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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7347331 | Fines removal apparatus and methods/systems regarding same Apparatus, methods and systems are used to separate fines from objects of a feed mixture being processed (e.g., iron bearing pellets, chips and dust). For example, at least a portion of an endless belt defining a channel is movable up an incline relative to horizont... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7304260 | System and method for filling, removing and transporting containers The present invention relates to a system and method for automatically transporting receiving containers for sorted products. The containers are filled with the sorted products along a sorting stretch at individual, similar target stations, and automatically transpo... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7182319 | Roller assembly for a lifting device for a personal-transportation vehicle A preferred embodiment of a roller assembly for a lifting device for a personal-transportation vehicle includes a shaft member for mounting on a lifting arm assembly of the lifting device and having an outer surface, and a roller member for supporting a lifting stra... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7111741 | Multi-purpose rake The multi-purpose rake includes a rake head and a detachable pole for pulling the rake across a surface. The rake head has a frame with two arced end ribs, an upper and a lower crossbar extending between the end ribs. The upper crossbar has a sleeve or other attachm... | 09/26/2006 |
| 6866152 | System and method to separate cardboard components from bulk waste paper A conveyor device (2) is provided on which the bulk material containing both card board and paper is transported to a sorting station (5). At this point, the cardboard components are extracted mechanically. For this, the paper and cardboard components ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6726027 | Device for spinning preparation A device is provided for a spinning preparation machine for removing foreign particles, the machine having a rotating cylinder with ends. The device has a knife blade having a separation edge, the knife blade being arranged at an adjustable distance to and angled co... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6431369 | Device for sorting and selectively collecting flat products A device for sorting and selectively collecting flat products, such as shipping pouches, printed products or workpieces, which are placed at predetermined collecting points along the conveying path of an endless conveyor and below the conveyor in collecti... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6394280 | Device for separating mixtures of valuable substances A device for removing flat materials from a mixture of valuable substances comprises a conveyor (1) on which the substance mixture is conveyed, and an extractor for extracting flat materials from the substance mixture in an extraction zone. The extractor ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6189702 | Overhead mounted sorter for conveyors The present invention reveals a sorting device, positioned above and orientated across a plurality of conveyors, capable of diverting objects between the conveyors or removing objects entirely from the conveyors, based on the object's destination location... | 02/20/2001 |
| 5806686 | Sorting device and its use The present invention provides a unique mechanical method and device for sorting pieces (e.g. vegetables and fruits) of any desired size from unsorted and irregularly sized pieces. The device includes a pair of elongated cylindrical brushes, one of which ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5702028 | Parts feeder A parts feeder for conveying a succession of parts in a common posture, includes: a rotary drum rotatable about its substantially horizontal axis of rotation and having on its inner circumferential wall surface a plurality of radial plates circumferential... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5579094 | Filament fiber development traps A developer unit adapted to develop with marking particles a latent image. The developer unit includes a housing and a mover for moving the marking particles in a recirculating path within the housing. The developer unit further includes a fibrous element... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5485925 | System and method for separating recycled debris A system for classifying recycled debris comprising ferrous materials, fines, non-ferrous light material and non-ferrous heavy material. The classification system is made of a hopper having an inlet, including a spillway opening defining a lowermost porti... | 01/23/1996 |
| 5024335 | Automatic sorter A sorter for separating waste material such as aluminum cans, large plastic containers, cardboard containers, cardboard, small lumber or wood material, paper and similar lightweight material by directing the waste material to be sorted downwardly onto pai... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5009331 | Apparatus for separating elongated contaminants from a stream of material A method and apparatus for removing elongated contaminants from a stream containing pellets and elongated contaminants. The method comprising flowing the stream through a snagging zone in which the contaminants are snagged.... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4750622 | Apparatus for sorting spent tubes An apparatus for sorting spent tubes as they are carried on an intermittently advancing conveyor with the apparatus having a tube ejecting device that reciprocates along the length of tubes during dwells in conveyor movement and has a tube contacting elem... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4681230 | Tube transfer device A tube transfer device for transferring usable tubes from a tube feeding device to a tube receiving device includes an elevator advancing tubes in a given transport direction from the tube feeding device to the tube receiving device is steps with pauses b... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4681231 | Article selecting and conveying system A cop selecting and conveying apparatus for an automatic winder is disclosed in which winding units are divided into a plurality of winding sections and different kinds of cops carried on carrying mediums are transferred on the conveying passage to each w... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4610322 | Weight measuring apparatus for elongated articles This invention then relates to a measuring apparatus wherein a plurality of measuring machines are provided transversely for continuous measuring on a lower side of a feeding hopper enclosing a long size such as dried noodle or the like in alignment, whic... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4609110 | Seed separating apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for the separation of seeds from seed-containing fruit rag or the like, particularly the separation of seeds from citrus fruit rag, which essentially consists of seeds, seed sacks and membranes to which the seeds adhere, and of a... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4553672 | Selection system for flat articles, particularly metal sheets of different sizes coming from a shearing machine Selectors which can be worked alternately are placed along the advancement path of articles having different sizes. Each selector is constituted by a rake structure with L-shaped prongs which can be moved from an upper rest position, where the prongs do n... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4401562 | Conveyor-separator with adjustable separation gap A conveyor-separator apparatus having a separator unit slave driven from the conveyor unit by a gear train which employs an idler gear rotatably supported on the separator unit. The idler gear projects from the housing of the separator unit so as to be di... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4382858 | Pivoted and balanced gate for a material separator In a device for separating a liquid, as a cutting oil, from a mixture of metal chips and larger pieces of metal, such as bar ends and scrap, there is provided structure for preliminarily separating larger pieces of metal from the entire mass prior to the ... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4114762 | Worm harvesting Worm harvesting apparatus and method for recovering worms from their accompanying habitat soil, utilizing worm gathering projections, on the interior of a drum rotatable about a substantially horizontal axis, to gather worms from accompanying soil dispose... | 09/19/1978 |
