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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:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert L. Kirby, Sparta, TN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21C 3/702 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B21C 3/702 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for forming a heating element by corrugating a ribbon to a waveform having an amplitude based on a measured resistance per unit length of the ribbon. The amplitude of the corrugation is varied based on the measured resistance, to vary the actual path length of the heating element, shorter based on higher resistance and longer based on lower resistance. The heating element is formed to have a predetermined length dimension. The apparatus comprises a pair of intermeshed gears, with the spacing controlled in accordance with the measured resistance per unit length of the unformed ribbon.