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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7690884 | Finger and disk for separating plate-shaped objects, particularly battery plates A device for separating battery plates from stacks comprises a lifting device (30) with which vertical stacks (14) are gradually lifted to a plate placer (51). The plate placer (51) lifts the uppermost plate from the stack (14) and... | 04/06/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7063319 | Printing plate stacking device and method of judging authenticity of sheet member detecting state An intermediate guide member is provided attachable and removable between a head portion and a supporting frame of a stocker for printing plates. A number of intermediate guide members is an element to set a time of starting downward movement of hooks supporting a l... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6805528 | Apparatus for replacing rejected articles, in particular blister packs, in a feeding line of a packaging machine An apparatus for replacing rejected articles, in particular blister packs, includes an additional magazine situated beside the feeding line and aimed at receiving and housing, arranged in pile, the articles, which are to be withdrawn when necessary to replace the re... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6648322 | Paper feeding device for printer A paper feeding device for a printer. The device includes a paper feeding cassette to load a plurality of paper sheets, and a driving power source. A driving gear is driven by the driving power source, and a passive gear rotates interlockingly with the dr... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6168151 | Card type dispenser assembly with bottom loading A card-like article is provided with an elevator assembly that can elevate a stacked array of cards to a discharge station. The elevator assembly can be incrementally advanced by reciprocating operating rods that extends between pairs of rails. The elevat... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6062807 | Battery plate feeder having oscillating pick-up head A plate feed apparatus has a cylindrical pick-up head having a predetermined number of pick-up units. The pick-up head rotates with a first shaft at a first rotational speed. A feed mechanism places the uppermost plate in a stack of plates a nominal dista... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6024533 | Battery plate feeding and handling apparatus A plate feeding and handling apparatus (10) that includes an improved plate feeder (32) and pick-up (36) that more effectively feed and remove plates from a stack of plates is disclosed.... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5934866 | Plate feeder apparatus A plate handling apparatus (10) including a plate feeder (12) for sequentially advancing a stack of plates (11) and a pick-up assembly (14) for successively removing the forwardmost plate from the stack is disclosed. The plate feeder (12) includes a conve... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5931635 | Device for removing flat articles from a stack The device for removing flat articles from a stack comprises at least one roller which contacts the uppermost article of a stack and is rotatable about a shaft and whose circumferential surface is covered by a layer consisting of a resilient material. The... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5857829 | Device for isolating stacked flat workpieces A device for isolating stacked flat workpieces includes a driven, web-like supporting framework which rotates in a frame. Rotating rolls are supported at equal intervals on a circle concentric to the turning axis of the framework. Each roll is provided wi... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5657618 | Device for the selection of large loose reams The selection device includes a sensor unit which checks the flatness of the free surface of a sheet pack at an edge, and which moves vertically away from and into contact with the free surface of the pack; the sensor unit extends along an axis transversa... | 08/19/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5511936 | Separation method and device Separating flat parcels from a stack of parcels is accomplished by moving a drawing element in a conveying direction so that a surface of the drawing element comes into contact with a first parcel of the stacked parcels. A stacking pressure is generating ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5433583 | Card loading device A card loading device includes an elevator, a roller, a card loading port, and two sensors for detecting the feeding of cards, exhausting the feeding of cards and the reloading of cards. The elevator raises/lowers a plurality of accumulated cards. The rol... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5387078 | Disk lift separator A method and apparatus for separating groups of sheets from a stack for a punching or binding operation. The invention uses a dual disk arrangement having a front disk and a rear disk. The arrangement is for separating a substack from a stack of pages, th... | 02/07/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5222857 | Process and apparatus for picking up a load from a stack A process for picking up a load from a stack which includes the steps of calculating a height by which a pallet carrying a stack of layers of a load thereon will have to be raised to enable the upper end of the stack to reach a set level of height for det... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5104111 | Sheet feed arrangement A sheet feed arrangement is provided in an image forming apparatus such as a printer or the like and is comprised of a sheet cassette for accommodating a plurality of sheet materials, a lifting mechanism disposed below the sheet cassette for lifting end p... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5006042 | Apparatus for feeding boards or sheets from a stack Apparatus for feeding boards in a single direction sequentially from the bottom (or top) of a stack through a feed gate, comprising three parallel rows of frictional contact conveying wheels (24) each row driven by a separate electric motor (21, 22, 23). ... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4824308 | Separating and lifting device for stacked-up flat elements A device for the separation, lifting and removal of complete flat elements includes an open structure, suited to receive in its lower central part a storage for the metal sheets and two lateral stands, each supporting at its lower end a set of rollers lea... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4758126 | Plate feed apparatus The plate feed apparatus of the present invention is comprised of a cylindrical carrier having air inlet holes located in its periphery which are connected to a vacuum source. A stack of plates is fed toward the carrier on a conveyor belt and each time on... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4740129 | Slice separating and feeding apparatus and method A device for separating slices of bread from sliced loaves of bread and for transferring the separated slices one by one to a conveyor for further processing. The device incorporates an inclined, intermittently driven infeed conveyor for conveying the sli... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4710089 | Article unstacking system An article unstacking system includes an infeed conveyor which delivers stacks of articles to an unstacker which has an inclined support wall and a carriage reciprocatively movable parallel to the support wall and carrying a platform disposed in a plane p... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4585226 | Resilient document feeding member A resilient document feeding member having a drive shaft, and a double D hub fixedly secured to the drive shaft, the double D hub having a pair of opposing flat surfaces. The resilient document feeding member also includes a second hub removably and rotat... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4575298 | Apparatus for destacking sheets of material An apparatus for unstacking or destacking sheets of material from a stack of such sheets is disclosed. The apparatus includes an arrangement for directing air against the stack of sheets in order to entirely separate at least one uppermost sheet of the st... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4526501 | Sheet pile replenishment apparatus There is provided a sheet pile replenishment apparatus in the form of a cined unstacking and restacking device for lifting a sub-pile of sheets from a supply pile of sheets, conveying and depositing the sub-pile on a pile of sheets on a feed pile plate o... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4482144 | Grasping device for stacked workpieces A grasping device for workpieces arranged in a stack which includes a support bracket pivotably attached to a spindle that is mounted for vertical movement in a block that is adapted to engage the upper workpiece in the stack. The end of the support brack... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4453874 | Article-handling apparatus An apparatus for removing articles such as boxes from pallets and for placing articles on pallets too, comprising a frame, a mainly horizontal supporting surface, a plurality of parallel supporting fingers which are longitudinally slidably supported in sa... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4242029 | Poultry coop handling system An apparatus for receiving a plurality of tiers of poultry coops containing live birds at an unloading area and automatically handling the coops to unload the birds therefrom at a location outside the hang room. A lay down unit accepts the coops one tier ... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4231566 | Sheet feed apparatus A sheet feed apparatus for use with a copying machine comprising a sheet stacking member for stacking recording sheets thereon, and a pair of sheet feed rollers for feeding the recording sheets one by one, which are arranged coaxially on a driving shaft d... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4149640 | Means for laying sod An apparatus for laying sod comprising a wheeled frame which is propelled and steered by means of an engine which drives hydraulic motors connected to the drive wheels thereof. A sod platform is pivotally mounted adjacent its forward end to the wheeled fr... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4119219 | Batch feeder The edges of the upper portion of a stack of sheets are driven horizontally into the high friction periphery of a rotating roll which raises the edge portions from the stack in succession. The rotating roll is then pivoted about an external axis until it ... | 10/10/1978 |
