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Examiner: Butler, Rodney


Primary examiner statistics: 234 patents; average approval time: 574 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 354 patents; average approval time: 653 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6299084 Feeding device for fibrous material
6296553 Grinding method, surface grinder, workpiece support, mechanism an...
6293133 Method of rolling finished sections from preliminary sections in ...
6286354 Rolling mill and rolling method and rolling equipment
6260397 Rolling mill with roll deflection bi-dimensionally controlled
6260395 Vertically oriented apparatus for bending tubing, and method of u...
6261158 Multi-step chemical mechanical polishing
6257040 Method for controlling a hydraulic rotary and feed drive for a co...
6257034 System and method for preventing scale defects during hot rolling
6257039 Paper clamp press
6253592 Rolling apparatus for bars and method for rolling bars
6250120 Apparatus for rotatably supporting the neck of a roll in a rollin...
6250124 Steel pipe bending apparatus and method
6250126 Plate rolling mill
6247998 Method and apparatus for determining substrate layer thickness du...
6247345 Bending block for four-high rolling stand
6244090 Roll mill with bending means for the working rolls
6244943 Surface-processing apparatus
6241577 Lens grinding apparatus and lens grinding method and component th...
6240763 Automated rolling mill administration system
6241170 Industrial shredders and novel components therefor
6237384 Method of and installation for shaping a metal strip
6237385 Method of cooling a rolled stock and a cooling bed for effecting ...
6237386 Progressive wire forming system
6237387 Entrance roller guide apparatus
6233994 Apparatus for and method of processing billets in a rolling mill
6233996 Driving mechanism for industrial installations, in particular for...
6233995 Forming tool for a bending brake
6231428 Chemical mechanical polishing head assembly having floating wafer...
6230534 Process for manufacturing a cold rolled stainless steel strip hav...
6227025 Rolling method using rolling guide
6227471 Feeding element for fibrous material
6223574 Thin-walled ring-shaped member and method of manufacturing same
6223575 Tube forming machine using three point bending
6223580 Method and apparatus for continuous monitoring and amplitude adju...
6220070 Shearing and coiling assembly for hot rolled stock
6220941 Method of post CMP defect stability improvement
6220071 Method and apparatus for controlling strip edge relief in a clust...
6220069 Method and apparatus for bending tubing
6216518 Method of adjusting position in bar steel rolling mill and roll p...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6161412 Multi-strand finishing block
6065319 Rolling mill with laterally different velocities
6058754 Rolling train for rolling flat steel
6053022 Modular rolling mill
6041637 Roll replacing method and system for chockless rolling mill
6038903 Dual headed bending machine
6026669 Discrete and coiled plate production
6023957 Universal roll stand with a divided housing on the operator side
6023955 Device for the bending of springs for spring interior mattresses
6014882 Process and device for rolling out the ends of a coiled strip in ...
6003354 Extrusion rolling method and apparatus
5983693 Rotary press with cut off apparatus
5960663 Method and means of temperature control
5953947 Method and apparatus for forming a profile in a wall of a hollow ...
5950474 Bending apparatus
5950468 Resin film laminated steel sheet for can by dry forming
5950473 Coil spring forming and conveying assembly
5943891 Silencer shell forming apparatus
5937689 Triple roller entry guide
5937685 Method and apparatus for linear spring
5937686 Bending apparatus for hollow double-structured pipe
5937688 Adjustable side guide with quick change strip heater assembly
5934130 Rolling mill drive apparatus, rolling mill and rolling method
5931040 Rough rolling mill train
5927128 Roll stand arrangement for single strand rolling
5927127 Reversing compact installation for cold rolling strip-shaped roll...
5927123 Coil spring shaper
5927125 Methods and apparatus for manufacturing helical products
5927124 Apparatus for bending and cutting tubing, and method of using sam...
5924316 Method of manufacturing pipes having sections with different wall...
5924319 Roll crossing, offsetting, bending and shifting system for rollin...
5924318 Plant capacity of optimizing method for use with Steckel mill
5921128 Method and apparatus for cold rolling tubes
5921127 Hot strip rolling mill
5921126 Metalworking dies with soft metal lubricant platings
5918496 Adjustable clamp die for tube bending machine
5911784 Sizing roll stand for a steel mill
5911783 Adjusting device for the rolls of a calendar
5910184 Method of manufacturing hot-rolled flat products
5907967 Wire rod cooling
 
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