Bizarre Patents
A method to tenderize meat with an explosive shockwave.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7654381 | Conveyors An indexing conveyor 1 travels at (90) degrees to a wrapping output conveyor (2), which conveys elongate packs (3) of circular biscuits at high speed with their diameter-ends leading. The indexing conveyor 1 receives the packs (3) ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7494002 | Conveyance apparatus, and weighing and packaging system provided therewith A conveyance apparatus is disclosed which includes a delivery device that delivers an article supplied in a horizontal position from a conveyor to an accumulation and conveyance apparatus, and delivery tables which receive the article and move the same to a standing... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7490711 | Method for transferring a first number of objects and a second number of objects and corresponding device A method for accepting a first number m1 of objects, more particularly pharmaceutical products, from a supplying device and for transferring a second number m2 of objects to a receiving device, and also a device for carrying out such a method, ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7416072 | Machine for transferring objects aligned in rows A machine for transferring in successive rows objects initially aligned on a first conveyor. A second conveyor comprises a tray lateral to the first conveyor and a device for displacing objects with at least one push-member mobile transversely to the first conveyor ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413070 | Positioning system The invention relates to a device for forming any desired portions and sizes of products, comprising an aligning belt (1) that conveys the products (2) while transferring them, at a transfer edge (4), to a portioning belt (3), on which th... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7383938 | Device for producing stacks An apparatus for forming stacks of products contains, between a horizontally movable row of compartments and a vertically operating feed device, a directing device which directs in each case one product into the compartment assigned thereto. The guide device is move... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370456 | Packaging object supplying apparatus, box body supplying apparatus, boxing apparatus, packaging system and packaging method A packaging object supplying apparatus for supplying a packaging object to a packaging unit for packaging the packaging object into a predetermined fashion and specifically, a packaging object supplying apparatus comprising a packaging object combining portion for f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7353933 | Product loading system A loading system for the high speed loading of product in varying numbers comprising: an infeed conveyor having an infeed conveyor stop, a staging conveyor moving at a speed greater than the infeed conveyor and having a staging conveyor stop and a picking conveyor m... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7340827 | Component mounting apparatus A component mounting apparatus is proposed, which has a plurality of vacuum pick-up nozzles attached to a mount head so as to revolve about a main shaft, causing one of the vacuum pick-up nozzles to move to a location to be driven by an actuator that is provided at ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7287637 | Conveyor system for minimizing product damage during collection A conveyor system is provided to limit the vertical fall experienced by a product transported along the conveyor and falling into a collection bin. A sensor in a fixed position relative to the product conveying plane of the conveyor measures product collection heigh... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7278250 | Sliced bread packaging method and equipment Sliced bread packaging method and equipment enable that sliced bread units, each unit having different predetermined numbers of bread slices, are smoothly supplied into a same one packaging apparatus. Sliced bread is conveyed in a standing state by a sliced bread fe... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7246696 | Apparatus for forming groups of battery plates An apparatus for forming groups of battery plates includes at least first and second plate supply lines each including a separation station and a downstream plate supply. The apparatus further includes a first common plate feed line for the envelopers and a second c... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7222738 | Sorting system for multiple conveyor belts An apparatus and a method for sorting workpieces (204) includes multiple conveyors (201, 202), a scanner (208), an offloading device (216), a workpiece processor (218), and a computer (210). The computer has instructions for... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7210280 | System and method for loading a cargo space with piece goods A machining system and unit, especially a welding cell, is provided for use for the machining of workpieces (2), especially body parts of vehicles. The machining system has one or more machining stations (15, 16) with robots (18, 19, 20) and at ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7178659 | Methods and apparatuses for inducting articles onto a conveyor An novel apparatus and technique may be used to induct articles onto a conveyor comprising at least one conveyor belt that moves articles along a first path that extends in a first direction. The apparatus may be used to move an article along a second path that exte... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7145095 | Article sortation system An article sortation system includes a plurality of transport units which are movable along a conveying path between induction stations and discharge stations along each side of the conveying path. Each transport unit has side by side loading and support capability ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7128519 | Auto stacking machine for strip articles An auto stacking machine includes a worktable (10), a plurality of chutes (20), a pair of receivers (30), and a cushioning apparatus. Three vertical plates (14) are mounted on the worktable. The chutes are attached to outmost ones of the ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121398 | High rate induction system A sortation system and method of inducting product are useful with a sorter having a continuous member defining a plurality of transport positions of the continuous member and a plurality of sort destinations for receiving product discharged from the continuous memb... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7066317 | Conveyance unit and boxing unit having the same A placing apparatus having first and second rear end holding members is provided between a loading apparatus that loads items in an upright position and a conveyance apparatus downstream. These rear end holding members move making a box motion when seen from the sid... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7053318 | Machine for weighing and sorting pieces of fruit and the like The machine has a regular structure symmetrical with respect to a central axis and provided with limiting end faces, said structure being disposed with its horizontal axis rotatably supported on its axis of symmetry on the frame of the machine, and bearing a plurali... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6976572 | Method and system for synchronizing loads before injection on a tilt tray type sorting system A method for synchronizing loads before the injection thereof on a sorting machine, consisting of trays which pass in front of an injection system comprising conveyors for moving the loads towards an injection site, a synchronization conveyor for positioning a load ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6974299 | Method and device for packing articles Collection assembly for collecting and stacking articles. The articles are first moved adjacent to one another with the aid of positioning elements. The positioning elements comprise the conveyor belt that extends obliquely with respect to the distribution conveyor ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6953113 | Conveyance unit and boxing unit having the same A placing apparatus having first and second rear end holding members is provided between a loading apparatus that loads items in an upright position and a conveyance apparatus downstream. These rear end holding members move making a box motion when seen from the sid... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6945009 | Operating wheel of a product packing machine An operating wheel of a packing machine comprises an annular drum, a number of through pockets carried by the annular drum and each for receiving a respective product, a first drive for rotating the annular drum in steps to feed the pockets along an annular path ext... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6907982 | Automatic tray handling system for sorter An automatic tray handling system for use with an article or mail sortation system, such as a flats mail sortation system, is operable to automatically remove filled or partially filled trays from individual sorter units and to replenish the sorter units with empty ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6907980 | Conveyance unit and boxing unit having the same A placing apparatus having first and second rear end holding members is provided between a loading apparatus that loads items in an upright position and a conveyance apparatus downstream. These rear end holding members move making a box motion when seen from the sid... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6840369 | Infeed system for a stacking apparatus Groups of individual shingled items such as graham crackers or cookies are stacked in vertical stacks of predetermined heights and/or number of items using a stacking apparatus having at least one set of lowering arms. A stacking conveyor belt continuously delivers ... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6644461 | Device for transferring flat objects with an injector comprising elastically deformable wheels The device for individually transferring flat objects from an entry conveyor (2) on which the objects travel in series edge-on in a first direction (A), into buckets (6) of an exit conveyor (5), comprises an intermediate conveyor (7) arranged in the conti... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6641358 | Web stacker and separator apparatus and method A separator and stacker apparatus and method for separating a completed stack of web product from a stack of product being built thereafter. Preferred embodiments of the present invention utilize a stack building carriage having a forked or slotted floor ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6553743 | Rotary knife and transfer apparatus A pouch knife and transfer apparatus has two discharge points where severed pouches are discharged onto separate conveyors with one of the conveyors being a direct drop conveyor. Such direct drop conveyor operates initially in a direction perpendicular to... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6554124 | Equipment for feeding product groups to a conveyor for their packaging Equipment for feeding product groups to a conveyor for their packaging, wherein the groups of products (13), are divided and spaced, for transfer onto the conveyor (12). The equipment includes a transport unit (15) that is moveable in the direction of the... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6499280 | Continuous bag supply device in continuous-filling packaging system and continuous-filling packaging system A supply device which, in a retainer type continuous-filling packaging system, converts the movement of empty bags supplied intermittently in a plurality of rows into a continuous motion in a single row and supplies these empty bags continuously to retain... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6425476 | Method and a device for the formation of flat articles into groups Flat articles to be formed into groups for packaging are advanced in succession at a set tempo toward a transfer station where each article is made to assume a predetermined position in space, standing on edge. Thereafter, the articles are advanced in a d... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6360872 | Device for stacking articles advancing on a conveyor line The articles advance along a conveyor line in which there is drop in level of a height correlated with the height of the stacks of articles to be formed. Downstream of the drop in level a stopper member is provided which can selectively interrupt the adva... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6322315 | Web stacker and separator apparatus and method A separator and stacker apparatus and method for separating a completed stack of web product from a stack of product being built thereafter. Preferred embodiments of the present invention utilize a stack building carriage having a forked or slotted floor ... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6257825 | Robotic palletizing system A robotic palletizing apparatus includes a conveyor and retractable product support having a support surface controllably extending beyond one end of the conveyor to support the bottom of an article beyond the conveyor end and retracting from the extended... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6253904 | Methods and apparatus for the automatic loading of multiple items on the same unit of a cross-belt sorting machine A loading station for the automatic loading of multiple items on the same unit of a sorting machine. The loading station includes several feeding belts capable of receiving and transferring the items to a loading belt capable of receiving such items and f... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6223884 | Apparatus for automatically forming arrays of containers An apparatus for forming arrays of containers supplied by a feeder belt. Receiver supports are provided for receiving the containers, which are integral with associated support elements. The support elements displaced from a receiving zone to a zone for r... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6123185 | Needle sorting device A needle sorting device including an infeed device which first singulates a bulk supply of surgical needles into single file with an intermittently driven vibratory feed bowl assembly, and then individually separates and deposits the needles on a first co... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6115644 | Moisture content measuring apparatus and method A moisture content measuring apparatus and method wherein a sensor station produces calibration data corresponding to measurements of light at two different wavelengths reflected from a material, and the calibration data is then transferred to a hand held... | 09/05/2000 |
