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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5836225 | Method and apparatus for processing chopped fibers from continuous tows Apparatus for processing chopped fibers from essentially continuous tows, each consisting of individual strands, comprises independently or selectively feeding at least two tows to a venturi pump and associated cutter mechanism where the tows are cut or c... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5813301 | Punching tool A punching tool for a press, includes a punch guide having a stripper plate at a lower end thereof. A punch body is formed with a blade portion at a lower end thereof and disposed within the punch guide for up and down movement. A punch driver includes a ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5810233 | Device for separating blanks from a sheet of cut blanks A device for removing blanks which have been cut into a sheet of paper or cardboard and are separated from each other by intermediate strips and are surrounded by a crosswise frontal and a crosswise back strip and two lengthwise side strips. The device in... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5791222 | Tool for cutting an open-profile setion, particularly a gutter A tool including two flat parallel flanges (2 and 3), defining between them a space (4) which corresponds to the thickness of a cutting blade (5) and including two symmetrical slots which have profiles that are roughly identical to that of a gutter (7) so... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5782156 | Flexible die and supporting cylinder An improved flexible die and cylinder for mounting such die. The flexible die consists of a substantially planar, flexible, sheet of metal which has been etched to form a cutting edge. The ends of the die include a plurality of spaced holes for mounting t... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5778538 | Hand power tool with adjustable foot plate A hand power tool comprises a motor housing, a foot plate adjustably arranged on the motor housing, a chip removing tool, a suction device for aspirating chips and dust and provided in a space between the motor housing and the foot plate, a clamping devic... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5752679 | Self-supporting nonconductive cable stand A stand, comprised of adjustable parts provides a structure for utility cables to be set upon so they can be spliced or repaired. The stand is designed to be placed on flat or semi-flat surfaces without additional support. Constructed primarily from non-c... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5749279 | Hydraulic punch actuator with centering apparatus A punch has a hydraulic actuating system incorporating reciprocal pumps and a reciprocal motor. The motor drives a punch secured to a punch plate or retainer into a die to cut friction pads from a sheet of material for placement in a carriage or directly ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5740613 | Trimming device with ergonomic handle bar A trimmer has a drive motor, a cutting tool, and a drive shaft connecting the drive motor and the cutting tool. A protective tube encloses the drive shaft. A connector is provided for connecting a handle bar, having a first and a second section, to the pr... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5740714 | Rotary blade clamping assembly A blade clamping assembly for use with a rotary cylinder is designed to allow a quick change of a perforating blade, cutting blade or scoring blade. The assembly comprises an elongated retainer bar, an elongated backing plate and at least one compressive ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5735054 | Fixture for a table saw A self-adjusting accessory for a table saw that includes a guide for sliding in the guide groove of the work supporting table of a table saw and which is biased against the edge of the guide groove which is closest to the cutting blade. The guide bar is u... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5727435 | Severance control for sinuous wire forming machine Apparatus for cutting, from a continuously extending sinuously formed wire, a variably selected predetermined length thereof having a plurality of sinuously formed generally identical coils, which apparatus comprises a frame, a mechanism on said frame for... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5727434 | Circular saw air table A table saw is disclosed comprising a main saw unit and an air table attachment. The air table is mounted adjacent a main support surface of the main saw unit, and includes a body portion and a generally planar table top. The body portion has a plurality ... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5720096 | Power tool with locking fence A locking fence for a power tool such as a chop saw, or for a work surface of a workbench, is capable of being moved to a selected location on the chop saw base or work surface and oriented at a selected angular orientation relative to the chop saw blade.... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5720105 | Utility knife with multi-purpose blade A utility knife (10) incorporates a handle (12) and a multi-purpose blade (14) with multiple sharpened cutting edges (48, 50 and 52) to facilitate making various types of cuts without changing grip, positions, knives, and/or blades.... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5718158 | Bagel holder A bagel holder includes a housing with an open upper end and a bottom wall which arches upwardly in its center. Forward and rearward walls of the housing slant towards one another from their upper edges to their lower edges to form a general wedge shape t... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5713259 | Saw disc for a high speed hand sawing machine A high speed hand tool includes a saw disc having less than ten teeth, preferably four. Each tooth has a radial flank, which preferably inclines forward in the cutting direction, and a tangential flank, which has a small clearance angle. The teeth may hav... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5706997 | Apparatus for applying surgical fasteners A surgical stapling or fastening instrument for applying surgical fasteners to tissue having an adjustable closure mechanism to linearly approximate the distance between the jaw members of the instrument. The adjustable closure mechanism consists of an ad... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5699706 | Apparatus for cutting a non-metallic magnetic component from a strip of non-metallic magnetic material useable on a rotor or the like An apparatus for cutting a non-metallic magnetic component from a strip of non-metallic magnetic material useable on a rotor or the like includes a pair of blocks placeable in juxtaposed position to form a support frame having a predetermined length. Each... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5697276 | Food slicing guide A food slicing device that holds food, particularly bread, in place while slicing. The bottom of the bread loaf is pierced to hold the loaf in place while slicing. Adjustment plates provide for varying slice width, or duplicating a slice of standard thick... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5694694 | Rideless scissors with an adjustable load transverse to the pivot axis on a pivot joint and a hinged handle An improved scissors includes a pivot joint having a pivot axis, a first blade member having a first cutting edge and a longitudinal axis, and a second blade member having a second cutting edge. The second blade member is pivotally coupled by the pivot jo... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5695105 | Apparatus for cutting a web at a predetermined length and supplying the same A cutting roller having cutting blades and a receiving roller are provided downstream of pulling-out rollers for pulling out a web, and the web passing between them is cut. Accelerating rollers rotated at a transmitting speed higher than that of the pulli... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5692426 | Floating miter box for cutting cooperable joint pieces A miter box assembly includes a miter box having a flat base and upwardly projecting side walls with slots in the side walls for receiving a saw blade. The miter box includes a forwardly projecting flange with a first aperture therethrough and a rearwardl... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5692305 | Rideless scissors with an adjustable load transverse to the pivot axis on a pivot joint A scissors includes a pivot joint having a pivot axis, a first blade member and a second blade member. The first blade member has a first cutting edge, a longitudinal axis, and a pivot joint hole. The pivot joint hole being inclined at least 1.0 degree re... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5690010 | Apparatus in forging machine to cut material A shear die is axially divided into a pair of die portions 18,19 between which a holding cavity 22 is formed, wherein the holding cavity has a diameter that is less than that of material "a" so that when one of the die portions is forced against the other... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5687628 | Guiding device for wood cutting A guiding device for wood cutting includes a positioning member, a guiding member, and a member for releasably securing the guiding member to the positioning member and allowing relative pivotal movement between the positioning member and the guiding memb... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5687629 | Pilot device for a suspended knife of a cutting machine for cutting sheet material An automatically controlled cutting machine for cutting multiple layers of fabric sheet material spread out on a cutting table, the cutting machine including a cutting tool which is rotatable about a Z-axis and which includes a cutting knife mounted on a ... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5687625 | Pilot device for a suspended knife of a cutting machine for cutting sheet material An automatically controlled cutting machine for cutting multiple layers of fabric sheet material spread out on a cutting table, the cutting machine including a cutting tool which is rotatable about a Z-axis and which includes a cutting knife mounted on a ... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5680978 | Baby bottle liner dispensing cabinet A baby bottle liner dispensing cabinet including a housing enclosure having a front housing member, including a dispensing slot, hingedly connected to a back housing member that is positionable in combination with the front housing member to form an inter... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5680999 | Shredder A shredder comprising a frame, at least two rotatable shafts supported in parallel by the frame, a plurality of cutting blades, each of the blades including a mount which is fixed to one of the shafts and has an outer peripheral side, and a number of tip ... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5678798 | Swing away support bracket A swing support bracket assembly for mounting support pads to wheelchairs. The assembly includes a housing, an axle mounted for rotation in the housing, a toggle pivotally mounted in the housing and having a tapered protrusion adapted to engage a cooperat... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5673602 | Method and apparatus for making perforations continuously A perforator has a rotary drum. A plurality of die sets are arranged at regular intervals around a peripheral surface of the drum and circulates along with the peripheral surface. Each of the die sets has a pair of die and punch. The die is secured to a d... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5673603 | Device for cutting advancing material webs to shape A device for cutting to shape advancing material webs, in particular made of fibrous materials, comprises a rotatingly driven shape cutting roller and a rotatingly driven counter cutting roller. The shape cutting roller has a shape cutting edge and the co... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5671648 | Rotary microtome with horizontal sweep A microtome having a rotatable platform and a fixedly mounted cutting blade which is disposed perpendicularly to the axis of a shaft about which the platform rotates. With each rotation, it carries the specimen holder beneath the blade. The height of the ... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5666731 | Opening device for plastic packages A hand held device for cutting through shrink-wrapped packaging surrounding a package such as a compact disc case, which will allow the user to more easily remove the compact disc case from the packaging. The hand held device includes a cutting blade size... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5664474 | Bread slicing guide A bread loaf retainer and slicing knife guide comprising a horizontal support surface and a surrounding vertical rim, the support surface having a plurality of spaced, upwardly projecting, bread loaf penetrating protrusions to retain the end of a loaf of ... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5657919 | Modular fastener driving tool with noise reducing structure The powder actuated tool has a modular construction which comprises: a firing pin module; a pistol grip module; and a fastener driving module. The firing pin module and the fastener driving module are readily detachable from the pistol grip module so that... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5651299 | Method for scoring a tamper-indicating plastic closure A method and apparatus for vertically scoring a tamper-indicating plastic closure includes a rotatably-driven carousel which includes mandrel assemblies at the periphery thereof. Each mandrel assembly includes a rotatable mandrel on which a respective clo... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5647259 | Clamp for holding logs during the production of toilet paper rolls or the like A clamp is shown for holding a log of paper while a log-saw or cutting machine cuts shorter lengths of toilet-paper rolls or rolls of kitchen towels or similar all-purpose wipers from the log. The clamp is arranged adjacent a seat or support for the log a... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5647256 | Punch unit including an adjustable punch The punch unit is comprised of a punch driver connected with a punch and has a base at its rear end. Securing members keep the punch and the punch driver free of relative rotation during the stroke of the punch. A pre-loaded compression spring can be comp... | 07/15/1997 |
