Base curve bender
CA 2178194 C · Owner: Byron, David L. · Inventors: Byron, David L.; Flemmer, Rory L.
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An eyewinder system (10) has stations (100-108) for straightening bending, measuring and transporting a wire (11) to form an eye wire (109). A controller (120) controls each station. Using information from tension and length measuring stations (104 105) the controler, (120) can accurately operate the second bending station (107). The eyewire (109) is inspected for accurate bends by an inspection system (140) that compares the bends in the eyewire (109) to predetermined radii of curvature. A base curve bending station (801) has a shuttle (810) and a turntable (830). A wire (820) passing through the shuttle (810) is bent and the head of the wire is held in one direction while the turntable …
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- Filed December 27, 1994 and granted February 1, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 27, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 27, 2016.
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