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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7621390 | Method and device for conveying articles on a machine for filling capsules with at least one pharmaceutical product A method and device for conveying articles on a continuously-operating machine for filling capsules with at least one pharmaceutical product, whereby each article is conveyed inside a respective seat on a transfer wheel, and is retained inside the seat by friction. | 11/24/2009 |
| 7568573 | High speed selective container sorter A container machine and method, the machine comprising: an exit track for containers; a primary starwheel holding processed containers and moving the processed containers along a pitch line path toward the exit track; a sorter starwheel positioned adjacent to the pr... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7284656 | Can extractor apparatus A can extractor for atmospheric rotary cookers and coolers has a clover wheel, a star wheel and a star wheel flange made of stainless steel. The clover wheel and star wheel are aligned and coupled to a sleeve rotating on a stationary shaft. The star wheel is coupled... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7273144 | Rotary conveyor A rotary conveyor has a supporting shaft rotating about a respective longitudinal axis and having a top attachment end having a radial projection; a bottom platform fitted to the supporting shaft; and a circular top plate having a central opening for fitment to the ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7255219 | Multifunctional conveyor drum Conveyor drum for receiving axially aligned articles that are conveyed in a cross-axial direction toward the conveyor drum. Conveyor drum includes a separation device for changing a longitudinal axial spacing of the articles by a predetermined longitudinal axial sep... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7249670 | Processing transport apparatus In a conveyor work-piece processing system, transport carriages move along a work path, each carriage carrying a plurality of work-piece articles. In the disclosed embodiment, the path is folded back upon itself forming two parallel paths, one above the other, with ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240783 | Unit for feeding filters to a filter assembly machine A unit for feeding filters to a filter assembly machine, wherein at least one deflecting device receives a respective succession of filter portions in an axial direction, and feeds the filter portions to the filter assembly machine in a transverse direction crosswis... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7220932 | Work unit for conveying bottles between two stations and for rejecting faulty bottles A work unit for conveying bottles between two stations and for rejecting bottles considered faulty, includes a selecting disc, having a vertical axis and featuring radial seats made on its edge, for holding, in cooperation with vacuum ducts, bottles. A first track, ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7200975 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, having a transfer device for the transfer of containers from a transfer starwheel to the carousel of a container handling machine A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, having a transfer device for the transfer of containers from a transfer starwheel to the carousel of a container handling machine. A transfer device for container handling machine... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7140161 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, having container handling machines with carrying pockets A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, having a container handling machine such as, for example, filler, rinser, or closer for the processing of containers that comprise a neck ring, said machine comprising a rotating ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7017900 | Transporting an essentially sheet-shaped element, particularly a print material sheet Transporting an essentially sheet-shaped element, particularly for transporting a print material sheet in a printing press in which the sheet-shaped element is taken hold of by at least one rotating transport having at least one mouth-like receptacle for introducing... | 03/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6854587 | Method and apparatus for packaging tamales A tamale loading apparatus (10) includes a converging mechanism (61) and diverter wheels (83, 84) to position tamales (200) on a belt (24). The belt is run at a speed to fly the tamales (200) into a can (300) wherein ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6736257 | Device and method for transferring articles in the tobacco-processing industry A transfer device is provided for transferring articles from a first conveying device to a second conveying device. The device has a central body and a plurality of transfer element sets attached to the central body. Each transfer element set comprises a plurality o... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6669004 | Transportation system for transporting objects The invention relates to a transportation system (10) for transporting objects (WSx), in particular workpieces, including a plurality of parallel or substantially parallel transportation paths (12, 14, 16) and a device (18) for shifting the objects (WSx) ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6591967 | Conveyor system and installation for blow-moulding of containers A conveyor system for discrete entities, including a gathering member supplied by at least two upstream units (26, 27) each of which brings to the gathering member a series of entities (11, 13), and wherein the entities leave the gathering member in a sin... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6523670 | Article conveyance having line and/or spacing adjustment Conveying apparatus and method are disclosed for receiving articles, such as cans, adjusting, or rearranging, the received articles between single and multiple lines during conveyance, and/or adjusting the spacing between the articles so that the articles... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6491153 | Device and method for splitting a printed product stream A method for splitting a product stream comprising the steps of delivering a plurality of products to an circular path, transferring a first product of the plurality of products inwardly from the circular path to a first substream, and transferring a seco... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6467609 | Can transfer rotating plate system The output end of a very high speed continuous motion cylindrical can decorator is provided with unloading apparatus in the form of a continuously moving closed loop suction belt supplied by first and second continuously rotating, parallel axis, suction a... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6467606 | Conveyor system with diverter A rotary diverter can be operated at high speed to divert selected products from one conveyor to a vertically displaced second conveyor. The rotary diverter can have at least one rotary member with a plurality of radial arms. Each radial arm can have an e... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6170636 | Application drum for use in the production of absorbent articles The invention relates to an application drum for use in the production of absorbent articles. The application drum has a longitudinal axis of rotation and comprises material engagement means on the outside thereof for both collecting and delivering a mate... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6158735 | Apparatus and method for splitting a stream of signatures into a first and second substream of signatures A stream of signatures is delivered by a conveyer belt to an angled conveyer. The angled conveyor grips a set of signatures from the stream. The gripped set of signatures is transported by the angled conveyer to a third conveyer belt, and deposited on the... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6015040 | Transfer device A device for transferring objects, especially hollow bodies, such as cans, tubes and the like, from an arriving conveying device to an exiting conveying device. At least one rotatingly driven rotor is provided. At least one holding device, for the objects... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5797478 | System for the ordered transfer of objects between at least two conveyor lines disposed substantially at a right angle to one another An apparatus for receiving a line of containers and sorting them out so that a plurality of containers while being delivered by a supply line are separated and each of the containers is detected and rerouted on at least one exit line extending perpendicul... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5749631 | Dual can rotating transfer plate to conveyor belt The output end of a very high speed continuous motion cylindrical can decorator is provided with unloading apparatus in the form of a continuously moving closed loop belt and a continuously rotating disk. Decorated cans are delivered to the disk, with rea... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5657850 | Apparatus for receiving rod members A receiving apparatus for cigarettes having a catcher drum rotatable in one direction, a large number of receiving grooves formed in the outer peripheral surface of the catcher drum, each receiving groove being tunnel-shaped and permitting a received doub... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5634549 | Food item conveyor lane multiplier A rotary displacer is provided on a conveyor which carries food items in predefined lanes. The rotary displacer has a rotating member with spokes extending therefrom. The spokes serve to deflect the food items to one side or the other along a direction tr... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5615761 | Unit for transferring cigarette portions from a dual rod cigarette manufacturing machine to a filter asssembly machine A unit for transferring cigarette portions from a dual rod cigarette manufacturing machine to a filter assembly machine; the transfer unit presenting a launching device for successively receiving pairs of cigarette portions arranged side by side and trave... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5590753 | Retaining element on a carousel conveyor with several outlets for selective retention of conveyed containers The retaining element is extended from a carousel disk in the plane of the disk and holds a bottle to be retained by the carousel essentially only at one point (T). The retaining element can be provided with an easily exchangeable finger part thus permitt... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5385226 | Apparatus for forming a plurality of rows of articles from a single row of articles during conveying of the articles Apparatus for conveying and forming a single row of articles into a plurality of rows of articles includes a starwheel receiving articles from an infeed conveyor and which is rotated by the articles. A diverter is rotated through a connection with the sta... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5327803 | Transfer apparatus for cigarettes and other rod-shaped articles A transfer apparatus for rod-shaped articles, such as cigarettes, comprising a housing rotatably mounted to a fixed main shaft with a plurality of cooperating crank arms and article holders rotatably mounted to the housing by crank arm shafts and holder s... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5257898 | Infeed apparatus for multi-level delivery of convolutely wound logs Infeed apparatus for multi-level delivery of convolutely wound logs which includes a plurality of log supporting wheels rigidly mounted on a cross shaft with each of the wheels having a periphery interrupted by a plurality circumferentially spaced inwardl... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5253580 | Apparatus for conveying a printed object This invention relates to an apparatus and process for conveying a printed object, such as a printed bottle. The apparatus comprises a vacuum pump for supplying a vacuum and a rotationally driven central shaft operably associated with the vacuum pump. The... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5231926 | Apparatus and method for substantially reducing can spacing and speed to match chain pins A continuous motion cylindrical can decorator is provided with mandrels that receive undecorated cans and a deco chain that carries decorated cans through a curing oven. The mandrels are mounted along the periphery of a continuously rotating carrier. Chai... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5183145 | Apparatus and method for automatically positioning valve means controlling the application of pressurized air to mandrels on a rotating carrier A continuous motion cylindrical can decorator is provided with mandrels that receive undecorated cans and a deco chain that carries decorated cans through a curing oven. The mandrels are mounted along the periphery of a continuously rotating carrier. Chai... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5158168 | Container transfer device A device is disclosed for transferring containers, such as bottles, comprising an endless conveying on which the containers freely rest to be transferred successively from a feed transporter by a first indexer. A second indexer is provided for transferrin... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5113996 | Rotary multiple point discharge conveyer A device for conveying articles comprises a carousel structure with entrainment elements which can make the articles follow a generally arcuate path between an angular input position and at least one angular output position. The entrainment elements are r... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5096042 | Sorting star for container handling machinery specification A rotatably driven star plate having turn-bolt mechanisms arranged on its outer periphery adjacent each container pocket. Each mechanism has a housing that is fastened to the star plate, the housing being provided with a bearing bore directed to the perip... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5070994 | Process and apparatus for transferring articles fed on a single track onto several discharge tracks Process and apparatus for transferring articles fed on a single track onto several discharge tracks. Where packaging machines are concerned, there is often the need for articles, especially (small) packs (10), preferably conveyed in close succession on a ... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5052542 | Single-item distributor An item transfer apparatus has a first conveyor for advancing items thereon in a first advancing direction; a second conveyor for advancing items thereon in a second advancing direction; and a rotatable transfer device having a rotary axis and a pushing m... | 10/01/1991 |
