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4504003 Apparatus for cutting ceramic tile  
A tile cutting apparatus having an elongated base with two pairs of spaced side walls, a guide for a cutting tool, and an adjustable tile abutment block and breaking bar to snap cut-off a portion...
4489870 Apparatus for severing edges of a glass sheet  
Bulb edges are severed from a glass sheet. At least one score is imposed along and adjacent to the bulb edge, and the scores are sequentially opened by mechanically running the score. A pair of...
4487350 Method and apparatus for cutting pattern shaped holes in glass sheets  
A method and apparatus for cutting pattern shaped holes in glass sheets is disclosed in which a pair of continuous parallel lines are scored on the upper surface of a glass sheet in horizontal...
4474319 Hand held fiber optic cleaving tool  
A hand held tool for cleaving optical fibers including an elongated body having a longitudinal axis extending lengthwise thereof. A fiber support surface is attached to the body and extends in a...
4473942 Precision cleaving of optical fibers  
Optical fibers are cleaved with high precision by a technique that yields flat endfaces that are perpendicular to the axis of the fiber within 1 degree, and typically within 0.5 degree. This is...
4471895 Process and apparatus for cutting laminated glass  
In a process for cutting laminated glass, the laminated glass is scored on both sides, and bent first to one and then to the other side, the two parts of the laminated glass being pulled apart...
4469500 Method of cleaving a crystal to produce a high optical quality corner  
A high optical quality corner is produced on a cleaved crystal which may include a stripe or surface optical waveguide by making a fracture initiation mark along only a portion of the surface...
4463886 Cleaving tool for optical fibers  
A tool is provided for the cleaving or separation of optical fibers so as to provide a flat perpendicular end face for the fiber. In the cleaving process, fiber is inserted into a slot and extends...
4456159 Cleaving tool for optical fibers  
A tool is provided for the cleaving or separation of optical fibers so as to provide a flat perpendicular end face for the fiber. In the cleaving process, fiber is inserted into a slot and extends...
4454972 Method of and apparatus for severing glass  
An apparatus for partially fracturing a glass body along a score line to facilitate subsequent severance of the body along such score line by conventional top and bottom roller devices. The partial...
4450995 Scribing machine for optical fibers and method  
A scribing machine and method in which the fiber end projecting from a connector or other fiber holder is scribed and severed with a smooth, flat face having a mirror surface at a perpendicular...
4445632 Fiber optic scribe and cleave tool and method  
A method for breaking or severing a rod of brittle fiber material, such as glass optical fiber, to produce a mirror end surface thereon, normal to its longitudinal axis and free of imperfection, is...
4444345 Rail lifting and cutting machine  
An apparatus for simultaneously removing and in situ severing of rails from a rail bed to produce a plurality of rail sections of predetermined lengths including a sled frame defining a rail...
4428518 Glass breaking tool  
A tool is disclosed which facilitates the breaking of glass along a score line and is particularly useful for forming glass pieces of irregular shapes, such as those utilized in stained glass art...
4422553 Tablet splitting device  
A pharmaceutical tablet container whose physical configuration permits the container to function as a tool to split a tablet into half dosages.
4418855 Tool unit for collective breaking of optical fibres  
The end faces of a plurality of parallel optical fibers are all located in one plane at right angles to the general direction of the fibers after simultaneous cutting by a tool unit comprising a...
4417679 Ampule opener  
An opener for an ampule having a head and a body to prevent contamination of material in an ampule from particles formed when the ampule is opened comprises at least one opening mechanism including...
4413763 Method and apparatus for breaking an optical fiber  
In a method of breaking an optical fiber, wherein the fiber is scored transversely and tensioned to cause a crack to propagate completely across the fiber, tension sufficient to cause the crack to...
4378782 Ceramic tile cutter  
A tile scoring and fracturing device in which spaced parallel links swingably secured at one end to a base and freely secured at their other ends to the ends of an elongated guide bar to form a...
4377250 Method and a device for cutting a plurality of light waveguides united in a cable  
A method and apparatus for cutting each light waveguide of a plurality of light waveguides which are assembled in a cable of light waveguides characterized by an anvil positioned between a pair of...
4371103 Process and apparatus for breaking off marginal edge portions from a glass pane  
The invention relates to a process and apparatus for breaking off the marginal strip of a glass blank scored according to a predetermined contour. The glass blank, resting with its entire surface...
4355457 Method of forming a mesa in a semiconductor device with subsequent separation into individual devices  
A method of forming a mesa in a semiconductor device comprises forming a plurality of such devices on a wafer, mechanically cutting relatively wide channels to a predetermined depth in said wafer...
4352447 Method of and apparatus for sideward displacement of sheets  
A spacing conveyor section includes a plurality of shafts each having a spring mounted thereon and a plurality of spaced donut rolls mounted on the spring. Glass sections having their leading edges...
4352446 Substrate separating machine and method  
A machine and method for subdividing into individual substrates a wafer which is prescored with a pattern of intersecting score lines defining the substrates. The wafer is progressively directed...
4351459 Automatic glass tube cutter  
Disclosed herein is a cutter for long glass tubes which are placed on a feeding table, and dropped into a carrier one by one, and then onto a specially wound conveyor for wave-like-transversal...
4347958 Apparatus for cutting glass  
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for cutting glass and particularly to a method and apparatus for cutting glass circles. By means of the invention, the score formed in the glass is...
4346828 Railroad rail fragmenting apparatus and method  
Apparatus for fragmenting or subdividing railroad rails wherein rails on tiltable platforms at the respective outer sides of two longitudinally extending, parallel sets of conveyors are lifted, one...
4341334 Apparatus for spacing sheets and moving groups of spaced sheets  
A conveyor section advances a ribbon into a cutting station where sheets are severed from the glass ribbon. The sheets are advanced onto downstream conveyor rolls where the sheet is accelerated for...
4328411 Cutting amorphous metal by crystallization with a laser or electron beam  
A rapid method of cutting thin amorphous metal sheet material is to use a focused heat source such as a laser beam or electron beam to heat local regions of the material above the crystallization...
4322025 Tool for cutting optical fibers  
An improved tool for cutting optical fibers by the scribe-and-break technique is provided. The tool has a scribing edge transversely directed with respect to, and normally spaced from, an arcuate...
4316565 Sheet transfer apparatus  
Apparatus for marshalling glass sheets comprises a conveyor capable of conveying an array of sheets lying in a transverse sheet array across the conveyor to a sheet removal station, transverse...
4315584 Method and a device for separating a plurality of light waveguides carried in a cable  
A method and a device for cutting or breaking a plurality of light waveguides which are contained in a cable characterized by clamping each of the light waveguides at spaced points to hold a...
4306672 Apparatus for snapping glass plates along straight lines of intersection, running transversely across the glass plate  
Automatic cracking apparatus for cracking a glass plate along score lines extending across the plate. The apparatus has a vertically inclined main breaking roller where the top of the lower axial...
4289261 Method of thermally inducing bending moment forces to sever a glass sheet along a score  
Scores imposed in a glass sheet are propagated by heating the sheet about the score to induce thermal bending moment forces about the score to sever the sheet.
4285451 Method of and apparatus for severing edges of a glass sheet  
Bulb edges of a glass sheet severed from a glass ribbon, i.e., lehr ends are removed by imposing a pair of scores in the bulb edge with the score closest to the edge of the lehr end deeper than the...
4278193 Glass breaking and separating apparatus and method  
The invention enables the scoring and breaking out of a pair of glass blanks from a single sheet of glass in a rapid and efficient manner. Apparatus is provided which carries out a method including...
4274572 Apparatus for severing an optical fiber  
An apparatus for consistently severing an optical fiber to a precise predetermined length required for use in a connector assembly comprising axially-aligned and spaced-apart first and second clamp...
4257546 Tool for cleaving optical fibers  
A hand tool for cleaving optical fibers includes a means for supporting and tensioning an optical fiber, a lever pivotably mounted on the tool body for hand actuation, and means for severing an...
4256246 Device for breaking a glass plate so as to obtain a sharp edge  
Apparatus for making glass knives for cutting specimens for viewing by optical microscopes from thin glass plates comprises the use of a breaking rule bearing against one side of a plate, at least...
4253280 Method of labelling directional characteristics of an article having two opposite major surfaces  
In the production of varistors, diode chips are cut from a p-n sheet-diffused semiconductor wafer. Instead of having conventional rectangular shapes, the chips have a rhomboidal shape. This makes...
4249305 Tool for use in cleaving fiber optic elements  
An improved tool is disclosed for use in cleaving fiber optic elements preparatory to a splice for joining of two such fiber optic elements. The improved tool comprises support means having a...
4248369 Laser cutting of ceramic tubing  
Polycrystalline alumina tubing is scribed by means of laser pulses which are reiteratively focused on the same spots at spaced time intervals. By drilling small holes, the laser need be on for a...
4247031 Method for cracking and separating pellets formed on a wafer  
A method for protecting electronic circuitry formed on the obverse side of a wafer from flying debris produced either by the mechanical or laser scribing or scoring of the wafer and during...
4238064 System for actuating glass ribbon, cross scoring and snapping equipment  
Pulses from a motor-driven roto pulser, e.g., primary pulses, and from a roto pulser powered by a moving ribbon, e.g., secondary pulses, are (1) compared to determine if the ribbon is continuous...
4232809 Apparatus for thermally severing glass  
A method of and apparatus for thermally severing thick glass sheets by applying an energized electrical resistance wire element against the glass surface coincident with the intended line of cut...
4231503 Microtomy knife breaker  
A glass-breaking apparatus adapted for breaking microtome knives of the Ralph type, including a generally horizontal base having right and left upright posts which serve in the manner of vices or...
4229876 Optical fiber breaker and method, and combination breaker and optical connector  
The present apparatus and method make it extremely easy for a worker, even when located in a manhole or on a telephone pole, to rapidly achieve a perfect break in an optical fiber and at a...
4228937 Cleaving apparatus  
An apparatus for accurately and precisely cleaving crystalline material comprising a platform having an edge over which a workpiece projects, and a rotatable member having a scribing point and...
4227635 Apparatus for the manufacture of a window by detachment of the edges of a sheet of glass along a score  
In the manufacture of a window, an apparatus and method for detachment of edges from a sheet of glass along a cut-off line or score is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a frame surrounding an open...
4225072 Glass cutter for fracturing prescored glass  
A glass cutter for fracturing prescored sheet glass includes a C-shaped frame having in one end a glass supporting anvil and at its opposite end a screw operated breaker point. The glass sheet is...
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