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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8033082 | Packaging machine A packaging machine includes a grouper section having changeable lane sizes and a dual servo grouper that separates product into product sets and allow the product sets to accelerate to the lane chain speed in a controlled manner. The grouper section further include... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7971413 | Process and automatic system for orderly packaging of plastic preforms in carton boxes An automatic system for orderly packaging of plastic preforms in carton boxes includes a manipulator unit (6) having a vacuum gripping head (23) and one or more units (10) for handling and inserting separators (12) in the carton box (1... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7971414 | Multi-dose filling machine An apparatus for transferring a plurality of tablets of a product from a first blister card to a second blister card includes a press plate, a transfer fixture, and a tray. The press plate is adapted for displacement between a first position and a second position to... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7946097 | Feeder The feeder for the controlled transfer of product items into the pockets of a web of sheeting has a base unit, a supply container for holding the product items, and a product conveyor for receiving the product items from the supply container. Further, the feeder has... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7861495 | Distributed medicine supplying device and medicine packaging device There is provided a distributed medicine supplying device, which allows medicines to be distributed at a time relative to a plurality of prescription data and to be distributed appropriately in response to various types of requests. The distributed medicine supplyin... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7856794 | Device for individual packing of tablets according to a multi-dose system A device for the individual packaging of pharmaceutical tablets comprising a charging template (1) with recesses (5) for receiving tablets (11) of dosage at given times, the recesses (5) have recess bases (6) for openable by a disp... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7784244 | High speed automated filling of solid pharmaceutical product packaging via a conveyor system Systems and methods for providing individualized solid pharmaceutical product packaging solutions preferably utilize a plurality of filling stations preferably arranged proximate to a conveyor system. Each of the filling stations may be embodied as a version of a co... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7591122 | Device for feeding a blister band with various articles, such as pills, capsules, tablets A device feeds a blister band, moved in a forward direction, with articles, supplied by gravity through a plurality of channels situated above the band. Each channel has a radial unit with radial needles entering the channel to hold a lowermost article. Rotation of ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7587878 | Tablet distribution apparatus for auxiliary trays and driving method thereof The tablet distribution apparatus includes an apparatus body having a pass-through channel through which an auxiliary tray is inserted into the pass-through channel, a distribution board mounted at the top of the apparatus body such that the distribution board verti... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7552570 | Packaging machine A packaging machine includes a grouper section having changeable lane sizes and a dual servo grouper that separates product into product sets and allow the product sets to accelerate to the lane chain speed in a controlled manner. The grouper section further include... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7426814 | Method of dispensing pills from a movable platen A plurality of cassettes, each filed with a supply of pills and positioned over a target location. A platen is provided beneath the target location with receptacles configured to hold both vials and blister packs. The platen or the cassette is movable so that any bl... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7389632 | Apparatus for distributing small objects in a fill station Small objects are loaded into blisters of a passing packaging film in a fill station of a packaging machine. An apparatus for distributing the objects to the blisters has a pair of generally parallel rods extending along respective axes and having inner and outer en... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383674 | System for packaging tablets in a blister strip with interchangeable distribution units An installation for packaging tablets in a blister strip moving beneath a bulk feed device for tablets, the installation includes a distribution system comprising a mounting stand (1) for motorized control elements which has an attachment surface (100)... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7380388 | Apparatus for feeding a blister band An apparatus for feeding a blister band moved in a forward direction, with a number of interconnected walls defining a bottom closed by the blister band set in motion, to define a chamber. At least two units are arranged in series and separated by a plate, and opera... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7331474 | Specimen-container rack for automated clinical instrument A magnetically-attractive specimen-container rack for use with a magnetic transport system for transporting racks of specimen-containers to or within an automated clinical instrument for analysis and/or processing. The specimen-container rack comprises a pair of U-s... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328557 | Apparatus for loading small objects into blisters of a foil web An apparatus for loading small objects into respective blisters of a foil web has a plurality of substantially identical fill plates each having an array of receptacles corresponding to the blisters of an area of the foil. A conveyor moves the fill plates one after ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7318304 | Device for introducing pharmaceutical products into blister packs Pairs of first and second rolls are supported for rotation in a roll frame located below a pan for receiving pharmaceutical products loaded as bulk material, each first roll having a plurality of axially successive non-cylindrical sections separated from respective ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7308779 | Method and device for packing tubes Tubes (T), coming from a production line, are supplied by means of a grouping unit (1). The grouping unit comprises a conveyor belt (10), with product holders (11) and the tubes are supplied in groups by means of a stepping motor (12). A ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7284359 | Breech loader An apparatus for automatically delivering placed and oriented pieces of meat to a netter for wrapping and netting is described, in which the placement and orientation of the meat pieces remains unchanged from initial placement until final wrapping and netting. The a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7225597 | Machine to automate dispensing of pills A device having a plurality of cassettes, each filed with a supply of pills and positionable over a target location. The device has a platen beneath the target location with receptacles configured to hold both vials and blister packs. The platen or the cassette is m... | 06/05/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7213809 | Translation table for sheet feeder A linear translation table for use in conjunction with a sheet feeding machine and a conveyor for laterally translating the sheet feeding machine over rows of product receiving portions of boxes or blisters in sheets of bubble packaging such that the sheet feeding m... | 05/08/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7159489 | Cap removing apparatus for removing cap from tube-like container An apparatus comprises a holder which holds a container blocked by a cap, and a transport path which has a correcting position. A rotation mechanism is provided at the correcting position. When the container is rotated by the rotation mechanism, a posture of a knob ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7152504 | Tube-plug extracting apparatus A tube-plug extracting apparatus has a clamping mechanism, movable frame, chucking mechanism, rotation mechanism, and vertical motion mechanism. The clamping mechanism holds a test tube upright. The movable frame is located over a plug extracting position and slides... | 12/26/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7093408 | Packaging machine and method of forming a carton An apparatus for regulating the flow of articles from an infeed stream at an infeed end of a packaging machine which apparatus comprises a plurality of article feed lanes for supplying a row of articles converging at a predetermined position, each feed lane having a... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7028450 | System and method of processing and packing disk-like objects A system for automatically forming several parallel rows of disk-like objects on a conveyor into stacks and packing those stacks into boxes is disclosed along with a method of operating the system. The system includes a stacker receiving the disk-like objects as the... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6948293 | Process for packaging containers in shipping cartons A method for packing containers, in particular bottles, in transport boxes in which on the inside, on flat-lying transport boxes, flat-lying multi-piece packagings are releasably fastened or compartment units are fastened, ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6925782 | Vibrating pill packaging device and associated method A packaging device for a pill packaging apparatus is provided, the packaging device cooperating with a plurality of pill receptacles, defined by a web and conveyed by a conveyor under the packaging device in a packaging direction, to manipulate pills deposited in th... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6922975 | Cosmetic material sheet and method for manufacture of the sheet and apparatus for use in the manufacture A cosmetic material sheet which comprises a sheet substrate 1 having, on an upper surface thereof, a large number of concave portions 5 arranged in a checkered pattern, a foundation layer 6 provided at a given position on the upper surface of th... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6761010 | Medication organizing system An improved medication organizing system for allowing patients to rapidly and easily prepare hermetically sealed dosage packages to set up their medication regime for a week, month, or longer period of time. The device includes seven hoppers to allow the patient to ... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6732486 | Machine for conveying and moving into position tubes, in particular straws A machine for conveying and moving into position tubes (124), the machine including a chute (42) with a vertical feed station for said tubes, conveyor belts (12) and a motor (31) for moving said conveyor belts, characterized in that said ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6634159 | Taping apparatus for electronic components Electronic computers are brought to a position for a pickup by the movement of a X-Y table, then picked up by suction and held by a holding tool, and transported by the rotation of a rotating table. Then, after the completion of a posture-recognition proc... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6510676 | Device for feeding tablets to blister packs This device includes a single enclosure (7) containing and carrying the reservoir (A), the dispenser (B), and the distributor (C) made of cylindrical and rotary brushes (39a to 39c), and the dispenser (B) having two parallel flaps (15, 16) which come into... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6497083 | Packaging apparatus Apparatus for feeding items of pharmaceutical product to pockets in a continuously travelling web for the production of blister packs has a plurality of product delivery chutes mounted on a moving carriage having delivery gates for releasing product from ... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6494022 | Orbital motion pill packaging device and associated method A packaging device for a pill packaging apparatus is provided, wherein the packaging device is used for inserting pills into a series of pill receptacles being conveyed generally horizontally thereunder. The packaging device generally comprises a resilien... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6462459 | Generator/alternator remanufacturing kit apparatus In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a remanufacturing kit that reduces the assembly functions and time required for remanufacturing a 50 DN generator is disclosed. The kit includes a box member, a pre-tested 50 DN generator subassem... | 10/08/2002 |
