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Patent Number Date Title Name City Description
2,352,911 Jul. 04, 1944 Bearing Joseph J. Osplack Detroit, MI See patent 2,629,976 for improvements to this design.
2,363,111 Nov. 21, 1944 Hydraulic valve Racy D. Bennett Detroit, MI This hydraulic valve is especially for controlling the flow to a cylinder "adapted to reciprocate according to a manual control or through a continuous cycle. Hydraulic motors of the type herein contemplated are found, for instance, as the traversing means for milling machines and the like."
2,386,880 Oct. 16, 1945 Indexing fixture for machine tools Joseph J. Osplack Detroit, MI
2,408,995 Oct. 08, 1946 Spindle bearing Joseph J. Osplack Detroit, MI This invention provides "an improved ball bearing mounted spindle for precision instruments which turns freely with a minimum bearing clearance and which runs so true about its axis that extremely accurate measurements can be made on parts supported by and rotated on the spindle..."
2,442,635 Jun. 01, 1948 Machine tool Racy D. Bennett Detroit, MI
2,466,123 Apr. 05, 1949 Method of making spindle bearings Joseph J. Osplack Detroit, MI
2,540,961 Feb. 06, 1951 Pivot arm gear rolling fixture Joseph J. Osplack Detroit, MI
2,592,409 Apr. 08, 1952 Pilot gauge Edwin Frankland Detroit, MI
2,607,175 Aug. 19, 1952 Method of making precision gears Joseph J. Osplack Detroit, MI The method of making precision gears relies on a hobbing grinder where the abrasive wheel has on its perimeter a helical thread of correct pitch and cross-section to generate the gear teeth; the blank is rotated in synchrony with the abrasive wheel. See patent 1,612,830 for a hobbing grinder of this type.
2,629,976 Feb. 24, 1953 Grinding wheel spindle Joseph J. Osplack Detroit, MI Improvements to patent 2,352,911.
2,685,234 Aug. 03, 1954 Bevel gear finishing machine Joseph J. Osplack Detroit, MI
2,689,410 Sep. 21, 1954 Bevel gear checking master Albert S. Beam Detroit, MI
    Bevel gear checking master Clarence B. Stapleton Detroit, MI  
2,708,332 May. 17, 1955 Coolant to grinding wheels Charles M. Buttiger Detroit, MI
    Coolant to grinding wheels Vernon E. Riddell Detroit, MI  
2,735,419 Feb. 21, 1956 Abrasive wheel dresser Joseph J. Osplack Detroit, MI This wheel dresser is "to dress arcuate profiles on the cutting faces of abrasive wheels employed in grinding curved surfaces."
2,849,802 Sep. 02, 1958 Apparatus for measuring effective dimensions of splines Clarence B. Stapleton Royal Oak, MI