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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4541530 | Recovery of metallic concentrate from solid waste Separation of metallic particles from non-metallic particles of processed solid waste such as garbage to obtain a metallic concentrate, including use of such separation as the mid-step in a process which begins with homogenizing and magnetically treating ... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4454947 | Product inspection and ejection system A method of removing product of an unacceptable height from a product line is disclosed. In the method, a quantity of the product is arrayed in a carrier and moved to a gauging station where the array is placed between a reference plate and a correspondin... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4445615 | Sorting system calibration A method of eliminating errors in the radiation count of a scintillation detector in radiometric sorting caused by one or more adjacent particles. The spacing between the adjacent particles are determined, and statistically determined calibration factors ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4432457 | Article selection apparatus An article selection apparatus is disclosed having a first conveying device for conveying an article along a path and a second conveying device for receiving the article at an entrance end spaced apart by a predetermined distance from a conveying end of t... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4363332 | Detection of rod-like articles Cigarettes, as they are grouped in batches to be packed, have their ends detected for firmness or for missing filter tips, by having an array of individually actuated plungers (9) applied to their ends. Each plunger is actuated by air pressure acting on a... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4349112 | Pellet inspection apparatus Apparatus for inspecting nuclear fuel pellets in a sealed container for diameter, flaws, length and weight. The apparatus includes, in an array, a pellet pick-up station, four pellet inspection stations and a pellet sorting station. The pellets are delive... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4339044 | Installation for inspecting and sorting printed sheets of paper The installation comprises several inspecting devices disposed along a track and controlling a switch. Each inspecting device is followed by a device for detecting the passage of the sheets, associated with a cyclic counter assigning a consecutive number ... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4249660 | Potato sorting apparatus A hydraulic actuated agricultural product sorting apparatus employing a hopper introducing products into a fluid flow which carries them into two counter-rotating spirals mounted side by side which align and merge the products and then moves them in line ... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4193502 | Pellet dimension checker A pellet dimension checker for determining the weight, length, and density of a pellet such as a nuclear fuel pellet. The checker comprises a rotatable arm for transferring a pellet from a pellet conveyor, to several dimensional measuring stations, and ba... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4171262 | Apparatus for eliminating metallic contaminations from a fibre transporting duct in spinning preparation An apparatus for eliminating metallic contaminations from a fibre transporting duct in spinning preparation, wherein an air stream transports fibre flocks through the duct. At a branching point of the fibre transporting duct leading to a waste duct there ... | 10/16/1979 |
| 4166540 | Document sorter utilizing cascaded sorting steps An automatic document sorter particularly suitable for sorting retail store coupons employs a plurality of relatively coarse sorting processes in cascade. The sorting processes sequentially sort the documents according to predetermined properties of the d... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4051952 | Fish characteristic detecting and sorting apparatus Fish are oriented by laying them in random arrangement in the central portion of a vibrating trough, the opposite ends of which form passages slightly wider than the widest fish being sorted. Fish move headfirst toward the trough ends, and the movement of... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4049123 | Methods of and apparatus for sorting articles in accordance with their resistivity and thickness In making semiconductor devices such as integrated circuits, semiconductor wafers are often sorted according to both their thickness and their resistivity. To so sort the wafers they are moved successively along a first track to a thickness determining de... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4030607 | Flat-article separating apparatus for an automatic mail handling system and the like An automatic flat-article separating apparatus for mail handling is disclosed. The apparatus has an article transport path, an ejecting route, a suction belt, a thickness detector installed on the transport path and a roller assembly for compressing the f... | 06/21/1977 |
| 4029958 | Apparatus for inspecting containers A stream of cylindrical metal containers is fed into apparatus having a rotatable turret. The turret indexes each container past a driven wheel for imparting rotation thereto, and the rotating containers are scanned by a split flange detector. At the same... | 06/14/1977 |
| 4004693 | Apparatus for inspecting the disposition of steel ply cords in pneumatic tires An apparatus for inspecting the disposition of reinforcing steel ply cords in pneumatic tires. The apparatus can inspect a desired number of tires successively in a full-automatic fashion, classifying the inspected tires at the discharging end of the appa... | 01/25/1977 |
| 3987902 | Package inspection apparatus Package conveyor and inspection apparatus moves reams of paper through a sequence of operations including inspection of the outer wrapper, application of a label, inspection of the label location and inclusive of means for rejecting reams which are either... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3930993 | Capacitor testing and sorting apparatus Apparatus for testing capacitors having axial leads and for sorting the tested capacitors into various classifications or categories in accordance with the results of such tests. Capacitors having capacitance classifications within a predetermined range o... | 01/06/1976 |
