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US 12,251,748 B2Granted
Bulk textured material sheeting
AssigneeGripmetal Limited
InventorsRay Arbesman, Nghi Pham, Winston Mackelvie
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Abstract
A process is provided for making bulk textured material sheeting. As a continuous supply of flat material sheeting is fed, the sheeting is repeatedly impacted with toothed knives, each knife creating a row of raised and generally pointed structures on the sheeting to texture the sheeting.
Claims7
A texturing apparatus comprising:
- a base for receiving a section of a sheet of metal, the base extending along a base axis between a metal receiving end of the apparatus and a metal dispensing end of the apparatus;
- at least a first knife mounted above the base, the first knife extending along a generally horizontal knife axis, and including a plurality of teeth that are spaced apart along the knife axis, the first knife moveable vertically towards the base and horizontally across the base;
- a slide block positioned adjacent to the first knife to contact a press prior to the first knife texturing the sheet of metal;
- a drive block moving the first knife to texture the sheet of metal in response to a force being applied by the slide block as the slide block contacts the press;
- a side bolt coupled to the drive block and being positioned adjacent to the first knife;
- and
- a compress spring positioned on the side bolt to move the slide block to a starting position in response to the slide block no longer contacting the press;
- wherein the knife axis is generally non-perpendicular to the base axis.
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A texturing apparatus comprising:
- a first plurality of knives having first teeth that extend in a first direction to gouge a section of a sheet of metal on a first side thereof;
- a second plurality of knives having second teeth that extend in a second direction that is different from the first direction to gouge the section of the sheet of metal on the first side thereof,
- wherein the first plurality of knives moves toward the second plurality of knives to gouge the section of the sheet of metal on the first side thereof in response to a force that is applied along a longitudinal axis of the first plurality of knives and the second plurality of knives;
- a base for receiving the section of the sheet of metal, the base extending along a base axis between a metal receiving end of the apparatus and a metal dispensing end of the apparatus;
- a first knife of the first plurality of knives mounted above the base, the first knife extending along a generally horizontal knife axis, and including at least a portion of the first teeth that are spaced apart along the knife axis, the first knife being moveable vertically towards the base and horizontally across the base;
- wherein the knife axis is generally non-perpendicular to the base axis;
- a slide block positioned adjacent to the first knife to contact a press prior to the first knife texturing the sheet of metal;
- a drive block moving the first knife to texture the sheet of metal in response to a force being applied by the slide block as the slide block contacts the press;
- a side bolt coupled to the drive block and being positioned adjacent to the first knife;
- and
- a compress spring positioned on the side bolt to move the slide block to a starting position in response to the slide block no longer contacting the press.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.