David William Mann

US Patent:

20140080593, Mar 20, 2014

Filed:

Sep 19, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/622633

Inventors:

Anthony Joseph Walter Prohl - Romeoville IL, US
John Lawrence Walsh - Gurnee IL, US
David Michael Mann - Chicago IL, US
Timothy Carl Loose - Chicago IL, US

Assignee:

WMS GAMING, INC. - Waukegan IL

International Classification:

A63F 13/00

US Classification:

463 31

Abstract:

A gaming system includes a motion tracking sensing device, a user image reproduction device to display a mirror image of a user operating the gaming system, a user image enhancement display device disposed in proximity to the user image reproduction device, and one or more memory devices storing instructions. The instructions cause the gaming system to sense, via the motion tracking sensing device, a first relative position of the user, generate first graphical images and first graphical image locations based on the sensed first relative position of the user, and output the first graphical images at the first graphical image locations on the user image enhancement display device so that the graphical images overlay corresponding portions of the mirror image of the user when viewed from the sensed first relative position of the user.

US Patent:

45893128, May 20, 1986

Filed:

Feb 22, 1984

Appl. No.:

6/582463

Inventors:

Frederick C. Meyers - Hinsdale IL
David B. Mann - Clarendon Hills IL

Assignee:

Joanna Western Mills Company - Chicago IL

International Classification:

B23B 326
B23B 514

US Classification:

82 47

Abstract:

An automatic shade cutter for cutting stock width shades to a particular width includes a clamping system for securing the shade in a selected cutting position on a longitudinal axis and a measuring scale positioned for use in selecting the desired width. The apparatus includes a cutting head rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the shade having a knife movable into and out of cutting engagement on a plane normal to the axis of the shade. The automatic shade cutter is designed for use in retail stores for operation by retail customers. A customer first selects a stock shade and then inserts the shade into a measured cutting position in the machine. Thereafter, an automatic cut-off operation is initiated by merely pushing a button and when the cutting operation is completed, the shade is removed and an end plug or pivot is inserted in the freshly cut end and a hem slat of appropriate length is inserted into the hem along the lower edge of the shade.

US Patent:

45893136, May 20, 1986

Filed:

May 30, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/739606

Inventors:

Frederick C. Meyers - Hinsdale IL
David B. Mann - Clarendon Hills IL

Assignee:

Joanna Western Mills Company - Chicago IL

International Classification:

B23B 326
B23B 514

US Classification:

82 63

Abstract:

An automatic shade cutter for cutting stock width shades to a particular width includes a clamping system for securing the shade in a selected cutting position on a longitudinal axis and a measuring scale positioned for use in selecting the desired width. The apparatus includes a cutting head rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the shade having a rotatable, circular knife movable into and out of cutting engagement on a plane normal to the axis of the shade. An indexing system is provided to insure that substantially all of the cutting edge of the knife is utilized and that successive cuts are accomplished beginning at random points along the knife edge thus increasing the life of the knife edge between sharpenings. The automatic shade cutter is designed for use in retail stores for operation by retail customers. A customer first selects a stock shade and then inserts the shade into a measured cutting position in the machine.

US Patent:

59640227, Oct 12, 1999

Filed:

Dec 29, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/999081

Inventors:

David Maurice Mann - Wolverine Lake MI
George Abram Thornton - Canton MI

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, Inc. - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B23P 2500

US Classification:

29458

Abstract:

Method of mounting a brake rotor to a wheel hub, the mounting establishing a sealed but removable fixed bearing therebetween; it comprises the steps of: (a) forming mating metallic mounting surfaces on the respective rotor and hub that at least in part extend in a plane normal to the axis of rotation of the hub (for example, within a tolerance. +-. 001 inch); (b) depositing a sealing material between the mounting surfaces consisting of a mineral oil based paste containing generally similar proportions by volume of particles of nickel, graphite and a hydrocarbon, suspended in the paste, the particles having an ultra fine particle size in the range of 5-80 microns; (c) clamping the surfaces together to complete the mounting, the clamping causing the deposited material to spread uniformly therebetween to seal the surfaces against corrosion, the paste being deposited in a limited volume to permit metal to metal contact between micro ridges of the surfaces when clamped, the uniformly spread material tolerating micromovements between the surfaces during extended use without fretting to thereby maintain alignment of the rotor to the hub within the designed tolerance.