Gary L Mcneil, 54Hamburg, MI

6960116, Nov 1, 2005

Feb 20, 2004

10/784133

Gary McNeil - Allegan MI, US
Jeremy Hammond - Portage MI, US

Roto-Finish Company, Inc. - Kalamazoo MI

B24C001/08

451 36, 451113, 451104

A device for finishing workpieces, such as automobile wheels. The device includes a bowl assembly containing polishing media therein, and a drive assembly including a rotatable turret which carries the wheels thereon so that same are orbitally driven through the polishing media. A cam arrangement is provided which essentially continuously adjusts the angle of the wheels relative to the polishing media by pivoting the wheels about respective vertical axes. The device is additionally provided with a vertical drive assembly which allows vertical oscillation of the wheels relative to the media, and the polishing device also permits adjustment of the pitch or rake angle of the wheels relative to the horizontal.

4884372, Dec 5, 1989

Oct 6, 1987

7/105273

Gary L. McNeil - Allegan MI

Roto-Finish Company, Inc. - Kalamazoo MI

B24B 800

511632

Apparatus for finishing parts or workpieces in the presence of liquid in a finishing chamber having outer upstanding wall and bottom members which are symmetrically arranged about a common axis and relatively rotatable about the axis, for imparting motion to the contents of the chamber for finishing of the parts or workpieces therein, and means for causing the relative motion, having an improved resilient seal between the bottom and the wall members in the form of a resiliently-restricted zone, comprising a partial bottom-forming lip or other partial bottom-forming element, and means for pumping fluid into said zone at a sufficient pressure so that the fluid enters the zone and thence flows upwardly into the finishing chamber, is disclosed. Storage chambers below the bottom and adjacent the upstanding wall are employed for storage of fluid to be introduced into the finishing chamber. Separate drainage means for internal drainage of fluid from the finishing chamber is provided so that no drainage of fluid and "fines" goes through the seal.

5012620, May 7, 1991

Mar 2, 1989

7/318078

Gary L. McNeil - Allegan MI

Roto-Finish Company, Inc. - Kalamazoo MI

B24B 3112

51313

Apparatus for finishing parts or workpieces in the presence of liquid in a finishing chamber having outer upstanding wall and bottom members which are symmetrically arranged about a common axis and relatively rotatable about the axis, for imparting motion to the contents of the chamber for finishing of the parts or workpieces therein, and means for causing the relative motion, having an improved resilient seal between the bottom and the wall members in the form of a resiliently-restricted zone, comprising a partial bottom-forming lip or other partial bottom-forming element, and means for pumping fluid into said zone at a sufficient pressure so that the fluid enters the zone and then flows upwardly into the finishing chamber, is disclosed. Storage chambers below the bottom and adjacent the upstanding wall are employed for storage of fluid to be introduced into the finishing chamber. Separate drainage means for internal drainage of fluid from the finishing chamber is provided so that no drainage of fluid and "fines" goes through the seal.

4693037, Sep 15, 1987

Feb 25, 1986

6/833203

Gary L. McNeil - Allegan MI

Roto-Finish Company, Inc. - Kalamazoo MI

B24B 3106

511632

A vibratory finishing machine for the surface finishing of workpieces comprising an essentially spiral trough, having a plurality of channels in side-by-side relationship, resiliently mounted for vibration and tilted with respect to the horizontal; such a spiral trough which is employed as a finishing chamber by attachment to a resiliently-mounted vibratory structure of a vibratory finishing machine; and a method and apparatus for vibratorily finishing a workpiece by subjecting it to a surface finishing medium in such a trough, having liquid finishing medium in only lower sections thereof and having solid finishing medium in an outer channel of said trough, are disclosed.

4630401, Dec 23, 1986

Dec 11, 1984

6/680300

Gary L. McNeil - Allegan MI

Roto-Finish Company, Inc. - Kalamazoo MI

B24B 3106
B24B 100

51 7

A novel method for the surface-planing of elongated parts, in which the parts are not submerged in the finishing media, and in which the direction of the finishing media orbit is in the direction of feed or of the longitudinal dimension of the part, is disclosed, as well as novel open-top finishing machines, comprising finishing chambers having internal flow diverters, and side walls lower than front and back walls, all especially adapted for carrying out the surface-planing method of the invention.

4630405, Dec 23, 1986

Dec 16, 1985

6/809575

Gary L. McNeil - Allegan MI

Roto-Finish Company, Inc. - Kalamazoo MI

B24B 3100

511632

A novel method of forming a finishing chamber by inserting a cylindrical tube into a corresponding opening in the bottom of a dished tank head having a bottom and an upwardly-extending outer wall, inserting a cone-shaped gusset or collar having an outwardly and downwardly-extending skirt and an opening in the top thereof, corresponding to the circumference of the cylindrical tube, over the tube and with its outer circumference in contact with the tank head, and welding the tube to the tank head and to the gusset and the gusset to the bottom of the tank head, thereby simply to provide the essentials of a finishing chamber, is disclosed. The outer wall of the finishing chamber may be extended by welding a sheetform annular ring to the top of the outer wall of the tank head, and the chamber may be lined with elastomer and fitted with a screen deck. The chamber itself and finishing machines embodying the same are also disclosed, and are characterized by simplicity of fabrication and structural stability of the chamber, and numerous advantages in operation which follow therefrom.