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Patent No. 6293874

User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks

An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.

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Class 72/15.3 - Sensing work or product (e.g., by X-ray)


Subclass of Class 72 - Metal deforming
Definition: Subject matter including detecting a characteristic of the
No. of patents: 13
Last issue date: 09/21/2010


NumberTitleIssue Date
7797975Tooling system
An element (10) for use in a tooling system which comprises a plurality of elements arranged in an array, the elements of the array being movable between a closed position in which the elements contact one another and are secured in position, and an open posi...
09/21/2010
7698922Permanent invisible magnetic tags with digital data
A permanent invisible magnetic marking and positioning system of unfinished ferrous rods, bars, workpieces, and the like. A midpoint, center or other point of the workpiece is automatically located and a high-energy pulse is applied for installing an embedded magnet...
04/20/2010
7003999Deformation on thin walled bodies
A thin walled body such as a container (1) is gripped at a holding station and tooling (10) is engaged to deform the wall of the body at a predetermined zone. The predetermined wall zone is co-aligned with the tooling (10) by means of coordinate...
02/28/2006
6823708Sheet metal bending system provided with a press brake and a sheet metal support device and a method to prepare its control data and a computer readable storage medium that stores its control data
A computer readable recording medium which stores control data to control the action of a sheet metal bending system which is provided with a press brake and a sheet metal support device, where the press brake is provided with a punch and die which bends the sheet m...
11/30/2004
6688147Panel curving machine
A panel, formed from a perforated face (102), is respectively concavely and convexly curved by seriatim stretching or contracting its flanges (104a, b; 156a, b). Such stretching and contracting is produced by placing the opposed flanges within jaw halves ...
02/10/2004
6338263Method for manufacturing embossed can body, inspecting apparatus used for manufacturing embossed can body, and inspecting method used therefor
A method for manufacturing an embossed can body with a pattern printed on an outer surface of a cylindrical can barrel includes a plastic working step for forming a flange portion and a neck portion at an opening peripheral edge of the can barrel, and an ...
01/15/2002
6233988Bending method and bending apparatus for bending machine
A bending method and bending apparatus directed to avoiding the risk of die breakage and damage to ram coupling parts due to an abnormal condition of a ram drive shaft and directed to achieving high-accuracy bending in which a uniform bend angle can be pr...
05/22/2001
6164105Method and device for measuring a mechanical characteristic of a long metallic product method of continuously producing a long product, and product obtained
Measurement of a mechanical characteristic of a long metallic product. The long product is passed through at least one turn of an electromagnetic coil energized with a variable current, the impedance of the electromagnetic coil is measured continuously an...
12/26/2000
6003353Bending method and bending apparatus
For the purpose of making it possible to estimate the spring back angle and/or final driving position of the driving die with good accuracy even if there are some variations from lot to lot in the material characteristics values, and thereby achieve bendi...
12/21/1999
5535611Process for the permanent bending of deformable bodies
A method of permanently bending a first part of a subject body having non-linear elastic properties about a bending line to a desired angle relative to a second part of the body in which a first set of data is produced from similar bodies of the amount of...
07/16/1996
4672549Coil spring forming machine
A coil spring forming machine control system. The system controlling the coil parameters of length, pitch, and diameter....
06/09/1987
4024646Vane gauging and aligning machine
Apparatus for simultaneously gauging and aligning movable elements to a preselected standard is particularly applicable to structures such as guide vane assemblies wherein a plurality of vanes or airfoil elements are supported in radially spaced apart rel...
05/24/1977
3948076Automatic process and aligning apparatus having a plurality of aligning stations
Method and apparatus for automatically straightening elongated and at least partly rotationally symmetrical workpieces by applying a sequence of straightening strokes to a workpiece at each of a plurality of straightening stations to counteract a deformat...
04/06/1976
 
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