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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7220094 | Transfer device for cylindrical stacks of products arranged on an edge A transfer device for transferring stacks (4, 4a, 4b, 5, 5a, 5b), which have a cylindrical external shape, of products resting on one of their edges between a conveyor (1) set upstream for advance of the... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7207429 | Feeding device of chocolates and similar products A feeding device of chocolates and similar products for a wrapping machine includes: a first belt means which has a continuous advance motion, supports and moves a plurality of products, aligned and arranged in a single line at mutual contact; a second belt means al... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7182331 | Input unit of a letter sorting system and method for loading the input unit The present invention relates to an input unit of a letter sorting system which comprises separable first and second conveyor lines. The first line is positioned proximate to an isolating device which processes letters. The first line comprises a conveyor surface an... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7168910 | Device for transporting a horizontal stack positioned on a support and formed in a gathering machine with upright, lined-up signatures A device is used for transporting a horizontal stack from a stack support to an intermediate deposit, where the stack is formed in a gathering device with upright, lined-up signatures. The device is comprised of a horizontally and vertically displaceable clamp arran... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7066317 | Conveyance unit and boxing unit having the same A placing apparatus having first and second rear end holding members is provided between a loading apparatus that loads items in an upright position and a conveyance apparatus downstream. These rear end holding members move making a box motion when seen from the sid... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7059557 | Rotating station for wound laps A method and apparatus are provided for changing the unwinding direction of wound laps supplied by a delivery station in order to form a group of wound laps in which the face sides of adjacent wound laps are provided with the same distance and the longitudinal axes ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7029225 | Stacking tray for flat mail items The present invention relates to a receiving area or stacking tray for items. The stacking tray may be flat and the items mail items. The mail items may also be flat. The flat mail items are accommodated in an upright position. The receiving area has a stacking base... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6997454 | Paddle and paddle support in on-edge mail stackers An on-edge stacker having a deck surface to support a vertical mail stack, which is allowed to expand from the upstream end to the downstream end. A paddle, movably mounted on a linear support member, is used to support the downstream end of the mail stack. The line... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6971839 | Machine and method for grouping products in stacks having a pre-set length A machine and a method for carrying out portioning of products in stacks having a pre-set length. One or more portioning stations are provided, in which there are present at least two elements for supporting the stack, the supporting elements being mobile in transla... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6953113 | Conveyance unit and boxing unit having the same A placing apparatus having first and second rear end holding members is provided between a loading apparatus that loads items in an upright position and a conveyance apparatus downstream. These rear end holding members move making a box motion when seen from the sid... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6907980 | Conveyance unit and boxing unit having the same A placing apparatus having first and second rear end holding members is provided between a loading apparatus that loads items in an upright position and a conveyance apparatus downstream. These rear end holding members move making a box motion when seen from the sid... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6808361 | Apparatus and method for stacking food portions An apparatus for the counting and stacking of food portions in preparation for packaging, and without human intervention, including a conveyor for receiving and moving food portions therealong to form rows of food portions, at least one counter, and a stacking rake ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6755606 | Jogging apparatus An improved jogger includes a sidewall with a guide groove, a chain defining a closed path including a sloped loading end and a straight transport section, the sloped loading end being angled toward the transport section in the direction of the travel of the chain a... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6419442 | Mechanism and method for forming a stack of articles A method and apparatus for stacking articles in a side-by-side stack and feeding the stacks to a discharge conveyor. Articles such as video cassette containers or CD containers, are conveyed in an upright singulated fashion by a guide arrangement. Each in... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6339910 | Device for the insertion of products into a packaging container A device for insertion of products into a packaging container in a packaging machine comprises an insertion plunger which is guided along a certain path parallel to the product and a cover element which can be pre-positioned above the product by a first d... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6322316 | Patty loader and method An apparatus and method for stacking and loading disc-like objects into receptacles is provided. The apparatus includes a lane combining conveyor which receives multiple lanes of product and combines one or more of the outer lanes into the remaining lanes... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6302638 | Combined pushing mechanism and dead plate for stacker accumulation tray A retractable arm serves as a combined pushing mechanism and dead plate for holding and moving articles that have been stacked onto an accumulation tray for a stacking station in an article sortation conveying system. The stacking station stacks articles ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6296437 | Discharge stacking station for sortation conveying system A discharge stacking station for a sortation conveying system uses a reciprocating stacking member to stack orders of articles onto an accumulation tray for the station in an aligned series. Articles are provided in singular fashion from a core conveyor f... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6290453 | Unit for feeding flat diecut blanks of wrapping material to a user machine A unit for feeding flat diecut blanks of wrapping material to a user machine is equipped with a conveyor by which blanks disposed on edge transversely to a given feed direction and ordered in a substantially continuous column are caused to advance along a... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6254332 | Nut feeder for feeding nuts for resistance welding The present invention discloses a nut feeder for the feeding of nuts for resistance welding. A stopper 12 is provided which is so energized as to enter into the inside of a chute 7 from a lower-end lateral side of the chute 7. A lowermost nut 5 in the chu... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6217276 | Device for nesting taco shells The invention relates to a device for nesting taco shells, comprising: a stop for positioning a first taco shell, a pusher for urging taco shells toward the stop, pusher drive means for moving the pusher reciprocally relative to the stop, and control mean... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6161830 | Method and apparatus for stacking mixed mail A mixed mail stacking method and apparatus using a nip to ingest incoming mailpieces, a set of rollers to move the ingested mailpieces toward a registration wall, and a sensor upstream from the nip to detect the mailpieces. When the sensor detects the tra... | 12/19/2000 |
| 5897292 | Apparatus and method for forming arrays of articles for packaging A method of forming arrays of articles comprising providing a stacker having a plurality of compartments for receiving the articles, the stacker traveling along a closed loop path; transporting a plurality of the articles along a first path towards the st... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5893701 | Method and apparatus for forming groups of work products A method and apparatus for forming groups of work products from a row of closely spaced, aligned, and a vertical edge standing work products is disclosed. A separator knife (37) is inserted into the row of edge standing work products (25) in timed relatio... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5873693 | Packaging apparatus for article goods fed in stacks An apparatus for packaging article goods fed in a stack comprises a feeding table for introducing the goods with the individual articles in an upright position in the form of a continuous stack, the table defining a feeding path for the stack, an aftertre... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5709525 | Envelope stacker In an envelope stacker, a pusher mechanism continuously applies a force to the envelope flap for sealing the envelope. The stacker is comprised of a horizontal deck, a rear wall, and a plate for supporting a stack of envelopes. Upon receiving an envelope,... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5674049 | Roll handling apparatus A roll handling apparatus, including a roll handling cart, a C-hook assembly and a tiltable upender assembly is disclosed. The roll handling cart receives a plurality of spaced rolls, for example, paper rolls. A guide moves the cart bed along a path. A fi... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5669482 | Trailing end air hold-up assembly An article hold-up assembly for use with an article handling apparatus to maintain at least one article defining a trailing end of a group of articles in an abutting orientation with a group as the group is moved by a conveyor along an elongated lane. The... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5595280 | Method and device for forming groups of flat articles on edge A method and device for forming groups of flat articles on edge, whereby articles, laid flat, arranged with a first spacing on a conveyor surface, and forming a first succession traveling in a first direction, are picked up one by one to form a second suc... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5551834 | Pressure roller mechanism for stacking apparatus In an envelope stacker, a normal force roller mechanism drives a mail piece vertically then retracts without adding significant torque to the stacker. The normal force roller mechanism is comprised of a frame and a bracket pivotally mounted to the frame, ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5474168 | Stacking apparatus and method that reorients product units along a generally helical line while being conveyed from a loading station to an unloading station A method and apparatus for stacking and conveying product units. The product units are conveyed on a conveyor from a loading station to an unloading station. The conveyor has a number of paddles extending therefrom where adjacent paddles define receptacle... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5395207 | Article handling device An article handling device for handling identical articles having one end that is thicker than the other end entering the device along a supply path containing a plurality of identically aligned articles wherein the leading end of each article is of the s... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5358232 | Method and device for producing defined stacks of folded or unfolded sheets The method and the device serves for the production of defined stacks of folded or unfolded sheets. The individually supplied sheets are placed on edge onto a horizontal table whereby the separation of the individual stacks is achieved by a separating sup... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5176244 | High speed variable count mechanical stacker A pair of closed loop chains running in parallelism have uniformly spaced apart paddles on them for transporting an article such as a pad between each paddle to a pad ejection station. A shaft orbits about an axis which is parallel to the direction in whi... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5131645 | Sweeper assembly for document conveyor system A sweeper assembly for use in a document conveyor system having belt conveyor means operative to convey generally flat documents in upstanding on-edge relation to a stacker station. The sweeper assembly includes feed augers adapted to receive the lower ed... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5002457 | 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... | 03/26/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4993916 | High speed stacking apparatus A high speed apparatus for stacking articles in a side by side relation and transfering the stack to a conveyor. Each article is fed onto a pair of spaced support members and against a movable backstop to form a stack of side by side articles. When a stac... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4951803 | 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... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4951934 | Device for stacking sheet-like articles such as letters The invention relates to a device for stacking flat articles, such as postal items. First guide (9), which form part of a stacker head (7) and which bound a stack of articles (2) already stacked in a stacker bed (1) in a plane of stacking (D), carry out a... | 08/28/1990 |
