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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7341416 | Machine and method to feed filled bags, open the bags, empty the bags, and dispose of the empty bags A filled plastic bag may contain insulation. The bags are stacked in a loader. A pair of reciprocating arms rotate a bottom-most bag causing that bag to fall through an opening of a base. A conveyor receives the bag and moves it through a transverse knife and a long... | 03/11/2008 |
| 6505483 | Glass transportation system A pressure pad array is used to float glass sheets from a glass heating furnace to a ring mold in a press bending station. The pressure pads have transversely spaced, longitudinally-extending slotted nozzles angled towards one another to provide a static ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6296423 | Article handling apparatus An apparatus for batching articles from a continuous stream of articles has a conduit comprising an entry duct (2) in which the articles are accelerated by suction. The suction air is drawn from the exit end of the duct, close to a pair of counter-rotatin... | 10/02/2001 |
| 5913642 | Feed chute for fiber tufts A flap is disposed across the opening between an expansion chamber and an exhaust air duct to control the delivery of fiber tuft-laden air into a feed chute or chamber. The flap has two wings which pivot about a common pivot axis whereby as one wing incre... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5769573 | Apparatus for controlling air flow in an air duct A throttle valve is provided within a discharge air duct located adjacent a fiber duct receiving a fiber laden air stream. The throttle valve cooperates with a stop in a lowered position to form a gap to allow a minimal air flow therethrough. In addition,... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5564630 | Acceleration arrangement for airlay textile web formers This invention relates to an improved air acceleration nozzle for use in airlay web formers which reduce the creation of large scale vortices and turbulence. The nozzle accelerates the air by reducing the cross sectional area of the conduit. The size of t... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5442836 | Apparatus for making a nonwoven web by sucking fibers from a carding drum onto a moving fiber collecting surface An apparatus for making a nonwoven web comprises a carding drum and a continuously movable, air-permeable collecting surface member, which is arranged to collect the fibers which have been discharged from the carding drum and are entrained by an entrainin... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5197162 | Apparatus having partial exhaust conduit fiber compacting air flow In a device for feeding flocculent fiber material to processing machines, comprising an upper filling chute (1) arranged in a housing, at the lower end of which a feeding roller (8) is arranged cooperating with a beater or opening roller (9) from which a ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5156499 | Roller injection air lock An air lock for injecting a fibrous or granular material, such as insulation, into an airstream. The air lock has two counter-rotating, generally cylindrical rollers in facing contact with each other along their edges, made of a resilient material such as... | 10/20/1992 |
| 4968188 | Apparatus and method for uniformly supplying fiber flock in a chute feed Apparatus and method for supplying fiber in a chute feed (10) are disclosed including a pivotal air control deflection vane (B) pivoted at an entrance (46) of a reserve section (12). The inclination of the vane (B) may be adjusted, depending on airflow co... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4915547 | Article transport system A transport system particularly for flat articles, e.g. cards, includes guides which allow alternate articles to be conveyed in different orientations through the same duct (122) so that the risk of jamming or shingling during conveyance is eliminated. In... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4878784 | Feed chute arrangement for textile machines, such as carding machines A feed chute arrangement for textile machines, such as carding machines includes a feed chute having a plurality of walls one of which is gas-permeable to let gaseous medium to escape from the interior of the feed chute into a neighboring gas output chamb... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4740113 | Receiving/delivering apparatus for rod-shaped objects transported by an air flow A receiving/delivering apparatus for rod-shaped objects, according to the present invention, comprises a transport trough having a guide groove for guiding the objects by transported by an air current, a driving pulley located over the groove, first and s... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4705220 | Granular applicator with interchangeable metering wheels An improved, more versatile applicator (10) for precisely dispensing granular chemicals, fertilizers or seed, includes a hopper (14) with a metering assembly (40) mounted over a material discharge opening (34) in an inclined wall of the closed, convergent... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4661025 | Apparatus for forming a fiber column in a chute feed Apparatus and method for forming a uniform fiber column in a chute feed (A) which includes an entrance opening (34) in a reserve section (30) of the chute at which an inclined air deflection vane (42) is pivoted for deflecting the incoming fiber-laden air... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4657444 | Synchronized chute feed control system and method A control system for a textile chute feed is disclosed which includes first and second fiber quantity signals generators (A, B) which generate first and second fiber quantity signals (52, 54) proportional to sensed fiber volumes in chute (16). A fiber del... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4653963 | Transport apparatus for flat articles In a transport apparatus, a plurality of flat bodies are respectively aligned uprightly and juxtaposed laterally to form a block of the flat bodies, the block is loaded in a movable capsule, and the capsule is transported under the application of air flow... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4618293 | Method and apparatus for pneumatically transporting rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry The pneumatic conveyor pipe which connects an article discharging station with an article receiving station in a production line for rod-shaped smokers' products passes through the sealed housing of an article influencing unit which contains friction whee... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4551040 | Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped articles between the discharge ends of pneumatic conveyor pipes and a processing machine The outlets of pneumatic pipes in a transporting unit which delivers filter rod sections from a filter rod making machine and wherein the sections move axially admit successive sections into a separating unit wherein the speed of sections is uniformized a... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4504182 | Procedure for controlling the density distribution of wood chips and device therefor A chip material container arrangement is provided for storage of material to be spread in the production of particle and/or fiber boards. The container arrangement is equipped with several discharge rollers arranged one above the other, a base belt and fe... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4476611 | Fiber feeding apparatus with fiber leveling means A chute feed having an opening roller and a vertical chute therebeneath for receiving and collecting fibers, the chute having one generally vertical side wall formed with an area of perforations extending above and below the normal level of fibers collect... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4474511 | Continuous tobacco feed Air is conveyed pneumatically to and through a tobacco feed chute by continuously extracting air from a region in the feed chute and continuously applying air upstream of that region in the direction of movement of the tobacco. The feed chute may include ... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4453866 | Feeding granular material into a gas stream Apparatus for feeding granular material into a gas stream, for example seed or fertilizer into multiple airstreams of an agricultural vehicle, includes a receptacle for granular material, a duct for a gas stream, and a pair of resiliently compressible sur... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4394790 | Fiber feeding apparatus with controlled air flow A chute feed having a chute formed in part by an upper perforated wall portion and a lower oscillating wall portion. Two compartments are formed adjacent the chute and are separated therefrom by the upper and lower wall portions, and a divider wall is dis... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4377172 | Apparatus for transporting filter rod sections or the like Apparatus which transports filter rod sections from a maker to a processing machine has a pneumatic sender which admits a file of sections into the inlet of a pneumatic conveyor whose outlet delivers sections to a receiver wherein the file of sections is ... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4372710 | Apparatus for manipulating filter rod sections or the like between producing and processing machines A receiving station at the outlets of several pneumatic conveyor pipes which discharge discrete files of axially moving filter plugs accommodates a separating unit immediately downstream of the outlets and an orientation changing unit immediately downstre... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4321877 | Gasification furnace A continuous gasification furnace and method of operation. The charge is fed into the furnace chamber between two rolls at least one of which is driven. The furnace chamber can be sealed from the ambient atmosphere. The bed of the furnace contains three z... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4280251 | Feed chimney for a textile machine supplied with textile fiber tufts A uniform web of fiber tufts is delivered to a textile fiber processing machine such as a carding machine by a feed chimney provided with a perforated wall. The fiber tufts are impelled into the upper portion of the chimney by means of a fan, a uniform we... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4219289 | Arrangement for loading a card An arrangement for supplying a card by means of a feed chute to which the fiber material is supplied from above and from which it is removed below for delivery to the card. The feed chute for compressing fiber material has at its lower end air exit openin... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4159824 | Method for reversing the direction of travel of a sheet A method for changing the direction of travel of a sheet includes the steps of providing a pocket, guiding a sheet traveling in a first direction into the pocket, and providing a fluid stream in the pocket to bias the sheet in a substantially opposite dir... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4154370 | Device for powder metering A powder metering device for distributing powder which is stored in a hopper, the powder then being delivered by the device to distributing nozzles. The metering device comprises a roller defining an engraved periphery which receives powder from the hoppe... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4154485 | Web-former A system and apparatus for forming webs from textile fibers entrained in an air stream in a conduit with a perforated plate dividing the interior of a housing into first and second chambers so that the entrained fibers fall to the bottom of the first cham... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4136911 | Apparatus for feeding a card with fiber material An apparatus for feeding a carding machine with fiber material having a shaft which is fed by a preceding feed shaft. The fiber material is conveyed into the feed shaft by means of a stream of air flowing through a conveying conduit. An air circulating pa... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4129411 | Fluid distributor The invention comprises a fluid distributor which, in a preferred embodiment, comprises an array of parallel rollers rotatably mounted at their ends. All, or alternate, rollers have a number of peripheral grooves or slots which define, with adjacent rolle... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4090645 | Powder metering system A system for distributing powder which is stored in a hopper and delivered from the hopper to distributing nozzles. A metering construction is interposed between the hopper and the distributing nozzles, this construction comprising a roller which receives... | 05/23/1978 |
| 4026437 | Seed drill An apparatus for metering and transporting particulate material, particularly seeds, in which suction is continuously applied to holes in a surface of a drum to enable the particles to be picked up by the drum, an air pressure device being provided to pro... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4014256 | Can crusher delivery mechanism A can crusher having a pair of horizontally aligned wheels that are in contact in rotational movement, and that receive and crush cans passing therebetween, and which wheels discharge the cans at a high velocity that causes the cans to pass into a horizon... | 03/29/1977 |
| 3989309 | Apparatus for the distribution of loose fibrous material Loose fibrous material, e.g. cut tobacco, is distributed via a horizontal rotor drum in a housing; the drum having external rakes for picking up tobacco deposited on an ascending portion of the drum and presenting it to suction-operated, draw-off pipes in... | 11/02/1976 |
