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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2002
Geoffrey R. Bowlin, Oak Ridge, NC (US);
Joseph G. Schill, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Jeffrey Lee Shortridge, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Geoffrey R. Bowlin, Oak Ridge, NC (US);
Joseph G. Schill, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Jeffrey Lee Shortridge, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Delaware Capital Formation Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A link for connecting an upstream and a downstream multi-turret processing machines, a method for linking an upstream and a downstream multi-processing machines, and a multi-turret processing, the link comprising: a base; a bridge disposed on the base and forming a cross-piece for a T to the base to allow connection on one end of the cross-piece to a base of an upstream multi-turret processing machine and to allow connection at the opposite end of the cross-piece to a base of a downstream multi-turret processing machine, the bridge having a center aperture, an upstream aperture on an upstream side of the center aperture, and a downstream aperture on a downstream side of the center aperture opposite to the upstream side, the three apertures for holding a last existing upstream turret on the upstream multi-turret processing machine in the upstream aperture, for holding a link processing turret in the center aperture, and for holding a first existing downstream turret in the downstream multi-turret processing machine in the downstream aperture, all three turrets being in parallel; a link processing turret disposed in said center aperture; and one or more gears for meshing indirectly with gears in the upstream and downstream multi-turret processing machines.