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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7326025 | System for detecting warped carriers and associated methods Disclosed herein is a warp detection system (200) for determining warping in a carrier (110) configured to carry substrates (120) for processing. In one embodiment, the system (200) includes a guide plate (210) configured to guide ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7284652 | Tiered control architecture for material handling A control architecture for material handling includes multiple tiers of controllers, such as three. The lowest-level controllers interact directly with sensors and actuators used in the material handling system, such as photo-eyes and motors used with conveyors. The... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7252187 | Delivery system for use in motor vehicles This is a device that is designed as a conveyance system for use in the interior of any type of vehicle and other myriad uses such as a home, warehouse, closet, etc. The conveyance system is anchored to the interior roofline of a vehicle; it has a conveyor such as a... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249668 | Positive displacement sorter shoe A positive displacement sorter apparatus and method includes providing a plurality of interconnected slats defining an endless web, an upper run of the web defining a conveying surface. A plurality of pusher shoes are provided, each moving along at least one of the ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240781 | Positive displacement sorter A positive displacement sorter includes a conveying surface, a plurality of pusher shoes capable of traveling laterally of the conveying surface travel direction, a diverting assembly selectively diverting the pusher shoes and a control. The pusher shoes are general... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7168552 | Article joining system A conveyance path for conveying articles though an accumulation conveyor, then through a carry-out conveyor, and then through a joining station is disclosed. After a flow of articles and at a time when there are no articles present on a portion of the conveyance pat... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7133742 | Device and method for processing slaughter animals and/or parts thereof provided with a transportation system A device for processing slaughter animals or parts thereof, for example poultry, comprises a transport system with an endless track and a chain of chain elements which can be moved along the track, wherein a plurality of chain elements are set up as carriers to carr... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7117988 | Positive displacement sorter A positive displacement sorter includes a plurality of interconnected slats defining an endless web, an upper run of the web defining a conveying surface conveying articles in a longitudinal direction. A plurality of pusher shoes move along the slats to laterally di... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7093709 | Belt conveyor A belt conveyor or belt accumulator includes at least two tandem zones, each of which is defined by a motorized roller and at least one idler roller positioned along and between opposite sidewalls of the conveyor and a continuous belt routed around the motorized rol... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7086519 | Positive displacement shoe and slat sorter apparatus and method A positive displacement sorter apparatus and method includes providing a plurality of slats being interconnected in an endless web, an upper run of the web defining a conveying surface, and a plurality of pusher shoes gliding along at least some of the slats to late... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7055814 | Apparatus for collecting printed products An apparatus for collecting, stitching and/or cutting printed products includes an endless collector chain and feeders arranged one behind the other and above the collector chain for placing the printed products on the collector chain, and a stitching device for sti... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6974019 | Conveyor with a motorized transport element A conveying system including individually motorized transport elements or shoes that transport articles laterally across a conveyor. The motorized transport elements ride along tracks across the width of the conveyor. A motor drives each transport element across the... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6522943 | Event driven multicast material sorting system A method and apparatus for sorting units of material includes a transport media formed in a plurality of segments. A plurality of actuators and at least one of an identification sensor, a segment sensor, a length sensor are connected with respect to the t... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6378687 | High speed sorting/diverting apparatus, an apparatus controller and systems using same Featured is a sorting/diverting apparatus that diverts articles from a plurality of moving belts, the sorting/diverting apparatus including a plurality of rollers that are rotatably mounted to a support frame and a moving mechanism that moves the support ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6328297 | Method and apparatus for improving synchronization in a document inserting system A method and apparatus for improving the timing between the releasing of documents from enclosure feeders and the arrival of pusher fingers fixedly attached to a conveyer belt in a gathering section of an inserting machine. As the conveyer belt begins to ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6208908 | Integrated order selection and distribution system An integrated order selection and distribution system is provided for selecting and delivering a plurality of articles associated with a preselected customer order. The system includes discrete article receptacles, a conveyor, and a plurality of pack stat... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6009991 | Computer control system for storing and retrieving articles on a conveyor using article identification A controller for automating the loading, unloading, and tracking of items on a power-driven conveyor. One embodiment of the system includes a control unit connected to a conveyor, a database in the control unit for storing article information including th... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5990437 | System for sorting articles A system for sorting articles, the system having a track which defines a route starting at at least one loading point, the route continuing on to a plurality of destination points and arriving back at the loading point. The system also has at least one tr... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5971131 | Method of conveying articles hanging on hangers and devices for use in the method A method and apparatus for conveying material hanging on hangers. The material is transported from a loading region to a conveyance region, and then to a delivery region. Grip units of various lengths are formed by combining individual materials into grou... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5957263 | Apparatus for correcting for wear of a conveyor belt An apparatus and method for correcting for wear of links of a conveyor belt, resulting in inaccurate triggering based, on encoder pulses, of events downstream from a part registration sensor. The wear causes lengthening of the links, which the invention m... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5884747 | Method and an arrangement for identifying and finding a gripper in a gripping conveyor for printed products A method and arrangement for identifying and finding the grippers of a gripping conveyor used to transport printed products. The gripping conveyor is divided into a number of sections wherein the length of each section is sufficiently short to enable leng... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5819954 | Coupon sorting system and method of sorting coupons A system for sorting coupons according to information contained within bar codes or similar markings printed thereon. The system includes a storage bin in which the coupons are received and from which they are removed one at a time. A coupon picker remove... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5450939 | Apparatus and method for transferring objects An apparatus (10) for sorting and transferring an object (1), such as wrapped photographic film, between two or more positions has a object holder (12) having a means for grasping and releaseably mounting the object (1) thereto. The object holder (12) is ... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5335777 | Method and apparatus for belt conveyor load tracking A method of and apparatus for tracking data associated with a load being conveyed on a belt conveyor between a source station including a source station load sensor and a destination station including a destination station load sensor includes the steps o... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5299134 | Computer control system and method for scanning and loading articles on a conveyor A system and method and loading articles onto a sorting conveyor. An exemplary embodiment of the system includes a computer processor to control system function, a scanning device for identifying articles to be sorted, a conveyor for transporting articles... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5220511 | Computer control system and method for sorting articles on a conveyor A system and method for sorting articles. An exemplary embodiment of the system includes a conveyor for transporting articles, a database for storing identification information for each article on the conveyor and address information specifying the locati... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5165515 | Segmented pusher control for conveying system An article conveying system of the type having a conveying surface defined by the uppermost ones of a plurality of slats interconnected in an endless web for displacing articles laterally with respect to the conveying surface and including a diverter shoe... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5143201 | Carrier assembly A carrier assembly is adapted to releasably support hooked members for supporting articles to be conveyed. Each carrier assembly has a frame and several integral biasing and latch members, each pivotally supported on the frame by a pin member. Each pin me... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5038910 | Bucket distribution system A bucket distribution system for receiving products at an infeed station and selectively discharging the products at a plurality of distribution stations. A plurality of buckets travel in a continuous path and each receive a predetermined portion of produ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4991719 | Method and apparatus for sorting randomly positioned items minimizing sorting conveyor movement Improved methods and apparatus are provided for sorting and arranging garments in a selected order which have been sequentially placed in an unordered sequence. The garments are identified by a marking affixed to each garment, and each garment is arranged... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4977996 | Warehousing systems The invention provides a warehousing system wherein garments on hangers are suspended from conveyors in equally spaced arrangement and are conveyed continuously from a delivery station to which they are supplied in a first order until they reach a dispatc... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4907699 | Method and apparatus for sorting randomly positioned garments minimizing serting conveyor movement Improved methods and apparatus are provided for sorting and arranging garments in a selected order which have been sequentially placed in an unordered sequence. The garments are identified by a marking affixed to each garment, and each garment is arranged... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4564102 | Method and apparatus for transportation of materials A plurality of machine tools are disposed along a circulating conveyor transporting materials to be processed by the machine tools, and material selector subsystems associated with the respective machine tools are provided together with a load/unload comm... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4274783 | Chain measuring and conveyor control system Apparatus for selectively discharging load carriers at a predetermined one of discharge stations. The carriers are connected to an endless chain. The chain is made of links of approximate equal length, which are divided into segments of an equal number of... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4239435 | Apparatus and method for assemblying randomly arranged articles Apparatus and methods for selectively distributing a plurality of unordered articles at a plurality of receiving stations in predetermined orders are provided in accordance with the teachings of the present invention. The present invention contemplates a ... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4198758 | Chain measuring and conveyor control system A method for measuring the length of segments of moving chain includes the steps of measuring the velocity of the chain by timing the interval a point on the chain moves a known distance and timing the interval between the sensing of one end of the segmen... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4164291 | Sorting apparatus Sorting apparatus comprises a locating device for defining an array of selectable sites and for generating for each site (when selected) a signal or signals identifying that site, a conveyer for conveying objects to be sorted past the array of sites and, ... | 08/14/1979 |
