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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8083462 | Apparatus for placing battery plates in a line This invention relates to apparatus for placing battery plates in a line. This includes a pick up and release unit generally indicated at 16. The unit includes a central metal hollow body 17, which is divided into a number of side-by-side vacuum chambe... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7682125 | Device for receiving and for transporting an article Device for receiving and for transporting an article, which device has receiving means which can be slid under the article by a sliding unit, characterized in that the receiving means are formed by rollers (10) which are arranged transversely to the direction... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7648328 | Device for receiving and for transporting an article Device for receiving and for transporting an article, which device has receiving means which are slid under the article by a sliding means, the receiving means being formed by a belt which revolves around deflections means, the deflection means being formed by tensi... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7287952 | Feeder load automation system and method of use A feeder load automation system and method of use including a lifting device capable of lifting a pallet of bundled product from a lowered positioned to a raised position and a platform positioned on the lifting device which holds the pallet of bundled product. A he... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7198264 | Sheet supplying device In a sheet supplying device for feeding a sheet from a sheet stack configured by stacking plural sets of sheets collated by page order, each of which corresponds to one volume, for each set of sheets, in a state where the sheets are superimposed on one another so as... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7108258 | Apparatus for feeding flat items The invention relates to a device for the delivery of flat objects to a friction/suction picking device with a suction head, the objects standing in a stack on a thin edge thereof on a support surface arranged on a stop surface and transported in the direction of th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7104747 | Load change safety system A load change safety system in which a sheet stacker having a stacking deck formed with a discharge end discharges sheet material onto and builds a sheet stack on a conveying sheet stack removal system formed with a receiving means. A variable pinch point gap is for... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7033130 | Depalletizer for a material handling system A depalletizer includes an input assembly for supporting a loaded pallet loaded with at least one product, a lift assembly, and a product take-away assembly. The input assembly presents the loaded pallet to the lift assembly, which moves the loaded pallet to a produ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6880462 | Apparatus and method for peeling a printing plate from a stack of plates An apparatus and method for supporting and feeding printing plates in an imaging system. The apparatus includes a vacuum system for picking up an edge of a top printing plate from a stack of printing plates, and a peeling system including a pair of rotatable belts, ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 5913655 | Automatic depalletizing system and method An automatic system for depalletizing or destacking items, containers or crates. The automatic depalletizing system includes an electronically controlled, automated, lift conveyor having a specialized pick mechanism at its free end, and having a self-cont... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5803702 | Vision inspection system for double stacked packs An apparatus and process for the inspection, conveying, and optionally temporary storage of uniform packaged goods is described. The apparatus includes a singulating device which takes dual stacked goods and reduces the dual stack to a single line of good... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5683222 | Method for taking up articles Method and device for taking up articles. The apparatus or device comprises a vehicle running on tracks and mounted to the vehicle are a tilting member, a receiving table and an intermediate storage portion, with the tilting member tilting an article to b... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5611658 | Method and apparatus for destacking sheet metal members A device for separating flat objects such as sheet metal blanks has a pair of separator devices which apply a force to the edges of the objects at an angle to a normal of the plane of the objects. In one embodiment, the separator devices are screws which ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5391051 | Unstacker for unstacking flat items, the unstacker including realignment apparatus An unstacking apparatus including a first suction nozzle (7) and a second suction nozzle (8) that are disposed on one side of an alignment plate (3), a perforated endless belt (6) continuously advancing past the suction nozzles and the free face of the fi... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5352085 | Sheet transfer method and system thereof A sheet transfer method for carrying a predetermined number of sheets from a destacking position to a restacking position by a vertically and horizontally movable transfer unit incorporating an entry-conveyor, a mid-conveyor, and an exit-conveyor. In this... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5336041 | Storage and retrieval device and method for imbricated planar articles A device for stacking and destacking a stream of imbricated, substantially planar, flexible units to form or destack a layered stack. The device is a stacker, adapted to receive a stream of units from a source thereof, and a plurality of transfer sheets. ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5310307 | Depalletizing device and method A device and method are disclosed for moving articles, such as cans, by groups, or tiers, from a pallet to an adjoining surface, such as a belt conveyor. A pair of sweep arms of a sweep unit move about a closed loop path to alternately engage the trailing... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5242262 | Process and machine for making batches of sheets from a top of a pile A machine for creating a batch of blanks out of a pile of blanks and for removing the batch of blanks from the pile consists of a fixed stop positioned along one surface of the blanks, a jogging device disposed opposite the fixed stop, a movable stop posi... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5238350 | Method of and an apparatus for taking up and setting down, respectively, of package-like articles A horizontally displaceable receiving table for picking up and setting down package-like articles includes a displaceable transporting device, with roller-like pick-up members at its end relative to the direction of travel. The receiving table is displace... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5232213 | Vacuum belt sheet feeder device In a sheet feeder device of the vacuum belt type, the vacuum belt moves in a pivotal manner between a generally horizontal sheet acquiring position, in which the lower face of the belt confronts the top surface of the top sheet, lying generally flat atop ... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5000656 | Method and apparatus for storing stacks of articles and subsequently unstacking the articles and feeding the articles to working equipment An apparatus for stacking and storing articles and subsequently unstacking the articles. The apparatus includes a first conveyor to convey a plurality of articles, and a plurality of secondary conveyors are disposed normal to a side edge of the first conv... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4955784 | Apparatus for unstacking cross-nested articles An apparatus for unstacking cross-nested articles includes an elevator which raises the stack as articles are removed two-at-a-time from the top thereof by a continuous-chain transfer conveyor. The transfer conveyor carries the removed articles to a disch... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4919589 | Apparatus for supplying a stack of carton blanks form a pallet to the magazine of a carton-packing machine An apparatus for supplying a stack of carton blanks from a pallet to the magazine of a carton-packing machine in which the carton blanks are arranged vertically adjacent to each other, in particular for the tobacco industry, comprises an unloading carriag... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4640655 | Continuous feeding apparatus Apparatus for continuously feeding objects from the top of tiered loads includes in a preferred embodiment a hoist pivotable at its base to receive a first tiered load and then hoist the load upwardly along an angular load path. Extendable skids are mount... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4439091 | Pipe feeding system A pipe feeder for automatically moving pipe off of or onto the top row of a stack of pipe. A pair of stanchions are provided with a system for supporting a plurality of rows of pipe next to the stanchions such that the length of pipe is generally parallel... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4427330 | Automatic fence picket stock conveyor for fence picket pointing machine An upright fence picket workpiece bundle receiving frame is disposed in lateral parallel relation with respect to an upright elongated fence picket pointing machine and connected thereto by a horizontal frame extending between the upper limits of the bund... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4109802 | Depalletizing apparatus The invention relates to depalletizing apparatus of the kind which comprises a transfer head which is reciprocable in a vertical path and includes a transfer table to receive layers of articles one at a time from the top of a pile of layers which are supe... | 08/29/1978 |
| 3999666 | Vibratory feed initiating device for a machine for feeding articles shingle-fashion A machine for feeding flat articles from an end of a stack. The stack of articles is advanced to bring an end article in the stack to a pick-off station where a belt engages the end article and articles adjacent the end article to feed the articles shingl... | 12/28/1976 |
