John W Steward

45326649, Aug 6, 1985

Mar 29, 1984

6/640418

John H. Steward - Bloomfield Hills MI
Harold A. Ladouceur - Livonia MI

Multifastener Corporation - Detroit MI

B23G 1100

10162A

A machine and method for continuously orienting and tapping fasteners such as pierce nuts with the nuts being advanced in face-to-face manner aligned on the machine feed path. The machine is operable in one mode, in combination with nut collection means, to receive strips of the nuts from the feed path in side-to-side array for delivery in installation-ready coiled strips to an installation assembly or the like. One embodiment of the collection means includes apparatus for collecting and dispensing the nuts in unconnected linear stacks. Tapping of the nuts is performed by the machine in a "reverse flow" or deferred manner just prior to the nuts being dispensed from the feed path with the tapped nuts maintained in face-to-face spaced array. The machine reverse flow tapping provides for burr clearance between the spaced nuts to thereby assure that tapping burrs will not improperly position the nuts obviating machine jamming and thread obstruction by such burrs. A continuous nut orienting apparatus is operative, upon receiving nuts aligned in face-to-face abuttment but in random angular orientation, to provide successive nut rotational movement about the feed path in predetermined directions orienting the nuts in face-to-face abutting array.

46536850, Mar 31, 1987

Jul 3, 1985

6/752168

Sharon M. Leary - Woodridge IL
John C. Steward - Richardson TX
Nicholas D. Commisso - Victor NY
Edwin R. De Cook - Oaks Corner NY
Ralph E. Hisle - Frankfort IL
Donald Rowe - Newark NY

McDonald's Corporation - Oak Brook IL

B65D 134
B65D 142

229 25R

A dual compartment sandwich package fabricated of foamed polystyrene or the like and adapted to retain therein in appealing and acceptable form a sandwich including a hot meat portion, such as a hamburger, and a cool trimmings portion, such as lettuce and tomato. The package includes a base and cover having central rib means for rigidifying the package and preventing bending about the longitudinal and transverse axes thereof. There are four cooperating slots and tabs for temporary or secure locking of the cover to the base, which latter condition also forms an external seal to prevent heat exchange with the ambient atmosphere, while the central rib means form an internal barrier to prevent transfer of air and heat between the two compartments. A method of packaging a hot meat portion-cool trimmings portion sandwich, such as a lettuce and tomato hamburger sandwich for dispensing and final assembly by a customer in such a dual compartment package is also disclosed.

44765991, Oct 16, 1984

Jul 6, 1982

6/395410

John H. Steward - Bloomfield Hills MI
Harold A. Ladouceur - Livonia MI

Multifastener Corporation - Detroit MI

B23G 118
B23G 1100

10139WH

A machine and method for continuously orienting and tapping fasteners such as pierce nuts with the nuts being advanced in face-to-face manner aligned on the machine feed path. The machine is operable in one mode, in combination with nut collection means, to receive strips of the nuts from the feed path in side-to-side array for delivery in installation-ready coiled strips to an installation assembly or the like. One embodiment of the collection means includes apparatus for collecting and dispensing the nuts in unconnected linear stacks. Tapping of the nuts is performed by the machine in a "reverse flow" or deferred manner just prior to the nuts being dispensed from the feed path with the tapped nuts maintained in face-to-face spaced array. The machine reverse flow tapping provides for burr clearance between the spaced nuts to thereby assure that tapping burrs will not improperly position the nuts obviating machine jamming and thread obstruction by such burrs. A continuous nut orienting apparatus is operative, upon receiving nuts aligned in face-to-face abuttment but in random angular orientation, to provide successive nut rotational movement about the feed path in predetermined directions orienting the nuts in face-to-face abutting array.

46796908, Jul 14, 1987

Oct 15, 1984

6/660774

John H. Steward - Bloomfield Hills MI
Harold A. Ladouceur - Livonia MI

Multifastener Corporation - Detroit MI

B65D 8524

206345

A machine and method for continuously orienting and tapping fasteners such as pierce nuts with the nuts being advanced in face-to-face manner aligned on the machine feed path. The machine is operable in one mode, in combination with nut collection means, to receive strips of the nuts from the feed path in side-to-side array for delivery in installation-ready coiled strips to an installation assembly or the like. One embodiment of the collection means includes apparatus for collecting and dispensing the nuts in unconnected linear stacks. Tapping of the nuts is performed by the machine in a "reverse flow" or deferred manner just prior to the nuts being dispensed from the feed path with the tapped nuts maintained in face-to-face spaced array. The machine reverse flow tapping provides for burr clearance between the spaced nuts to thereby assure that tapping burrs will not improperly position the nuts obviating machine jamming and thread obstruction by such burrs. A continuous nut orienting apparatus is operative, upon receiving nuts aligned in face-to-face abuttment but in random angular orientation, to provide successive nut rotational movement about the feed path in predetermined directions orienting the nuts in face-to-face abutting array.

43386946, Jul 13, 1982

May 20, 1980

6/151549

John H. Steward - Bloomfield Hills MI
Harold A. Ladouceur - Livonia MI

Multifastener Corporation - Detroit MI

B23G 118
B23G 1100

10 72R

A machine and method for continuously orienting and tapping fasteners such as pierce nuts with the nuts being advanced in face-to-face manner aligned on the machine feed path. The machine is operable in one mode, in combination with nut collection means, to receive strips of the nuts from the feed path in side-to-side array for delivery in installation-ready coiled strips to an installation assembly or the like. One embodiment of the collection means includes apparatus for collecting and dispensing the nuts in unconnected linear stacks. Tapping of the nuts is performed by the machine in a "reverse flow" or deferred manner just prior to the nuts being dispensed from the feed path with the tapped nuts maintained in face-to-face spaced array. The machine reverse flow tapping provides for burr clearance between the spaced nuts to thereby assure that tapping burrs will not improperly position the nuts obviating machine jamming and thread obstruction by such burrs. A continuous nut orienting apparatus is operative, upon receiving nuts aligned in face-to-face abuttment but in random angular orientation, to provide successive nut rotational movement about the feed path in predetermined directions orienting the nuts in face-to-face abutting array.