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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7954622 | Two-piece wedge diverter gate A diverter gate generally includes a bracket which connects to an actuator and a flag which releasably engages with the bracket via cooperating engagement members. The cooperating engagement members may be symmetrical, and may comprise one or more tabs and one or mo... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7331443 | Vertical parallel transportation of caps A device for conveying closures (D) made from metallic sheet in an essentially vertical direction from a collecting point (1) to a release point (6) is proposed. The closures are selected to be in correct position during conveying in order to release a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7235756 | Mail sorting and sequencing system A mail sorting and sequencing system having a number of DPP units cooperating with one another to sort and sequence mail items of three different types of mail. Each DPP unit having: a conveyor system wherein a number of trucks travel along a path; at least three tr... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7166814 | Sorting machine The sorting machine main body of a sorting machine is a slender machine provided with a chain conveyer along an upper and lower two level endless loop route, and includes an IN side turn back portion, a transfer portion, a sorting portion, an OUT side turn back port... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7138596 | Apparatus and method for mail sorting A method for sorting mail to a case having a plurality of slots is described, wherein each slot corresponds to a destination. The method includes steps of loading a mail piece to be sorted into a delivery robot, determining for the mail piece a destination slot the ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7029002 | Drop pocket system for reorienting flat articles A drop pocket system and method reorients flat articles in a serial stream, by horizontally receiving a horizontally moving, serial input stream of substantially vertically oriented flat articles, sensing reception of each flat article, engaging each sensed flat art... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6964146 | Portable pouch opening machine A portable pouch opener for countertop positioning for opening and filling a bag includes a portable housing positionable upon a desktop bench workspace. The housing has a magazine containing a supply of bags to be opened and filled. A first suction device is mounte... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6401936 | Divert apparatus for conveyor system In one embodiment, an article sorting system includes successive coarse and fine singulators and a recirculating loop for processing a disordered stream of items including three-dimensional non-flat articles. A coarse singulator includes cascaded ramped c... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6138817 | Gravity feed grading unit A grading unit divides a supply of objects into constituent portions and directs the divided portions to various predefined locations. At least one passageway is defined, being sufficiently inclined so that the supply of objects flows through the unit sol... | 10/31/2000 |
| 5788052 | Device for the division and adjustment of a product flow into a plurality of partial product flows Device for the division and adjustment of a flow of products into a plurality of partial flows, which are fed to a plurality of working machines by a belt conveyor, in which distributing units are provided with blades for the interception of the products.... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5755336 | Optical sorter, tracker and reader An optical recording and sorting apparatus and method by which documents are stripped from the other documents in a stack and aligned, the data from each document is recorded, and then the documents are segregated into categories based on the data recorde... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5636723 | Guide device for a distributive conveyor arrangement A guide device for moving flat pieces of mail from a conveyor and stacking the mail. The conveyor has a shunt for diverting mail to the guide device. The guide device includes a curved support surface and an outer lateral wall defining a curved deflection... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5480032 | Product sorting apparatus for variable and irregularly shaped products A wide variety of product types, sizes and shapes are sorted into designated destination bins or other outputs utilizing a computer controlled transport path that includes an infeed section and a pinch roller diverting section. The infeed section receives... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5460257 | Conveyer unit A main conveyer structure 3 incorporates a controller 40 having function to control rotation of conveyer rollers 2. The controller 40 incorporates a plurality of I/O ports 42 for exchanging data signal with respective controllers 40 of conveyer units 1 ad... | 10/24/1995 |
| 4310276 | Machine for sorting objects of various destinations particularly suitable for bulky postal correspondence A machine for sorting objects of various destinations, particularly for bulky postal correspondence. A guide defines a path passing through at least one loading station and at least one sorting station. At least one succession of compartments for containi... | 01/12/1982 |
