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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7303362 | Apparatus and method for moving and placing granulate material A method and system are disclosed for moving and placing in hard to reach locations granular and other particulate material such as sand, gravel, earth and similar materials. The system includes an improved auger for moving the material and an improved rotary airloc... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7267518 | Guide apparatus and method for conveyor(s) An guide apparatus and method for collecting and moving material into or away from a selected bin (30a, 30b, 30c) that resides within an array of storage bins. The guide apparatus comprises three or more trolleys (90, 91,... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267517 | Arcuate guide apparatus and method for conveyor(s) An arcuate guide apparatus and method for collecting and moving material into or away from a selected bin (30a, 30b, 30c) that resides within an array of storage bins. The arcuate guide apparatus comprises three or more trol... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7174694 | Loading objects into individual pockets of a moving web A conveyor advances a web horizontally parallel to rows of upwardly open pockets formed in the web underneath a loader having a plurality of object-filled passages each having a downwardly open mouth open immediately above a respective one of the rows of pockets. As... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7128100 | Apparatus for feeding articles to a blister band In an apparatus for feeding articles to a blister band, a box-like container, situated close to said band, is fed by a delivering device with a quantity of articles such as to allow accumulation of the articles on the surface of the band. A brush strikes and pushes ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7104035 | Blister packaging machine A blister packaging machine comprises a forming station in which a plurality of cup-shaped depressions can be formed into a bottom sheet, a filing station, in which a product can be filled into the cup-shaped depressions, and a downstream sealing station, in which a... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7074001 | Conveying system for filling multiple storage bins A conveying system for distributing material into any bin in a horizontal array of storage bins comprises a circular guide positioned over the array of bins (24), a linear guide (22) that rotates along the circular guide, and a conveyor (30) tha... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6997122 | Method and apparatus for distributing soil amendments Method and apparatus for dispensing aggregates for lawn improvement. Aggregates are delivered to the site in a primary dispensing vehicle, which is configured to allow a smaller secondary dispensing vehicle to be loaded with the aggregate directly from the primary v... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6955031 | Mushroom packing apparatus The present invention provides a mushroom packing apparatus comprising a grading conveyor and a plurality of locations distributed under a longitudinal axis of the grading conveyor, each location being provided, in use, with a container for collecting the mushrooms ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6726430 | Grain spreader A grain loading and spreading device has a tapered housing with a grain flow restrictor valve assembly that will cause a uniform discharge of grain around the perimeter of a lower discharge opening. The valve assembly has upper and lower cam elements on a downwardly... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6676357 | Arcuate bulk storage facility An arcuate structure for bulk particulate solids which has inner and outer concentric containment walls. The space between the inner and outer walls is subdivided into a plurality of storage subspaces, and covered with a continuous roof. A radial stacker ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6648575 | Device for feeding article to a blister band A device (100) for feeding articles (2) to a blister band (3) moving below and having at least one row of blisters (3a) made therein for receiving corresponding articles (2). The row of blisters is parallel to the blister band forward direction (W). The d... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6468019 | Apparatus for use with waste compactor/baler machines An apparatus that is made integral with, attached to or attachable to machines for compacting and baling materials, particularly waste materials. The apparatus generally has a hopper compartment and a conveying assembly attached to a frame. The hopper com... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6322317 | Method for forming vertical columns of tobacco in an intermediate reservoir The invention relates to a method and a device for feeding layers of tobacco to an intermediate reservoir, including feeding a continual falling, horizontal shifting stream of tobacco to the intermediate reservoir, the falling stream of tobacco being defl... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6123447 | Blending trolley for forming vertical columns of tobacco in an intermediate reservoir The invention relates to a method and a device for feeding layers of tobacco to an intermediate reservoir, including feeding a continual falling, horizontal shifting stream of tobacco to the intermediate reservoir, the falling stream of tobacco being defl... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6086475 | Method of forming a grain pile A method of forming a grain pile by pushing grain into a buried insertion point. A screw conveyor grain at ground level from a receiving point to the buried insertion point. The screw conveyor creates a pile core at the insertion point and forcibly enlarg... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5906229 | Method and device for the uniform filling of particles of a solid catalyst into a tubular reactor Method and apparatus for the uniform dense pack filling of particles of a solid catalyst (6) in a tubular reactor, of the type comprising a plurality of vertical tubes (2) opening at their upper end at the surface of a tube plate, which connects them toge... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5785483 | Bulk storage reclamation system and method The present invention is a bulk storage facility having a reclaim system for providing a continuous controlled feed of difficult to handle cohesive materials characterized by their tendency to pack together to form relatively self-sustaining walls which a... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5626455 | Ethylene oxide catalyst loading device A single tube catalyst loading device is provided which consists of a transport belt system, electric motor, and catalyst loading hopper. Using this equipment, it is possible to control the drop rate of catalyst pellets without incurring mechanical damage... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5492217 | Center drive portable auger A center drive portable auger system for transporting particulate material. The auger includes an auger tube having a feed end and a discharge end, an auger drive shaft within the auger tube, and an auger flighting mounted to the auger drive shaft for tra... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5393189 | Spreader for particulate material The present invention provides a spreader for a particulate material as it is being deposited in a storage bin. The spreader includes a rotatable body portion having downwardly diverging sidewalls terminating at a base. Elongated deflector blades extend o... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5324158 | Apparatus for filling a silo with tobacco and the like A material handling apparatus for selectively bulk filling or blend filling and concurrently discharging particulate material, such as reticulated tobacco and the like, into an open topped silo, bin, or hopper. The material handling apparatus includes a f... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5316429 | Bin loading and emptying of crops having a rounded rollable mass Rows of rectangular bins for crop storage have open tops along which an overhead shuttle carriage moves for filling the bins one at a time. An auger on the carriage removes the contents from the incoming conveyor belt for deposit in an assigned bin. An ar... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5184714 | Centrifugal thrower apparatus A centrifugal thrower apparatus, which may be used on swivelloaders, swivelpilers, box car loaders, pilers, ship trimmers and the like, capable of maintaining a substantially constant belt tension over a wide range of angles of discharge. Preferably, a ca... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5026240 | Charging device A charging device suitable for use in processing scrap comprising a charge box open at the top, a pusher, and a moveable plate supported for sliding movement from a position with the charge box open to a position to close the charge box; the charge box ha... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4990052 | Process for production of uniformly discharged particle flow In a process for the production of a uniform flow of particles to be discharged over the width of a hopper, such as cellulose or mineral fibers or glue-coated chips or mixtures for the production of boards consisting of these materials, a feeding device i... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4948322 | Process and apparatus for production of uniformly discharged particle flow In a process for the production of a uniform flow of particles to be discharged over the width of a hopper, such as cellulose or mineral fibers or glue-coated chips or mixtures for the production of boards consisting of these materials, a feeding device i... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4927312 | Chip gates with air lock Chip gates are provided adjacent the lower end of an inlet chute to a presteaming vessel for a digester in a pulp production system. The chip gates are operated to maintain a level of chips within the inlet chute sufficient such that the chips preclude eg... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4865158 | Vertical bale elevator A vertical bale elevator to transfer bales of hay, straw or the like between the ground and a barn has an elongated frame with two opposing augers mounted on opposite sides of the frame. The frame contains a guide for the blades. The augers are mirror ima... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4850750 | Integrated blending control system An integrated control system, specifically transportable on water between offshore wells, includes mixing and blending subsystems, a pumping subsystem, a proppant subsystem and a control subsystem for controlling the other subsystems in a unified manner f... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4838750 | Storage bunker A storage bunker for substantially dry and loose material such as shredded paper waste has a receptacle (10) and a conveyor (16,18) feeding material over a fixed plate (14) broken at (21) to permit the material to fall into the receptacle. The return run ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4721425 | Apparatus for conveying bulk material in silos The invention relates to an apparatus for supplying a silo with bulk material and for discharging the bulk material from the silo, using a clearing unit which can be raised and lowered in the silo, and which at the same time is mounted pivotably about the... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4717307 | Apparatus for supplying compost to mushroom growing beds Apparatus for distributing compost to the beds of a mushroom house includes a mobile, freestanding, selectively positionable distributor, which receives compost and using a conveyor mounted upon it, distributes the compost to the beds. The distributor is ... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4630382 | Discharge device for granules A discharge device for granules from vertical reactors having a plane blower plate with scraper edges has at least one discharge slot with corresponding collecting device fixedly connected to the discharge slot so as to be rotatable with the latter. A sta... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4619576 | Feed system for tobacco blending/bulking bins A feed system for feeding light-weight materials, such as tobacco, into large blending and/or bulking bins. The present invention resides primarily in a novel, light-weight feed system comprising a trolley and a shuttle conveyor adapted to reciprocatingly... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4571150 | Reciprocating floor conveyor method Generally horizontally disposed bracing trusses (44, 46) are interconnected between the bottoms of the longitudinal drive beams (70, 72, 74) and the bottoms of the associated transverse drive beams (100, 102, 104), within a reciprocating floor conveyor. T... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4547116 | Apparatus for controllably charging a furnace The position of the discharge end of a tubular member, supported from its first end so as to be rotatable about a first axis and pivotal about a second axis which intersects and is transverse to the first axis, is controlled from a remote location. The co... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4530203 | Leaf distribution means A tobacco harvester discharge system is provided for uniformally distributing tobacco leaves into a tobacco bin. A set of rolls positioned over the discharge intercepts a substantial portion of the discharged tobacco leaves and directs them radially outwa... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4525120 | Method of and apparatus for controllably charging a furnace The position of the discharge end of a tubular member, supported from its first end so as to be rotatable about a first axis and pivotal about a second axis which intersects and is transverse to the first axis, is controlled from a remote location. The co... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4512711 | Unloading of goods, such as bulk goods from a driven, suspended load-carrier A method for controlling the lateral displacement of a trolley supporting goods to be unloaded at an unloading location, the goods being releasably attached to the trolley by an elongated flexible member. The method is characterized in that the trolley, w... | 04/23/1985 |
