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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6227376 | Two-directional reject and make-up conveyor system A two-direction reject and make-up conveyor system includes a supply conveyor system (30) and a first inspection conveyor (40) and a second inspection conveyor (41). The conveyors (40 and 41) are moveable in both a forward and reverse direction allowing i... | 05/08/2001 |
| 5755335 | Apparatus and method for centralized indexed inspection and rejection of products The invention provides a method of and apparatus for inspecting a label applied to a container. The method includes the steps of placing the container on a rotatable platform; rotating the platform; detecting an edge of the label as the container rotates ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5423431 | Method and an apparatus for waste handling A method and an apparatus for sorting waste into different waste types. A first division of the waste is effected into at least two waste types in that each waste type is placed in a bag or container (100, 101) which is provided with at least one marking ... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5238120 | Machine for sorting graphic and/or printing products A machine for sorting graphic and/or printing products in which the products are fed one after the other, comprising a framework, a conveyor for receiving individual products one after the other sensors for identifying each of the individual products on t... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5139150 | Article sorting apparatus and method A gravity conveyor (12) delivers drill bits (10) to carrier tubes (24) which are on an endless conveyor. An optical micrometer (22) or the like identifies the drill bits (10), as to shank type, maximum diameter, overall length, helix angle, back taper, nu... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5058749 | Apparatus for sorting articles according to size An apparatus for sorting articles according to size inlcudes a plurality of moving belt assemblies and an elongated hopper provided above the moving belt assemblies for feeding a plurality of articles to the same. The fed articles are aligned and spaced a... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4934537 | Fish sorting apparatus and method Fish sorting apparatus comprises a lighted viewing conveyor belt arranged to receive fish seriatim and a video camera mounted above the viewing belt and directed downwardly for receiving images of fish on the belt. A second, sorting, conveyor belt is arra... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4923067 | Automated drill sorting system and method Drill bits (16) are delivered in a mixed, bulk form, in a random orientation, into an alignment unit (30). Aligned drill bits (16) move from the alignment conveyor (30) into the upper end of a singulator (36). Singulated drill bits (16) are delivered by t... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4901861 | Asynchronous fruit sorter apparatus The present invention relates to a high speed asynchronous fruit sorter, particularly suitable for pit scanning of cherries in order to segregate cherries containing pits from pitted cherries. In a conventional fruit sorting apparatus including a pluralit... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4838435 | Installation for processing photograph envelopes An installation for processing of photograph envelopes intended to equip a large photography processing laboratory. The installation includes a picking station, a bar code reading station, a thickness detection station, a station for recognition of shapes... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4815582 | Feeding apparatus particularly for machines for the conveyance and sorting of objects An apparatus for feeding, selecting and sorting has a coding and feeding unit, a sorting machine and a synchronizing unit. The coding and feeding unit has a keyboard for keying in codes of respective unloading-station destinations of respective items ther... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4809538 | Ultrasonic leak detector Ultrasonic leak detection apparatus which includes a cycloidal transfer mechanism for sequentially feeding a plurality of workpieces to a test station. An elevator at the test station alternately lifts workpieces in sequence to an elevated position to a t... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4792049 | System and process for sorting and conveying articles A system and process for sorting and conveying articles consisting of discarded tires and debris from one site to another site. The system and process receives articles in bulk, and concurrently singularizes and conveys the separated articles. Various phy... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4765487 | Automatic article stacking system An automatic article stacking system wherein a plurality of articles to be stacked are arranged in layers prior to being stacked. The layers are advantageously arranged horizontally orthogonal to one another so as to enhance the stability of the stack. A ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4714397 | Automatic parts feeder An automatic parts feeder has a bed, a base movable on the bed in a first direction, a hopper assembly mounted on the base, a delivery mechanism, a transfer mechanism, and a supply mechanism for supplying parts to a processing machine. The supply mechanis... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4585126 | Method and apparatus for high speed processing of fruit or the like A method and apparatus are disclosed for high-speed processing of fruit or the like wherein the fruit is initially accumulated and aligned at a pick-up point for capture in spaced-apart pockets of a singulation conveyor at the pick-up point to maintain th... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4379509 | High efficiency sorting apparatus Apparatus for sorting items according to size wherein the items are dropped between a pair of opposed sorting discs having facing sides with the spacing between the sides varying radially of the discs, with withdrawing elements being interposed at various... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4373638 | Sorting apparatus Apparatus for sorting ore rocks in which rocks are fed in stream past detector to measure characteristic selected as basis for sorting and into free flight trajectory from which selected individual rocks are deflected according to measure of said characte... | 02/15/1983 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4310276 | Machine for sorting objects of various destinations particularly suitable for bulky postal correspondence A machine for sorting objects of various destinations, particularly for bulky postal correspondence. A guide defines a path passing through at least one loading station and at least one sorting station. At least one succession of compartments for containi... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4273649 | Apparatus and process for weighing articles successively An article weighing machine having a turntable with fixed rakes for directing articles, i.e., fruits or vegetables, on the turntable along prescribed paths into side-by-side metering assemblies where successive articles are placed in successive pockets fo... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4239120 | Device for the bunkering and assorted feeding of small parts A device for the bunkering and sorted feeding of small parts, particularly to processing machines, by which the small parts are removed from a bunker space in the bottom area of the bunker, which bunker space is refillable from the top, and via an interme... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4221297 | Electronic fruit grading machines An electronic fruit grading machine includes an endless chain having positioning rollers or bars which rotate and on which the fruit coming from a hopper is positioned in rows. The grading machine includes an electronic apparatus capable of detecting surf... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4194634 | Method and apparatus for sorting radioactive material A method of and apparatus for sorting pieces or particles of radioactive ore where the particles are moved through the apparatus in an asynchronous or non-constant manner. The particles are moved one at a time to a position in front of a radiation detecto... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4186838 | Measurement of optical properties The colors or surface conditions of small articles are determined by passing the articles through an integrating sphere and separately illuminating the articles before they enter the sphere, during their passage through the sphere and after they leave the... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4171747 | Heads on shrimp sorter Shrimp are introduced individually onto a rotating disk inward of an adjustable gauging strip fixed above the disk's surface. Shrimp passing under the gauging strip under the influence of centrifugal force and are channeled to a first output chute. Those ... | 10/23/1979 |
| 4147619 | Electronic sorting apparatus Apparatus for sorting items, such as peeled whole potatoes, which, in the absence of abnormalities, exhibit a substantially uniform light reflectivity, includes an illumination chamber through which the items to be sorted are passed successively as a stre... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4144970 | Inspection apparatus for filled capsule A rotary capsule receiving platform is provided having a plurality of vertical hollow receiving tubes, with means for positioning each tube beneath a filled capsule supply hopper for receiving a capsule in an upright position. A plurality of retaining sle... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4119206 | Component sequence verifier To enable a high-speed machine to process (for instance interconnect and reel) only acceptable, predeterminedly ordered electronic components after appropriate test, velocity changing mechanism actuatable by a continuously operable conveyor of the machine... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4108762 | Transparent container inspection apparatus Apparatus for inspecting either empty or filled transparent containers for foreign matter in which the containers are moved through spaced apart inspection stations to present different sides thereof to high intensity pulsed light sources which casts the ... | 08/22/1978 |
