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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7921885 | Beverage machine assembly having a modular support A filling machine assembly having supports for supporting any suitable fixture. At least one of the supports includes a plurality of modules with each of the modules including at least one coupling member for interlocking adjoining modules to form a continuous unint... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7810527 | Container-treatment machine comprising controlled gripping means for seizing containers by the neck A machine for the treatment of containers (12) provided with a neck (14), includes at least one, treatment station provided with a nipple (22) having gripping elements (26) in order to seize a container (12), the gripping elements ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7331156 | System for securely conveying articles and related components A system is disclosed for conveying articles for processing, the system including a conveyor configured to convey articles to the processing station. The conveyor includes a plurality of links, each link including at least one movable gripper for gripping an article... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7311125 | Beverage bottle handling and filing machine for containers such as bottles and cans Beverage bottle handling and filling machine for containers, such as bottles and cans, with lifting devices to lift the containers by the mouth or neck upward to engage beverage discharge openings to permit filling. The filling machine has a piston/cylinder arrangem... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7308916 | Beverage dispenser A beverage dispenser operates a cup holder to advance a cup holding portion holding a cup in which a beverage is filled from an inside of a cup port to an outside thereof to locate it above a cup mount, lower the cup holding portion from a above position by a predet... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7127870 | Replacement lock lever for an automatic beverage filling machine Replacement lock levers and related methods are disclosed which accommodate adjustment to acceptable tolerances of the force applied to cans being filled by the platform lift cylinder assemblies of the automatic beverage filling machine, due to an eccentricity of th... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7082739 | Centering and holding unit for capping head Containers (2) having a threaded neck (3) and a mouth (4) are capped by a unit (1) appearing as a carousel (5) equipped with capping heads caused to advance along a circular path (P) and capable of axial movement toward and away fr... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7069964 | Filler Vessels 2 on a conveying rail 4 are supported by a back guide 8 and are intermittently conveyed by a transfer rake 6. A number of filling nozzles 28 which corresponds to a number of vessels 2 are installed at a filling stati... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6998006 | System and method for configuring a heat transfer decorating machine for different package configurations A heat transfer decorating machine is disclosed. In particular, the disclosed heat transfer decorating machine provides mechanisms to allow the machine to be rapidly re-configured from applying labels to a particular article configuration to applying labels to a dif... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6920905 | Installation for filling and packaging hollow bodies The invention concerns an installation for filling and packaging hollow bodies (12) comprising stations (20, 22, 24, 26) for filling and packaging said bodies and a device for transferring the latter between an intake station (18) for the bodies... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6898549 | Automated systems for weighing and/or liquid delivery An automated weighing station is provided which is advantageous for automatically weighing samples generally disposed in containers in an array of racks. The weighing station comprises a sample handling assembly which is operably connected to a balance, allowing a m... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6837282 | Apparatus for filling containers with viscous liquid food products An apparatus for filling containers with viscous food product includes a plurality of pressure/vacuum fill head positioned above a plurality of containers. Each fill head includes a housing enclosing a plenum through which is longitudinally disposed a valve stem hav... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6796342 | Conveying unit for containers in filling machines Containers are conveyed through a carousel type filling machine by a plurality of grippers each comprising a bracket element, and a pair of jaws connected to the bracket element by way of relative pivots; the two jaws are joined one to another by a removable segment... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6748983 | Conveyor for bottle-filling machine A conveyor chain has lower pins and is displaced in steps through a station. Respective pairs of plates have holes fitted to the pins and confronting cutouts together forming seats shaped to fit complementarily around necks of bottles. Horizontally displaceable supp... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6688341 | Weight-filling machine comprising a weighing station The invention concerns a weight-filling machine wherein a force sensor consists of a deformable component having a base end (16) linked to a frame and an interface end (18) whereon is fixed a device for gripping (50) the container. The invention is charac... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6581647 | Mobile drumming apparatus and method A drumming unit that utilizes a computer controlled drum filling and drum handling system. Drum handling and filling is fully automated, the drums being introduced onto the apparatus on an inlet conveyor, loaded from the inlet conveyor onto a frame at whi... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6539334 | Automated weighing station An automated weighing station is provided which is advantageous for automatically weighing samples generally disposed in containers in an array of racks. The weighing station comprises a sample handling assembly which is operably connected to a balance, a... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6463968 | HIGH-CONSISTENCY LIQUID FILLING SYSTEM FOR SOFT VESSEL AND TUBULAR MEMBER, AS VESSEL, TRANSPORTING SYSTEM AND HIGH-CONSISTENCY LIQUID FILLING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FILLING HIGH-CONSISTENCY LIQUID INTO SOFT VESSEL AND DEVICE AND VESSEL FOR FILLING HIGH-CONSISTENCY LIQUID The present invention is a system for filling a container main body at least whose drum body is made of a flexible film, with a viscous material. A viscous material is charged by the charging means into container main bodies conveyed by the container conv... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6390150 | Drive for bottling machine An apparatus for filling containers has a frame carrying a plurality of sprockets and an endless conveyor chain on the frame having between two of the sprockets a straight treatment stretch. A succession of holders secured to the chain are each formed wit... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6343628 | Machine for filling bottles with liquid A bottling apparatus has a frame and an endless conveyor element on the frame, having a horizontal working stretch extending in a transport direction through a filling station, and carrying a plurality of holder plates each formed with a row of seats adap... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6341630 | Filling and handling bottles A bottling apparatus has a frame and an endless conveyor element on the frame and having a horizontal lower stretch, an upper stretch above the lower stretch, and upstream and downstream corners where the element changes direction. A plurality of pairs of... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6286568 | Transportation, feeding and filling apparatus of irregular-formed vessels and transportation and feeding method A plurality of bag making machines 2a and 2b for continuously producing irregular-formed vessels 1 having a flanged mouth plug, a plurality of transportation troughs 11a and 11b connected to the respective plurality of bag making machines 2a and 2b, a sin... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6283177 | Conveying and processing system for resin bottles A resin bottle 16 has an opening at its top end in which a thread 16a is formed, and also has a neck including a cylindrical portion 16b and a flange 16c which are disposed below the opening. An intermediate wheel 8 is disposed between a filler 6 which fi... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6135169 | Automatic cupped drinks dispenser The dispenser comprises a plurality of delivery stations (20a-20b, 30) for the constituent substances of the drink, a delivery station (40) for empty cups, a location (10) for release of the drink to the user, and an automatic control unit which automatic... | 10/24/2000 |
| 5975155 | Multi-container filler A container filling machine having a frame and a fill station on the frame. The fill station has hooks to engage stirrups on the top of the bag. The fill station also has a platform to support a first open topped container. The fill station also has hooks... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5971041 | Container filling apparatus with walking nozzles bank A machine for filling fluid product into containers delivered in a row by a conveyor has a filling station with a walking nozzle bank. Containers are processed batchwise through the filling station, the nozzle bank including elongated gripper plates that ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5896898 | Dispenser A dispenser is described having a support for the container to be filled, a source of liquid and a switch controlling the flow of liquid into the container. The container is supported by a support which urges the container up or down. The switch is operat... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5799713 | Apparatus for storing separating and filling coffee filters An apparatus for storing both coffee and nested stacks of cup-shaped coffee filters, and then automatically filling individual filters with selected amounts of coffee. Through a series of gears, an electric motor rotates an elastic projection against the ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5791386 | Internal container guides for a fill pipe of a liquid packaging machine A method and apparatus for maintaining the proper shape and orientation of a carton with respect to a fill pipe of a liquid packaging machine during a liquid-filling operation. The apparatus, internal carton guides attached to a fill pipe, are elongated f... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5791385 | Arrangement and method for filling containers with a liquid with a tendency to foam An arrangement and a method for filling containers with a liquid which tends to form foam, in which the container and the filling nozzle are positioned in relation to each other in such a way that the impact of the stream of liquid pouring out of the fill... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5735318 | Automatic method and device for filling insulating glazing units An automatic method and device for filling, with gases other than air, insulating glazing units. The method entailing a step for injecting the gas and expelling the air so as to produce a laminar flow through a manifold constituted by the hollow region of... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5727609 | Transport apparatus Transport apparatus for use in a drinks vending machine. The apparatus comprises a holder for receiving and holding a cup, and transport mechanism to move the cup to a dispensing region. The dispensing region comprises a plurality of dispensers, from a se... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5626712 | Device for filling insulating glass panes with heavy gas In a device for filling with heavy gas insulating glass panes (10) which are not yet pressed, there is a seal means (80) which can be moved between the plates of the device and which is movably guided via carriages (90, 91) on guide rails (92, 93) mounted... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5507329 | Liquid dispensing apparatus In general, distilled water dispensers used in commercial establishments such as drug and convenience stores are unimaginative, coin operated and often messy devices. A relatively simple substitute for such dispensers includes a large housing similar in s... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5476124 | Process and apparatus for filling insulating glass panes with a gas other than air A process and apparatus for filling insulating glass panes (10) with filler gas comprises two plates (1 and 2) and an endless conveyor belt (9) provided at the lower rim of the plates (1 and 2), on which the insulating glass pane (10) stands with its lowe... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5456297 | Detergent dispenser with filling mechanism A detergent dispenser having a support for the dispenser may be filled with liquid from a suitable source. A switch controls the flow of liquid into the dispenser. The support, which may be a cradle from which the dispenser hangs or a platform on top of w... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5455007 | Universal stripper plate A universal stripper plate for operating on a plurality of different types of collection containers or tubes. The universal stripper plate includes a universal button for aligning and seating the various tube stoppers or caps for piercing. The universal b... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5413156 | Process and apparatus for filling insulating glass panes with a gas other than air A process and apparatus for filling insulating glass panes (10) with filler gas comprises two plates (1 and 2) and an endless conveyor belt (9) provided at the lower rim of the plates (1 and 2), on which the insulating glass pane (10) stands with its lowe... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5390714 | cup locator for beverage dispenser The cup locator includes a plurality of non-concentric rings placed one on one top of the other from smallest to largest. A backstop is integrally formed at the rear of the cup locator. Different sized beverage cups will be properly positioned with respec... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5370161 | Balloon vending machine A balloon vending machine having a number of uninflated balloons positioned in a balloon support structure housed within the balloon vending machine. Attached to each balloon is a valve that not only maintains the balloon in the support structure but faci... | 12/06/1994 |
