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US 10,569,444 B2Granted
Rotary cylindrical attachable sleeve
AssigneeDicar Inc.
InventorsLance Joseph Allen, Stephen Kenneth Warll, Douglas Wayne Vaught
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Abstract
A sleeve for attaching to a cylindrical platform of a die cutting machine. The sleeve includes a first elastic member and a second elastic member. The sleeve may be arranged in a cylindrical configuration by aligning a first abutting surface of the first elastic member to a second abutting surface of the second elastic member. The first elastic member and the second elastic member can be mounted on a cylindrical platform without the need for a locking mechanism to secure the sleeve onto the cylindrical platform.
Claims10
An apparatus comprising:
- a first member comprising:
- a first volume of an elastic material;
- and
- a first concave surface, a first convex surface opposite to the first concave surface, a first abutting surface, a second abutting surface opposite to the first abutting surface, a first end surface, and a second end surface opposite to the first end surface, the first concave surface intersecting the first end surface to form a first arc line having a first arc length between the first abutting surface and the second abutting surface, the first concave surface intersecting the second end surface to form a second arc line having a second arc length between the first abutting surface and the second abutting surface, wherein the first arc length is greater than the second arc length, and at least one of the first abutting surface or the second abutting surface is a planar surface;
- and
- a second member comprising:
- a second volume of the elastic material;
- and
- a second concave surface, a second convex surface opposite to the second concave surface, a third abutting surface, a fourth abutting surface opposite to the third abutting surface, a third end surface, and a fourth end surface opposite to the third end surface, the second concave surface intersecting the third end surface to form a third arc line having a third arc length between the third abutting surface and the fourth abutting surface, the second concave surface intersecting the fourth end surface to form a fourth arc line having a fourth arc length between the third abutting surface and the fourth abutting surface, wherein the third arc length is greater than the fourth arc length,
- wherein, when the first and second abutting surfaces are aligned respectively to the third and fourth abutting surfaces, the first member and the second member form a cylindrical sleeve, and wherein the first concave surface and the second concave surface forms an inner surface of the cylindrical sleeve to mount onto a cylindrical platform without locking the first member and the second member to each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.