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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7712598 | Robotic tread system having a net-zero motion head for moving objects The system (50) includes at least one tread (52) secured to a tread drive means (54) for moving the tread (52) in a direction of a tread work-axis of motion (58) adjacent an object (78) to be moved. A head (57) is sec... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7380648 | Workpiece carrier and anti-backlash mechanism therefor An anti-backlash mechanism is provided for use in an assembly line including a conveyor transporting a plurality of pucks. The anti-backlash mechanism comprises a supporting structure adapted for being mounted adjacent the conveyor. A finger is mounted on the suppor... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7219793 | Apparatus, arrangement and method for braking A braking device for a pallet intended to run in a conveying track. The braking device includes a matrix and a braking element. The matrix includes the support service and exterior surface and a recess having various screws and openings. The braking element includes... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7131252 | Method of and apparatus for automatically packaging encased product An automatic packaging apparatus has an arraying and supplying station, a sorting station and a packaging station. The arraying and supplying station forcibly arrays and supplies encased products to orient their caps in one direction. The sorting station selectively... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7114607 | Method for operating a vertical accumulating conveyor system A preferred embodiment of a method for operating a vertical accumulating conveyor system is disclosed. The method includes loading of a workpiece onto a pallet assembly of a conveyor system. The workpiece may be either loaded manually or automatically using a roboti... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7066318 | Transporting apparatus A transporting apparatus permits to intermittent indexing with freely and independently setting stop position of work tables and stopping period adapting to each individual work station. The transporting apparatus sequentially transports a work table across a plural... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6966421 | Apparatus for vehicle-body transport carriage A jig switching apparatus includes a locator jig slidably arranged on a transport carriage and having at a front end a locate pin with clamp function. The locator jig has two switching positions selectively switched in accordance with the type of a vehicle body to b... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6939218 | Method and apparatus of removing dead poultry from a poultry house A method and apparatus for removing carcasses of dead poultry randomly scattered throughout a poultry house are disclosed which reduce the amount of time and labor required to remove dead poultry during an entire growing session. ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6910413 | Workpiece registration station for a decorating machine A reduction to the traveling motion of bottles along a delivery conveyor in an intermittent motion decorating machine is provided by one of a pair of workpiece feed cams rotatably supported in a side-by-side relation to rotate about spaced horizontal axes lying in a... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6868959 | Cam for accumulating conveyor A preferred embodiment of a cam for an accumulating conveyor system has a primary cam and a secondary cam that operably rotate about a common axis at substantially the same speed. The primary and secondary cam each have an outer circumferential surface that defines ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6640962 | Interlocking transfer system An interlocking transfer system includes a workstation having four or more sides, each of which is positioned at 90° angles from the next adjacent side. A cam lift assembly is provided on each of the sides and a means for moving the pallets horizontally.... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6579717 | Specific solution handling method for calibration and quality control by automatic analytical apparatus A method for handling specific sample solutions for calibration and quality control by an automatic analytical apparatus in which a sample rack to hold calibrator bottles for required analysis items is set on a rack supply unit by an operator. Identificat... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6513646 | Conveyor systems, stabilizer assemblies and methods for stabilizing conveyor carriers A stabilizer assembly for use with a conveyer system includes a stabilizer member that pivots from a first position to a second position towards a vertically-curved track section as a conveyor carrier moves into the vertically-curved section. A method for... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6415906 | Method and apparatus for transferring pallets around an end terminal in a conveyor assembly An endless roller chain conveyor of the over/under type supporting carriers or pallets which independently travel along the horizontal runs of the conveyor upon demand, while the roller chain is allowed to continuously run at a constant speed. The chains ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6390272 | Article conveying device A conveying device in which articles supplied intermittently in a plurality of rows are discharged continuously in a single row, comprising a rotational conveying mechanism and a reciprocating driving mechanism. The rotational conveying mechanism rotation... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6378440 | Overhead conveyor rotator system An overhead conveyor includes a rotator system for rotating a work piece as it travels along a conveying track. A carrier movable along the track is propelled by an endless conveyor chain disposed within said track. The carrier is detachably connected to ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6073553 | Workpiece conveyor with barrel cams including a dwell period for a decorating machine The traveling motion imparted to bottles in an intermittent motion decorating machine is provided by a pair of workpiece feed cams rotatably supported in a side-by-side relation to rotate about spaced horizontal axes lying in a common horizontal plane, th... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6035994 | Conveyor The conveyor comprises a conveyor belt (5), two main drums (R1,R4) around which the conveyor belt forms a main loop, two auxiliary drums (R2,R3) mounted between the main drums and around which the conveyor belt forms a secondary loop, and two auxiliary ro... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6019214 | Asynchronous conveyor construction An accumulating conveyor assembly has an endless, continuously moving conveyor member defining a closed path having inside and outside edges. A plurality of workpiece supports are coupled to the conveyor member for movement with and relative to the latter... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5901949 | Conveyor system for collating photographic prints and negatives A photograph collating system for combining and collating negative films and prints. The system includes a conveyer mechanism (70) extending through a negative film intake station (71) for receiving the negative films from a negative film outlet (60), a p... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5735384 | Endless accumulating conveyor An endless accumulating conveyor has upper and lower guide rails for supporting pallets. An endless roller chain has an upper run extending along the upper guide rails and a lower run extending along the lower guide rails. A dogging device on each pallet ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5620080 | Load station for continuously moving conveyor A portion of a continuously forwardly moving conveyor is caused to move backwards or effectively stand still by virtue of making the conveyor move rearwardly.... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5503264 | Endlessly circulating items transporting apparatus with individual transporting members The transporting apparatus has a guide which forms a closed loop and in which transporting members circulate. The transporting members are driven at the beginning and end of the effective conveying zone by in each case an independently controllable drive ... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5404227 | Container inspecting apparatus having rotary indexing apparatus A container inspecting apparatus for inspecting containers such as vials, ampuls, or the like has an inlet star wheel rotatable for admitting containers successively, and an outlet star wheel rotatable for discharging the containers successively. A plural... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5371995 | Hesitating carton loading machine A carton loading system has a carton carrier movable along a carton carrier support track driven by a continuous conveyor. The continuous conveyor has a first path segment in which the continuous conveyor drives the carton carrier along the track while a ... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5318167 | Control system for power driven conveyor line A control system for a power driven conveyor line having power driven conveyor zones adjoined end to end. Each conveyor zone includes a single drive motor, a transmission, driven conveying elements extending the length of the conveyor zone, and an adjacen... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5271210 | Packaging machine with reciprocating conveyor In a film packaging machine wherein a pair of sealing bars are caused to move linearly with said film so as to increase the sealing cycle time, a pair of control belts are mounted so as to reciprocate in unison with said sealing bars. The control belts, w... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5269119 | Linearly reciprocating conveyor apparatus In a film packaging machine wherein a pair of sealing bars are caused to move linearly with said film so as to increase the sealing cycle time, a pair of control belts are mounted so as to reciprocate in unison with said sealing bars. The control belts, w... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5205392 | Method and apparatus for forming workpieces, using a sequence of stationary forming stations A device for machining workpieces which includes a series of stationary machining stations (2, 42, 65, 81) arranged around a circle and a row of workpiece holders (3, 38, 64, 82) which are clamped temporarily in the machining stations (2, 42, 65, 81) and ... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5176036 | Parallel shaft drive and indexing machine A parallel shaft drive controls rotational and translational movement of a driven hub. The drive is useful in indexing and other types of machines.... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5176240 | Indexing machine with roller cam drive An indexing machine includes a continuous chain having a run extending between a pair of movable sprocket gears. Work carriers are provided at spaced intervals along the chain and a plurality of fixed work stations are located at equal intervals along the... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5174428 | Confection conveyor system with constant-velocity pick-up section and pausing drop section Method and apparatus for processing of ice cream confections, having constant-velocity confection pick-up function which is uninterrupted by pausing confection-drop function. A confection conveyor system having two cooperating conveyor sections has a cons... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5170546 | Indexing machine with rotary cam drive An indexing machine includes a continuous chain having a run extending between a pair of movable sprocket gears. Work carriers are provided at spaced intervals along the chain and a plurality of fixed work stations are located at equal intervals along the... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5109584 | Printed circuit board adapter supplying apparatus and method for use in printed circuit board drilling apparatus An apparatus and method for supplying a printed circuit board to a printed circuit board drilling machine and for returning the printed circuit board after the drilling. A stocker stores a plurality of printed circuit boards in a tilted state, and a plura... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5096041 | Method and apparatus for receiving and delivering articles with differing motion characteristics A method of, and apparatus for delivering articles to and discharging articles from a conveyor with differing motion characteristics. The conveyor comprises holders adapted to receive, deliver or handle articles from one or a plurality of supply devices a... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5074397 | Rotary index apparatus A rotary index apparatus for treating an article at predetermined positions while the article is conveyed, has an indexing conveyor unit with a plurality work support tables, a rotary disk unit rotated at a constant speed and having a plurality of swingin... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5018418 | Apparatus for cutting laminated sheet material A laminate cutting apparatus has a support belt supported on a frame for reciprocating horizontally in the longitudinal direction, independently lowerable support plates juxtaposed in the longitudinal direction and retained on the frame for supporting the... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4982831 | Printed circuit board adapter supplying apparatus and method for use in printed circuit board drilling apparatus An apparatus and method for supplying a printed circuit board to a printed circuit board drilling machine and for returning the printed circuit board after the drilling. A stocker stores a plurality of printed circuit boards in a tilted state, and a plura... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4947979 | Transfer apparatus Apparatus for transferring articles, such as containers, along a processing path includes a reciprocating slide with opposing, rotating feed screws disposed thereon for engaging the containers wherein reciprocation of the slide and rotation of the feed sc... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4911285 | Drive for a rotary plate in a labelling machine for bottles A drive shaft is for a rotary plate of a labelling machine for bottles or the like and includes a rotatable turntable of the labelling machine having an upper portion. A circular cam block is mounted below the turntable and has a curved slot therein. The ... | 03/27/1990 |
