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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7275570 | Desiccant dispensing system A method and apparatus for controlling dispensing of a desiccant material into an interior region of an elongated spacer frame member. The appropriate desiccant dispensing nozzle is automatically selected and/or the distance between the desiccant dispensing nozzle a... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7162851 | Method for changing a stopper A stopper change device (10) includes an airtight chamber body (21) detachably mountable on a head of a bottle, a gas supply port (19) for supplying N gas to the chamber body, an air vent valve (57) for discharging air from the chamber bo... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7108025 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, and a container filling lifting device for pressing containers to container filling machines A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, and a container filling lifting device for lifting containers in container filling machines. The lifting device is designed to lift a container, such as a bottle, to a first level... | 09/19/2006 |
| 6736172 | Filling machine comprising having at least one chamber enclosure with a controlled atmosphere A machine for filling containers includes a series of filling stations, each of which is equipped with an impervious chamber for receiving a container to be filled. The chamber is opened in order to load or unload the container and closed in order to control the atm... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6619340 | Liquid metering and filling lifter for containers A liquid metering and filling lifter for use with different kinds of containers (C) having different heights for moving the container (C) upward and downward with a stroke corresponding to the height of the container (C) in filling a liquid into the conta... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6062278 | Machine for filling containers provided with automatic devices for rapidly locking/releasing the interchangeable elements guiding and moving the containers themselves Machine for filling containers (2) comprising a base (1a) and interchangeable elements for guiding (3) and moving (4) the said containers (2), which are supported by columns (11) joined to said base (1c), characterized in that it comprises automatic devic... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6029716 | Tire inflater method and apparatus A tire inflating method and apparatus, allowing inflation of different sized tires without changing over a tire inflation device. The tire inflation device has two chambers, an inner chamber and an outer chamber. The inner chamber is within the outer cham... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5983961 | Apparatus for filling a plurality of containers with particulate or granular material An apparatus for filling a plurality of containers with a predetermined amount of a particulate or granular material. The apparatus comprises a hopper for holding a supply of material. The hopper has an upper end, a lower end and at least one tapered side... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5839486 | Fill system including a fill pump positioning system An apparatus for use in a filling system is provided. The apparatus includes a product filling machine having a top portion and a base portion. A conveyor is also provided for transporting containers to be filled in a conveying direction. The conveyor is ... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5762116 | System for filling bottles with pills A system for filling bottles with pills including a drive wheel formed with an upper generally circular plate and a vertically spaced lower generally circular plate with concentric peripheries and axially aligned central apertures extending therethrough s... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5641008 | Potting machine A plant potting machine includes a pot track for sequentially conveying plant pots along a potting path. A soil lift conveyor having a soil discharge chute lifting soil above the pot track and discharges the soil through the soil discharge chute and into ... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5595221 | Metering machine suitable for filling bottles of varying dimensions A machine for the filling bottles, particularly bottles of varying dimensions. The metering machine comprises two identical devices placed one on top of the other, with combs, allowing the rapid, simple and easy adjustment of the nozzles used for metering... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5582220 | Apparatus for transporting containers intermittently An apparatus for transporting containers intermittently. The apparatus has two guide rails which extend in a horizontal plane. Container carriers, which have receiving elements for the containers are disposed on the guide rails. The container carriers are... | 12/10/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5425402 | Bottling system with mass filling and capping arrays Two or more of a bottle-cleaning operation, a bottle-filling operation, a cap-dispensing operation, and a cap-affixing operation simultaneously process arrays of equally sized containers in an x-y array by engaging the bottles with movable heads of a head... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5370163 | Adjustable container return device for variable stroke lifter system An adjustable container return device for use with a lift arm of a variable stroke lifter system for lifting variable height containers. The return device includes a vertically oriented rod threadedly movable at its bottom end relative to the lift arm; a ... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5305809 | Gang array filler with relocatable nozzles A filling machine for containers simultaneously fills an array of containers, for examples immediately following depalletizing, and includes motor driven positioners for the nozzles to accommodate changes in the size of container being run. The containers... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5295523 | Adjustable stroke multiple package filling apparatus Package or container product filling apparatus that can easily be disassembled for cleaning and reassembled comprises a hopper and manifold to supply a plurality of package dosing filling tubes in turn insertable in multiple packages simultaneously. The m... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5273082 | Method and apparatus for filling containers A method and apparatus for filling containers with a liquid material. The filling machine has a plurality of filling elements that form filling stations. At least one filling station is provided with a flowmeter that cooperates with a control device. On t... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5248155 | Container holder A container holder which can be used with a variety of containers when positioning them in a container processing step is disclosed. Pairs of container holding members are disposed within a holder body which receives a container. One pair of holding membe... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5195565 | Variable stroke lifter system A variable stroke lifter system for lifting a container so as to surround a filler nozzle for "bottom-up" filling thereof. The lifter system includes a pivotally mounted slide arm, a lift arm operatively connected to the slide arm for movement therewith, ... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5168905 | Precision filling machine An in-line liquid filling machine and method of filling containers. In certain embodiments a a single row of containers is indexed past a plurality of filling nozzles which are in turn interconnected with a manifold which receives a single fill of materia... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5105859 | Time flow volumetric liquid filling machine A filling machine including a manifold having a supply inlet and supply outlet and one or more nozzles connected to the manifold by individual time controlled valves. A circulation system is provided connecting a supply and the manifold for continuously c... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5082032 | Volumetric packaging apparatus for frozen food and method Apparatus and method for packaging frozen food includes positioning a stationary hopper above a rotating plate having spaced openings receiving frozen food from the hopper and directing same into spaced vertical cylinders of predetermined volume preparata... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5067531 | Bench top container filler A bench top volumetric container filler is provided and consists of a mechanism to pump a predetermined amount of fluid from a reservoir into a container by using a volumetric piston pump operated by a vertical pump driving cylinder.... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5058634 | Automatic packaging machine for particulate matter An automatic packaging machine can load light and fluffy particulate product without having it scattered over a large area. The system does this by using a plurality of inclined planes to cause said product to slide in successive small steps, as distingui... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5056650 | Vessel treatment machine A vessel handling machine comprises a machine frame on which is arranged a drivable conveyor start with the star crown (3) consisting of several superimposed external star rings and a concentric internal flange plate (10) located at the level of the lowes... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5035270 | Automatic conveyorized container filler An automatic conveyorized volumetric container filler is provided and consists of a mechanism to pump a predetermined amount of fluid from a reservoir into containers by using volumetric piston pumps operated by a pump drive cylinder. The containers are a... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4991632 | Method of gently packing a product The method serves to gently pack a product the consistency of which can be affected by external influences. The product consists of a number of separable components which adhere to one another to at least some extent and are readily deformed under the inf... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4865091 | Bag filling machine with side-to-side adjustment A bag filling machine is adapted to fill a plastic bag with a liquid product through a gland secured to the bag. A carriage assembly is mounted on a stationary frame of the machine and comprises a conveyor for moving the bag along a path to a filling stat... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4856566 | Fast acting loading system for automatic packaging machine The invention greatly increases the speed at which a fill step may be completed in an automatic packaging machine. Instead of the usual process where a gate opens and closes for dumping product into each empty box, a plurality of bottomless measuring cups... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4848421 | Pouch filling apparatus having duck bill spout Pouch filling apparatus having a horizontal rotatable drum, an inclined spout plate rotatably mounted above the drum and a metering wheel mounted above the spout plate. A plurality of duck bill spouts are mounted on the spout plate and a plurality of cams... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4789013 | Machine for filling containers such as bottles A container filling machine has a rotor which is adjustable in height and supports components for filling containers. A carrier support is mounted to support devices which are adjustable vertically on stationary columns. Interlock elements which are arran... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4751052 | Tube alignment apparatus An apparatus for centering the open end of tubes prior to the insertion of a probe is described. The tube aligning means has a frustoconical inner surface to gather the tube mouth held loosely in a tube rack. The tube is centered relative to the probe. Th... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4713218 | Tube trap apparatus A tube restraining apparatus is described for centering the mouth of a loosely held test tube prior to the insertion of a probe. The apparatus is automatically activated by a motor driven carriage and the cooperation of the probe and the bail. The mouth o... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4688610 | Apparatus for dispensing particulate agglomerating solids An apparatus for dispensing particulate agglomerating solids in accordance with the invention includes a container for holding the particulate solids to be dispensed having a foraminous discharge disposed at the bottom of the container; apparatus for appl... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4566506 | System for dispensing flowable food materials A system which dispenses sauce or the like onto selected areas of plates moving in a train beneath a dispenser. The areas upon which the sauce is to be dispensed may for example be those containing meat portions of non-uniform width in directions normal t... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4359075 | Multiple position and work station for battery fabrication A multi-positionable work station containing a plurality of easily reciprocally, positionable work station blocks is disclosed. As shown, each of said blocks is adapted to receive one of a variety of tools and is further adapted to be locked in place by a... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4338982 | Rotating riffler A rotating riffler for the purpose of withdrawing smaller laboratory-sized representative particulate samples from larger samples. This comprises a rotating disk having an interchangeable top plate of plastic foam having openings therein to accommodate sa... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4306595 | Equipment to load an underlayer in a mould for making cement tile and for similar uses A device for loading a dosage layer of material, preferably concrete, at a laying-down position for manufacturing tiles and the like comprising, a conveyor for supplying a continuous layer of the material, a bell having a diaphragm and edges surrounding t... | 12/22/1981 |
