Actor Marlon Brando has four patents, all named "Drumhead tensioning device and method."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7536940 | Clean booth and sheet conveyor device A clean booth has a conveyor area for carrying recording sheets, and a motor drive area for containing motor and mechanical parts that emit much dust. The conveyor area and the motor drive area are covered respectively, and separated by a frame plate. Moreover, fan ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7321806 | Combined trimming and skiving of stock Cutting and skiving patterns to be used in the production of product rolls from a master roll are selected so as to optimize trim efficiency. The product rolls have widths ordered by customers. In selecting these cutting and skiving patterns, cutting patterns that c... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7255337 | Oscillating transport unit for post-processing device A post processing apparatus for processing image-recorded sheets, having: a transporting unit for transporting a booklet comprising a plurality of image-recorded sheets; a trimming section for trimming the booklet; and an oscillating mechanism for oscillating the tr... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7213493 | Infeed apparatus for a sheet material article trimmer An infeed apparatus for a sheet material article trimmer includes a pusher element for moving a sheet material article to be trimmed on a front table of the trimmer and into engagement with a backstop of the front table. The pusher element is moved by a driver which... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7124673 | Horizontal cutter of double-bodied bottles attached to each other at the neck A horizontal cutter of double-bodied bottles attached to each other at a neck which comprises means (2) for advancing the bottles (3) and a cutting device (1) of the neck of the bottles. The cutting device (1) comprises a pair of blades (... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7090071 | Conveyor system A conveyor system including a suppressing device which moves to a position below a driving sprocket to suppress hanging down of a chain moving in a direction opposite a conveying direction. The suppressing device includes: a pair of supporting plates respectively fo... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7065880 | Hot dog slicer A housing with elongate chambers for hot dogs and transverse guide channels extending all the way through the chambers, a longitudinal blade assembly having sets of four radially arranged longitudinal blade sections positioned within the chambers and connected to ea... | 06/27/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6929114 | Crossover conveyor system A crossover conveyor system that allows people to safely cross over a portion of a conveyor line is disclosed. The crossover conveyor system includes a frame that has at least a first side member and a second side member. A plurality of rollers may be connected betw... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6758133 | Device for slicing foodstuff An apparatus for slicing food products having a cutting knife which is driven in a rotary manner. The cutting plane of the knife extends perpendicular to the product support surface of a product supply device. ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6325952 | Continuous gasket making machine and method A machine for continuously making gaskets and similar flat products. Sheet gasket material is fed from a roll and through tooling that successively: cuts the outline, separates the center scrap, then separates the gaskets from the remaining sheet stock wa... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6074113 | Tape printer having a cutter with a guide mechanism A tape printing device which receives a tape cassette that accommodates a printable tape. The tape cassette includes a housing having a wall portion which is arranged to support the tape during a cutting operation which is performed with a cutting mechani... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5865589 | Bale feeder The present invention provides a bale feeder for breaking down large cylindrical bales of hay and like animal feeds and spreading it in rows for feeding. The bale feeder comprises a feeder body, a bale lifting means for lifting and positioning a bale with... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5550033 | Mold plunger and method for embedding tissue samples A method and apparatus for preparing tissue samples for subsequent slicing in a microtone, utilizing a thermally transmissive body and removable mold heads to facilitate encapsulation of tissue samples in a gelatinous substance so that the samples may be ... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5460068 | Apparatus for cutting ice cakes into blocks An improved apparatus for cutting conventional pound ice cakes into rectangular blocks suitably sized to be received by commercially available snow-cone shaving machines and the like. An ice cake is placed horizontally upon a tiltable table and then, usin... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5439490 | Method for use in a multiplication process of plants and a device for carrying out said method There are disclosed a method and a device with which growing points can be cut out of a plant by means of a laser source. The plant is present on carrying means thereby, said carrying means comprising tubes, through which the plant is sucked onto the end ... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5241887 | Cutting device for cutting food products, in particular sausage, ham, bacon, meat, cheese and such Known are cutting devices for cutting food products with a base plate, an orbital-driven circular knife, a product feed unit and a counterknife. The invention proposes a height- adjustable distance of the circular knife to the counterknife along the cutti... | 09/07/1993 |
| 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 |
| 4957022 | Pipe slitter Method and apparatus are disclosed for cutting a slit along the length of a pipe in such a manner that expansion of a diameter of the slitted pipe is possible without creating a gap at the slit. This is accomplished by advancing the pipe to be slit past a... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4916992 | Apparatus for cutting laminated sheet material A laminate cutting apparatus has a support belt supported on a frame for reciprocating horizontally in the longitudinal direction, independently lowerable support plates juxtaposed in the longitudinal direction and retained on the frame for supporting the... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4757599 | Pallet dismantler A machine which separates pallet boards from their connecting stringers by sawing essentially through their attaching nails only, thus minimizing damage to the boards so that they can be reused. In order to separate and loosen the boards so that only the nails... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4590833 | Automatic feed for food-slicing machine A slicing machine has a table defining a horizontal and flat support surface having an outer edge and a blade displaceable transversely along the edge. Thus when the blade moves along the edge a slice is cut from an elongated foodstuff projecting longitud... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4512228 | Automatic sausage slicing machine for salami and like products An automatic sausage slicing machine for salami and the like comprises a framework carrying an electric motor which drives an orbital blade and a feed device for continuously feeding a line of products to be sliced towards the path of displacement of the ... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4411180 | Process and device for introduction of a continuous yarn in a cutting machine An apparatus and process is described for deflecting a continuous yarn moving along a first to a second path to lay flat on a surface of an upstream roll of a pair of rolls at least adjacent a cutting zone defined by the circumferential contacting surface... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4392403 | Portable pallet apparatus A portable apparatus that can be wheeled to a pallet supported by a conveyor for selective removal of nails that interconnect the stringers with the deckboards. The portable apparatus has a platform that is moveable in a vertical direction to position the... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4345497 | Film slitter A film slitter is described including means for supporting a blade in an unexposed condition. The slitter comprises a support which is selectively slidably mounted on a supporting member. The support is provided with an elongated slot extending downwardly... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4169397 | Device for processing a fibrous cable continuously fed at a high speed A method of processing a fibrous cable fed at a high speed comprises the steps of braking the cable by coiling it on a stationary cylinder and simultaneously discharging at a low speed the lower cable windings by exerting downward pressure on the upper wi... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4165663 | Vertical bandsaw machine work feed A vertical bandsaw machine having a feed mechanism with a driving component movable in opposite directions in response to the application thereto of hydraulic fluid pressure. A workpiece engaging element urges the workpiece towards the cutting blade in re... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4114488 | Apparatus for feeding and checking separated longitudinal subjects Apparatus for moving uniformly colored elongated objects, such as raw potato sticks, peeled raw carrots, etc., past sensing equipment. The sensing equipment scans the elongated objects for areas which deviate in color from the essentially uniform color th... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4084465 | Sugar cane planter A sugar cane planting machine for eliminating the excessive manual labor previously required to plant sugar cane stalks. The uncut stalks are loaded in the rear of a tractor-pulled cart at the bottom of which is positioned a conveyor-like belt for moving ... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4034636 | Method and apparatus for placing a multi-ply layup of sheet material on a work table A lay table is placed adjacent to a cutting table with the tables in end-to-end relationship so that layups of limp sheet material may be prepared on the lay table and then be moved onto the cutting table for a cutting operation. A sled formed by a low fr... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4022091 | Machine for dressing continuous web materials in stretched condition on a plurality of frames A machine is disclosed for dressing in stretched condition continuous web materials on a plurality of frames, the machine comprising means for moving the continuous web through a given path intersecting the path of empty or stripped frames, provided with ... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4008639 | Device for severing a veneer sheet A device for severing a veneer sheet comprising a veneer sheet feeding means, a cutter member pivotally disposed on the feed-out side of said veneer sheet feeding means and having an edge portion adapted to work on the side of the fed-in veneer sheet duri... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3935773 | Apparatus for conditioning component leads Box capacitors are loaded onto an in-line track feeder with the capacitor leads extending downward between a pair of tracks. Vibration of the tracks moves the capacitors thereon so that the capacitor leads pass between the meshing teeth of a drive gear an... | 02/03/1976 |
| 3933067 | Cutter device for cutting thermoplastic material A cutter device for cutting thermoplastic material may be truck mounted, and includes lifting means to present articles of thermoplastic material to a portion of the device which receives the articles and hydraulically operates to transfer the article to ... | 01/20/1976 |