Geometrical instruments inventions 06/07

20070144018 - Height adjustment device for the arm of an engraving machine: A height adjustment device for the arm of an engraving machine is disclosed herein. Present invention provides a turn knob on a holding piece having threaded portion engaged to a threaded hole on the arm, so that when making height adjustment, the weight of the arm is supported by the... Agent: Law Offices Of J.f. Lee

20070144019 - Laser marking device: In a marking device having a laser and a fastening element, especially simple, fast and precise marking of workpieces is attained by providing that the marking device includes a goniometer.... Agent: Striker Striker & Stenby

20070144020 - Level with adjustable fastener locators: A level assembly includes a housing having a level mounted within. The housing includes a first arm and a second arm slidably attached to the housing. The first and second arms are both stored in storage positions. Fastener locators associated with each arm are both stored in storage positions. During... Agent: Cohen & Grigsby, P.C.

20070144021 - Intrinsic gauging for tube fittings: An intrinsic gauging device for a ferrule type tube fitting of the type having a coupling nut, a coupling body and at least one ferrule, includes a precisely formed marking on the coupling nut that is visually perceptible that indicates the pull-up position of the tube fitting assembly.... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070144022 - Hysteresis compensation in a coordinate measurement machine: A single-scale, single-drive coordinate measuring machine that compensates for hysteresis error caused by friction at the non-driven end of the bridge. The coordinate measuring machine is calibrated to estimate hysteresis effects at one or more distances from the scale. Measurements of workpieces are adjusted based on the calibration data and... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070144024 - Shape-measuring device: A shape-measuring device 1 measures the shape of a object to be measured 1 in which segments are arranged and bonded in rows while relatively moving the object 1 in one direction. The shape-measuring device includes rollers 31 provided corresponding to the rows of segments and displaced to follow unevenness... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070144025 - Calibration gauge for hair cutter bladesets: A blade calibration gauge for a bladeset for a hair cutter has a moving blade laterally reciprocating relative to a stationary blade, where the moving blade and the stationary blade are adjustable relative to one another in a direction normal to a direction of reciprocation. The blade calibration gauge has... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070144026 - Scale assembly for optical encoder having affixed optical reference markers: A flexible optical marker is applied to an optical scale substrate to make an optical scale assembly for an optical position encoder. The marker may be a limit marker, index marker, or other type of marker. The marker substrate may be a plastic film such as polyester, singulated from a... Agent: David E. Huang, Esq. Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20070130784 - Turntable for wheel alignment: An improved wheel alignment turntable for supporting a wheel of a vehicle. Embodiments include a turntable having a base, and a top plate for receiving the vehicle wheel, the top plate being mounted to an upper surface of the base for rotational and translational movement relative to the base. A... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070130785 - Ruggedized laser level: A ruggedized laser level. The laser level includes a housing, a base, a protective structure, and a laser assembly. The base and protective structure combine to protect the laser level from damage due to being dropped or impacted. The laser assembly can provide a 360° beam or a five point... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070130786 - Stylus for key duplicating machine with repleaceable segemented stylus: A stylus for key duplicating machine with replaceable segmented stylus comprising a cylindrical body; a spring-loaded tracer having a slide spindle movably engaged in one end of the cylindrical body, and a replaceable segmented stylus releasably secured on the front end of the slide spindle for replacement of the worn... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070124948 - Intersecting laser line generating device: A line generating device generates two fan-shaped beams of light at an angle to each other, and projects the beams onto an adjacent surface, where the beams are visible as lines on the surface. A user has access to the intersection of the lines, so that the intersection can be... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070124947 - Light-plane projecting apparatus and lens: A non-cylindrically surfaced lens converts a collimated light beam into a light plane that increases a light intensity toward distal portions of the light plane's arc so as to substantially uniformly project a reference light line onto a reference surface onto which the light plane is projected. The non-cylindrically surfaced... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070124949 - Method and apparatus for wheel alignment system target projection and illumination: A machine vision vehicle wheel alignment system configured with at least one cameras for acquiring images of the wheels of a vehicle, and an associated light projectors configured to project a pattern image onto the surfaces of vehicle components such as vehicle wheel assemblies. Images of the projected patterns acquired... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070124950 - Measurement marking holes apparatus and method: A measurement and marking device has a tape measure body bearing indicia of distance and a plurality of closely set small holes in two parallel lines. Larger holes mark each one inch distance. Because the holes are set in parallel lines, a closer spacing of holes may be achieved than... Agent: Barber Legal

20070124951 - Tape rule having reoriented measuring blade: A coilable tape rule includes a pair of rollers that are convexly rounded in both axial and transaxial planes, about which rollers the measuring blade moves during passage through the casing and which cause the blade to turn on its longitudinal axis so as to reorient its width dimension to... Agent: Ira S. Dorman

20070124952 - Rolling electronic length measuring device: An electronic measuring device is disclosed which includes a pair of wheels connected to an axle that passes through a drive gear. The drive gear is enmeshed to a second gear which, in turn, is coaxially connected to an encoder disk. The encoder disk has spaced-apart fins around its outer... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP