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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4365719 | Radiometric ore sorting method and apparatus A method of and apparatus for sorting pieces or particles of radioactive ore where the particles are moved one after another substantially horizontally then discharged into a gravity-accelerated trajectory which is substantially free-fall but can be contr... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4365718 | Ticket metering and throat barrier module A ticket metering and barrier module for a ticket processing machine includes a housing defining a metering passage that is dimensioned to a predetermined maximum ticket thickness and includes sensing apparatus for sensing predetermined minimum ticket wid... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4354602 | Device for inspecting the external appearance of solid medicine A device for inspecting the external appearance of solid medicine having a solid medicine supplying section, a first drum-shaped conveying section for conveying solid medicines supplied by the solid medicine supplying section, at equal intervals so that o... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4351437 | Method and apparatus for examining objects Potatoes carried on a roller table conveyor are presented in transverse rows at an inspection area illuminated by a lamp from a first direction and observed by a line imaging camera along a second direction arranged by a mirror to be approximately at righ... | 09/28/1982 |
| 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 |
| 4326636 | Apparatus for processing sheets There is provided an apparatus for processing sheets. The apparatus comprises a feeding zone, a discriminating zone, a sorting zone and a stacking zone. The feeding zone includes rollers and guides for taking out sheets one at a time from a group of sheet... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4324335 | Method and apparatus for measuring the surface size of an article A method and apparatus for grading and sorting articles, particularly fruit, according to size, surface blemish and surface color. Fruit is passed sequentially through a camera array which scans the surface of each fruit and measures the intensity of ligh... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4320841 | Detection and sorting systems Method and apparatus for sorting objects according to the degree to which they possess a required characteristic. Objects are moved in a line on a conveyor belt past a line of detectors each responsive to the required characteristic. Each detector produce... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4317521 | Apparatus and method for sorting articles Apparatus and method for sorting scrap metal pieces dependent on the type of metal therein. The apparatus includes a conveyor and a feeding arrangement to feed the scrap metal pieces on to the conveyor, together with an X-ray fluorescence detector to exam... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4307390 | Corn and soybean sensor A seed monitoring apparatus for use with a seed planting machine includes a seed sensor comprising a housing forming a substantially tubular passageway and mounting a light source and three photosensitive elements arranged substantially in a triangular co... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4271967 | System for sorting elongated members A system of sorting elongated pieces such as asparagus, wherein each of the elongated pieces are successively conveyed by a conveyer and detected as a still image by a sensor such as a TV camera. In processing a signal representative of the still image a ... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4171744 | Document classifier This invention relates to the classification of a stream of documents, such as mixed mail pieces, into size and orientation of categories for subsequent processing. The apparatus includes a laser beam which scans a conveying belt upon which the documents ... | 10/23/1979 |
| 4166029 | Apparatus for sorting objects Disclosed apparatus sort unequally dimensioned veneer sections or other objects which are successively conveyed in a transit direction by a conveyor in parallel to their planes. A series of sensors are mounted at equal mutual distances across the conveyor... | 08/28/1979 |
| 4146135 | Spot defect detection apparatus and method An on-line detector for peach pits and peach pit fragments and the like remaining in peach halves following a pitting operation includes a sealed housing bordered on one side by an inclined view plate disposed between a feeding belt and a take-away belt. ... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4136780 | Mail singulation and culling system A system is described for receiving mixed mail pieces, for singulating the machinable mail including flats, and for culling all of the pieces into respective discrete categories for further processing. The system is characterized by an inherent freedom fr... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4132314 | Electronic size and color sorter Disclosed is apparatus for sorting objects, e.g. tomatoes, according to both size and color. A preferred embodiment can sort the objects into fourteen size/color categories and yet requires only two photodetectors. The objects travel on a conveyor belt pa... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4120403 | Photoelectric apparatus for sorting variegated articles according to size A photoelectric apparatus for sorting articles according to size includes a vertical column of photoelectric pickups disposed adjacent to the conveyor on which the articles pass by. The apparatus includes a clock pulse generator synchronized with the conv... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4117935 | Apparatus for and method of measuring product mass A novel apparatus for and method of measuring product mass is described in which products are sequentially conveyed to an inspection station where the entire bulk of each product is substantially instantaneously irradiated with a beam of radiation. Scatte... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4057146 | Optical sorting apparatus Apparatus for optically sorting small light objects such as beans and/or grains on the basis of size and color. A feeding mechanism separates the objects one from another and delivers them in a free falling condition to an optical analysis means where eac... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4011155 | Wrapped package inspection and rejection apparatus A package labeling and inspecting apparatus is disclosed which includes a first conveyor table having an apparatus mounted adjacent to the conveyor for applying labels to wrapped packages as they move along the first conveyor table. Provision is made for ... | 03/08/1977 |
| 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 |
| 3932272 | Scan system The apparatus relates to an electronic verification and control system for obtaining an input count of entered bills and an analysis for various entry conditions for the bills and their state of fitness, and further to an automatic separator and inserter ... | 01/13/1976 |
