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Class 209/678 - With means moving, or regulating movement of, items along elements


Subclass of Class 209 - Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Definition: Methods and apparatus including means for moving, or controlling
No. of patents: 17
Last issue date: 06/13/2006


NumberTitleIssue Date
7059479Apparatus for sorting pills
An apparatus for sorting small cylindrical objects has a trough having a longitudinally extending groove along which the objects can slide. The groove is of generally rectangular upwardly open shape and has a pair of upright and horizontally spaced side walls and an...
06/13/2006
6196394Method for operating a roller bar screen
The invention relates to a method for operating a roller bar screen and to the generation of certain parameters for optimal adaptation to the bulk material being processed and as a prerequisite for process optimization. Construction measures--essentially ...
03/06/2001
6125558High volume pipe padding machine
A padding machine (10, 100) is disclosed which is capable of separating materials in a spoils bank beside a trench into coarser materials, which are redeposited in the spoils bank behind the machine, and finer materials which are conveyed to the trench fo...
10/03/2000
6112906Ball separator system
This invention is directed to a device for separating deformed balls from normal spherical balls prior to washing as is common in the ball pen industry. The device comprises an L-shaped tunnel which defines a slot on its lower surface. The slot feeds into...
09/05/2000
5893465Food product sorter
An apparatus for sorting fragile objects has a grading structure connected to a base. The grading structure is movable in first and second substantially horizontal directions with respect to the base. A displacement mechanism imparts reciprocating, substa...
04/13/1999
5806685Confinement house cleaner
An apparatus for use in cleaning confinement houses, to be pulled within the confinement house by a small tractor, providing motive force to the apparatus and to its components, is constructed on a wheeled frame, the front of which is connected to the tra...
09/15/1998
5588536Dredge with bi-directional grizzly
A water based dredge includes a grizzly with a sieve and a pair of bi-directional rakes. The rakes translate relative to the stationary sieve to slide waste or recoverable material off of the grid and onto a refuse barge or material processing apparatus, ...
12/31/1996
5503712Screening system for fractionating and sizing woodchips
A flow management system and process for providing controlled separation and sizing of an incoming flow of wood chips. A flow management screen is provided in the form of a horizontal disk screen having a variable speed drive, with the drive controlled ba...
04/02/1996
5449072Classifying grate
A classifying grate has corrugated bars with respective stubs eccentrically journaled in bearing blocks in bearing chambers of the longitudinal supports on either side of the grate bars. The bearing blocks have play Sr in the feed direction of the breaker...
09/12/1995
5421108High volume pipe padding machine
A padding machine (10, 100) which is capable of separating materials in a spoils bank beside a trench into coarser materials, which are redeposited in the spoils bank behind the machine, and finer materials which are conveyed to the trench for padding the...
06/06/1995
5298119Screening system for fractionating and sizing wood chips
A flow management system and process for providing controlled separation and sizing of an incoming flow of wood chips. A flow management screen is provided in the form of a horizontal disk screen having a variable speed drive, with the drive controlled ba...
03/29/1994
4854455Machine for grading and sorting fish, in particular fish from the salmonidae family
The machine according to the invention comprises a channel which is: constituted by two shaped panels giving it an open bottomed V-shaped section and which are associated with relative spacing adjustment members, provided with spraying conduits and overlapping plat...
08/08/1989
4285434Walking-beam conveyor with adjustable width gauging aperture
Elongated components such as piston pins may be sequentially fed at an entrance point onto a conveyor connected to a distant discharge point. The conveyor includes a pair of guides so spaced to allow the pins to fit loosely therebetween and a stop plate w...
08/25/1981
4138018Apparatus and method for sorting substrates
A substrate grader accepts or rejects a substrate depending upon the degree of warp and then sorts the accepted substrates according to a dimension thereof. The grader comprises a first plate which is U-shaped and inclined at an acute angle with respect t...
02/06/1979
4127193Carrot sorting apparatus
A sorting machine feeds longitudinally aligned carrots onto a transversely directed sloping conveyer. The conveyer, after first positioning one end of each carrot against a baseboard, transports the carrots past progressively longer supporting rods parall...
11/28/1978
4099621Conveying and reject apparatus for upright standing bottles
Conveying apparatus for upright standing bottles between two synchronously driven bottle treating machines. The apparatus comprises a star wheel and a worm, both being driven synchronously with the bottle treating machines. Supporting and guiding rails fo...
07/11/1978
4016625Apparatus for sizing and deheading shrimp
Apparatus for sizing and deheading shrimp is illustrated wherein an open, elongated trough has a pair of sides which diverge laterally outwardly from adjacent one end of the trough toward the other with a conveyor for moving shrimp along the trough permit...
04/12/1977
 
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