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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7426990 | Pusher mechanism for I.S. machine A pusher mechanism for pushing bottles formed in an I.S. machine from a dead plate to a conveyor. The pusher mechanism includes a pusher finger assembly which is supported by a housing and is movable about an axis of support and about the parallel axis of rotation o... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7392630 | Packaging system having loading carousel A packaging system utilizes two sides of a loading carousel, which reduces both the height and footprint of the packaging system. Mass and inertia are also reduced, allowing higher operational speeds. The loading carousel receives opened cartons on a first side and ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7347313 | Method of equally spacing items in article handling systems To equally space items along a first path, a predetermined number of items is moved towards each other to minimize distances between the items, and a gear mechanism is engaged with each item. The gear mechanism includes crossed bars, wherein pairs of the bars are co... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341190 | Method and apparatus for rapid image capture in an image system Embodiments of a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for rapidly capturing images in an automated identification system to effectively extend one dimension of a field of view of an image system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the image system capt... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7325668 | Transfer unit for transferring glass articles In a transfer unit for transferring glass articles from a supporting surface to a carry-off conveyor, a pickup member, for engaging the articles for transfer, is moved between a pickup position and a release position by an actuating device having a single articulate... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322166 | Apparatus for unwrapping and transporting frangible wafers for ice cream sandwiches and the like The present invention is an apparatus and method for unwrapping a package of frangible articles bearing a wrapping material, the wrapping material having a rear portion and a forward tab, the forward tab adapted to open the wrapping material when pulled, the apparat... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7278529 | Push method and device for transferring glass articles A method and device for transferring glass articles from an intermediate supporting plate to an unloading conveyor, wherein the article to be transferred is positioned and retained inside a seat on a movable member by feeding compressed air through the movable membe... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7264108 | Transfer unit for transferring glass articles A transfer unit for transferring glass articles from a supporting surface to a carry-off conveyor, the transfer unit includes a pickup member for engaging the articles for transfer and is hinged to one end of an actuating arm to rotate with respect to the actuating ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7220094 | Transfer device for cylindrical stacks of products arranged on an edge A transfer device for transferring stacks (4, 4a, 4b, 5, 5a, 5b), which have a cylindrical external shape, of products resting on one of their edges between a conveyor (1) set upstream for advance of the... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7131524 | Apparatus and method for the transfer of rod-shaped articles An apparatus for transferring rod-shaped articles from a longitudinal conveyor transporting the articles in a longitudinal axial direction onto a transverse conveyor transporting the articles in a transverse axial direction, in which the directions of transport of t... | 11/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7110835 | Integration of graphic display elements, process modules and control modules in process plants Graphic displays, which display information about process elements and the manner in which these elements are connected within a process, process modules, which simulate the operation of the elements depicted within the graphic displays and control modules, which pe... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7104027 | Product packaging system A product packaging system for receiving a series of products from one or more product transport lines. The products are loaded into a series of carriers and transported through a downstream inserter unit. Inserter assemblies moving in timed relation with the moveme... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7083374 | Gripping members gripping and moving packets stacked by a conveyor A stacking conveyor conveys packets so that the conveyed packets become stacked together in a standing up configuration as an array of packets. First and second gripping members are automatically controlled so that the first and second gripping members mechanically ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7070384 | Apparatus and method for automatically unloading brick from kiln cars and preparation for shipment Apparatus and methods for unloading and binding brick or other components include an infeed conveyor that delivers layers of brick to a transfer distribution carriage. The distribution carriage repositions the brick layers on either an outfeed conveyor or a tine con... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7070039 | Apparatus and method for the transfer of rod-shaped articles An apparatus for the transfer of rod-shaped articles from a longitudinal conveyor that longitudinal axially conveys the articles onto a transverse conveyor that transverse axial conveys the articles transversely to their axes, a direction of transport of the longitu... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7051861 | Conveying system An apparatus for transporting articles includes a first transporter (e.g. a conveyor) for transporting articles in a line and a member that separates the articles in the line into groups and also removes the groups from the line while the articles continue to be tra... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6996454 | Method and control system for controlling a conveyor system and a plant for baling paper pulp Methods are disclosed for controlling conveyor systems including providing status information for each of a plurality of conveyors, providing control information for each of the conveyors based solely upon the status information from that conveyor and from adjacent ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6948608 | Method and a device for transferring blister packs and the like to the feeding line of a packaging machine A method for transferring blister packs to a step-less moving feeding line of a packaging machine, according to which a gripping member of a three-axes robot device picks up at least one group of blister packs from an outlet line of a blistering machine. The robot d... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6941796 | Package handling apparatus detecting package height An apparatus to test integrity of a seal of a package. The apparatus includes a height detector detecting a height of the package, a test portion determining the integrity of the seal based upon a position of the test portion as a function of time when contacting th... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6929111 | Apparatus and a method for collating and cartonning product units Apparatus for collating and cartonning product units comprising: product infeed means adapted to dispense a succession of discrete product units; one or more servo-trains, the or each servo-train comprising a plurality of buckets in which each bucket is adapted to r... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6808061 | Process and apparatus for depositing products in a defined manner from a compartment-containing chain Products are to be discharged at a discharge station from a compartmentalized conveyor (3) having laterally open compartments (7) formed between parallel intermediate walls (5) for accommodating the laterally projecting products (1). To p... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6712196 | Empty bag supplying apparatus and a product-filled bag extraction apparatus in a continuous conveying type bag-filling packaging machine An empty bag supplying apparatus used in a continuous conveying type bag-filling packaging machine in which the empty bag supplying apparatus receives empty bags and transfers these empty bags to gripper pairs of the bag-filling packaging machine that are moved cont... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6647867 | Pasteurizer A pasteurizer (1) comprising an endless circulating transport conveyor (3) guided around deflection rolls (7, 8) and used for transporting through the pasteurizer (1) the products (18) to be pasteurized, and having a feed conveyor (5) and/or a discharge c... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6612095 | Packing and unpacking machine A pick-up member for use with an apparatus for transporting a container from a pick-up station to a deposit station. The pick-up member being substantially formed of plastic and includes a bell-shaped head having a longitudinal bore for receiving containe... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6547059 | Conveyor row former for objects having uneven cross section widths A row former of a conveying system is provided with a plurality of protrusions projecting from a side of a row forming arm that engage with portions of objects arranged in a row and pushed before the arm across a row forming table surface and prevent rela... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6547058 | Conveyor row former, array rake and sweep mechanism for conveying objects having triangular cross sections A conveyor system comprises a novel row former, a novel array rake and a novel sweep mechanism that are all designed to prevent relative movement between objects arranged in rows and then formed in two dimensional arrays of the objects as the objects are ... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6516939 | Device for transporting bottles For transporting bottles with a carrying ring in the neck region, particularly PET bottles, along a specified path of motion through processing stations (2, 3, 4, 5, 6), of a processing installation particularly a bottle-filling installation, in each case... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6413481 | Sterilization tunnel A sterilization tunnel for pharmaceutical containers such as vials has an inlet zone, a sterilization zone, and a cooling zone. A conveyor belt for the vials is disposed inside the sterilization tunnel. An emptying device that can be raised and lowered is... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6408601 | Apparatus for filling packaging containers A pocket belt is continuously advanced by a drive at a variable pocket-belt speed, and a package supply feeds packages at a variable spacing one after another to a transfer station offset from the pocket belt. A feeding system has an intermediate belt ext... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6269932 | Automatic device allowing for a high output in the discharging of objects from a vibrating table to an on-line conveyor The present invention provides an automatic device for discharging, from a vibrating table to an on-line conveyor, continuously arriving flat-bottomed objects, which device operates in cycles and each of the cycles of which includes the following stages: ... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6227347 | Conveyor system for rod-like articles A conveyor system for transporting cigarettes between a making machine and a packing machine includes a mass flow conveyor (204) for transporting cigarettes directly and a reservoir system (212) in which successive batches of cigarettes comprising portion... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6220424 | Method and apparatus for transferring items from a conveyor A transporting apparatus includes a conveyor for advancing items and a transfer apparatus for lifting the items off the conveyor and for depositing the items at a location externally of the conveyor. The transfer apparatus has hoisting devices spaced from... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6209706 | Article grouping and transferring system System for grouping and transferring articles from an upstream station to a downstream station. Articles are pushed onto a transfer station table and transferred as a row of articles to a downstream conveyor extending at right angles to the direction of t... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6035995 | Lehr loader A lehr loader (20) for transferring a line of freshly formed glass containers (C) on a cross-conveyor (XC) transversely of the cross-conveyor into an annealing lehr (L). The lehr loader has a superimposed stack of three carriages (48, 76, 94), the lowermo... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5992613 | Air cooled pusher bar support for LEHR loader A lehr loader (20) for transferring a line of freshly formed glass containers (C) on a cross-conveyor (XC) transversely of the cross-conveyor into an annealing lehr (L). The lehr loader has a superimposed stack of three carriages (48, 76, 94), the lowermo... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5992612 | Apparatus for feeding articles into a lehr An apparatus for intermittently feeding glass containers continuously approaching in a first plane in a first direction into an annealing lehr in a second direction in the first plane by a feed bar mounted for reciprocal movement in the second direction o... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5950799 | Generation of lehr loader motion profile in an individual section glassware forming system In an individual section (IS) glassware forming system that includes a lehr loader having a loader bar and electric actuators for controlling motion at the loader bar along forward, sideshift and lift axes independently of each other to load glassware fro... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5893449 | Lehr loader A lehr loader (20) for transferring a line of freshly formed glass containers (C) on a cross-conveyor (XC) transversely of the cross-conveyor into an annealing lehr (L). The lehr loader has a superimposed stack of three carriages (48, 76, 94), an enclosed... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5768856 | Loading a plurality of packages into a box Packages arriving continuously one after the other at an input station are loaded into boxes by continuously displacing an endless pocket belt through the input station and loading the packages at the input station into respective pockets of the belt. At ... | 06/23/1998 |
