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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7066318 | Transporting apparatus A transporting apparatus permits to intermittent indexing with freely and independently setting stop position of work tables and stopping period adapting to each individual work station. The transporting apparatus sequentially transports a work table across a plural... | 06/27/2006 |
| 5255610 | Conveyor for a suspension conveyor system with bearing arrangement for vertical and horizontal pivoting A conveyor for a suspension conveyor system comprising a carrier bar suspended from two yokes for receiving objects to be transported. Each of the yokes is suspended from a rail by a pair of rollers and is connected to the carrier bar via at least one joi... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5001987 | Lightweight car-on-track system A lightweight car-on-track system having a pair of spaced-apart rails and an associated rotatable drive tube with a captive carrier movable along the rails and having a drive wheel in driving engagement with the rotatable drive tube. The drive wheel is sp... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4757767 | Mobile remote manipulator system for a tetrahedral truss A mobile platform (B) for transit about a working face (51) of a truss. The truss has a grid of node guide pins (54) having stationary sprockets (54D). The platform (B) has a rail system (52) comprised of transversely disposed T-shaped tracks (60), direct... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4756660 | Truck with rotatable platform suitably designed for approach and copenetration by intermediate transportation means, for automatically transferring aircraft cargo units A towable truck with a rotatable platform for transferring cargo units from or to intermediate transportation devices, for handling goods in particular within airport structures. The platform comprises alternate projecting and re-entering parts which, whe... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4746005 | Pallet locating, clamping, rotating and transfer assembly A workpiece transfer assembly which enables a workpiece affixed to a pallet to be rotated at a work station and thereafter returned to its original position for longitudinal indexing along the transfer line. The transfer line includes a pallet locating an... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4746257 | Road-rail trailer and container transfer system A driveway for tractor-trailers is elevated along one side having a side coupling runner mounted to roll on wheels in a track along the side of the driveway facing a single-arm rotary loader. The runner is longer than the tractor-trailer and has a lift pu... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4736687 | Workpiece transport system A computer-controlled system for transporting workpieces, in which each workpiece is placed on a load carrier, each workpiece and load carrier being marked with an identifier. A central computer is loaded with data relative to each given workpiece, its re... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4722657 | Process and apparatus for transporting and storing bobbins, especially for removing them from automatic spinning machines or the like In apparatus for transporting and storing bobbins, especially for removing them from automatic spinning machines, the bobbins are received and collected in an inclined collecting chute from a conveyor belt, are then brought into a horizontal arrangement a... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4718810 | High speed transporter for multiple station production line A high-speed, bidirectional transporter for a multiple station production line provides for the programmable pickup, transport and delivery of materials at non-sequential work stations along the production line. The transporter is self-propelled by a rack... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4684314 | Pipe handling apparatus A pipe handling apparatus is adapted for transferring oil well pipe to and from a drilling rig. The apparatus includes a transportable chassis having tracks for supporting and guiding a reciprocable and rotatable table. A first scissors lift mounted to th... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4389941 | Driverless vehicle conveyor system In a driverless vehicle conveyor system wherein a driverless vehicle rides on tracks, two straight sections of the tracks have adjacent ends spaced by a gap. A transfer vehicle is provided in the gap for supporting and transferring driverless vehicles acr... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4363275 | Conveyor system and vehicle for use therein A driverless vehicle is supported by wheels adapted to ride on a floor whereby the conveyor system does not include rails for supporting the vehicle. Guide rollers are provided on one side of the vehicle for contact with a guide on a floor mounted frame. ... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4301984 | Vehicle loading apparatus for aircraft In an airplane adapted to carrying cargo, particularly wheeled and/or tracked vehicles, and having a side loading cargo door, a rectangular turntable is installed near the door. The turntable and its pivot are so located that (1) the turntable extends thr... | 11/24/1981 |
