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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7389725 | Apparatus and method for imprinting a vial An apparatus and method for printing onto vials. The vials may be connected in a series, the vials having an open end and a closed end. The apparatus comprises a conveyor for moving the vials, the conveyor having a mandrel for receiving the open end of the vials. Th... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7168366 | Apparatus and method for imprinting a vial An apparatus and method for printing onto vials. The vials may be connected in a series, the vials having an open end and a closed end. The apparatus comprises a conveyor for moving the vials, the conveyor having a mandrel for receiving the open end of the vials. Th... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7121399 | Small item pneumatic diverter A small item pneumatic diverter for high speed diversion of articles, such as fruit, from a moving conveyor in a product handling system. The pneumatic diverter is particularly suited for diversion of small, relatively fragile articles after they have been optically... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6808059 | Apparatus for removing rod-like articles A removing apparatus for rod-like articles comprises a removing drum (24) as part of a transport path for the articles such as cigarettes, double filter cigarettes and filter cigarettes in a filter cigarette manufacturing machine, and many transport grooves (... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6494063 | Apparatus for pushing hollow glass articles onto a conveyor belt The apparatus serves for pushing at least one of two hollow glass articles from a dead plate of a glass forming machine onto a conveyor belt. A pusher serves for this purpose, and includes a base portion and, for each glass article which is to be pushed, ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6313422 | Apparatus for sorting waste materials An apparatus for sorting waste material, in particular plastic waste and hollow parts made of plastic. The waste material to be sorted is placed in an unsorted manner on a conveyor belt and moved below a sensor. The sensor examines the waste to determine ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6152289 | Line balance and jam prevention apparatus for parts conveyed between serially coupled manufacturing stations An improved control apparatus that automatically maintains line balance and prevents part jam up in a manufacturing process by selectively removing parts from a conveyor line coupling successive manufacturing stations. The apparatus includes a stationary ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6062395 | Reversed container end ejection system A system (20) is provided for detecting and ejecting container ends having a reversed orientation from an axially aligned group of otherwise similar nested container ends having a non-reversed orientation. The system includes a support member (36) interpo... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5868239 | Conveyor including controlled package ejection capabilities A method and apparatus for ejecting packages from a conveyor belt. A pusher member is connected to two substantially parallel bellows so that upon actuation of the bellows, the pusher member will travel across the surface of a conveyor belt segment and pu... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5511671 | Installation for the sorting of plate material Plates, especially glass sheets, are fed for sorting to a putting-up machine wherein a glass sheet is set upright against a wall in front of which the glass sheet is held in a determined position by an air flow provided by a blower. One glass sheet at a t... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5329945 | Apparatus for discharging defective filter cigarettes during the manufacture of filter cigarettes A discharge apparatus of the present invention includes a discharge drum replacing one transportation drum in a drum train of a filter attachment, transportation grooves on a drum shell of the discharge drum, jet holes opening in the bottom of each transp... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5244075 | Cigarette ejecting apparatus of a cigarette packaging apparatus A piling machine of a cigarette packaging apparatus comprises a number of transferring drums disposed between the respective aligning drums of the apparatus for aligning a given number of cigarettes in rows and the piling drum for piling rows of cigarette... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5232079 | Article transfer rejection apparatus and method An apparatus and method for selectively removing articles, such as cigarettes, from a transfer conveyor system in which the transfer of the selected articles to a receiver conveyor from a transfer conveyor is rejected within a transfer zone. Vacuum suctio... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5135101 | Diverter of articles on conveyor A diverter changes the conveyor path of successive articles from a single succession to at least two successions of articles. The diverter includes a wheel mounted for rotation in a common plane with the path of the single succession of articles and being... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5011132 | Load accumulator having positive drive conveyor A load accumulator which has one or more stacking wheels mounted for high speed rotation is provided with an improved conveyor for conveying load items to the stacking wheel. The conveyor includes platforms that extend toward each stacking wheel in a plan... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4369873 | Apparatus for laterally deflecting articles Apparatus for laterally deflecting articles, such as bottles, from the normal path of a series of such articles, on the basis of a predetermined criterion, such as size or shape. The apparatus may be in the form of extensors which operate transversely to ... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4214663 | Transfer apparatus for selectively transferring objects from a delivery conveyor to selected sections of a receiving conveyor Objects on a delivery conveyor are detected by a photo-detector connected to a multi-bit shift register which is clocked by a pulse generator connected to the delivery conveyor. A NOR gate is connected between two outputs of the shift register and the shi... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4180153 | High speed batch counting apparatus A continuously moving stream of pieces taken from a storage bin is separated into precisely counted batches, for bagging, or the like. The flow speed of the pieces is optimized and substantially constant at a highest possible speed of flow higher than the... | 12/25/1979 |
