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| 7331750 | Parallel robot A parallel robot or parallel kinematics mechanism is provided for uses such as robotics or machining. The mechanism comprises a fixed base, a main arm, and a first and second support arm to position and orient an object in a cylindrical space with at least three deg... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7021492 | Pill and capsule counter and dispenser A device for rapidly counting and dispensing pills and capsules in blister packs or cards is provided. A movable plate with apertures, a sizing guide and a template fit inside a housing. The sizing guide has apertures corresponding to a particular size of pill or ca... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6821079 | Pill and capsule counter A device for rapidly counting and dispensing pills and capsules is provided. A movable plate with apertures and sizing guide fit inside a housing. The sizing guide has apertures corresponding to a particular size of pill or capsule, allowing the desired number of pi... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6749194 | Drop pocket stack height and object count monitoring system and method A mail handling system that imports data from a thickness measurement device regarding the thickness of a substantially flat mail article, counts the number of flat articles deposited on the top surface of the drop pocket, instructs the drop pocket to open to drop a... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6695571 | Vertical magazine method for integrated circuit device dispensing, receiving, storing, testing or binning A method for dispensing, receiving, storing, testing or binning packaged integrated circuit devices using at least one vertically oriented, removable, tubular magazine disposed above a controllably driven, rod-like indexing element extending from a drive ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6168370 | Vacuum module for tortilla counter-stacker A counter-stacker (10) for tortillas includes a housing (12), a perforated belt (16) within the housing (12), the perforated belt (16) adapted and arranged to receive incoming tortillas (42) and form vacuum-lifted tortillas (42A). At least one stacker bel... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6146086 | Magnetic fanning accumulator An apparatus for accumulating and separating laminations including a lamination storage area; a magnetic fanner arrangement for accumulating and magnetically separating the laminations; a transport mechanism; and a mechanical agitation mechanism. The tran... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6053695 | Tortilla counter-stacker A tortilla counter-stacker (10) having a canister (12) which has a canister side (12C) having a horizontal canister side slot (12CA) disposed therein. A stacker (16) is positioned adjacent to the canister (12). The stacker (16) has a stacker cylinder (16A... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5913656 | Method and apparatus for merging shingled signature streams Two shingled streams of signatures are stacked independently of each other in separate stacking bins that are aligned vertically one above the other and also vertically aligned with the collection bin of a re-feeder. The collection bin is replenished peri... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5534690 | Methods and apparatus for counting thin stacked objects An improved method and apparatus for rapidly, accurately and inexpensively counting stacked objects, preferably by imaging, from below, a stack of flat objects which is standing on its side, preferably on its long side. The objects need not be identical i... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5444749 | Apparatus for collecting an article An article collecting device comprising: feed unit 5 for feeding a set of articles smaller in quantity than a target quantity for collection; a recirculating conveyer 2 for conveying a set of articles fed by the feed unit 5; an operation unit 14 for combi... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5337881 | Overhead work suspension conveyor This invention relates to an overhead work suspension conveyor for conveying a piece of work, for example, a tailgate to a main body in an assembly line of a vehicle main body. An object of this invention is to efficiently and surely hold plural kinds of ... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5163073 | Can end counting system A can end counting system which receives a stick of converted can ends, separates and counts the can ends, restacks and conveys a pre-determined number of can ends comprising an output stick to an end line packaging station. At least two counter-rotating ... | 11/10/1992 |
| 4941650 | Vacuum counter for stacked signatures An apparatus for forming an indicium in a stream of moving signatures, consisting of a signature displaced laterally from the stream and corresponding to a predetermined count of signatures, comprises an idler roller mechanism connected with a rotatable i... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4838747 | Device for transporting and forming batches of flat pieces with decreasing thickness The present invention is directed to a device for transporting and forming batches of flat pieces with decreasing thickness. The device has a piling unit having a rotatably mounted double storage device for receiving two batches of flat pieces, one after ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4834606 | Apparatus for stacking formed articles An improved stacking apparatus which is particularly well suited for receiving formed polymeric articles from appropriate forming apparatus and arranging these formed articles in stacked nested relationship with each stack containing a predetermined numbe... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4785731 | Bundle count verifier An apparatus and method according to the invention for determining respective deviations in the total number of signatures in each of a plurality of individual successive stacks from a given number of signatures having a ram for compressing the stacks of ... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4746004 | Device for forming separate batches of flat elements running in a flow A device for forming separate batches of flat objects, such as folded box blanks, from a flow of blanks received from a delivery station of a processing machines, such as a folder-gluer, includes a belt conveyor, a counting device, and a movable stop whic... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4714394 | Method and appartus for depositing a proper number of flexible work pieces in a proper position A proper number of flexible work pieces such as napkins, handkerchiefs and he like are deposited in a proper position or positions for providing packages each of which contains a freely selectable number of pieces. For this purpose the work pieces travel t... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4652197 | Sheet counter and stacker system A system for counting and stacking a continuous stream of shingled or overlapping sheets in which the shingled sheets are transported by a first conveyor and fed into an optical counting means for individually counting the sheets. From the optical countin... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4602776 | Insertion apparatus for use with copier/sorter system An apparatus and method in conjunction with a copier and/or a collator is disclosed for providing on-line and off-line insertion of sheet material or collation, respectively. The apparatus includes a single supply tray and sheet feeder therefor. The suppl... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4601394 | Zip code sorter for article labeling system A zip code sorter for an article labeling and stacking system of the type having a labeling head for applying address labels to articles and a stacker for stacking the addressed articles, the labels having control marks identifying the end of a zip code g... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4570061 | Follower finger sheet separating apparatus A sheet stacking duplex tray includes a movable finger which separates a first group of sheets under the finger from a second group of sheets above the finger. Sheets which have been copied on only one side are fed to a copy station from the bottom of the... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4530632 | Stacking apparatus for flexible, generally planar food products An apparatus for counting and stacking food products such as tortillas. The tortillas are initially placed on an entry chute containing a large number of air outlets for creating a cushion of air to allow the tortilla to slide down the entry chute onto an... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4518300 | Take-away technique for sliced bulk products Take-away apparatus and method for stacks of sliced bulk product in which the stack rests on a movable conveyor, which is set in rapid motion before a slower-moving pusher engages the trailing edge of the stack.... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4514128 | Signature stacker including improved intercept means A signature stacker providing improved structure for intercepting a stream of signatures of newspapers from a infeed conveyor of a press apparatus and having improved apparatus for controlling timed operation of the various elements of the stacker so as t... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4474093 | Apparatus for accumulating stacks of paper sheets or the like Stacks of superimposed paper sheets are formed from a succession of layers each of which contains a given number of groups of sheets. One or more layers which contain a first number of groups can be followed by one or more layers containing a different se... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4463944 | Laundry stacking apparatus A laundry piece stacking device which stacks a predetermined number of laundry pieces uniformly and evenly in a stack. Laundry pieces of a predetermined size are conveyed from an ironing area along a double feed conveyor to a swing arm conveyor. The swing... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4417351 | Stacked article counting apparatus Apparatus for counting a number of sheet-like articles such as corrugated sheets of paper is disclosed as comprising a platen mounted to be driven rectilinearly from a topmost position to engage the top of the stack, a motor for reversibly driving the pla... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4365797 | Speed compensated timing circuit for actuating a sheeter machine A speed compensated timing circuit which detects the velocity of a moving sheet which is to be cut or otherwise processed and which automatically calculates the time delay for actuating a mechanically operating device which controls the cut sheets and whi... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4311475 | Counter ejector A device for counting and delivering sheets which accumulates a plurality of paste-applied and folded cardboard sheets, delivered by a paste-applying and folding machine, in a hopper for delivery to a next step in batches of a prescribed number of sheets.... | 01/19/1982 |
| 4297066 | Paper sheet layer forming and transferring arrangement An arrangement for forming successive layers of sheets of paper and the like from a stream of individual sheets supplied in succession to a collecting station by a supply conveyor, and for transferring the formed layers to a continuously advancing dischar... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4295643 | Apparatus and method for handling jackets of printed matter An inserting machine is provided with mechanisms which allow it to operate in conjunction with a rotary printing press. In a preferred embodiment, the inserting machine is driven synchronously by the press and is fed newspaper jackets directly from the pr... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4203695 | Automatic bale wagon control system This invention relates generally to automatic bale wagons of the type adapted to pick up crop material bales in the field and automatically form stacks of these bales utilizing a variety of selected tier configurations for forming a stable, interlocked st... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4193725 | Stacking device for rod-like or board-shaped goods A stacking arrangement for rod-like or board-shaped products, in which stacking carts travel vertically on upright stands. There are provided horizontally traveling support arms and parallel-guided revolving engaging members which have fixed stops and whi... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4189133 | Document stacking table lowering method, apparatus and controlling circuitry therefor A document stacking table is lowered in steps under electronic control as the documents accumulate. A predetermined number of documents are stacked, after which the table is lowered by a predetermined amount. An optical sensing arrangement is used to dete... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4072237 | Tier counter means responsive to tier pattern storage cam position Tier pattern selection on the disclosed bale wagon involves periodic rotation of a memory element in the form of a cam plate relative to a cam follower which is connected to means on the bale wagon which will cause the tier pattern selected to be formed. ... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4069925 | Apparatus for stacking hanging plates Apparatus for forming a stack of plates from a series of plates which respectively hang from rods conveyed by a rod-conveyer along a predetermined path. A toothed conveyer receives the rods one after the other from the rod-conveyer and conveys the rods al... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4047472 | Apparatus for optically marking predetermined positions in a stack of documents The apparatus includes a table on which the documents, received from a conveyor, are stacked on edge. The table is formed with one or more elongated slots extending perpendicularly to the stack of documents, and a rotating disc is mounted beneath each slo... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4034846 | Method and apparatus for providing automatic stacking of manufactured parts A method and apparatus for conveying parts from a production machinery includes a first normally energized conveyor which conveys the parts from the production machinery to a first location, and discharges the parts into a parts stacking hopper at the fir... | 07/12/1977 |
