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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7082879 | Method for a single guidelane, bidirectional, passenger carrying tramcar system The invention is a method of coordinating the movement of a plurality of oppositely directed tramcars operating along a single guidelane. This includes positioning a plurality of fixed stop-boarding areas along the guidelane. By-pass lanes enabling oppositely moving... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7021516 | Driver blade for fastening tool A novel driver blade for use in a fastening tool having a piston is provided comprising an elongate body, a head at one end of the body for coupling to the piston, a tip at the other end of the body for impacting a fastener to drive said fastener into a workpiece, a... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6561103 | Pallet conveyor system A pallet conveyor system includes a rail assembly and a pallet assembly. The rail assembly including parallel and spaced-apart rail supports that each has a cylindrical rail disposed thereon. An intermediate support is positioned between the rails and inc... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6263799 | Vehicle guideway adaptor for a personal rapid transit system A transportation system, generically known as Personal Rapid Transit, employs conventional electric or hybrid automobiles (18) underwhich are mounted electro-mechanical adaptors (24) which permits them to operate autonomously on an elevated guideway (16) ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6129026 | Dual mode cargo transport apparatus and method of using same A method and apparatus for handling cargo are disclosed which include a plurality of cargo carriers capable of being operated manually by human operators or remotely by a central controller. The carriers are operated in their manual mode to traverse paths... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5676059 | Tram coordinating method and apparatus A method and apparatus for coordinating the movement of a plurality of oppositely directed trams operating generally simultaneously along a single, dedicated lane, including a plurality of stop-boarding areas, a plurality of corresponding by-pass lanes, s... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5611282 | Method and apparatus for operating multiple passenger carrying trams simultaneously in both directions in a single dedicated lane transit system The method and apparatus includes a single dedicated lane, multiple trams moving in both directions along the dedicated lane, multiple tram stop-boarding areas, each with an associated by-pass lane, disposed at intervals along the dedicated lane, a terres... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5056438 | Detection system for conveyer system which utilizes conveyor drive to rotate identifying code wheel A detection system provided in a conveyor system in which carrier members are conveyed by conveying member between work stations, having an identification code provided on a disk member on each carrier member for indicating the working station to which th... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4406230 | Automatic conveyor system A conveyor system comprising a horizontal network of conveyors on which carriages move equipped with programming mechanisms capable of controlling the operations of loading, unloading, ascent, descent of the loads and changes of direction of the carriages... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4372218 | Transportation installation A conveyor system for serving a plurality of processing stations having a plurality of trolley carriages, an overhead main conveyor comprising a monorail track for the trolley carriages, and forming a loop having a pair of substantially parallel sides alo... | 02/08/1983 |
| 4262599 | Conveyor system with a maintenance station In an illustrative embodiment, a scanning and control device which conventionally scans a destination field on each conveyor receptacle is provided with a selectively settable maintenance scanning arrangement for scanning a maintenance field on the convey... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4168760 | Wire-guidance apparatus Routing decisions for vehicles following current-carrying guidewires and carrying destination addresses are made at intersections of a guidewire system without the need for storing large amounts of data at the intersections by making inequality and equali... | 09/25/1979 |
| 4098195 | Transportation system for the distribution of articles to several receiving stations along a track A self-propelled carriage traveling along a track, e.g. within a printing plant, carries a number of flat articles such as printing forms suspended from a common supporting bar with the aid of releasable holders gripping that bar in transversely spaced en... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4089269 | Vehicle control system Vehicle control system of the retro-reflective, pattern-coding type in which the signal device is carried on the vehicle and the scanner and controls are carried beneath the supporting surface.... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4068597 | Conveyor system control circuit A conveyor system wherein a traveling mechanism is moved in a predetermined path and selectively controlled in its movement including an encoder unit mounted on the mechanism and a readout unit mounted along the path and wherein the encoder unit provides ... | 01/17/1978 |
| 4056063 | Dispatcher for conveyor system A conveyor system has a plurality of cars displaceable along a track and each having a side provided with a plurality of parallel guides each in turn receiving a respective code marker slidable along the respective guide and arrestable therein at any of a... | 11/01/1977 |
| 3988991 | Conveyor system utilizing shielded reader units A conveyor system in which code devices with reflectors mounted on trucks selectively coact with optoelectronic reader units to cause spur line switches to selectively divert the trucks from a main line to particular spur lines is disclosed. Each reader u... | 11/02/1976 |
