Socket And Slip Wedge Patents (Class 294/102.1)
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Patent number: 11969884Abstract: A gripping mechanism (3) includes a gripping roller (32) and a holder (31) that houses the gripping roller (32). A gripped portion (42) of a first component (4) is gripped between an outer surface of the gripping roller (32) and an inner surface of the holder (31) through action of gravity acting on the gripping roller (32). Preferably, the gripping roller (32) includes a core (321) that is cylindrical or columnar in shape and a covering section (322) that is an elastic body covering a circumferential surface of the core (321). Preferably, the covering section (322) has a circumferential surface with a friction coefficient greater than a friction coefficient of the circumferential surface of the core (321).Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Tomohiko Yamakawa, Koji Izumi, Masaru Takagi, Hayato Mori
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Patent number: 11933125Abstract: A plug retrieval tool includes a mandrel lowerable into a wellbore. A retrieval head is coupled to the mandrel for selectively latching onto a plug. A shroud is telescopically coupled to the mandrel about the retrieval head and moveable repeatedly between an extended position below the retrieval head for displacing debris on the plug and a retracted position for moving the retrieval head closer to the plug to latch onto the plug. A resistance mechanism provides a resistance to moving the shroud each time the shroud is moved toward the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Peter Reid Maher, Colby Munro Ross, Jhess Menard
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Patent number: 11927820Abstract: The specification relates to a fiber optic cable assembly. The fiber optic cable assembly includes: an outer sheath; fiberglass reinforced panels; a pull material; an inner jacket; a strength material; non-interlocking armor; and a tight buffer of optical fibers.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Certicable, LLCInventors: Christian A. Peterson, III, Barry Skolnick
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Patent number: 11905779Abstract: A tubular running tool equipped with a mandrel having an elongated body with a longitudinal axis and configured for suspension above a wellbore. A plurality of slips are disposed on the mandrel. Each slip is configured to receive and retain a swappable insert. Each swappable insert is configured with a gripping portion on a surface thereof. A sensor is configured to detect when a tubular is in a determined position to permit actuation of the mandrel to urge the slips radially outward such that the slips remain parallel to the longitudinal axis of the mandrel and the inserts are correspondingly urged radially outward. A method and system using the tool for running a tubular and providing a makeup torque.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Tubular Technology Tools LLCInventor: Jairo Gutierrez Infante
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Patent number: 11739604Abstract: A convertible fishing tool is provided for removing an object (fish) from a wellbore. The fishing tool includes an elongated hollow main housing and a plurality of slip blades that are disposed distal to the main housing and move radially between fully retracted positions and fully extended positions. In the fully retracted positions, the fishing tool is in spear configuration and in the fully extended positions, the fishing tool is in an overshot configuration. The fishing tool also includes an actuation system configured to move the plurality of slip blades in a radial direction between the fully retracted positions and the fully extended positions.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Abdulaziz Almusa, Bodong Li, Abdulwahab S. Al-Johar
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Patent number: 11725750Abstract: A method of recovering a used pipeline from the seabed to the surface comprises attaching a recovery cap to the pipeline at the seabed to surround an end of the pipeline, and then upending at least an end portion of the pipeline underwater suspended beneath the recovery cap. While the upended pipeline is being lifted toward the surface, hydrocarbon contaminants rising buoyantly from the interior and walls of the pipeline are captured within the recovery cap, floating on water within and surrounding the pipeline. The captured contaminants are then conveyed from the recovery cap to a reservoir that is external to the recovery cap. The reservoir can be lifted toward the surface with the upended pipeline, for example, on a lifting line attached to the recovery cap. The reservoir can expand as it fills with contaminants and as hydrostatic pressure decreases, with gas from the contaminants being vented off.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Subsea 7 Portugal LimitadaInventor: Andre Braz Ferreira
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Patent number: 11504861Abstract: A gripping mechanism includes a pair of inclined surfaces and rolling elements. The pair of inclined surfaces face each other, are inclined in opposite directions with respect to a vertical direction, and approach each other on a lower side. Each of the rolling elements is rollable on the respective inclined surfaces in an obliquely upward and downward direction. An opening space is formed between lower ends of the inclined surfaces, the opening space having a direction Y (horizontal) width smaller than a direction Y width of the respective rolling elements arranged in the direction Y.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Satoshi Ando
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Patent number: 11485614Abstract: Presented are corner attachment assemblies for cargo suspension systems, methods for making/using such assemblies, and aircraft equipped with underbody suspension systems using corner attachment assemblies for securing payload containers. Mounting assemblies are presented for securing objects to tether cables of suspension systems. A representative cargo mounting assembly includes a pair of shoulder clamps, each of which includes a flap that projects from a cup. Each shoulder clamp flap mechanically attaches, e.g., via a flap through-hole with a structurally reinforcing grommet, to a respective segment of a tether cable of a cargo suspension system. In addition, each shoulder clamp cup includes multiple noncoplanar, mutually adjoining contact surfaces. For instance, the cup may have a tetrahedral geometry with three mutually orthogonal, triangular-shaped contact surfaces. Each contact surface attaches, e.g., via a high-strength adhesive, to a respective surface of a corner of a cargo container.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing CompanyInventor: Tony Shuo Tao
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Patent number: 10971857Abstract: A tool 202 for extracting a cable plug 112 from a socket 203 including a cable remover portion 206 which actuates and disconnects the cable plug 112 is described and claimed. Various implementations include a user statically or dynamically actuating and gripping the plug 112 and mechanically or frictionally gripping, or both, the plug 112. In one implementation, the cable remover portion 206 includes a ball detent 302 and catch tabs 320 which actuate the cable clip 208 and catch the cable head 210 so that the plug 112 is mechanically gripped. In another implementation, a translational ramp 800 is supported in the cable remover portion 206 so that a user dynamically moves the ramp 800, which actuates the cable clip 208 and the force of the ramp 800 and cable remover 206 together frictionally grips the plug 112.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Joseph Nguyen, Joel S. Skoglund
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Patent number: 10543573Abstract: A method for straightening, constraining, cutting and terminating a multi-stranded, non-parallel cable. The method includes: (1) dividing the cable into smaller components which are in the size range suitable for the prior art termination technology; (2) creating a termination on the end of each of the smaller components; (3) providing a collector which reassembles the individual terminations back into a single unit; and (4) maintaining alignment between the terminations and the smaller components while the terminations and the collector are in a connected state.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2012Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Bright Technologies, LLCInventors: Richard V Campbell, David W. Hilbig, Kristopher L. Wortham, David E Sediles
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Patent number: 10533696Abstract: The method of providing a latch which is capable of passing a relatively short radius bend in a pipeline and then engaging a fishing neck on a service tool in a pipeline, and after the latch has engaged the service tool having the ability to pass the combination back through the relatively short radius bend in the pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Inventor: Benton Frederick Baugh
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Patent number: 9957669Abstract: A fish plate clamp for unloading rails 1. The fish plate clamp includes a support element (11, 12) with a first piece (11) and a second piece (12) each one located on a face of the rail (1). Each piece of the support element (11, 12) includes an internal mortise (13) in the area of the web (3) of the rail (1). The fish plate clamp also includes a gripping element (14) located in an internal mortise (13) of the support element (11, 12). The internal mortises (13) have an inclined surface (15) in a manner that, when the gripping element (14) moves along the length of the inclined surface (15) of the internal mortise (13) in the direction of the pull of the rail (1), the gripping element (14) latches onto the web (3) of the rail (1).Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Ferrovial Agroman, S.A.Inventors: Jaime Ruíz Escalante, Sebastián Marín Castillo, Carlos Bartolomé Asensio
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Patent number: 9366276Abstract: A restraint system for securing a drilling rig to an off-shore platform. The system having uplift and lateral restraints. The uplift restraints including upper and lower jaws connected by a common pin component. The restraint system may include transverse jaws connected to the upper and lower jaws via the common pin. The number of various jaws can be varied depending upon loading in order to minimize pin size.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Inventor: Scott Dale Oler
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Patent number: 9039056Abstract: A clamp for a tensile implement and method of clamping a tensile implement is disclosed. The clamp is portable and adaptable to different sizes of tensile implements. The clamp includes a cavity defined by side surfaces of a pair of blocks which are attached to a top surface of a grip base. A pair of mated reciprocal wedges, selected based on size of the tensile implement from a plurality of pairs of wedges, fits and slides within the cavity in order to grip the tensile implement. Each one of the wedges has a planar surface for sliding and a semi-cylindrical void which forms a cylindrical void through which the tensile implement passes when fully clamped around the tensile implement.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2013Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Highwall Mining Innovations, LLCInventor: Ralph Whitley
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Publication number: 20150115635Abstract: An oil or gas tool block with an advanced textured coating produced by automated electro spark deposition equipment. A die insert includes a substrate onto which a gripping surface is formed. The gripping surface is a textured coating electro-deposited on the substrate. The textured coating includes a cobalt-based alloy supplied directly by the welding electrode, allowing the continuous build-up of material typically in the range of 0.001-0.040 inches. The cobalt-based alloy comprises a blend of chromium, cobalt, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, and silicon. One or more die inserts, whether blank or textured, can be stacked to form a tool block. In a process for making the die insert, the substrate is texture-coated using electro-spark deposition in two passes, including a first coating pass and a second coating pass. Hard coating may follow to thereby form a gradient of layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Robert R. Freyvogel, Andrew Towns
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Publication number: 20140265395Abstract: A double curved face gripping die for engaging tubular pipe of varying diameters is comprised of opposing mirror imaged curved die surfaces forming a modified V-shape. Each curve die surface has a double curved contact surface of a desired varying radius, the distal ends of the contact surfaces extending outward limn the pipe to avoid pipe contact. The die incorporates the contact strength and flexibility of a V-shaped gripping d with minimal scratching or gouging of the pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventor: Mostafa Elsayed
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Patent number: 8286309Abstract: In one form, the cable termination has a tubular body with an opening into which an end of the median barrier cable is inserted. A wedge gripper includes three sections for gripping the end of the median barrier cable within the tubular body. The wedge gripper has a tapering outer surface that mates with a tapered inner surface of the tubular body and has a toothed inner diameter. A threaded cap is screwed to an end of the tubular body opposite from the cable opening, such that the threaded cap forces the tapering outer surface of the wedge gripper axially against the tapered inner surface of the tubular body to force the toothed inner diameter of the wedge gripper to contract against three lobes of the median barrier cable to grip the median barrier cable.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2009Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Actuant CorporationInventor: Stanley A. Landry
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Publication number: 20110291434Abstract: A grasping device for grasping a lens runner system is disclosed. The grasping device includes a support having a connecting rod, four claws arranged around the connecting rod, a driving sleeve, and an actuator. Each claw includes a first end and a second end opposite to the first end and tapers from the second end to the first end. The first end is elastically connected to the connection rod. Each two adjacent claws define a gap for receiving the lens runner system. The driving sleeve sleeves into the claws from the first end. The actuator is supported by the support and configured for driving the driving sleeve to move relative to the second end.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2010Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: CHIEN-FENG HUANG
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Publication number: 20110233949Abstract: The invention relates to a gripping tool, particularly for a mechanical part, comprising: a bell provided with gripping means facilitating the handling of said bell; a cage coaxial with said bell and rotatable, comprising at least one lateral opening and receiving said mechanical part; three bearing members including at least one movable retractable rotating roller; said bell being provided with at least one slope for varying the centre-to-centre distance between said retractable rotating roller and said bell based on the angular position of said retractable rotating roller, said cage and said retractable rotating roller being interconnected by guiding means arranged to guide said retractable rotating roller, said cage and said guiding means are arranged to enable the radial movement of said retractable rotating roller such that the axis thereof can pass through the wall of said cage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: GILLET GROUPInventor: Fabrice PETIT
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Patent number: 7992909Abstract: A single joint elevator for releasably securing a tubular segment for hoisting the tubular segment into position to be threadably coupled to a pipe string suspended in a borehole. The elevator comprises two pivotally coupled jaw retainers securing jaws for engaging and gripping the tubular segment. A powered door is pivotally coupled to a first jaw retainer for selectively securing the second jaw retainer. The powered door includes a pivotable collar, a linear actuator assembly, and a linkage mechanism for selectively closing the door and clamping the distal end of the second jaw retainer to the distal end of the first jaw retainer. The actuator assembly clamps the jaw retainers with sufficient force for the jaws to grip and support the tubular segment for lifting.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Frank's Casing Crew and Rental Tools, Inc.Inventors: Vernon Joseph Bouligny, Jr., Scott Joseph Arceneaux
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Patent number: 7762343Abstract: An apparatus for handling pipes, the apparatus, in certain aspects, having a body having a tapered surface and at least a first slip and a second slip slidable on the tapered surface, a slip actuator for setting said at least first slip and said second slip, said first slip and said second slip having interengaging elements such that upon actuation of said slip actuator, said first slip is set and said second slip is set by the interengaging elements transferring setting force from the slip actuator through said first slip to said second slip; and methods for using such an apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2004Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Varco I/P, Inc.Inventors: Leendert Adriaan Marinus Sonneveld, Antonius Dimphena Maria Krijnen, Albert Patrick Jozef Maria de Pont, Michael Antoon Herman Schats, Cornelis Wilhelmus Jacobus de Laat, Johannes Wilhelmus Henricus van Rijzingen
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Patent number: 7682270Abstract: A device to remove an archery arrow or arrowhead from a target or receiving support is fitted to a knife at one or more suitable points and comprises a gripper which can be fitted to and/or receive an archery arrowhead or arrow that penetrates the target or the receiving support. The device installed on a knife is employed to grip the arrow or arrowhead so that the knife can be pivoted like a lever such that the tip of the knife rests on the target or receiving support. In this way, the arrow or arrowhead can be removed by tilting the knife.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2005Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Inventor: Edouard De Buyer-Mimeure
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Publication number: 20090230707Abstract: A removable device which slides over the top edge of a sheet to be picked up and carried, and which clamps the sheet when the handle is lifted, forming a single secure handle temporarily attached to the sheet for carrying without marring the sheet, at a handle height suitable to enable most workers to lift the sheet using mainly leg muscles in an efficient, safe and ergonomically sound mannerType: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2008Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventor: Mark Scherger
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Patent number: 7490882Abstract: A clamping device suitable for lifting and handling of sheet like-objects has a fixed jaw parallel to a movable jaw. The movable jaw is supported for reciprocating, linear movement towards and away from the fixed jaw responsive to a tensile actuating force. The movable jaw comprises a clamping plate inclined at an angle of about 8 to 12 degrees with respect to first and second clamping surfaces. The clamping plate maintains said angle during movement to and from the fixed jaw. A tensile force transmitting member is guided and supported at an upper location of the clamping plate that substantially aligns with or overhangs the second clamping surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2003Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Abaco Machines (Australasia) Pty, LtdInventors: Hoa Nhon Nguyen, Hau Nhon Nguyen
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Patent number: 7219399Abstract: A clamp for a cable having a housing with a first end, a second end, and an interior cavity to receive the cable. The clamp also includes a jaw assembly having a notch. The jaw assembly moves between locked and triggered positions within the cavity. A biasing member is disposed within the cavity to bias the jaw assembly towards the triggered position. A retainer is arranged within the cavity and has gripping fingers to engage the notches in the locked position. A trigger is positioned within the cavity. The trigger has an outer locking portion to engage with the gripping fingers to releasably secure the gripping fingers in the notches to retain the jaw assembly in the locked position. When the cable is inserted into the interior cavity and contacts the trigger device, the gripping fingers and notches disengage so that the biasing member biases the jaw assembly towards the first end of the clamp to clamp the cable.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventors: Carl R. Tamm, Robert G. Hay, Stanley R. Siegrist
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Patent number: 7156436Abstract: Camping device suitable for lifting and handling of sheet like-objects, having a rigid frame configured to straddle an edge region of sheet-like objects, the frame including a stationary jaw and a frame housing defining a gap between them in which the sheet-like object may be received, the stationary jaw providing a first clamping surface, a movable jaw supported at the frame within the gap for movement towards and away from the stationary jaw, the movable jaw providing a second clamping surface, and an actuating carriage arranged to transmit a clamping force, the carriage being located between the movable jaw and frame housing for reciprocating movement along a longitudinal axis of the device on actuator tracks present at the movable jaw and frame housing, at least a portion of one of the actuator tracks having an inclined portion devised to bias the movable jaw towards the stationary jaw as the actuator carriage is caused by the clamping force to be displaced along the inclined portion, whereby the respectiType: GrantFiled: March 7, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Abaco Machines (Australasia) Pty LtdInventor: Nhon Hau Nguyen
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Patent number: 7125195Abstract: Locking bracket for a slider in a dovetail slot (3), where a further dovetail slot (4) is arranged perpendicularly to the first dovetail slot (3), in which a locking bracket (5) can be displaced from a position whereby the glider is locked by the locking bracket (5) to a position where the glider is free to be moved passed the locking bracket (5) and that a screw (6) captures the locking bracket (5) through a countersunk hole in the locking bracket (5), whereby the locking bracket is maintained or released by loosening the screw (6).Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2002Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Inventor: Øystein Hagen
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Patent number: 7059644Abstract: Cable supported hook apparatus provides a U-shaped upward facing opening for transporting a truss. A cam pivotably mounted opposite the opening has a serrated edge opposite a handle. A slot in the opening permits a spring to urge the cam from a released orientation to an engaged orientation with the serrated edge extending through the slot. In the released orientation, a knob retractable spring driven pin extension can extend through a hole in the cam and secure it in place. In use, the handle is first used to rotate the cam to the released and secured orientation. After engagement with the truss, the extension is retracted by the knob which permits the cam to engage the truss. After transportation a release cable rotates the cam to the released and secured orientation to free the truss.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Inventor: Roy E. Neufeldt
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Patent number: 6994385Abstract: An arrow extractor presents a plate having a shelf thereon for placement along one side of an embedded arrow shaft. A locking block on the opposed side of the shaft is movable from a first release position to a second locked position against the shaft so as to clamp the arrow therebetween in a friction fit therewith. Upon pulling on the handle the embedded arrow is extracted from the target. In lieu of a shelf, opposed locking blocks may be used which are slidably movable into position to clamp the arrow shaft therebetween. A handle extends from the plate and is positioned relative to the axis of the clamped arrow shaft so as to effectively transmit the pulling forces exerted on the handle to the clamped arrow shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2003Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Inventor: John M. Sigears
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Publication number: 20040094982Abstract: Cable supported hook apparatus provides a U-shaped upward facing opening for transporting a truss. A cam pivotably mounted opposite the opening has a serrated edge opposite a handle. A slot in the opening permits a spring to urge the cam from a released orientation to an engaged orientation with the serrated edge extending through the slot. In the released orientation, a knob retractable spring driven pin extension can extend through a hole in the cam and secure it in place. In use, the handle is first used to rotate the cam to the released and secured orientation. After engagement with the truss, the extension is retracted by the knob which permits the cam to engage the truss. After transportation a release cable rotates the cam to the released and secured orientation to free the truss.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2002Publication date: May 20, 2004Inventor: Roy E. Neufeldt
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Patent number: 6652016Abstract: A forceps is described which is self-locking and is used for raising slabs. It is of the type which has two jaws in hard steel which are reciprocally hinged so that they may be closed or opened with automatic locking when they come in contact with the product to be moved. The forceps is characterized by the fact that it is composed of three elements, precisely a fixed body (2), a cam (3) and a movable carriage which holds the cam, and in which the fixed jaw comes in contact in a gripping manner with the pushing force generated by the counterposed cam thus achieving in this manner the closure of the product being raised.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: Europromecc Engineering S.N.C. di Trevisan Fabio, Seghetto e SbaboInventors: Enrico Sbabo, Fabrizio Seghetto, Fabio Trevisan
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Patent number: 6547481Abstract: A spring-loaded wedge dead end connector includes a connector body having a base and a pair of opposite jaw guides formed on and protruding outwardly from the base and defining a guide channel therewith, a pair of jaws mounted between the jaw guides and on the base of the connector body for undergoing slidable movement within the guide channel thereof along converging paths from an open position for receiving a segment of an electrical conductor therebetween to a closed position in which the jaws provide a clamping wedging engagement with the electrical conductor segment disposed therebetween, a plurality of complementary elements formed on the jaws such that the complementary elements directly and slidably interfit with one another so as to ensure that the jaws are coupled to one another to undergo their slidable movement together, and a plurality of retention elements for preventing removal of the jaws from the connector body.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventors: Karl D. Grabenstetter, Justin C. Andrikanich, Waymon P. Goch
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Patent number: 6508497Abstract: An overhead clamp-type gripping device for gripping a load from above, includes a carrier frame which is movable in a vertical direction and has support elements positioned on both sides of a center plane and extending downwards from the carrier frame for movement relative to one another. The support elements have longitudinal guides which define an upwardly open angle with respect to the center plane. Received in the longitudinal guides of the support elements is a gripper unit which includes gripping elements for laterally contacting a load.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2000Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Mannesmann AGInventor: Klaus Nerger
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Publication number: 20020149218Abstract: Transporting device for large heavy fabrics, having an elongated hollow rail or an elongated hollow section with an axial, slot-like insertion opening, which extends over the entire length, and a hook element which is arranged approximately in the longitudinal center of the hollow section and opposite the opening, and a clamping roller which is arranged in the interior of the hollow profile, the clamping roller being of a substantially elongated, cylindrical design, and an actuating device in order to move the clamping roller away from the opening in the hollow section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2001Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventor: Franz Gartner
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Patent number: 6425617Abstract: In a gripper mechanism for devices for handling sheet-like or plate-like articles, particularly for mail-processing machines, simple and reliable setting for the handling of light, thin and also heavy, thick articles can be effected by the use of pivotable gripper claws on the gripper hand provided at the end of a pivotable gripper arm, by virtue of the fact that a plane which is oriented approximately perpendicular to the gripper arm longitudinal axis, and in which the contact area between articles to be handled and a pivotable gripper claw also lies, is at such a distance in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the gripper arm from the pivot axis of this pivotable gripper claw that an additional pivoting moment acts on the latter in the closure direction, generated under the effect of tensile forces which seek to remove the articles to be handled from the gripper claws when these are closed, as a result of which articles of widely varying weight and varying thickness are at all times gripped securely.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: July 30, 2002Assignee: Pitney Bowes Technologies GmbHInventors: Martin Sting, Christian Botschek
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Patent number: 6416100Abstract: In a gripper mechanism for devices for handling objects in the form of sheets or plates, simple and easy operability of the gripper claws of pivoting gripper arms into the open position for adjustment purposes, test purposes and the like is achieved in that a manual operating element made of plastic is connected in the gripper claw operating drive between an operating lever which is mounted on the relevant gripper arm such that it can pivot, and a coupling linkage which is connected to one of the gripper claws which can pivot, and this manual operating element can pivot on the operating shaft of the gripper claw operating drive in such a manner that the claw can be caused to open easily while the machine is at rest, without any risk of injuries.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Pitney Bowes Technologies GmbHInventors: Martin Sting, Christian Botschek, Rainer Oberheim
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Patent number: 6357162Abstract: A device (10) having a cylinder housing (12) with a bore (12a) receives a piston sleeve (14) in which a tapered bore is formed in radially movable sections extending from the piston head. A rope gripping split sleeve (16) having a tapered outer circumference and formed of separable sections which are radially movable but maintained in axial alignment is received in the tapered bore of the piston sleeve. A rope is placed in the split sleeve which is inserted in the piston sleeve and in turn in the housing bore. A valve (18) disposed in the head (14a) of the piston sleeve allows piston movement inwardly but resists outward movement of the piston, allowing a metering fluid flow providing a timed release of the rope dependent on the force level applied. In a second embodiment device (100) includes a piston rod (122) attached to the piston sleeve which extends through a guide plug (116) into a compression chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1999Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Inventor: Frank A. Torngren
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Patent number: 6220638Abstract: A carrying assembly for carrying and/or transporting planar objects is disclosed. The carrying assembly includes a handle with a cross member, a support member and a support assembly which secures a planar object within the carrying assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2000Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Inventor: John Carroll