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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7002135 | Method and apparatus for precision counting and tracking of signatures moving between a gripper conveyor and a stacker infeed Printed products are accurately detected, counted and tracked as they move from a gripper conveyor to a lay down conveyor. The printed products are further tracked from a position where they reach a sensor upstream of the stacker where the position of selected print... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6876716 | Method and apparatus for utilizing a shadow effect for counting newspapers, magazines, books, printed products, signatures and other like printed matter Printed products, such as newspapers are fed past a counting station arranged in imbricated fashion, preferably folded edges passing downstream first. A high intensity light source is arranged so that its light beams are oriented at an angle which, while illuminatin... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6594970 | Method and apparatus for wrapping palletized bundles A method and apparatus for wrapping a loop of film about a pallet, which supports a layer of products, and a guide, through which said layer passes, to prevent crushing and/or displacement of the product layer. Subsequent product layers are similarly prot... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6086308 | Cart handling system Wheeled carts are pushed onto an inlet end of a conveyor and are automatically advanced, one at a time, to a cross conveyor for delivery to a cart loader conveyor. A cart loader is provided near the outlet end of the cart loader conveyor for automatically... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5930975 | Cutter/clamping means for bottom wrap 3/4 wrap apparatus Bottom wrap/three-quarter wrap apparatus having an automatic web feeder for safely advancing a web fed from a supply roll to a main web feeder. The main feed rollers advance one length of the web and a cutter cuts the advanced length, completing one cycle... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5916109 | Feed means for bottom wrap 3/4 wrap apparatus Bottom wrap/three-quarter wrap apparatus having an automatic web feeder for safely advancing a web fed from a supply roll to a main web feeder. The web free end is inserted between a pair of rollers, one being driven by a motor and the other being free-wh... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5772391 | Stacker for counting and stacking signatures delivered by a gripper conveyor Signatures are delivered to a stacker by a gripper conveyor, each gripper delivering a signature thereto. The grippers follow a curved path adjacent to the stacker, substantially aligning the signatures with the stacking platform receiving signatures as t... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5516095 | Eccentric roller assembly for belted infeed Uniform diameter rollers are used with eccentric members to impart a V-shape to a signature stream in the infeed section of a stacker. At least one of the rollers of the shaft includes an eccentric member to offset the rotational axis of that roller. A ro... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5282716 | Method and apparatus for stacking, aligning and compressing signatures A stack of signatures are dropped upon the platform halves of a rotatable platform, the platform halves being raised to reduce the free fall distance from the point where the stack of signatures are dropped and a lower stack ejection position. The platfor... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5274983 | Method and apparatus for wrapping signatures and the like Method and apparatus for wrapping a signature bundle by moving a wrapping sheet into the path of movement of a bundle, said sheet being maintained in self-supporting fashion by imparting a bend thereto as it is fed to the wrapping station. The bundle "cra... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5181820 | Automatic bundle loading apparatus and method In an automatic loading system and method wheeled carts receive five or six layers of newspaper bundles of four to six bundles per layer. A waist-high conveyor and an inclined ramp conveyor move bundles to a roller platform of independently operated rolle... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5104105 | Method and apparatus for providing identifying indicia for moving bundles and the like A sheet is moved into a tray. The height of a bundle is determined as it moves along a conveyor. A belt drive is activated to pinch the delivered sheet and advance it to a swingable applicator whose outfeed end is movable to a position just above the top ... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5103617 | Method and apparatus for wrapping signatures and the like Method and apparatus for wrapping a signature bundle by moving a wrapping sheet into the path of movement of a bundle, said sheet being maintained in self-supporting fashion by imparting a bend thereto as it is fed to the wrapping station. The bundle "cra... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5092236 | Method and apparatus for stacking, aligning and compressing signatures An overlapping signature stream is aligned, squeezed and formed into a stack which is dropped onto a rotatable platform of a lower bin. The platform is raised to reduce the distance between the lower bin and the platform. Pivotally mounted compression cli... | 03/03/1992 |
