JAMES GREGORY HUNTLEY
Pilots at Huntley Acres Ct, Monroe, NC

3941020, Mar 2, 1976

Feb 27, 1975

5/553839

James R. Huntley - Monroe NC
William Franklin Southard - Monroe NC

James R. Huntley - Monroe NC

B26D 716, B26D 114

83468

Apparatus for easily and quickly cutting with mininum waste workpieces, such as components for making mitered corner picture frames, from an elongate strip of material of any predetermined width, in which each workpiece has opposing ends which are equally and oppositely angled with respect to each other and an inside edge of predetermined length, as follows. A guide device positions the elongate strip of material at desired positions along a longitudinally extending axis. A saw makes spaced, successive, angular, parallel cuts through the elongate strip to form workpieces with parallel angular cut ends and thereafter cuts off and removes a wastepiece from one end of each cut workpiece by making an oppositely angled cut. A device is associated with the guide device and the saw for (1) providing a stop for properly positioning the strip of material regardless of the width thereof before each cut for making the next workpiece and (2) measuring the ultimate desired inside edge length of each workpiece to be cut from the strip of material while compensatively adding the necessary additional inside edge length to the workpiece being cut to provide an initially cut workpiece of the proper combined inside edge length for the subsequent cutting off of only a minimum waste, triangular shaped wastepiece which removes the additional inside edge length.

3986420, Oct 19, 1976

Dec 19, 1974

5/534434

James R. Huntley - Monroe NC
William Franklin Southard - Monroe NC

Tool Service Engineering Company - Monroe NC

B27B 2706

834351

Clamp mechanism for use in maintaining a workpiece in desired position against a stationary backstop including a clamping member mounted for free linear movement for being positioned in engagement with the workpiece regardless of the dimensions thereof and a camming and locking device for selectively engaging and camming the clamping member to apply a desired clamping force to the workpiece and for locking the clamping member against the free linear movement thereof in the cammed position. This preferred clamp mechanism may be utilized in an apparatus for cutting the ends of workpieces, e. g. mitered end picture frame moldings, and which includes a table top linearly movably mounted on a support frame and having a longitudinally extending slot therein and a saw mounted in fixed position within a portion of the table top slot. The backstop and clamp mechanism are mounted on the table top with the backstop disposed at a predetermined desired angle to the saw for clamping the workpiece on the table top for movement toward the saw for the cutting of the end thereof.

3944200, Mar 16, 1976

Oct 2, 1974

5/511211

James R. Huntley - Monroe NC

B25B 120

269 42

Clamping apparatus for quickly and accurately positioning and maintaining a pair of workpieces, such as mitered end picture frame moldings or the like, in desired, generally end-to-end, angularly related positions and being characterized by evenly and resiliently applying clamping forces and positioning forces to the pair of workpieces regardless of slight variations in width of the workpieces, as follows. Backstops receive the outer longitudinal side edges of each of the workpieces and are mounted in angularly related positions corresponding to the desired positions of the workpieces. A slide block is positioned for linear movement along an axis bisecting the angle formed by the workpieces when positioned against the backstops and carries a pair of separate gripper members in side-by-side relation for engaging the workpieces during forward movement for clamping the workpieces against the backstops and for independent movement toward each other upon engagement with the inside edges of the workpieces for sliding the workpieces toward each other for a tight end-to-end abutment for positioning the workpieces. Resilient members separately bias and cushion the gripper members against the opposing movement toward each other for insuring substantially equal and even applications of the clamping and positioning forces by the gripper members to the respective workpieces regardless of slight variations in width thereof.

4032130, Jun 28, 1977

Jan 14, 1976

5/649016

James R. Huntley - Monroe NC
William Franklin Southard - Monroe NC

Tool Service Engineering Company - Monroe NC

B25B 1100

269 8

A device for assembling pieces of picture frame molding to form a picture frame therefrom and particularly suited for relatively small "miniature" picture frames which are held together by gluing. The pieces of molding have glue applied to the end portions thereof and are thereafter held in assembled relation at the corners of the frame by respective corner blocks. The corner blocks are supported on a base member, with magnets being employed to permit adjusting the position of the corner blocks on the base member for accommodating pieces of molding of various lengths. Once the pieces of molding are positioned in assembled relation and clamped in place by the corner blocks, one or more elastic bands may be placed around the frame. The thus assembled frame may then be removed from the framing device and placed aside while the glue sets, freeing the framing device for assembling another frame.