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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7624855 | Transporting system for packaging machine A transporting system in a packaging machine automatically merges and accumulates, usually as a shingled stream, generally flat articles having substantially continuous and discontinuous opposite sides, and includes a portion, of one of two main conveyor mechanisms,... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7441770 | Conveyor apparatus having a twice-twisted belt and a floating-tension pulley A conveyor apparatus including a main conveyor by which mail items are routed by being nipped between a transport belt and a main belt, and a secondary conveyor towards which the mail items are routed, after switching, along a secondary belt. The main and secondary ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7036654 | Conveyor for changing the angular orientation of conveyed articles A conveyor includes elongated and curved first and second structural beams. Each beam includes a plurality of support tabs projecting outwardly therefrom in opposite directions and the tabs support a corresponding endless belt along the entire length thereof. The tw... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032737 | Conveying apparatus for open containers A conveying apparatus for transporting open containers is provided with at least two conveying elements located opposite to each other that are adapted frictionally or positively engage the containers. Each conveying element comprises a plurality of gripping element... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6918485 | Orientation detection and control system A method and apparatus for selectively orienting an article (28) can include a selective indexing of a movable carriage (94) between a first carriage position and at least a second carriage position, thereby providing a selected face-alignment of a dat... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6886681 | Conveyor for inverting web of material The present invention relates to a conveyor apparatus, and more specifically to a conveyor apparatus that is capable of accepting a web of material having little to no inherent structural integrity from a first direction, inverting the material, and dispatching said... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6626103 | Inverter An inverter (1) for thin, flat products (2), especially printing substrates in a printing machine, with belts (7, 8) positioned over two deflection pulleys (3, 4, 5, 6) that are set together at 180° between the deflection pulleys (3, 4, 5, 6). Such inver... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6409008 | Turnover conveyor A conveyor system lifts advancing signatures from a conventional conveyor, conveys the lifted signatures along an upright path of travel, turns the advancing signatures from the upright path of travel to a downward path of travel, deposits the advancing s... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6398204 | On-edge stacking apparatus A stacking apparatus for stacking flat articles on edge is provided where each article has a front perimeter edge and two faces and the stacking apparatus receives each flat article as it enters the stacking apparatus moving in a direction generally paral... | 06/04/2002 |
| 5988352 | Device for turning an editorial product on a packaging line A device for turning an editorial product on a packaging line includes a pusher conveyor, a feeder for products to be packaged, and a plurality of feeders for sheet inserts for the products, arranged side by side one after another along a direction essent... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5868240 | Spring conveyor apparatus A servo drive spring conveyance apparatus is disclosed in which a spring is grasped by a grabbing jaw of a multi-armed conveying star and fed from there to additional stations. The conveyance apparatus includes two belt loops that are provided for the con... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5820335 | Apparatus for collecting plates A method and an apparatus for collecting plates from two rows of plates travelling side-by-side on a moving conveyor comprising inverting plates sequentially in one row of plates and merging said two rows of plates by depositing a plate from one row onto ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5669754 | Method and apparatus for collecting plates A method and an apparatus for collecting plates from two rows of plates travelling side-by-side on a moving conveyor comprising inverting plates sequentially in one row of plates and merging said two rows of plates by depositing a plate from one row onto ... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5540318 | Method and apparatus for glazing ceramic ware A method and apparatus for use in glazing an article of ceramic flatware or holloware comprises first glazing the undersurface of the article, then turning the article and then glazing the upper surface. Turning is preferably effected by a turning device ... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5535997 | Fabric piece automatic feeder with suction cup picker and twisted-belt flipper A sheet feeder includes a pneumatic picker for picking the top sheet from a stack of sheets, and a flipper for inverting upside-down sheets. The picker has a row of suction cups, supplied with vacuum through hoses, for picking up the top sheet. The lip of... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5411250 | Turn-up and alignment apparatus The present invention provides an apparatus and method for receiving flat articles having a top edge alignment and horizontal orientation and transporting the articles along a transport path to a vertical orientation and a bottom edge alignment. The appar... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5346053 | Modular screen system for screening deck A screening deck is shown and described including an intermediate frame structure mountable to the screening deck in a manner similar to that of an original screen component, but providing mounting formations for attachment of a plurality of screen module... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5129503 | Turnover module A turnover module for turning over envelopes comprises a plurality of pulleys and disposed thereabout a driven endless belt in the general shape of a flattened figure `8`. The belt includes a crossover region and a first and a second reach extending there... | 07/14/1992 |
| 4867099 | Method of electrostatically spray coating edge-supported substrates Apparatus for electrostatic spray coating of plate-like substrates, particularly printed circuit boards, has one or more endless conveyors or one or more conveyors of finite length with one or two pairs of strip-shaped holding elements for the edges of su... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4861166 | Method for removing bubbles from container made of synthetic resin filled with solution and device thereof A method for removing bubbles from a container made of synthetic resin filled with solution comprises adding movement of inclination or reverse to the container made of synthetic resin filled with solution gradually so as to contact the surface of solutio... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4860880 | Conveyor system for rod-like articles A conveyor system for rod-like articles, particularly cigarettes, includes a transfer conveyor comprising twisting endless bands arranged to convey a multiple-layer stream of articles in a direction transverse to the lengths of the articles and to twist t... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4848372 | Cigarette turning apparatus Filter tipped cigarettes are turned end for end by a narrow flexible belt (10) which is twisted in a figure of eight about pulleys (13, 14). The belt (10) has flutes (8) which engage only the tipped ends (T). A tensioned thin flexible strip (22) covers th... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4705157 | Article turning assembly A device for turning articles such as envelopes 90 degrees as the articles are moved forward from an entrace location to an exit location. Two flexible endless belts, each having a span contiguous to a corresponding span of the other, move the articles as... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4690268 | Sheet convey apparatus A sheet convey apparatus which conveys a mixture of obverse and reverse-sheets set at an inlet port to a collecting section, comprises a first convey path for conveying obverse-presented bills which are distinguished from reverse-presented bills by a sort... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4685553 | Container inverter Container transporting apparatus comprising a plurality of pulleys (16) each supported by a support (30,28) in spaced pairs to maintain one or more belts (15) forming a path along which the containers are transported. Each pulley includes guides (24) for ... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4614512 | Sheet folding machine Sheet-folding machine, especially for packaging cases made of corrugated cardboard, after they have been produced and printed. It incorporates advancing (10) and folding (22) belts which are maintained at the exact cycle of the machine by means of pulleys (14)... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4569620 | Book turn-around and stack accumulator apparatus In apparatus for manufacturing and packaging bound books a turnover device is provided for turning over alternate books fed by a conveyor from a building-in machine and leading to a stacking device where such books are accumulated in stacks and delivered ... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4479574 | Container transport apparatus Container transport apparatus for transporting containers such as plastic bottles and the like which are subject to damage without damaging the containers. The container transport apparatus includes container guiding members for guiding containers such as... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4421222 | Apparatus for arranging workpieces in a predictable relationship and grouping An apparatus for arranging randomly spaced and oriented workpieces, especially frozen hamburger patties, has a plurality of devices for unstacking or unshingling stacked or shingled workpieces. The apparatus includes a pair of downwardly converging surfac... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4364463 | Turnover conveyor In a double wire belt conveyor for conveying newspapers along a line of travel, a series of grooved, wire belt-carrying pulley rolls is provided, spaced along the line of travel and rotatably mounted on axes in planes substantially perpendicular to the li... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4226324 | Article turnover assembly An article turnover assembly (16) for transporting flat envelopes and the like while turning them over 180 degrees includes upper and lower crowned entrance and exit pulleys (22 and 24; 52 and 54) having two flexible endless belts (18 and 20) extending be... | 10/07/1980 |
