APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING MOUNTED ALMEN STRIPS

• US 20120199506A1
• Filed: 02/03/2012
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hydro Honing Laboratories, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Hydro Honing Laboratories, Inc.
• Inventors: Beach, Thomas A., Beach, Walter A.
• Application Number:
  US13/365,896
• Publication Number:
  US 20120199506A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/305
• CPC Class Codes: B24C 1/10 for compacting surfaces, e.g. shot-peening for deforming sheet metal, tubes or profiles B21D31/06; as a metallurgical treatment C21D7/00, C22F1/00
• CPC Class Codes: B24C 9/00 Appurtenances of abrasive blasting machines or devices, e.g. working chambers, arrangements for handling used abrasive material
• CPC Class Codes: C21D 7/06 by shot-peening or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 5/0002 Arrangements for supporting, fixing or guiding the measuring instrument or the object to be measured
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 1/06 by measuring the permanent deformation of gauges, e.g. of compressed bodies
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A protected test strip holder according to the present invention includes a test strip holder onto which a test strip, such as for example an Almen strip, may be mounted using fasteners provided on the test strip holder. A protective covering is form-fitted to the test strip holder and, optionally, to the test strip holder having a test strip mounted thereon. The present invention also comprises a method for protecting and storing a test strip holder that includes providing a test strip holder, forming or molding a protective covering form-fitting to the test strip holder, and placing the protective covering over the test strip holder. The test strip holder may have a test strip mounted thereon prior to molding the form-fitting protective covering.

Claims

1. A protected test strip holder comprising:

a) a test strip holder; and

b) a protective covering form-fitted to the test strip holder.

2. A protected test strip holder as defined by claim 1 wherein the test strip holder includes at least one fastener for mounting a test strip on the test strip holder.

3. A protected test strip holder as defined by claim 2 wherein an Almen strip is mounted on the test strip holder.

4. A protected test strip holder as defined by claim 1 wherein the protective covering is plastic.

5. A protected test strip holder as defined by claim 3 wherein the protective covering is plastic.

6. A method for protecting and storing a test strip holder comprising:

a) providing a test strip holder;

b) forming a protective covering form-fitting to the test strip holder; and

c) placing the protective covering over the test strip holder.

7. A method for protecting and storing a test strip holder as defined by claim 6 wherein providing a test strip holder further comprises mounting a test strip onto the test strip holder.

8. A method for protecting and storing a test strip holder as defined by claim 6 wherein forming a protective covering form-fitting to the test strip holder comprises molding the protective covering to be form-fitting to the test strip holder.

9. A method for protecting and storing a test strip holder as defined by claim 7 wherein forming a protective covering form-fitting to the test strip holder comprises molding the protective covering to be form-fitting to the test strip holder with the test strip mounted onto the test strip holder.