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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7228997 | Nailing chuck An apparatus nails a plurality of cross members to an underlying stringer to produce a pallet. The carriage moves in a continuous motion without stopping over the cross members until the cross members are nailed to the stringer. The carriage includes at least one na... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7165304 | Block attacher apparatus and method A block attacher for attaching blocks to slats as stringers for pallets includes a slat dispenser disposed to dispense individual slats to a slat driver, the slat driver being selectively positionable. A first block dispenser dispenses a block to an assembly station... | 01/23/2007 |
| 6926185 | Working station A device for executing a number of actions, such as driving in nails, on a planar section, for example a wall element, for fixing a covering panel or the like on the planar section. A carriage is displaceable longitudinally over the planar section. A number of the a... | 08/09/2005 |
| 5979733 | Wood tie end planting machine An end plating machine for a wood tie having opposite ends comprising a frame including horizontally spaced-apart first and second end frames with the frame including tie in-feed and out-feed portions. A conveyor is provided for positioning a tie between ... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5816467 | Apparatus for applying fasteners to picture frames An apparatus for final assembly of framed artwork includes a conveyor for translating a plurality of art frames past a robot arm assembly. A fastener driver module is supported by the robot arm assembly, the module including a support plate and a magazine... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5467524 | Apparatus for tagging plants An apparatus for tagging plants includes a frame attached to a stand, and jaws operably mounted on the frame for receiving a plant branch. The apparatus includes a strip advancing mechanism, a tag advancing mechanism, a fastening mechanism, and a programm... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5379513 | Automated nailing device A device for driving nails in at least one selected nailing pattern into an arrangement of components is disclosed. The device includes a frame, a retaining means for retaining an arrangement of components to be nailed in the frame, a nailing means compri... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5339517 | Plant tagging apparatus A tagging apparatus for attaching tags to plants includes a frame member, a holding/clamping member operably connected to the frame member for holding a tag, and a first jaw movably mounted on the frame member. The first jaw is adapted to close against a ... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5316200 | Automatic nailing head An automatic nailing head for an automatic nailing device is disclosed. A nailing head including a means for causing an angle between a central shank axis of the nail and a central axis of the throughbore to gradually decrease as the nail passes through a... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5058795 | Machine and method for making pallets The machine of the present invention operates to automatically nail a combination of pre-cut wood boards together to form a pallet. The machine may be adjusted so that the size of the pallet can be varied as to dimensions and number of pre-cut boards. Onc... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4949892 | Method and apparatus for making flexible sections of fence An apparatus and process for making flexible sections of fence having an endless moving belt moving the individual fence pickets therethrough, and hopper stations individually dispensing the pickets onto the moving belt for transport to a fastening statio... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4801063 | Apparatus for inserting sticks into ice cream bodies An apparatus for inserting sticks into ice cream bodies contains a magazine 2, from where the sticks 1 are discharged to a carrier 4, which is provided with pockets 6 for receiving the sticks 1. The sticks 1 are fed from the pockets 6 to mold cavities fil... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4685604 | Multi-use machine for the application of small metallic and non-metallic workpieces or items and with total interchangeability of equipment and related fittings There is provided a multi-purpose machine for the application of small metallic or non-metallic workpieces, or items which can be mounted on a proper support, or on a suitable table, or at a processing line and includes a head with a fixed tool holder and... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4489874 | Pallet manufacturing machine A pallet manufacturing machine and method for joining wooden slats (W) to elongate splines (S) includes spline clamping means (70) mounted on a frame (10). The spline clamping means (70) grip and release the elongate splines (S) so that the lateral edge p... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4478361 | Automatic nailing apparatus Apparatus for pallet fabricating operates to automatically nail together an arrangement of transversely extending slats and longitudinally extending stringers, which is continuously advancing. The automatic nailing utilizes nailing control in which a slat... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4467951 | Apparatus for nailing pickets on stringers Apparatus for securing pickets to elongated stringers employs a worktable having stringer accomodating channels into which the elongated stringers are placed. A picket hopper accomodates a stacked array of pickets transverse to said channels and stringers... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4463887 | Wood assembly stapling and bonding apparatus Three elongated strips (called a web and two legs) are assembled into an elongated channel by a machine which includes a supply table. A stack of webs on the supply table feed downward by gravity. Legs are fed inwardly under the webs by pusher arms. The w... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4394952 | Adjustable deck board feeder for automatic pallet nailing apparatus Disclosed is a deck board feeder which is adapted to be mounted over a conveyor conveying stringer boards to a nailing head of a pallet making machine. The deck board feeder includes a plurality of elongated spaced hoppers arranged in parallel and in a di... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4373651 | Method and apparatus assembling and nailing boards together A board nailing machine, herein disclosed in the form of a pallet maker, in which the stringer or inner boards are automatically fed in spaced apart relation into a nailing station and the deck boards or outer boards are automatically fed into nailing pos... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4334346 | Method and apparatus for fabricating studs, joists and the like Studs, joists, trusses and similar construction members having a pair of generally parallel chords and blocks disposed between the chords are manufactured by placing a plurality of blocks on a moving surface, with the blocks being spaced apart generally i... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4204624 | Nailing machine for use in the manufacture of wooden pallets A nailing machine for use in the manufacture of wooden pallets made from deck boards and stringers. The machine comprises a conveyor operable to convey pallet components to a nailing station at which they are nailed together. The conveyor comprises locati... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4168566 | Apparatus and method for nailing and nesting pallets A nailing machine is utilized in conjunction with particular conveying apparatus and an associated processing system to nail deck boards to stringer beams transversely thereof so as to manufacture either single or double deck wooden pallets. Conveyors are... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4093111 | Automated apparatus for joining wood plates in side-by-side relation An automated apparatus for joining a set of a plurality of wood plates in a side-by-side relation to form, for instance, a heading for a barrel, comprises a nail driving means for driving a different given number of nails in different positions into a woo... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4054236 | Machine for nailing slats on stringers A machine for nailing elongated slats transversely on elongated stringers having a nailing station; a receiving station; a reversible conveyor extended between said stations; chucks on the conveyor adapted to grasp a plurality of stringers in substantiall... | 10/18/1977 |
| 3968560 | Pallet assembling system An automatic pallet assembling system which includes a pair of conventional nailing machines for separately nailing each side of a pallet and conveying means for carrying the half-finished pallet between the nailing machines. The stringers and deck boards... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3945549 | Automatic stitch nailing apparatus A stitch nailing apparatus for automatically sequentially placing transversely extending slats in predetermined spaced relationship with one another onto a plurality of longitudinally advancing stringers and for repetitively nailing each slat to the strin... | 03/23/1976 |
