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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6983580 | Variable size product on edge packaging system A device and method for stacking and packaging cylindrical products having variable size. Products are placed on edge and organized to a uniform stack size by means of a product compressing drum. The stack is placed in a trough between a cam operating front lug and ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6808060 | Container inspection machine A machine for inspecting a transparent container. The machine utilizes a starwheel to convey non-round bottles through a number of inspection stations before releasing the bottles to an outfeed belt conveyor. The starwheel conveyor has a plurality of pockets and as ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6474919 | Method and apparatus for application of 360° coatings to articles A method and apparatus for applying coatings to a portion of the internal bore or threads of a fastener or similar article having an opening on at least one end is provided. A 360° coating with material is provided using centrifugal force to assist in di... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6374989 | Conveyor system for clinical test apparatus The conveyor system for clinical test apparatus includes a main transport conveyor and a plurality of auxiliary conveyors located alongside the main transport conveyor. The auxiliary conveyors define straight line paths of travel parallel to the straight ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6276514 | Toothed wheel and method for transferring components Method and apparatus for transferring components which includes a wheel which can rotate between an arrival station and a discharge station, each station being located adjacent a periphery of the wheel. A plurality of independent peripheral teeth are pivo... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6264457 | Servo infeed system for transferring preforms in a container manufacturing facility A system for transferring preforms to an oven starwheel of a blowmolding manufacturing facility includes a transport mechanism that is constructed and arranged to be able to hold at least one plastic preform member, a first sensor for sensing a transport ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6058985 | Bottling machine with a set-up table and a set-up table for a bottling machine and a set-up table for a bottle handling machine A set-up table or conveyor system for bottle handling machines with inlet and outlet star wheels and corresponding guide rails for the bottles. The drive mechanisms for the individual star wheels are located below and at a distance from the star wheels. T... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5816384 | Cut type wire receiver The present invention relates to a wires receiver, and particularly to a cut type wires receiver mounted on the rear section of output wheel set of cutting stripper; said wires receiver comprising a spline shaft with equal-divided circumference between th... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5806656 | Container rotation arrester An apparatus is provided for arresting the rotation of a container while the container is conveyed so that a peripheral point on the container moves along a predetermined path. A conveyor includes an engagement structure for engaging a first portion of th... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5772001 | Star wheel system A machine and method for handling a plurality of articles, and a feed apparatus for transporting the article between a first station and a second station. The machine generally includes a conveyor which supplies a stream articles to an infeed station and ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5697488 | Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped articles An apparatus for transporting filter rod sections between the outlet of a magazine and the inlet of a pneumatic conveyor has a rotary drum with axially parallel peripheral flutes for the transfer of filter rod sections from the magazine into alignment wit... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5575377 | Cigarette supplying apparatus A cigarette supplying apparatus is provided with supplying passages each having a lower end, and holding members each having a jaw portion directed upward from a horizontal plane. Each holding member is provided on the lower portion of each supplying pass... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5540320 | Adjustable star and guide conveyor system An adjustable star and guide conveyor system having adjustable star wheels that accommodate various size containers and an adjustable centerguide assembly that varies the width of the corridor between the wheels and the guide. The star wheel assemblies ea... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5531312 | Apparatus and method for singulating articles An apparatus and method for singulating individual articles from a group of articles. A rotary vacuum wheel includes a plurality of article pockets in its outer edge periphery. Apertures within each pocket are in communication with a vacuum pump. An artic... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5380487 | Device for automatic chemical analysis The present invention provides an analyzer which permits clinical analysis of samples for multiple analytes with a variety of assay protocols in a multiple chronology sequence while operating on a predetermined fizzed length cycle method of timing control... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5354411 | Method and apparatus for manufacture of wooden I-beams A production line for manufacturing wooden I-beams wherein a pair of grooved flanges are conveyed along opposite sides of a train of web members and converged so that the web longitudinal edges are inserted into the chord grooves is disclosed. The flanges... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5301792 | Unit for transferring food products, such as chocolates, between production machines A unit for transferring food products such as chocolates, whereby a conveyor feeds a compact sequence of mutually contacting products in a given direction to a transfer device by which the products are fed one by one, still in one direction, into respecti... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5261207 | Machines for the treatment of bottles In a machine for processing bottles of different sizes, an arrangement for converting the machine to process bottles of one of the sizes, comprises a star wheel rotatable about an axis and having radially open pockets to which upright bottles having necks... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5249607 | System for transferring articles Emptying bowls are transported by an intermittently traveling endless conveyor having an upper run for transporting the bowls in an upright position and a lower run for transporting the bowls in an inverted position. A belt which travels intermittently in... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5154276 | Device for handling of returnable bottles The invention concerns a device (10) for handling of returnable bottles. The device comprises a dropping tube (12), through which a returnable bottle (P) is dropped from an upper position (E1), into a lower position (E2) by the force... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5046599 | Article hand-off apparatus An article hand-off apparatus comprises a rotatable body having a plurality of article receiving pockets formed around its outer peripheral surface, and an arcuate guide member disposed in surrounding relationship with the outer peripheral surface of the ... | 09/10/1991 |
| 4974717 | Apparatus for transferring articles Apparatus for transferring articles from one or more supply conveyors to one or more conveyors feeding cartoners. Articles are fed from the supply conveyors into a compartmented drum. The drum rotates and drops the articles onto the conveyors feeding the ... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4930614 | Receptacle handling machine A receptacle handling machine for the handling of receptacles which are passed through the machine and having a machine frame and at least one receptacle guiding body releasably mounted on the machine frame, the guiding body on its end adjacent the frame ... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4909377 | Preliminary stage of container processing machines A preliminary stage of a container processing machine, including a container inlet for containers that are to be processed, a container outlet for processed containers, and transport elements for effecting the flow of containers between the inlet and outl... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4889226 | Apparatus for transferring block-shard groups of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry An apparatus for transferring arrays of cigarettes from the pockets of at least one intermittently driven first conveyor into the pockets of a continuously driven second conveyor wherein the transfer takes place by means of at least one pair of arms which... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4880098 | Receptacle handling machine A receptacle handling machine for the handling of receptacles which are passed through the machine and having a machine frame and at least one receptacle guiding body releasably mounted on the machine frame, the guiding body on its end adjacent the frame ... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4818382 | Disc singulator The invention of the present document is an improved disc singulator (10) for use in singulating and delivering to a test site (12) an integrated circuit device (14) to be tested by a tester mechanism. The singulator (10) includes structure to positively ... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4805758 | Crossed turret cup feeder Apparatus for supplying rows of stacked frusto-conical cups to a feeding assembly of a cup printing apparatus includes a rotatable, hollow, crossed turret comprised of an outer turret section formed by four radially and equiangularly oriented connected tu... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4757891 | Container handling device A rotating, vertically adjustable wheel is positioned above a linear conveyor chain in an operative position to move containers from a linear conveyor chain to an off-line station and then back to the linear conveyor chain downstream of the off-line stati... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4601384 | Apparatus for feeding can bodies This disclosure relates to an apparatus for feeding can bodies serially. The apparatus includes a delivery path wherein can bodies arranged in a row are presented one at a time to a feed apparatus wherein a rotating cam member receives the leading can bod... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4561536 | Rotary conveyor apparatus A conveyor comprises a plurality of rotors spaced longitudinally along a conveyor frame, each rotor having a rotatable shaft on which is fixed a number of axially spaced discs. The discs are staggered laterally of the conveyor and are of such diameter tha... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4534460 | Chain-driven pocket elevator A pocket conveyor, specifically a pocket elevator, in which a plurality of spools are cantilevered from an endless drive chain. The spools cooperate with each other and with stationary guide rails to form a series of pockets for conveying workpieces betwe... | 08/13/1985 |
| 4442934 | Glass container inspection handling system Apparatus for inspecting glass containers in which an indexing starwheel moves a plurality of containers in series through a plurality of positions or stations where the containers are physically and optically examined. One station, or position, is described i... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4387797 | Method and device for transmitting crown corks Crown corks are conveyed from a supply source along an aligning track to a helically shaped guide track and then on to a capping device. A conveying disc rotates about a central axis and has a planar surface extending transversely of the central axis adja... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4271587 | Apparatus for continuously inverting sheaths and placing the sheaths onto articles An apparatus for continuously inverting the orientation of sheaths comprises a rotationally indexing wheel having a concavity at a side surface thereof and a plurality of holes provided around the wheel spaced from each other, the holes extending from the... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4261456 | Method and apparatus for transferring tubes into cartoner product buckets Method and apparatus for transferring tubes such as metallic tooth paste tubes from a tube filler to product buckets of a cartoner. Tubes are delivered by a conveyor to a tube filler onto the circumferential surface of a rotary drum which has at least one... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4256215 | Apparatus for arranging and transporting articles Apparatus for arranging and transporting articles comprises a conveyor for transferring articles to a first position, a first rotation wheel having a plurality of recesses around the outer periphery thereof for consecutively receiving the articles in the ... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4225032 | Device for removing rod-like articles from a hopper The device for the removal of rod-like articles from a hopper in which a bulk supply of articles is provided and a rotating fluted drum is arranged to form the bottom wall of the hopper so that the articles are removed from the hopper by being picked by t... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4205566 | Machine for mass production cutting of tubes A simple, economical, drum-type tube cutting machine is disclosed which employs a conventional drum for high-speed automatic cutting of ordinary tubes and a special drum for high speed cutting of tubing which could not otherwise be cut satisfactorily beca... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4128174 | High-speed integrated circuit handler An apparatus for the high-speed handling of integrated circuit parts. The apparatus consists essentially of two parts, a test wheel and a sort wheel. It singulates parts from a reservoir of untested parts, moves the parts to electrical contacts for test, ... | 12/05/1978 |
