Class 198/723 - To move load in an arcuate path

Subclass of Class 198 - Conveyors: power-driven
Definition: Apparatus wherein the member moves the load in a circular
No. of patents: 40
Last issue date: 09/30/2008

Number	Title	Issue Date
7428961	Conveyor device A conveyor device (1) for conveying substantially round products (11), for example eggs, comprises a support track (4) along which the products (11) can move in a conveying direction during use. Furthermore, the conveyor device (1)...	09/30/2008
7303062	Bulk material pump feeder with reduced disk jamming A bulk materials pump feeder having a housing and a rotating drive rotor for transferring material from an inlet to an outlet of the housing. The drive rotor has a hub. Drive disks extend away from the hub toward a housing inner wall. Three structural features of th...	12/04/2007
7044288	Bulk material pump feeder with reduced disk jamming A bulk materials pump feeder having a housing and a rotating drive rotor for transferring material from an inlet to an outlet of the housing. The drive rotor has a hub. Drive disks extend away from the hub toward a housing inner wall. Three structural features of th...	05/16/2006
6709324	Size adjustable coin escalator for use in gaming apparatus An adjustable escalator device is provided in a gaming terminal for receiving singulated coins from a gaming terminal output hopper and outputting coins at a higher level. The escalator can be adjusted to define a coin path of adjustable width and/or adjustable thic...	03/23/2004
6685007	Sluice for discharging bulk material A sluice (2) for discharging bulk material, in particular fibers, from a cyclone device comprises a circumferential wall (4) in the form of a curved bendable band, which defines a generally cylindrical chamber (10) with an inlet (38) for receiving bulk ma...	02/03/2004
6155403	Golf ball conveyor A conveyer for delivering a column of balls to an elevated location has a rotating wheel formed of resilient material. A track has a pair of curvilinear rails which extend along a portion of the circumferential surface of the wheel and which are spaced ap...	12/05/2000
6109421	Corn transfer and alignment apparatus A corn transfer and alignment mechanism for preparing ears for being sawn into cobbettes is provided. The ears are received by the transfer mechanism from a feed conveyor on which the ears are conveyed singularly with their tip ends first. The transfer st...	08/29/2000
6073749	Method and unit for conveying packets of cigarettes A method and unit for conveying packets of cigarettes, whereby packets of cigarettes, supplied successively to an input of a guide, are transferred to an output of the guide by means of a screw device rotating about a respective axis of rotation; the guid...	06/13/2000
5911554	Bunker raking carriage with lowerable raking wheel A device for raking flowable material from a storage facility, with a plurality of storage units such as bunkers, silos, stockpiles, has a bunker table positioned at the bottom of the storage units and a rake tunnel positioned above the bunker table. A ra...	06/15/1999
5819517	Conveying device for agricultural presses for compressing harvest products A conveying device for agricultural presses for compression of harvest products and including a pick-up drum for picking up the harvest products, a conveying channel located downstream of the pick-up drum and opening into the pressing space of a press, a ...	10/13/1998
5356280	Pump for particulate solids A rotary channel pump apparatus for compressing solids that have an initial bulk density which is substantially lower than their structural density; the apparatus comprises a flow channel having an inlet and an outlet and includes: (i) an annular drag flo...	10/18/1994
5123518	Apparatus for properly positioning vials A device for properly positioning upstanding vials that are exiting from or entering on to a conveyor. A guide wheel, having a plurality of identations for the vials, is driven by a coaxial propulsion wheel located beneath the guide wheel. A stationary gu...	06/23/1992
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
5056650	Vessel treatment machine A vessel handling machine comprises a machine frame on which is arranged a drivable conveyor start with the star crown (3) consisting of several superimposed external star rings and a concentric internal flange plate (10) located at the level of the lowes...	10/15/1991
5051041	Multiple-choke apparatus for transporting and metering particulate material A multiple-choke unit for transporting and metering particulate material under ambient conditions wherein the material is compacted to bridging and then disturbed as it is friction driven through a duct. The duct has two opposed walls moving between the i...	09/24/1991
4988239	Multiple-choke apparatus for transporting and metering particulate material A multiple-choke unit for transporting and metering particulate material wherein the material is compacted to bridging, disturbed and then recompacted as it is friction driven through a duct. The duct has two opposed walls moving between the inlet and out...	01/29/1991
4972665	Material ejecting paddle Removable paddles are disclosed for use on a grain auger to assist material flow when changing direction of flow from parallel to the auger's longitudinal axis to a flow path at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the auger. The device provides a mou...	11/27/1990
4688480	Agricultural feed bagger Improvements in apparatus for loading feed stock into agricultural bags. One aspect of the invention is the provision of a pusher plate between adjacent teeth on a rotor that propels the feed stock to enlarge the effective surface area for moving the feed...	08/25/1987
4645064	Screw conveyor A screw conveyor having a propelling device to push a plastic material onto a screw is provided. The propelling device comprises a roller, a rectangular vane, and a guide member, which are disposed above the screw and adjacent a wall of the housing of the...	02/24/1987
4619205	Conveyor arrangement A conveyor arrangement for conveying a workpiece carrier in a conveying direction, the carrier having two opposite sides, and a guide for laterally guiding the carrier in this direction, the guide comprising a drive associated with one of the carrier side...	10/28/1986
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
4597491	Truck loading apparatus and method A method and apparatus for the high volume loading of produce or other material into a bulk container such as a truck or rail car. The invention includes an endless belt driven across the opening of a hopper, and a driven rotor assembly utilizing a series...	07/01/1986
4569445	Apparatus for measuring the thickness of disc-like articles An apparatus (10) for automatically feeding and measuring circular discs (12) includes a gauging station (15). The latter includes a pair of opposed capacitive displacement measuring probes (27 and 28). The probes are connected to a thickness measuring te...	02/11/1986
4549645	Feeding articles A device for feeding and orienting cigarette packets includes a driven wheel 10 having a plurality of rearwardly directed resilient members, such as spring arms 12, mounted on the periphery of the wheel. Packets P are fed to the wheel down a twisted chute...	10/29/1985
4516674	Method and apparatus for conveying and metering solid material A solid material pump or conveyance apparatus and method including a pump housing an inlet and an outlet with a passageway between them. The passageway is formed and defined by a friction drive wall which is movable relative the pump housing towards the o...	05/14/1985
4483378	Feeding device of wood working machine A feeding device used for a wood working machine includes two roller assemblies respectively mounted to two roller supports which can be controlled to turn about horizontal axes and which in turn is supported by an upper portion mounted to a cantilever ar...	11/20/1984
4467909	Infeed and discharge star An infeed or discharge star for transporting containers to a labeling or filling machine includes a rotating carrousel having a plurality of setting devices mounted in spaced apart relation adjacent its outer periphery. Each setting device comprises a mem...	08/28/1984
4448299	Apparatus for advancing elongate objects around a curve Apparatus for advancing elongate objects (D) around a curve between upstream and downstream straight guideways (1, 3) connected by a curved connecting guideway (2), each guideway being constituted by two pairs of parallel guides (11, 12; 31, 32) between w...	05/15/1984
4426825	High speed wrapping machine A machine for packaging objects such as rolls of paper comprises a direction changing loading wheel to feed objects and groups of objects into closely grouped orientation in the wrapping machine for high speed passage through the machine in a continuous m...	01/24/1984
4380283	Device for pushing objects off a conveyor A device for pushing objects lying end to end on an endless conveyor from the conveyor one at a time, including two parallel discs arranged on top of each other and with axes of rotation spaced apart in a vertical plane. A number of pins situated at equal...	04/19/1983
4378665	Machine for orienting an article and performing a work operation on the article An apparatus which grips an article on the opposite sides of the article to hold the article in a predetermined orientation. One or more work operations are performed on the article while it is held in the predetermined orientation. The article is gripped...	04/05/1983
4377363	Stacking mechanism A machine which forms openings in can ends and seals the openings with manually removable lengths of tape. The machine includes a mechanism for transporting the taped disk-like objects from holders moving seriatim along a path to the bottom of a stack of ...	03/22/1983
4300673	Apparatus for transferring material between conveyors Apparatus facilitates the transfer of material from the discharge zone of one mine conveyor onto another conveyor extending perpendicularly to the first conveyor. The transfer apparatus can take the form of a rotatably driven disc disposed beneath the ele...	11/17/1981
4244463	Conveyor apparatus A conveyor apparatus for conveying loose bulk material such as gravel and other granular materials from an in-feed location to an out-feed location. The apparatus includes a body for rotating about a vertical axis and a plurality of wings fixedly attached...	01/13/1981
4216854	Feeding apparatus with engaged/disengaged transport mechanism A transport mechanism for articles between a pair of conveyors includes a constantly driven drive member, a driven member and a ball and detent mechanism intercooperating between a pair of confronting surfaces of the members. The transport mechanism is me...	08/12/1980
4163636	Lifting device for water, waste water, sludge and the like A conveying device for conveying liquid from a supply well features an upright wall having one major surface and extending into the well, conveying means comprising a disk rotatably mounted about a substantially horizontal axis and a plurality of separati...	08/07/1979
4062441	Apparatus for conveying bottles In moving bottles to and from a cleaning machine, the bottles are transported over a stationary support surface by drivers formed on a plurality of juxtaposed rotating discs. Each disc has a pair of angularly spaced drivers and rotates about a common axle...	12/13/1977
4024395	Sample changer having modular track assembly Disclosed is an automatic sample changer for sequentially operating on a plurality of samples housed in test tubes, circulated around a continuous track, and sequentially associated with a radiation counting device by way of an elevator mechanism. The con...	05/17/1977
4018327	Hanger conveying system A hanger conveying system which routes hangers from a main screw conveyor onto a conveyor branch where they are transported through a processing station and thence returned to the screw conveyor at a point downstream from that where they were initially re...	04/19/1977
3999667	Drag bucket chain conveyor A chain of pivotably interconnected drag buckets for removing material from the sides of a loose pile and for delivering the material to a secondary discharge conveyor. The drag bucket assembly is particularly designed to be pulled about a circular path a...	12/28/1976

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Class 198/723 - To move load in an arcuate path