisher Devices and methods for imparting a nondirectional finish to brake rotors and similar articles. Such devices include two disks which are suspended against the rotor faces. The device suspends the disks with freedom of rotation in all directions and freedo... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5125187 | Mounted non-directional rotor finishing device A device for creating a non-directional finish on a rotor mounted and spinning on a rotor lathe which is transformable from an operating position to a stowed position. The device comprises a U-shaped member with finishing surfaces on the side members of t... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5052254 | Lathe jaw securing device An arrangement to retain jaws of a lathe chuck assembly against movement which includes an annular securing ring having a central opening with a diameter generally equal to the outer diameter of the chuck assembly and where the lathe chuck includes radial... | 10/01/1991 |
| 5018228 | Brake lathe with hand-held grinder and method of grinding A hand-held grinder for applying a swirl finish to a brake disc mounted to a lathe spindle is driven through a flexible drive removably mounted to the end of the lathe spindle.... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4937982 | Positioning apparatus for tool sharpening A positioning apparatus includes a guide frame with a mounting assembly for mounting the frame on the end face of a tool holder so that it projects transversely away from the holder. A levelling or positioning member is slidably mounted in the frame for m... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4468897 | Universal pneumatic grinding bar A universal grinding bar adapted to be connected to a standardized, quick-change tool holder can be devised for use with conventional engine lathes, milling machines and the like and used as a standardized tool without the limitations of direct coupling t... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4266377 | Tailstock device A tailstock device for a grinding machine including a pilot shaft rotatably and axially movably supported by a tailstock base, a tailstock body fixedly supported on the pilot shaft, a center carried on the tailstock body in parallel relationship with and ... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4259940 | Grinding machine with a CBN grinding wheel A grinding machine wherein a novel arrangement is provided to effect truing and dressing on a surface of a grinding wheel made of hard material such as cubic boron nitride. The arrangement comprises a truing wheel coaxially fixed on one end of a work head... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4058937 | Grinder attachment for a lathe A self-contained grinder attachment employs a rigid housing having an electric motor mounted thereon for driving both a grinding wheel and a blower which sucks air and loose particles entrained therein from the grinding area, the shaft on which the grindi... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4044650 | Milling attachment for a lathe A milling attachment for a lathe or the like having a base supported vertical column including a vertical dovetail slot, a block having a dovetail slidably received in the dovetail slot and a vertical adjusting screw rotatably secured to the column and pa... | 08/30/1977 |
