Diamond Machine Werks, Inc.

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Walter R Krevald

Robert R Schenck

Brad Farrell

Peter D Urasky

A torque head assembly and method of capping effective to cap a variety of trigger spray cap bases or common caps to a spray bottle or container includes a drive roller mounted on a drive gear. The drive gear is in meshed gear communication with a plurality of train gears enclosed within a generally C-shaped driver housing wherein the a distal train gear engages a driven gear upon which a driven roller is mounted. An actuator allows the driver housing of torque head assembly to approach a variety of trigger spray cap bases or common caps within a plane generally horizontal thereto and at least partially co-planar therewith so as to capture the same between the dive roller and the driven roller and to thread mount the same onto the spray bottle or container.

Capping torque head and method of cap application

A load cell deflasher for the punch and die deflash processing of product from an extrusion includes a load cell pressure transducer interconnected with a punch to sense pressure measurements of the punch against the extrusion at the die and communicate the measurements to a programmable logic controller that controls the extension and retraction of the punch to the die and the structure accommodating pre-punch alignment of the extrusion to the die. The pressure measurements are logged in a trending database of the programmable logic controller. If a pressure measurement exceeds a threshold value, to programmable logic controller can command instruct a positioning actuator of the punch to abort its punch stroke prior to completion. If the programmable logic controller determines an upward trend of pressure measurements, an auto-tune mode of the programmable logic controller can command instruct an extrusion card transfer positioning actuator to adjustably position a gripper carriage transferring the extrusion in intervening proximity between the punch and die to an optimal position for extrusion deflashing.

Load cell deflasher assembly and method

A rotary valve, a piston pump rotary valve assembly and a piston pump rotary valve assembly tank dispenser for use in discharging a metered amount of liquid, gel, or slurry has a valve body having a first channel pathway and a second channel pathway. The first channel pathway has an inlet opening to receive a liquid, gel, or slurry and an outlet opening to provide the same to a pathway of the piston pump assembly. The second channel pathway is segregated from the first channel pathway and includes a plurality of inlet openings, each capable of communicative alignment with the pathway of the piston pump assembly, and at least one outlet opening communicative with such inlet openings. The valve body is capable of rotation with respect to the piston pump assembly to dispose both the first channel pathway and the second channel pathway each to two operative positions to receive the liquid, gel, or slurry and to two inoperative positions blocking fluid communication with the liquid, gel, or slurry.

Rotary valve and piston pump assembly and tank dispenser therefor

An apparatus are provided for flexing a body member to rehabilitate the same. For early motion of flexure tendons or the like, very small ranges, for example, 2.degree. to 5.degree. of tension and flexion may be set at opposite ends of a full range of motion for the joint. The drive motor is preferably a stepper motor or the like that is controlled by a microprocessor-based controller to travel through small, variable, early motion ranges for tension and flexion of variable distances and for a variable number of cycles. The illustrated apparatus for pulling a carriage for travel in a forward or reverse direction compresses a slide guide for guiding the carriage for sliding travel thereon about a predetermined path having a curved portion about which the carriage slides when being pulled in a forward direction and in a reverse direction. A flexible tension member is associated with the slide guide and connected to the carriage to exert a pulling force on the carriage to cause it to slide in forward and reverse directions along the slide guide in the predetermined path having a curved portion. The drive is connected to the flexible tension member to exert a pull on the tension member to cause it to travel in either in a forward or reverse direction and to pull the carriage to slide on the slide guide in the same direction as the tension member is pulled

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Des Plaines, IL, United States of America

Walter R Krevald