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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7441648 | Systems and methods for transport through curves A transport system including a curved conveyance section configured for moving articles along a curved conveyance path. At least one turnstile wheel is configured to guide the articles along the curved conveyance path. In some embodiments, the turnstile wheel compri... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7434678 | Systems and methods for transport through curved conveyance sections A transport system includes a curved conveyance section configured to move an article along a curved path without significantly slowing or stopping. Exemplary articles for conveyance include semiconductor wafers and substrates for display devices and photovoltaic de... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7381023 | Conveyer system for rail-car unloading apparatus and method A method and apparatus for providing a conveyer system configured to move material dumped from a rail-car positioned over fixed rails of a railroad track. The conveyer system includes a frame structure, at least one first conveyer belt system and at least one second... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7367558 | Machine for processing printing material sheets A machine for processing printing material sheets has a signal generator for position monitoring and a sheet delivery. The sheet delivery has a first conveying device, for example with a holding crossmember, for leading sheet ends and a second conveying device, for ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7331156 | System for securely conveying articles and related components A system is disclosed for conveying articles for processing, the system including a conveyor configured to convey articles to the processing station. The conveyor includes a plurality of links, each link including at least one movable gripper for gripping an article... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322459 | Differential speed conveyor accumulation system and method A product conveying and accumulation system and method employs a primary product transporting conveyor with accumulation and re-circulating sections. The conveyor is configured to receive products from an upstream destination and discharge products to a downstream d... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322200 | Method and device for cooling products in a transport system A device for cooling products (12) contained in a transport system, comprises at least one lead-down duct with an upper and a lower portion, where the upper portion is arranged to be supplied with products from a feeder device (21), and where the lower... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7281622 | Conveyor system for high speed, high performance bagger A conveyor assembly is configured to convey and maintain compression of multiple compressible batts. Adjacent pairs of conveyor systems within the conveyor assembly define a space between the pair of conveyor systems for receiving and conveying compressible batts. E... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7270230 | Special compliant urethane wheel An auxiliary wheel device that is used with material handling machines. This is a special compliant urethane wheel for use especially in the corrugated cardboard industry. The wheel relates generally to a transfer mechanism that permits the cardboard and other mater... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7255222 | Unloader An unloader that includes a pad replacing device provided adjacently to at least one of an upper carrying device and a lower carrying device. Each of the carrying devices includes an endless rotating member and plural unloader pads, the endless rotating member havin... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7249672 | Device for continuously delivering bags A device for continuously delivering bags includes at least one bag transferring device and at least one linear conveyor. The bag transferring device transfers the bags to the at least one linear conveyor. An objective of the invention is to provide a device for del... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7210570 | Device for the dynamic weighing of postal items The device for dynamically weighing postal items (P) comprises a plate (1) floatingly mounted on a weight sensor, and a conveyor belt mounted on the plate to move the postal items in a longitudinal direction (D) of the conveyor. The conveyor has two parallel ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7210571 | Film conveying mechanism A film conveying mechanism comprises a base, a belt capable of conveying the films, a spring plate, a fixing pin, and a stopper. The spring plate includes an opening on a second end and is longitudinally disposed with respect to the belt. The fixing pin is on the ba... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7186457 | Cellulosic composite component A component such as a siding panel comprised of a PVC/wood flour composite. Another embodiment is a component such as a siding panel that is made from a PVC/CPE/wood flour composite. The cellulosic composite may be extruded through a die and then bent into the shape... | 03/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7051864 | Roller-guided feeding device for a wood working machine A roller-guided feeding device includes guiding rollers, an arm which is movable relative to the guiding rollers between initial and working position that are remote from and closer to the guiding rollers, respectively, and which has a feed-in roller, a pneumatic cy... | 05/30/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7017352 | Cooling of extruded and compression molded materials The present invention relates to a system and a method for cooling extruded and molded materials. The present invention is especially useful to thoroughly cool an extrudate by directing a cooling fluid toward a surface of the extrudate (e.g., an interior surface tha... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6994081 | Apparatus for roughing the surfaces of casted concrete block A casted concrete block surface-roughing machine having an in-line conveyor displaceable over a stationary horizontal support surface for slidingly supporting a lower surface of concrete blocks displaced thereon by the conveyor. At least two pairs of spaced-apart ve... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6971211 | Cellulosic/polymer composite material The present invention is a component such as a siding panel that may be comprised of various formulations of cellulosic/polymer composite materials. One embodiment of the present invention is a siding panel that is comprised of a cellulosic/PVC composite material. T... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6958185 | Multilayer synthetic wood component A multilayer synthetic wood component comprised of a layer of a first synthetic wood composition that is secured to a layer of a second synthetic wood composition. As a result, the present invention may provide a component that utilizes the beneficial characteristic... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6910570 | Transport system for containers, in particular an airport baggage handling system A container transport system includes a first conveyor assembly at one transport plane, and a second conveyor assembly at another transport plane, and a transfer device for moving the containers between the conveyor assemblies. Each of the conveyor assemblies has a ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6874615 | Conveyor chute A chute system for selectively moving articles with little to no damage to such articles from a supply source oriented at a first level to a transversely moving conveying system oriented at a second lower level. The chute system includes a powered conveyor belt adap... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6853874 | Variable-width substrate conveyor, method of changing width of the same, and method of matching widths of two adjacent substrate conveyors A method of changing a width of a variable-width substrate conveyor including a feeding device for feeding a circuit substrate along the guide rails, a pair of guide rails having guide surfaces for guiding the circuit substrate being fed by the feeding device, in a ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6729617 | Device for conveying flat objects with a synchronization system A device for conveying flat objects in series and edge-on, in which the flat objects (12) are moved in a conveying direction (D), while at the same time being separated each from the next by a spacing which is normally constant, has a synchronization system (... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6668578 | Glass chilling method and apparatus For bartending, in order to avoid batch chilling of beer glasses and the like in which the last glasses put into a refrigerator are the first pulled out and are thus not properly chilled, a last in, last out glass chilling system provides a supply of prop... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6595348 | Device for conveying mail using elastically deformable elastomer wheels The device for the high-speed conveying of post envelopes (2A, 2B) comprises a fixed sole plate (11) extending along the path which the conveyed envelopes follow and along which the envelopes, standing on edge and arranged in series, glide, a motorized en... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6471044 | Hold and release singulator A hold-and-release singulator includes a conveyor having a transport mechanism for carrying a group of items such as parcels, packages, containers or the like from an entry end towards an exit end of the singulator, a hold and release system that can hold... | 10/29/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6390279 | Method and apparatus for conveying works A work conveying apparatus is comprised of a conveying rail for moving carriages with works and a returning rail for returning the carriages without works to the conveying rail. The returning rail is disposed along the conveying rail while being perpendic... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6234301 | Strand guide, specially for a slab continuous casting installation A strand guide, in particular for a continuous slab-casting plant for steel, with supporting segments in which frames are arranged that have rows of guide rollers and driving rollers arranged opposite one another, wherein the frames are held opposite one ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6129204 | Machine for asynchronously operating dual indexing conveyors A machine including a single power source for asynchronously operating dual indexing conveyors. The single power source is a reversible servo unit operatively connected to gear sets and one-way clutches to drive the conveyors. Alternately, the power sourc... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6109426 | Oriented bottle conveyor A bottle conveyor to maintain positive control over the orientation of bottles includes guides above and below a collar around the neck of the bottles on either side of the neck. The guides may be endless belts and/or fixed guides. Endless belts may also ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6082526 | Parts processing system with notched conveyor belt transport An apparatus and system for wet/dry and other processing of manufactured articles. Belts mounted on pulleys provide support while minimally contacting article surfaces for maximum exposure to chemical, radiation, or other wet/dry processing treatments.... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6076826 | Transport system for document validator A banknote validator comprises a banknote transport path divided in multiple transport sub-systems. Each sub-system is easy to maintain because the axes of a sub-system are in reduced number, and easily removable for maintenance of the sub-system. The val... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6052978 | Ensilage harvester variable speed feed roll drive A drive transmission for the feed rolls of a forage harvester includes a planetary gear set arranged such that an input shaft drives the sun gear while a further input shaft is provided by a reversible, variable speed motor that is connected to the ring g... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5975282 | Method and apparatus for storing and dispensing thin flexible objects A device is disclosed for storing a stream of a plurality of thin flexible objects, such as newspapers or similar printed materials, which is constructed from a number of generally parallel conveyor sections arranged in a number of vertical columns. The c... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5934523 | Universal automatic long sleeve folding device A universal automatic long sleeve folding device (10) has a forming plate (20) for carrying a garment (12) spaced vertically above a movable lower product conveyer (54). A movable fold drive belt (34) is vertically displaced above the forming plate to mov... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5915525 | Parts processing system with notched conveyor belt transport An apparatus and system for wet/dry and other processing of manufactured articles. Belts mounted on pulleys provide support while minimally contacting article surfaces for maximum exposure to chemical, radiation, or other wet/dry processing treatments.... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5909798 | Unit product loading and discharge system A system for rapidly receiving and storing a quantity of loose copy, for example newspapers, from a high speed printing press and dispensing them to the point-of-use without having to undergo the traditional operation of bundling the newspapers. More part... | 06/08/1999 |
