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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7275405 | Straight drawing machine Rectilinear drawing machine for drawing material, especially bars, pipes or sections, with at least two movable drawing cars which are driven on a path, one run being assigned to each drawing car, and the runs can be fixed in a variable manner. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258053 | Hot dog slicer A food slicer 10 of the present invention contains a hollow body 12 having an inner wall 13 defining an interior 17 and an outer wall 15 for containment of a food product therein. A plurality of blades 32 extends across the ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7207250 | Process and device for moving and positioning sheets of glass In a system for cutting glass sheets into shapes there is at least one cutting site (A, B). In order to align the glass sheet which is to be cut or the glass sheet shape into a defined position, on the edge of the tables I and II there are contact edges (21, 44, ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7146892 | Cutting installation with two gripper beams displaceable in opposite directions A cutting installation for a fabric web comprising an unwinding unit, a downstream dancer unit serving as a buffer, and a downstream cutting frame with a cutting unit disposed thereon. At least two gripper beams extending parallel to the cutting unit and guided alon... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7096769 | Automatic top slice removal device An automatic top slice removal device includes a frame, a lower conveyor belt and an adjustably mounted upper conveyor belt extending generally parallel with and spaced from the lower conveyor belt. A meat product slicing device includes a blade interposed between t... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7055419 | System and method for optimizing slices from slicing apparatus A method for optimizing yield from a slicing apparatus, includes scanning and weighing a carcass, slab or loaf upstream of a slicing head of the slicing apparatus. The carcass, slab or loaf weight is divided by a desired pre-selected portion weight to determine the ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7036410 | Transversely cutting and conveying a web A gripper pulls a web off a supply downstream through upstream and downstream clamps. The upstream clamp is closed on the web and a piece is cut off its end. Then the gripper is moved back upstream to form the cut-off piece into a dependent loop while the lower part... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7029261 | Automatic cover latch and pressure relief system for a dough divider A dough divider including a hopper with a lid, latch assembly and press plate. The lid has an open and closed position. The latch assembly is adapted to maintain the lid in the closed position when activated and to discontinue maintaining the lid in the closed posit... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6979153 | Deep-grooving insert having stepped cutting edge A deep-grooving chip-forming cutting insert includes a rear mounting portion, a front cutting portion, and a pair of side walls, each side wall extending along the front and rear portions. The front cutting portion includes a front end surface, a top surface, and a ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6901832 | Method and apparatus to remove pieces cut from a bar-shaped workpiece with a cutting machine A method to remove pieces (14) cut off from bar-shaped workpiece material (5) by a cutting machine (1) is provided as well as an apparatus to carry out this process, wherein the piece (14) of the material (5) to be cut lies on a ma... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6766719 | Method and apparatus for removing a plurality of die-cutted products from an operating area of a die-cutting apparatus having multiple dies The invention describes a method and an apparatus removing a plurality of die-cut products from an operating area of a die-cutting apparatus having multiple dies. The die-cut products are simultaneously picked up at a pick-up point in the operating area. Then they a... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6655045 | Apparatus and method for pick and place handling This invention relates to a method and apparatus for pick and place handling of electronic components that have been formed on a common substrate and then separated on a cutting chuck. A transferring means is provided formed with openings for receiving se... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6601489 | Cutting and transporting a sheet workpiece An apparatus for cutting sheets from an elongated workpiece is operated by first closing a pair of grippers on a workpiece leading end in an upper station and then cutting off the leading end of the workpiece to leave a sheet held in the grippers. The gri... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6557446 | Apparatus for cutting and sorting diagnostic strips Diagnostic strips of the kind which are exposed to biological fluids such as blood or urine to detect or monitor medical conditions are cut sequentially from elongated cards by a reciprocating shear blade. The cards may be ones which exhibit defective are... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6460440 | Cutting apparatus A cutting apparatus can make a length of a remainder material of a work as short as possible and can use one work effectively. The cutting apparatus has a main stock vice mechanism holding a work to be cut at upstream side and downstream side of a cutting... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6264456 | Suture cutting system An apparatus for cutting an indefinite length suture strand to uniform lengths for subsequent threading and swaging to a surgical needle includes a drawing tower having at least one guide member defining a drawing axis parallel thereto. First and second g... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6230596 | Method of and apparatus for conveying flat pieces of a web An apparatus for advancing positions of a web material has a first transporter at which the pieces are separated from a web, a clamp which transfers the pieces to the plane of a second transporter and a second transporter operating in this plane in a dire... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6216572 | Machine tool for machining sheet metal A machine for punching sheet metal, and having a worktable beneath which are located two stores for storing blank and machined sheets. Over each store, the worktable has a respective opening, which is closed selectively by a respective movable closing dev... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6145421 | Method and apparatus for carrying out the annealing step of a galvannealing process A method and an apparatus for sorting out short lengths in light-section finishing lines, including a cutting device, for example, a cold shear, which has a cutting plane, wherein the cutting device is followed by a driven roller conveyor with a length st... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6076255 | Apparatus for manufacturing needle attached sutures This invention relates to a needle attached suture manufacturing method and apparatus capable of cutting a suture exactly at the same length, with a simple construction and high efficiency. A transport/holding device 42 holds a suture Y and transports the... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5989116 | High-speed bone-in loin slicer A meat slicing apparatus is disclosed, wherein the apparatus is capable of high-speed slicing of meat having large skeletal bones therein. The apparatus has a blade composed of a steel alloy that is approximately 5 to 10 times greater in compression stren... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5943765 | Device for making stitching thread attached with a needle An object of this invention is to provide a needle attached suture manufacturing apparatus, with a simple construction and reduced cost, capable of assuredly inserting the lead end of a suture in an insertion hole formed in the end of a needle before the ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5885051 | Workpiece transfer equipment in dicing machine A wafer is gripped by a chuck part provided at a front end of a slide arm, and the slide arm is moved in the first direction from a reference position, from which the workpiece is transferred to a workpiece cutting part, to a cleansing position, where the... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5806396 | Automatic fabric pattern matching apparatus An automatic fabric pattern-matching apparatus for, a fabric (MA) which has a pattern continuous at least in the lateral direction and which is unwound and spread from a wound fabric (M) and is fed from one end thereof in the longitudinal direction of the... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5726422 | Apparatus with moving clamp for making surgical sutures, and method for using same An apparatus for making a surgical suture which includes a moving clamp for griping surgical suture material. The moving clamp has a gripping state and a non-gripping state. A heating station is provided for heating a length of surgical suture material. A... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5613417 | Apparatus and method for forming a groove in a board In order to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of forming a groove in a board, an apparatus and method are disclosed. The apparatus includes a station for feeding the board from a supply of boards, a table for supporting the board upon receipt from ... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5487216 | Control system for an automatic needle-suture assembly and packaging machine An apparatus for automatically forming a plurality of needle-suture assemblies out of a plurality of unsorted needles and an indefinite length strand of suture material, and, automatically positioning them within a package tray, comprises a first machine ... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5485668 | Needle and suture swaging method A swaging station incorporates a drawing tower that automatically draws, cuts, and inserts an indefinite length strand of suture material within the suture receiving end of a surgical needle for swaging thereof. The suture receiving end of the surgical ne... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5483857 | Workpiece finishing and presentation machine A workpiece finishing machine feeds a plurality of interconnected workpieces, in the form of a feedstock bandolier, to a cutting cylinder wherein individual workpieces are separated from the bandolier by a cutting punch. The separated workpiece is subsequ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5477609 | Needle and suture swaging station A swaging station incorporates a drawing tower that automatically draws, cuts, and inserts an indefinite length strand of suture material within the suture receiving end of a surgical needle for swaging thereof. The suture receiving end of the surgical ne... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5473810 | Needle-suture assembly and packaging system An automated machine for attaching a suture to a surgical needle having a suture receiving opening formed therein, and for packaging the same in a package tray comprises a first workstation including a device for sorting a plurality of needles and orienti... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5445053 | Sheet cutting and placing apparatus, related method, and related package An apparatus and a related method are disclosed for cutting a sheet from flexible film wound on a roll and for placing the sheet on a pallet or on a layer of one or more boxes on the pallet. The roll is mounted so that it is rotatable about an axis parall... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5375493 | Method and apparatus for feeding separator sheets to a stack An apparatus for feeding separator sheets (20) to a stack is disclosed. Separator sheets (20) made of paper or another material are disposed between carton layers (19) of a pallet (13) loaded with cartons (10). The separator sheets are produced by a separ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5203244 | Device for cutting up a component of a nuclear reactor The device comprises a support (9) provided with means (12) for its demountable fastening to the reactor structure (1) above and vertically in line with the component (3), a turret (10) mounted rotatably on the support (9) about its vertical axis, a devic... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5189934 | Apparatus for cutting and removing portions from a material web Arrangement for production of sections cut out from a material web (18), such as sections for articles of clothing. It comprises a carrier element (19) with a deposit surface (17) for the material web (18), an automatic cutter (16) which is displaceable o... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5111722 | Belt-shaped member supplying method and apparatus The belt-shaped member supplying method and apparatus are used for cutting a long material paid out of a winding roll into a belt-shaped member of a predetermined length and supplying the belt-shaped member onto a winding drum by means of a transfer devic... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5088364 | Workpiece handling system, particularly cut-off pieces from rod or rail-shaped stock material, and method To provide for efficient handling of stock material (40) and cut-off elements (41), which may be workpieces or cut-off wedges, by a cut-off saw, with miter adjustments, a positioning finger (21) is pressed against the stock material to engage the stock ma... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5061967 | Electrophotographic recording apparatus An electrophotographic recording apparatus records an image on a recording paper, either a cut recording sheet or a continuous recording paper, through steps of feeding the recording paper along a paper feed plane exclusively for the recording paper, stop... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4987808 | Tubular sleeve handling and cut-off system A system for handling a flexible thin wall tubular extrudate of an elastomeric material of the type used as a body ply element for the manufacture of tires, and for cutting-off a predetermined length sleeve of the extrudate and delivering the sleeve to a ... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4919028 | Shearing machine The present invention relates to a shearing machine in which the upper shearing blade can be easily adjusted and positioned. The upper blade is held on a pivotal plate member which is pivotally held on a ram by means of a hinge means to be rotated to adju... | 04/24/1990 |
