Volker E Schmidt

59339446, Aug 10, 1999

Jul 28, 1997

8/901751

Volker Schmidt - Lexington KY
Jeffery P. Harris - Owingsville KY

Eastlex Machine Corporation - Lexington KY

B23P 1900
B23P 1906

29809

A fastener apparatus, which attaches a first article to a second article at a setting station, includes a plate-like support, a feed in finger for receiving and engaging a first article at a first predetermined position, and a lever pivotally mounted on the support and pivotally connected to the feed in finger. A spring continuously urges the lever to pivot to move the feed in finger along a substantially horizontal predetermined path from the first predetermined position to a second predetermined position at the setting station. A cam surface of a cam element, which is vertically movable in response to vertical movement of a ram housing, acts on a roller on the lever for rendering the spring ineffective and for moving the feed in finger from the second predetermined position to the first predetermined position. A die, which is connected to the ram, engages the first article at the second predetermined position after the feed in finger has been moved from the second predetermined position to the first predetermined position with the die moving the article substantially perpendicular to the predetermined path to move the first article into engagement with a second article at the setting station.

45613664, Dec 31, 1985

Mar 13, 1984

6/589494

Volker Schmidt - Lexington KY
Erich A. Schmidt - Lexington KY

D05B 312
D05B 3500

11212127

A cut segment of a strip of material is clamped intermediate its ends, prior to being cut, by two separate clamping elements. In one embodiment, one of the clamping elements is cammed towards the other clamping element as the clamping elements are moved to position the cut segment at a position for attachment to other material by a sewing machine, for example. This forms a loop or slack portion between the clamped portions of the cut segment so that attachment of the free ends of the cut segment produces a large loop when each end of the cut segment is attached to the other material. In another embodiment, one of the ends of the cut segment may be folded to form an overlapped portion for attachment to the other material so that a double thickness of the cut segment is attached to the other material. This embodiment still has one of the separate clamping elements movable towards the other to form a loop or slack portion between the clamped portions of the cut segment. In a further embodiment, each end of the cut segments can be folded to form an overlapped portion so that it can be attached with double thickness to the other material.

61485047, Nov 21, 2000

Dec 23, 1996

8/771981

Volker Schmidt - Lexington KY
James E. Linville - Paris KY

Eastlex Machine Corporation - Lexington KY

B23Q 1520

29708

A cycle of operation of an attaching apparatus begins with determining whether an operator's extremity is in an area in which it can be struck by a downwardly moving ram during attachment of two fasteners to each other and to a material therebetween. If it is determined that the operator's extremity is not in the area in which it can be struck by the downwardly moving ram, the remainder of the cycle of operation is completed. If it is determined that the operator's extremity is in the area in which it can be struck by the downwardly moving ram, the cycle of operation must begin again.

45401110, Sep 10, 1985

Jun 30, 1983

6/509308

Volker Schmidt - Lexington KY
Erich A. Schmidt - Lexington KY

D05B 300
A41H 3710

227 8

An article is clamped in a predetermined position on a support, which is movable along a reciprocating path by a stepping motor. This movement of the support positions selected and spaced portions of the article at a fixed location at which a fastener element is attached to an edge of the article. The movement of the stepping motor is controlled by a computer program whereby the selected and spaced portions of the article are spaced from each other as desired.

56034423, Feb 18, 1997

Sep 1, 1995

8/522764

Volker Schmidt - Lexington KY
Erich A. Schmidt - Lexington KY

B65G 2902

227119

A rotary hopper includes a door, which is pivotally mounted on the main mounting plate for pivoting about a vertical axis, having a transparent element to enable viewing of the interior of the rotary hopper. The pivotally mounted door enables easy access to the interior of the hopper. On the opposite side of the main mounting plate from the door, a shaft is supported for rotatably supporting a cone having a gauging ring with gauging grooves mounted thereon. A recess in the cone, the interior of the gauging ring, and the interior of the transparent element on the door form a reservoir in the rotary hopper for the fastener elements. On the side of the main mounting plate having the door, the main mounting plate has a vertical groove to receive the fastener element in each of the gauging grooves when each of the gauging grooves is aligned therewith during rotation of the gauging ring. The vertical groove communicates with a setting station of an attaching apparatus.

53198484, Jun 14, 1994

Jun 30, 1993

8/084024

Volker Schmidt - Lexington KY
Erich A. Schmidt - Lexington KY

B23P 2100
B23Q 710
A41H 3704

29787

Two mating fastener elements are attached to material at a setting station through a first electric motor. The motor rotates a cam for causing a first pivotally mounted arm to move a support, which supports one of the fastener elements, towards a ram, which is moved by a second pivotally mounted arm attached to the cam rotated by the motor. A second electric motor, which makes at least one revolution and may make a plurality of revolutions during each energization of the first motor, is energized when the first motor, which makes one revolution during each energization, is energized. Each of two hoppers has a plurality of one of the fastener elements. The second motor activates a knife blade in each of the two hoppers so that one of the knife blades moves upwardly in its hopper while the other is moving downwardly to feed the fastener elements within the hopper therefrom for receipt by the support or the ram.

44622899, Jul 31, 1984

Sep 16, 1982

6/418755

Volker Schmidt - Lexington KY

B26D 522

83217

A vertically fed strip of material is cut into segments of selected lengths by a movable cutting knife cooperating with a fixed knife in which both of the knives are mounted in a frame for rotation between first and second cutting positions. When the knives are in the first cutting position, a segment is cut from the strip of material at a first angle other than orthogonal to the feed path. Rotation of the frame positions the cutting plane of the knives at a second angle to the first angle and other than orthogonal to the feed path to cut the segment, which is held prior to being cut at the first angle, to produce a pointed end.

39879500, Oct 26, 1976

Jun 19, 1975

5/588146

Erich A. Schmidt - Lexington KY
Volker E. Schmidt - Lexington KY

Textron, Inc. - Providence RI

B27F 700

227116

A fastener element is oriented by rolling the element along a friction surface until a projection on the back of the element engages a ledge extending along the path of movement of the element such that the element then slides with a predetermined orientation. Additionally, an orienting element having a sinuous edge for orienting double pronged elements can be retracted.