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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7237669 | Clip for assemblage by clamps Resilient clamps assemble modular sections of a serpentine conveyor belt at peripheral positions of mated interface walls and retain the walls in sealing, face-to-face contact while the belt moves through a laterally bending pathway. The clamps provide opposed latch... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7131538 | Material classifier having a scoop wheel A material classifier for classifying a liquid-solid mixture containing solid material to be separated. The material classifier includes a tank and an angularly mounted scoop wheel for scooping solid material which has settled on the bottom of the tank. ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7097027 | Scoop for transferring granular material A scoop includes a molded one-piece plastic scoop body having a bottom wall portion and a sidewall portion that extends from the bottom wall portion and that cooperates with the bottom wall portion to confine a material-holding space for holding granular material to... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6945386 | Bucket elevator conveyors A bucket elevator conveyor system of the straight horizontal, “C” and “Z” configurations. In these bucket elevator conveyor systems, loading of the buckets can occur anywhere along the horizontal run adjacent the take-up end and discharge of the buckets can ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6695127 | Bucket for a bucket elevator A bucket is provided for a bucket elevator of the type including a plurality of buckets supported on an endless belt. Each bucket is in the form of a container having an open top end which includes a plurality of spacer elements molded integrally on the b... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6334527 | Bucket conveyor A bucket conveyor for conveying loose grain in different directions, comprising a bucket having: an opening leading to the interior of the bucket; and a dead space constituting part of the interior at the rear, the space not filled with loose grain when g... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6237745 | Bucket conveyor A bucket conveyor for conveying loose grain in different directions, comprising a bucket having: an opening leading to the interior of the bucket; and a dead space constituting part of the interior at the rear, the space not filled with loose grain when g... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6024209 | Two-part cleats A cleat for a conveyor belt, particularly for a vertical conveyor, with a cleat foot 2 attachable to the support side of the conveyor belt, and in which at least one anchoring member 5 is incorporated, and with a cleat section 1 forming a transverse wall ... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5833047 | Apron conveyor The invention relates to an apron conveyor whose mutually overlapping members, consisting of plates with side walls which connect vertically, are arranged on link chains and are partitioned in a way matching the chain divisions. The slats are provided in ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5755317 | Method and apparatus for separating a stream of units of product into discrete groups This invention pertains to apparatus and methods for receiving a stream of units of product, such as from a manufacturing operation, separating the stream into discrete groups of product, in a product carrier bucket, and typically presenting each group fo... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5692434 | Case for temporarily storing pieces of dough Case for temporarily storing pieces of dough, comprising a first continuous conveying apparatus and an identical second continuous conveying apparatus. Each transport apparatus is supported by reversing rollers at the location of which the conveying direc... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5620292 | Apparatus for unloading large fish from a boat hold An apparatus for unloading fish from a hold of a boat adjacent an unloading site has a carriage movable horizontally at the site along the boat, an articulated arm, and an endless conveyor extending along the arm. This arm has a rigid inner section having... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5564878 | Apparatus and method for continuous handling of bulk materials This apparatus relates to a materials handling apparatus that has a plurality of open-sided buckets arranged to travel along a first path having a first sense. The buckets are loadable when traveling along a first portion of the first path. An endless bel... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5526921 | Intersecting bi-directional buckets for a bucket elevator system A bucket elevator system capable of being driven bi-directionally. The system having a plurality of pivoted buckets supported between two endless chains. Each bucket having a primary guide boss with an upper surface and a guide surface thereon. Guides arr... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5526922 | High lift bucket A belt type conveyor includes buckets which include front and rear forward angling walls for nesting. The front walls act as a retaining wall and a pour chute for discharging material at the correct time and location. The buckets may also include rear por... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5336417 | Bucket grit elevator system A bucket elevator system for a waste water treatment facility is made of non-metallic components. Buckets are carried along a bottom surface of a settling tank and then lifted above the waste water level and tilted to dump the collected waste solids onto ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5143203 | Granular material transfer apparatus A conveyor/elevator for moving bulk granular materials from a first location, at a designated height, to a second location, at an elevated height. The apparatus includes an endless conveyor web which is tensioned and has oppositely facing elevating and re... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5135014 | Bottle washer with multiple size carrier Apparatus for washing bottles, in which a transfer conveyor define an endless loop belt between an inlet end and outlet end. A plurality of cups are carried along the endless loop. An inlet elevator adjacent the inlet end supplies a quantity of bottles in... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5096047 | Basket in basket conveyor A basket for a basket conveyor comprising a plurality of bottom-opening baskets is disclosed. The basket is characterized in that side plates thereof spread upwardly so as to enlarge the article receiving opening sidewardly. The internal walls of the bask... | 03/17/1992 |
| 4969314 | Cup bagger chute The present invention provides a machine for bagging contained liquid products and includes a product dispenser, a product bagger and a chute from the product dispenser to the product bagger. The chute is designed to eliminate or at least substantially el... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4877124 | Conveyor system and method for transporting materials The present invention is directed to a conveyor belt system for transporting materials by directly driving a conveyor belt. A plurality of continuous cables are disposed generally parallel one to the other. A continuous conveyor belt is disposed between t... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4817782 | Heavy duty conveyor bucket with auxiliary support means A bucket conveyor comprising a plurality of buckets, a chain on which the buckets are mounted in cantilevered relation to one side of the chain by an outwardly-extending bucket spindle connecting the chain to one side of the bucket, a chain track on which... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4736832 | Flat link chain bucket conveyor In a flat link chain bucket conveyor constructed in particular as high-speed conveyor with centrifugal discharging, the buckets (4) are mounted with clearance on the chain (2), in particular on the link pins (3), in such a manner that they are freely mova... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4722373 | Apparatus for producing and filling bag packages An apparatus for producing and filling tubular bag packages includes a shaping mandrel, about which a sheet of packaging material is shaped into a tube and an open end of the tube is filled with one portion of a product at a time and separated from the fo... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4719059 | Process of handling and transferring a molded product A material handling device for transferring a formed good from an injection molding machine includes a pair of spaced tracks. Inner ends of the tracks are positioned below a mold carried by the machine with the track positioned transversely to opening and... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4688669 | Elevator bucket for high speed operation A bucket for attachment to the chain in a mill duty bucket elevator, includes a one piece wrapper member bent into a U-shaped trough defined by a sloping front wall, a horizontal bottom wall, an upright rear wall, a forwardly sloping rear wall, and a hori... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4565277 | Dough tray for a pre-proofer Dough tray for a proofer, provided with two head walls with means for coupling the dough tray to a chain or the like, an element transporting a plurality of dough trays through the proofer and with a carrier frame extending between the head walls for at l... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4558602 | Large capacity sample bucket and bucket sampler having low clearance A sample bucket is disclosed for intercepting a sample while cutting through a flow of particulate material. The bucket is in the form of a receptacle having an open mouth and a suitable depth for retaining a desired gross sample without overflow thereof.... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4552220 | Oil well evacuation system A system for evacuating sand, paraffin, and other particulate matter from an oil well, while simultaneously lifting the oil to the surface and stimulating its rate of production, comprises a series of transport units attached to an endless belt. The belt ... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4548314 | Bucket elevator and method of making same A bucket elevator including a bucket having a bottom wall and an integral, upwardly-extending rear wall. The bottom wall includes a longitudinal slot therein which receives one of a plurality of links of an endless link chain. A shield is provided to cove... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4333561 | Elevator head material guide means An elevator having a bucket conveyor for moving material, as grain, from a hopper to a discharge location. The conveyor has an endless belt trained about idler and drive pulleys. A plurality of cups secured to the belt carry columns of material from the h... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4302331 | Filter bucket for a flight conveyor An improved filter bucket for a flight conveyor having two sides and a bottom with an integral rake edge. Numerous equally spaced apart arcuately curved wires are fixed to and supported by longitudinally extended cross bars in a grid fashion to form the g... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4246999 | Grain cup A grain cup for use with the conveyor belt of a grain elevator includes two oppositely disposed, flat side panels which are perpendicularly joined with a flat rear panel. Joined between the two side panels and extending upwardly from the base of the rear ... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4234077 | Equipment for removing bulk material from a dump Apparatus for removing bulk material from dumps, mixed-bed installations or the like. The apparatus includes two horizontally spaced apart, parallel endless roller chains which have side bars and form substantially horizontal upper and lower courses. The ... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4205745 | Conveyor loading station A flexible belt trough type conveyor is directed over a hump having an upwardly angling inclined side defined by belt supporting rails, then over a sprocket or similar rolling support device, and down the declined side of the hump on further rails. At the... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4200184 | Bottomless bucket for hoist conveyors The buckets used for producing hoist conveyor devices according to the invention comprise at their upper and lower edges reinforcing means for the purpose of improving the rigidity of the wall of said buckets, which walls include laterally a greater conve... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4177891 | Conveyor belt deformable in space In this assembly of conveyor elements each element is corrugated to comprise a regular series of alternating hollow portions and projecting portions to constitute bucket-like elements having each at one end a bellows structure and at the other end a plain... | 12/11/1979 |
| 4154333 | Modular conveyor having integral receptacles A modular conveyor comprising a plurality of interconnected modules each module having a receptacle integral therewith and in which each module is pivotable about both a horizontal and a vertical axis. The module receptacles are in a closed position durin... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4116328 | Apparatus for replenishing containers for thin and flexible components To replenish containers that are relatively inacessible and/or perform advancing or oscillating movements with thin, cut-to-size wire pieces, such as lead-in wires to be filled into hoppers of stem making machines for electric light sources related to the... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4078650 | Rotatable drum for feeding small parts Threaded fasteners in a hopper are picked up by buckets spaced angularly within a rotatable, open sided drum and are dumped out of the buckets at a position above the hopper. Each bucket is generally L-shaped and is formed by two elements, one of the elem... | 03/14/1978 |
