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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7882944 | Drive belt guard for a roller conveyor A belt guard for a drive belt on a roller conveyor system, that can be positioned adjacent the drive belt and between adjacent conveyor rollers to guard the side edges of the drive belt from inadvertent or intentional entanglement of a person's fingers or other body... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7503451 | Conveying apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a conveying apparatus which guides a conveying target object in the conveying direction while preventing it from falling off from rollers and in which intervals between the adjacent rollers can be narrowed. The pre... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7383765 | Strapping machine A strapping machine feeds strapping material around a load, positions, tensions and seals the material around the load. The machine includes a work surface, a portion of which is upwardly pivotal. A conveyor mounted within the work surface has a friction belt drive.... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7370752 | Controlled conveyor A declined conveyor for conveying articles in a downstream direction, which is parallel to a longitudinal direction, has one or more controlled conveyor sections interposed between gravity conveyors. Each controlled conveyor includes a plurality of driven rollers wh... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7364035 | Airless accumulation conveyor An accumulation conveyor and method, according to the invention, includes providing a plurality of tandem accumulation zones, each of the zones including a conveying surface and at least one drive roller selectively driving the conveying surface. A drive member belo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7338248 | Battery changing system for an industrial truck A battery changing system is provided to change the battery in an industrial truck, such as a fork lift truck, with a battery block that can be moved in the horizontal direction by a roller conveyor relative to a battery compartment of the industrial truck. The inve... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7328785 | Low electrostatic discharge conveyor A conveyor for transporting objects sensitive to electrostatic discharge. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a roller conveyor with conductive rollers in electrical communication with an electrical ground. The rollers preferably have about 105 ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7306091 | Tapered spline roller for curved roller conveyor A tapered spline conveyor roller, and a curved conveyor roller assembly using a plurality of the tapered spline rollers. The tapered spline roller has a cylindrical barrel and an inner and an outer drive portion that is formed of a plurality of parallel, radially-di... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7299916 | Transfer mechanism and method of use A transporting device includes a power roller mounted to a chassis for transporting a tray between positions. A belt transfers power from the power roller to a shaft. The belt may be used to rotate the shaft. A pulley is mounted to the shaft and rotates in substanti... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287640 | Roller conveyor zone with motorized roller A roller conveyor using a motorized drive roller has the drive roller located other than in the terminal roller position of conveyor zones. Damage to the motorized drive roller from overheating or impact loads is minimized. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7232027 | Pallet/skid power roll system An apparatus moves a plurality of transport media along a path of travel. The plurality of transport media define at least two groups of transport media, where each group of transport media has substantially identical transverse dimensions with respect to one anothe... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7225918 | Transport device for transporting goods, preferably on pallets, comprising two laterally peripheral traction elements, especially transport chains A transport device for transporting goods, preferably on pallets or the like, along a transport path has at least two lateral peripheral traction elements (2), especially transport chains. To this end, support elements (3) are fixed, preferably articul... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7198752 | Drive system for an apparatus for staining specimens For automatic transportation and lifting and lowering of specimens in an automatic stainer, a drive system comprises a motor (16) and a side wall assembly (40), the motor (16) being coupled on the drive side to a first (12) and a second (... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7121107 | Continuous transfer type freezer A continuous transfer type freezer for cooling or freezing articles such as foodstuffs transferred on a conveyor belt by spraying chilled air from slit nozzles on the articles is provided in which chilled air jets rectified to have long spray travel is produced, thi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7040456 | Elevator car drive and support belt having a twisted orientation An elevator system includes a roller arrangement and a belt for supporting an elevator car. The roller arrangement has two rollers with approximately parallel axes of rotation and structured circumferential surfaces engaging a complementary structured surface of the... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7025195 | Conveyor system for transport of containers A conveyor system for transport of containers, in particular an airport baggage handling system, includes a conveyor having a curved transport path with one end defining an entry zone and another end defining an exit zone. The containers are moved by a container pro... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7014035 | System for supporting an underside roller on a conveying belt A conveyor system having a conveying belt trained around guide rollers for movement in a travel path, a first roller which is mounted in an operative position on a support to bear against the conveying belt, and a roller support system. The roller support system has... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6994208 | Curved conveyor An end roller of a curved conveyor has an pivot shaft and a plurality of short rollers rotatably mounted on the pivot shaft. A bearing with an outer race of a larger outer diameter than the outer diameter of the short roller is interposed between at least the adjace... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6971505 | Transporting roller, holding-down means and transporting system for flat articles The invention relates to transporting rollers (22) for transporting essentially flat articles, to holding-down means (23) for pressing the articles onto transporting rollers (22), and to a transporting system (30). In this case, the trans... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6966427 | Pallet/skid power roll system An apparatus moves a plurality of transport media along a path of travel. The plurality of transport media define at least two groups of transport media, where each group of transport media has substantially identical transverse dimensions with respect to one anothe... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6962101 | Safety device for strip dispensing machine A control and safety device for a machine for dispensing strips of material having a belt mounted between a drum (4) and a shaft (9) in a floating mount. The shaft receiving the belt having an axle of narrower diameter than the shaft in its central par... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6899219 | Tape drive conveyor A roller conveyor includes opposite sidewalls and at least two tandem zones. Each zone includes a plurality of idler rollers rotatably mounted at and between the opposite sidewalls, and a drive system having a motorized or directly driven roller. The driven roller i... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6889822 | Accumulation conveyor A accumulation conveyor has discrete zones which may be selectively actuated by pressurizing an interior cavity, urging diaphragms against spreaders which carry two spaced apart frame members. The frame members carry respective axle retainers which support the ends ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6805234 | Roller conveyor A roller conveyor with rotating rollers for transporting goods with a belt for driving the rollers arranged under the rollers, whereby the belt is aligned substantially vertical, is characterized in that on the upper edge of the belt, in contact with the rollers, a ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6772873 | Drive system for roller conveyor A roller conveyor includes a frame having a plurality of roller rotatably supported thereon by respective pairs of roller bearings. A drive system is provided for selectively rotatably driving each of the plurality of rollers. The drive system includes a gear secure... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6719125 | Conveying and/or storage device for packaged goods A transport and storage device for packaged goods has at least one roller path for goods to be transported and stored, wherein the at least one roller path has rollers. Force transmitting elements are arranged rotatably on the rollers, wherein the force transmitting... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6685005 | Skewed-roller belt drive for belt-driven roller conveyor A belt guide for a drive belt of a roller conveyor that cants the belt in the skewed roller section of the conveyor so that an edge portion of the belt, and not the entire width, engages the skewed rollers to impart driving motion. This is accomplished by... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6612423 | Co-extruded driver pad with wear indicator An article conveyor having live rollers driven by a polymeric driven pad which has a wear indicator element co-extruded with the driven pad. The element is visually distinct from the pad and has converging sides in the driven pad so that wear on the pad i... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6607072 | Wheel and conveyor system for transporting semiconductor wafers A wheel for a conveyor system for transporting semiconductor wafers includes a first section for supporting a semiconductor wafer at a first level and a second section for supporting the wafer at a second level, with the first level being higher than the ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6585107 | Drive system, especially for transport rollers The invention relates to a drive system for transport rollers (4) in a roller path. According to the invention, said transport rollers (4) are rotated by drive means (14, 34, 52). Said drive means (14, 34, 52) are completely arranged in the interior of at... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6494306 | Out-processing facility for individual goods Proposed is an out-processing facility for individual goods comprising a storage area (1) with a plurality of storage passages (7) for items to be out-processed extending parallel to one another therein, whereby only items of the same type are located in ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6412623 | Roller conveyor A roller conveyor having side wings spaced apart from each other for accommodating rollers that are arranged between these side wings successively in the direction of conveyance. These rollers are rotatably supported at both ends by trunnions extending in... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6370447 | Conveyance system A communication master unit of a conveyance controller and communication slave units for a main conveyor, loading conveyors and unloading conveyors are connected by a serial transmission line to transmit and receive different kinds of data signals to and ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6343489 | Bending rail band guide A variable radius bending apparatus is disclosed for bending a glass plate. The variable radius bending apparatus includes a bending rail having a longitudinal rail member and a drive drum and a tension drum rotatably attached thereto. A drive band is pos... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6308823 | Padded chain for a conveyor A conveyor chain formed of parallel links with pins extending laterally therefrom has pads mounted to the pins. Each pad has an elongated planar upper surface extending further than the distance between adjacent pins on the links. A notch on each end of t... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6223888 | Accumulation conveyor The invention refers to a roller conveyor for individually packed goods units, and particularly for heavy, individually packed goods units such as pallets, with multiple successive and spaced rollers arranged in the direction of conveyance, provided also ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6161681 | Roller conveyer and roller shaft support bracket A roller conveyor has rollers mounted on laterally-spaced side frames by brackets that have a frame attachment opening extending through a base portion of the bracket, and a roller shaft end receiving aperture extending through a flange portion of the bra... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6009994 | Modular conveyor system A modular conveyor system is disclosed which includes a plurality of non-contiguous, freestanding pedestals, arranged in two parallel rows. Each of the pedestals includes a support roller for contacting the bottom surface of a pallet placed on top of it, ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6003661 | Roller conveyor and supporting roller A roller for a roller conveyor which has an integral base body (3) made of thermoplastic which is symmetric to an axis of rotation (9) and which contains a through passage (11) coaxial to the axis of rotation and is defined by two face sides (7, 8). The r... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5984082 | Roller-bed conveyor drive assembly An elongated frictional drive pad is attached to an uppermost surface of a drive chain for powering a plurality of rollers in a roller bed. The drive pad is connected to the chain by a plurality of fastening pins which have body portions and enlarged end ... | 11/16/1999 |
