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5601128 Ampule breaking method and apparatus  
A sterile method of simultaneously breaking a number of ampules (22) containing medication and transferring the liquid drug into syringes (58), which include cutting the ampule shipping container...
5568891 Making a fractured powder metal connecting rod  
Apparatus for fracturing a powder metal bearing support having stress risers to initiate cracking along a cracking plane. The apparatus has (a) a fixture assembly for holding one internal side of...
5560274 Manual tile cutter  
A manually operated tile cutter having a carriage slidably mounted on a pair of guide rails supported by a base. An operating lever is pivotally connected to the carriage at a point below the guide...
5546830 Ink cartridge opener  
An ink cartridge opener is used connection with a flat support surface. The ink cartridge opener includes a base stand adapted to hold a first portion of a ink cartridge. An opening mechanism with...
5535933 Glass cutting machine  
A glass cutting machine including a frame, a cutter assembly supported by the frame, and a cam activated breaking mechanism. The cutter assembly includes a guide bar for supporting a sliding...
5505359 Tile cutter  
A tile cutter including an elongated bottom plate having a transversely extending tile stop backing and a longitudinal breaking web disposed on the bottom plate. A slide is movably mounted along a...
5495972 Method and apparatus for cutting flat tubes  
A method of cutting a flat tube (6) into unit pieces, which includes moving in a transverse direction rotatable disc cutters (12) with knife edges so as to cut the upper and lower walls of a flat...
5480082 Tile cutter  
A tile cutter includes: a base body having a support ridge generally at the center in its longitudinal direction and elastic plates laid at the two sides of the support ridge; a guide rail erected...
5480081 Scoring and breaking device with a carrying case therefor  
A tile cutting apparatus includes a unit base for holding a tile and guide rods above and running parallel to the base. The guide rods carry a scoring/breaking assembly along a scoring and breaking...
5475196 Process and apparatus to cut laminated glass  
Laminated glass is grooved on both sides, bent first to one and then to the other side, and during the second bending process, the two parts of the laminated glass are pulled apart. The thus...
5472126 Tube slicing technique  
Method and apparatus is disclosed for severing flat tubing. A length of tubing is gripped at longitudinally spaced apart locations and the tubing is deeply scored by rapidly rotating circular...
5458269 Frangible semiconductor wafer dicing method which employs scribing and breaking  
A method for applying a controlled, adjustable strain and strain rate by use of a break wheel to break a frangible semiconductor wafer around previously placed scribe lines formed along a surface...
5452705 Three-purpose tile cutting pliers  
A tile cutting pliers including a base handle and an actuating handle pivotably connected together by a pivot and a return spring and terminating in a respective cutter blade for cutting small...
5450668 Method and apparatus for separating tubing  
Method and apparatus for separating thin-walled flat metal tubing are disclosed. The tubing has flat upper and lower walls joined by end walls. The tubing is partially severed by providing relative...
5413263 Apparatus for breaking plate glass  
An apparatus for breaking plate glass, comprising a breaking mechanism (9), (10) which presses and breaks a portion of the plate glass (1) on which a cutting line is marked; a linear-sliding...
5407116 Method and apparatus for cutting flat tubes  
A method of cutting a flat tube (6) into unit pieces, which includes moving in a transverse direction rotatable disc cutters (12) with knife edges so as to cut the upper and lower walls of a flat...
5400939 Machine for breaking glass plate  
A glass plate breaking machine 1 comprises a flexible endless belt 3 on which a glass plate 2 is placed; a glass plate receiver 4 disposed inside the endless belt 3; a moving unit 5 for moving the...
5398857 Method and apparatus for cutting plate-shaped brittle material  
To assure that a plate-shaped brittle material is exactly cut into two plate pieces, a jig having a thread-shaped projection secured thereto in conformity with a predetermined pattern positionally...
5395026 Tile cutting pliers  
A tile cutting pliers including two horizontal cutting plates on two pivoted blades at one end and acted against each other to trim tiles, a first mounting frame and a second mounting frame...
5395025 Method and apparatus for angle cleaving ribbon fiber  
A method and apparatus for imparting an angle cleave to a plurality of optical fibers. The cleaving device comprises a base having a support surface, the support surface having two lower pads which...
5388745 Method and apparatus for separating tubing  
Method and apparatus for separating thin-walled flat metal tubing are disclosed. The tubing has flat upper and lower walls joined by end walls. The tubing is partially severed by providing relative...
5382276 Method and apparatuses for cutting a ribbon of an optical fibers obliquely  
A method of cutting an optical fiber ribbon obliquely, the ribbon being constituted by a plurality of optical fibers that are all parallel to a "longitudinal" axis of the ribbon, the fibers all...
5373835 Jig for cutting tiles diagonally  
The invention relates to a machine for cutting tiles and comprising: a stand provided with a bottom for supporting a tile; a cutting member; and a tile-breaking bar secured to the stand, projecting...
5368211 Apparatus for the oblique cutting of one or of several optical fibers  
An apparatus cuts one or several optical fibers obliquely. The cutting edge (6) creates the beginning of a break on the fiber that has first been subjected to a torsion and to a tension. The fiber...
5359690 Cutting method and apparatus for removing a secondary coating layer from a jacketed optical fiber  
A jacket layer of a jacketed optical fiber is cut by a cutting method and apparatus in which (A) a terminal portion of a jacketed optical fiber is straightened and grasped by a fiber holder, and...
5351333 Optical fiber cleaver  
An optical fiber cleaver is disclosed wherein a blade applies a pre-set force to an optical fiber to form a notch in that optical fiber. In a preferred embodiment, a spring applies a pre-set force...
5350098 Severing a workpiece by scoring and breaking thereof  
A workpiece severing apparatus includes rotatable cutting and breaking assemblies that move about a fixedly held workpiece. At the same time a cutting edge of the cutting assembly is moving through...
5332150 Easy-open shipping/display container, and a blank for erecting the same  
A shipping/display container that may be opened without having to use a knife or other sharp instrument, and a blank for forming such a container. The container blank includes a plurality of side...
5331877 Rotary blade assembly for a tile cutter  
A rotary blade assembly used in a tile cutter made of cylindrical inner and outer races, a plurality of metal balls installed between the inner and outer races, a pair of covers covering the inner...
5312468 Optical fiber cleavage method  
The invention relates to optical fiber cleavage method making it possible to obtain an oblique optical fiber end face, consisting in holding a segment of optical fiber between two separated...
5310104 Method and apparatus for cleaving a semiconductor wafer into individual die and providing for low stress die removal  
The invention discloses a novel method and apparatus for cleaving semiconductor wafers into individual die which comprises mounting the wafer upon an adherent resilient air impermeable membrane...
5303861 Separating sheet glass  
A method of, and apparatus for, separating a sheet of glass along a score line on the sheet. The method comprises flexing the glass at the score line along an axis of flexure on the support to...
5303690 Tile cutter  
This disclosure relates to a tile cutter including a generally horizontal base plate, a linear ridge fixed to the base plate, and at least one guide rail extending above and in parallel with the...
5301868 Scribe-and-break tool for optical fibers  
A scribe-and-break tool for fracturing the free end of an optical fiber that is especially suitable for hand-holdable configurations and field use which has an elongate body with a plunger that is...
5301867 Machine for breaking glass plate  
A glass plate breaking machine 1 comprises a flexible endless belt 3 on which a glass plate 2 is placed; a glass plate receiver 4 disposed inside the endless belt 3; a moving unit 5 for moving the...
5297710 Method and apparatus for dividing flat glass panels  
A method and an apparatus for dividing a flat glass panel (14) are described. The panel (14) which is to be divided and which is raised away from its substrate is securely held in its part regions...
5284283 Rail processor  
A rail breaker attachable to the boom structure and hydraulic system of a hydraulic excavator and having an elongate frame tiltable by a hydraulic cylinder of the excavator, a grapple and a...
5253412 Tip processing apparatus for jacketed optical fibers  
A tip processing apparatus is equipped with a holder, and a holder fiber holding unit for extending the tip of the jacketed optical fiber comprising at least one optical fiber provided with a...
5221034 Machine for working a glass plate  
A glass plate working machine includes table (20) on which glass plate (22) is placed, breaking unit (3) for forming a cutting line on glass plate (22) placed on table (20), and pressing the glass...
5213244 Oblique fracturing of optical fibers by angled scoring  
A smooth, oblique-angled endface fracture of an optical fiber 39 useful in low reflectance, low insertion loss mechanical splices is achieved by creating tensile stress in the fiber and scoring the...
5201117 Method and apparatus for sizing and cutting tubing  
Flat tubing is fed from a continuous supply into an embossing station and then into a cutting station and is briefly stopped periodically for an operation in each station. The embossing station has...
5188268 Device for cutting an optical fiber obliquely  
A device for use in on-site conditions to obtain a section plane which reproducibly makes an angle of 5°, for example, relative to the axis of an optical fiber. The device includes a clamp for...
5169045 Manually-operated tile cutter  
A manually-operated tile cutter comprises mainly a base, a measuring piece, and a guiding bar. The base is provided at one end thereof with a stopper consisting of a stopper face perpendicular to...
5168788 Cutting head turret assembly  
A turret assembly for a cutting head has a glass-cutting wheel and a plastic-cutting blade portion disposed at spaced peripheral locations. Rotation of the turret body brings the cutting elements...
5165585 Method and apparatus for breaking glass sheets  
The method relates to breaking glass sheets (5) with a line scored on one side, the glass sheet (5) being first raised at one end of the scored line and thereupon, in the remaining areas, it is...
5154333 Jaw cleaving device  
An apparatus and method for cleaving GaAs laser bars from a cell utilizes a first jaw applied to one end of a laser bar to propagate a cleavage and a second jaw applied to an opposite end which...
5143268 Flat tube cutting techniques  
Method and apparatus is disclosed for severing flat tubing. The method involves the steps of clamping a length of tubing, deeply scoring the tubing on opposite sides and applying a high impact...
5133492 Method and apparatus for separating thin-walled, multiport micro-extrusions  
A method for separating a thin-walled multiport extrusion into a plurality of micro-tubes for use as single pass lengths in a heat exchanger assembly, the method including the steps of threading...
5133491 Substrate breaker  
A substrate breaker positively feeds substrate plates to a stick breaker where the sticks are broken from the plate. The sticks are fed upwardly to an elevated chip breaker where chips are broken...
5131577 Apparatus for making a powder metal connecting rod  
A method of making a connecting rod for attachment to a bearing journal by separation of parts of the connecting rod, comprising: (a) forging a powder metal sintered preform to provide a one-piece...