Remark Technologies, Inc.

Other

Textron Innovations Inc.

Ingersoll Cutting Tool Company

Rockford Products Corporation

Rockford Process Control, Inc.

Rodney Mark Kramer

William F Nordlin

In accordance with one aspect, a lawn sweeper for being towed by a lawn tractor including a body, a rotatable brush mounted to the body, and a motor for rotating the brush independently of the rotation of at least one wheel of the lawn sweeper. The lawn sweeper further includes a remote control for being operated by a user of the lawn tractor to control the motor. In another aspect, a lawn sweeper having a pair of wheels rotatable about a wheel axis, a body shiftable between raised and lowered positions relative to the wheels, and brush mounted to the body and rotatable about a brush axis. The brush axis is substantially vertically aligned with the wheel axis when the body is in the raised position and the lowered position.

Lawn sweeper

A clamping assembly includes a first jaw having a plurality of alternating grooves and lands formed thereon, a second jaw having a plurality of alternating grooves and lands formed thereon, and a spring provided between the first and second jaws. The jaws are pivotable relative to each other. The jaws are attached to a draw stud. The draw stud is formed from an elongated cylinder which has a conventional thread form formed on one end thereof and a plurality of alternating grooves and lands formed on the other end thereof. The alternating grooves and lands formed on the jaws mesh with the alternating grooves and lands formed on the draw stud to mate the jaws with the draw stud.

Clamping assembly of a knockout punch

A movable utility rack is provided. The utility rack presents an ergonomic and easily accessible configuration to a user. One embodiment of the movable utility rack includes a base frame and first and second spaced apart track assemblies mounted on the base frame. The first and second spaced apart track assemblies have a curved shape and each define a channel at a first radius of curvature. A first support member is carried by the first track assembly within the channel thereof, and a second support member is carried by the second track assembly within the channel thereof. A drive arrangement is operatively connected to the first and second support members to move the support members within the channel defined by each track assembly along an arcuate path that has a second radius of curvature that is substantially equal to the first radius of curvature.

Movable utility rack

A coupling device is provided including a first coupling member or portion and second coupling member or portion where the second coupling member is configured to releasably engage the first coupling member. The second coupling member includes a locking sleeve or locking sleeve assembly slideably mounted on a cup body with the sleeve capable of being shifted toward an opening of the cup body to an unlocked position that permits insertion of the first coupling member into the second coupling member. The sleeve has an inner surface that covers and protects a fastening element positioned within bores of the cup body in both the locked and unlocked positions thereof. In one form, the locking sleeve assembly includes a locking device which restricts the sleeve from inadvertently shifting toward the unlocked position.

Coupling device and method

An insert is disclosed for use in cutting tool applications having two major faces and at least two cutting edges. The insert is indexable by repositioning the cutting insert from one face to the other face. The inserts may be mounted in a seat formed in a fixed cutting tool. The seat has a major seating surface for mounting the insert and for receiving a retainer at a predetermined angle. In one form, the seat may also have dovetail walls oriented to engage side walls of the insert and to reduce the shear force against the retainer during contact between the insert and a rotating workpiece. The fixed tool has reliefs and a tip pocket to protect an unused cutting edge on the insert.

Indexable cutting tool insert for cutting tools

An insert for use in a cutting tool having two truncated, wedge-shaped faces, and at least two edge surfaces. The insert also has a retainer hole extending through the insert at a predetermined angle to accommodate an insert retainer. The insert is indexable by repositioning the cutting insert from one face to the other face. The inserts are disposed in a plurality of circumferentially-spaced seats about a working end of a cutting tool body. Each seat has a major seating surface for mounting the insert and for receiving a retainer at a predetermined angle. The seat also has a minor seating surface oriented to engage an edge surface of the insert and to reduce the shear force against the retainer during rotation of the tool body. The tool body has angled chip pockets, resulting in more inserts per cutting tool diameter and a greater cross-sectional tool body.

Indexable cutting tool insert and cutting tool

The present invention comprises a machining apparatus including a work piece holder having an adapter body with an axial bore and a translating portion located within the axial bore of the adapter body. The translating portion has a proximal end for coupling with a retention knob collet of a spindle and a distal end for attaching to a collet. The work piece holder includes a retaining piece coupling the adapter body and the translating portion allowing the translating portion to move axially within the adapter body. The apparatus facilitates a rotating spindle grasping and rotating a work piece to be brought into contact with a processing tool held stationary on a work table. The present invention also includes a fixture block for attaching milling tools and other devices to a work table and a method of operating a milling machine utilizing the fixture block and work piece holder.

Machining apparatus and method of using same

The specification and drawings describe and show a thread-rolling die whose thread-forming lands are modified at their points of emergence along the side edge of die so that the crest of the ramp formed by the emerging end of the land remains parallel to the crest of the adjacent land.

Thread-rolling die

A small diameter endmill and cutting insert therefor especially adapted to endmills of small diameter, e.g., three inches or less, by virtue of a cylindrically convex flank surface of radius of curvature preferably greater than the radius of the cutting path of the endmill.

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Rockford, IL, United States of America

Rodney Mark Kramer