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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 1983
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Leslie C Hardison, Barrington, IL (US);
Kenneth A Sandstrom, Prospect Heights, IL (US);
Assignee:
National Seal Company, Palatine, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73827 ; 73838 ;
Abstract
A portable seam tester is provided for testing the seam strength, on the job site, of large sections of flexible sheet material formed by seaming together smaller size panels. The tester has a piston and cylinder mechanism carrying spaced toggle action clamping means adapted to receive and retain folded double-thickness portions of the material at opposite sides of a seam. Pressurized fluid is controllably supplied to the cylinder to force the clamping means away from each other, thereby placing the material in tension so as to impose a predetermined stress on the seam.