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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7347244 | Membrane applicator A membrane applicator comprises a wheeled carriage adapted to ride on a surface to be covered with the membrane. A roll mount system is provided on the carriage to support a roll of membrane thereon. A press roll is mounted to the carriage for pressing the membrane ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7204290 | Apparatus for removing cover of golf ball from core A cover peeling machine includes a pair of rolls. The roll has an almost conical shape. Both of the rolls are rotated in a reverse direction. The direction of the rotation is an inward direction as seen from above. A golf ball is put close to a tip of the roll. In t... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7004219 | Roller for automated fabric layup An apparatus for automated fabric lay-up of composite laminates 10 is provided, including an automatic dispensing assembly 12 dispensing pre-preg fabric 14 in a dispensing direction 30. The apparatus 10 further includes a roller el... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6947696 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a transfer roller pressed against an image carrier for transferring an image from the image carrier to a recording medium being conveyed via a nip between the transfer roller and the image carrier. The transfer roller is positione... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6931814 | Devices for positioning and tapering the edges of adjacent wallboards and methods for using same An apparatus is disclosed for reshaping a butt joint formed by a pair of adjacent butt edges of mounted wallboards. The apparatus has tapering means, which includes a body with a pair of beveled surfaces for contacting and simultaneously tapering the adjacent butt e... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6719286 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same To provide a sheet conveying apparatus of low cost and high durability and also to provide an image forming apparatus having the same. A sheet S1 is pinched and conveyed by a metal driving roller having roughness provide on its surface and a pinch roller comi... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6665512 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a transfer roller pressed against an image carrier for transferring an image from the image carrier to a recording medium being conveyed via a nip between the transfer roller and the image carrier. The transfer roller i... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6540428 | Caulking roller and sintered flanged pulley caulked by the caulking roller A sintered, flanged cam pulley includes a sintered cam pulley body and an annular flange caulked to the sintered cam pulley body. The sintered cam pulley body has at an end portion thereof an axial annular projection and a stepped portion formed on an out... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6443064 | Mounting printing plate cylinder having tapered bore to untapered rotatable drive shaft A printing plate or decorator cylinder has a tapered bore for engaging the tapered outer surface of a sleeve member which is mounted on an untapered rotatable cantilevered printing press or decorator drive shaft and the sleeve is adjustably coupled to the... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6357433 | Machine for cutting brittle materials A machine for cutting brittle materials includes a mandrel or shaft (200) having a first portion (310) with a taper, a sleeve (400) having an inner surface (410) and an outer surface (420) where the inner surface has the taper and is located adjacent to t... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6238209 | Hearth rolls for heating furnace and soaking furnace of vertical heat treating furnace and vertical heat treating furnace including hearth rolls A vertical heat treating furnace for passing a metal strip, therethrough for heat treatment and a hearth roll applied to a heating/soaking furnace of the vertical heat treating furnace are disclosed. The hearth roll can be configured such that the taper a... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6049970 | Z-fiber pinning tool The present invention is embodied in an tool and method for structurally applying fiber stiffeners to a material. The tool inserts a plurality of fibers embedded in a transfer material through a hat stiffener and into a substrate and includes a first head... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5995792 | Developing roll device of an electrophotographic processor for preventing frictional erosion of the developing roll in surface portions thereof A developing roller for use in an image forming apparatus using an electrophotographic process. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum having a transcribing roller cleaning device; the developing roller disposed between a transcribing ... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5960226 | Roller for use in wet processing apparatus The roller comprises a core (56) having an elastomeric covering which comprises an outer exposed region (60) and an intermediate region (58) positioned between the outer region (60) and the core (56). The outer region (60) has a thickness which decreases ... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5943722 | Surface treatment device A contact cleaning machine for removing particulates and other undesirable debris from the surfaces of articles moving along a curved path under the cleaning machine, without disturbing the orientation of the articles which cannot be clamped against movem... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5943951 | Press roll for treating a material shaped in the form of a web Flexible press sleeve for a press roll for treating a web includes an inside surface including a longitudinal press area adapted to be pressurized with a press shoe by directing pressure radially outward, and a flexible section on at least one end of the ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5862560 | Roller with treading and system including the same A method and apparatus for rotating wafers in a double sided scrubber where a rotating roller imparts rotary motion to a semiconductor wafer during a double sided cleaning process. The rotating roller and wafer contact at their outer edges and the frictio... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5784961 | Method and apparatus for mounting a printing sleeve onto a printing roll A printing sleeve for a rotogravure or flexo printing roll is provided that as a slightly conical or tapered geometry wherein the inner diameter at one end is slightly smaller than the inner diameter at a second end. Similarly, the printing roll is provide... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5728252 | Method and apparatus for laminating image-bearing media A laminating roll for laminating a layer of protective coating to an image-bearing layer, has a generally cylindrical metallic core and a generally cylindrical compliant and resilient covering surrounding the core. The core and covering both having positi... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5689788 | Heat and pressure roll fuser with substantially uniform velocity A heat and pressure roll fuser is disclosed for fixing powder images to various substrates. Each of the rolls has a deformable outer layer. One of the rollers is crowned such that its center has a larger diameter than its ends. The other roller has a unif... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5571327 | Continuous hot dipping apparatus and slide bearing structure therefor A continuous hot dipping apparatus which comprises a slide bearing structure of a bearing and a roll shaft which is of a combination of a ceramic material and a solid lubricant material, and which has good wear resistance and long term durability. A heat ... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5546175 | Image fixing device and method thereof The present invention provides an image fixing device for fixing toner on a transfer member comprises a heat roller which is a hollow cylindrical member rotatably supported at both end portions and having heating means inside thereof, pressure means press... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5533822 | Recording apparatus with easily assemblable roller According to the present invention, a feeding mechanism comprises feeding members to contact with a recording medium and exert a feeding force to the recording medium, holding portions for holding the feeding members in predetermined positions, and a shaf... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5484371 | Ball and socket joint for interconnecting a ceramic roller to a bearing A ceramic roller, including of a shell and a shaft passing through the shell characterized by at least one ball-and-socket joint between the shell and the shaft. At least one end cap is placed at an end of the shell and mounted on the shaft. A ball-and-so... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5450181 | Fixing device In a fixing device, a core material of a fixing rotating member has two largest-diameter portions respectively located between a central portion and each end portion of the fixing rotating member, within a region where a recording material of a largest si... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5420678 | Pinch roll for a release material delivery system A fuser apparatus for heat fusing toner images to print substrate comprising an elongated fuser roll and an elongated pressure roll. The pressure roll is supported for pressure engagement with the fuser roll to form a nip therebetween adapted to receive s... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5319430 | Fuser mechanism having crowned rolls A roll fuser assembly including a fuser roll and a pressure roll. The rolls are crowned and are supported in pressure engagement with each other to form a fusing nip. The pressure engagement of the rolls eliminate nonuniform nip loading in wide fusers as ... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5177867 | Method for fitting a roll-ring to a roll axle, and a roll-ring mount for carrying out the method A method for securing a roll-ring onto the end of a roll-axle, comprising prefitting a roll-ring onto a roll-ring mount, and securing the mount with the roll-ring fitted thereon, onto the end of a roll axle. Securement is effected by passing one single sc... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5174003 | Guiding roller for threads A guiding roller for threads, in particular elastomeric threads, on textile machines, in particular knitting machines, includes a shaft which carries the guiding roller and is supported at its ends on both sides of the guiding roller in bearing recesses. ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5130754 | Conveying rotatable member and conveying apparatus Disclosed is an image forming apparatus with an image forming device for forming an unfixed image on a recording material and; first and second rotatable members for forming a nip for conveying the recording material supporting the unfixed image. The seco... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5001820 | Roll for rolling mill Axially extending liquid-tight tapered spaces are defined in the barrel of a roll body. Tapered pistons are fitted in the spaces for engagement and disengagement with a bore inner surface defining the tapered spaces. A liquid under pressure is supplied th... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4955221 | Rolling mill for making a rolled product, especially rolled strip During operation of a rolling mill the roll gap and roll shape change, because of the influence of heat, bending of the working rolls or the roll mounting, wear and the like, and must be compensated and/or balanced to make a planar product, particularly a... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4930202 | Roll with a bent shaft A roll comprises a roller, having the circumference changing in length, mounted on a roller shaft which is bent with a central portion and both outer portions in different plane directions free of load. The roller forms at least one axial flat line along ... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4908898 | Cleaning roller in bowling lane maintenance system A cleaning roller rotatably driven to wipe off a liquid cleaner applied to a floor by an applying roller includes a core rotatably supportable at the opposite ends thereof and a resilient body mounted about the core and having one end inwardly spaced away... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4881396 | Rolling mill stand with axially slidable rolls A rolling mill stand with work rolls which are supported as necessary by back-up rolls or by intermediate and back-up rolls. The rolls are axially slidable relative to each other. The bodies of the rolls are provided with alternatingly concavely and conve... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4881310 | Overhung roll assembly Disclosed is an annular roll for use in combination with a roll shaft having a tapered portion and an end portion, the roll surrounding the tapered shaft portion and having circumferentially spaced keys in an outer face thereof, an abutment engageable wit... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4872246 | Roll with an arched shaft A roll comprising a curved shaft upon which is rotatably mounted an elastic roller which has its circumference increasing progressively from its center to its ends. This results in the roll having a part which is axially straight or slightly curved. The a... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4870731 | Roller for removing or imparting shrinkages on a metal or cloth sheeting A roller comprising a roller surface layer whose diameter progressively diminishes from its central portion toward the opposite ends, and an arched roller shaft for rotatably supporting the roller surface layer, thereby ensuring that the sheeting is subje... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4856313 | Method of controlling strip crown in planetary rolling Method of controlling a strip crown in a planetary mill line, comprising the steps of rolling a slab by using a shaped feeding roll or rolls before passing between planetary rolls to shape a slab profile in the direction of the width of the slab having a ... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4817410 | Roll for mill A roll for a mill includes a roll shaft having a tapered portion disposed intermediate opposite ends thereof. The tapered portion has an outer peripheral surface tapering axially of the roll shaft. A ring of a wear-resistant material is disposed around th... | 04/04/1989 |
