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Wearable Pet Enclosure

An enclosure for small animals which is wearable on the front or back of an animate being.

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Class 198/371.3 - Rollers


Subclass of Class 198 - Conveyors: power-driven
Definition: Subject matter wherein the reversible section of the conveyor
No. of patents: 10
Last issue date: 03/07/2006


NumberTitleIssue Date
7008164Automated guided vehicle
An automated guided vehicle has plural conveyors for transferring materials to be transferred mounted on a self-propelling dolly and juxtaposed in a transverse direction. Each of the conveyors includes plural part conveyors whose operation can be controlled individu...
03/07/2006
6276508Chute having sortation features
A conveyor sortation station including a plurality of inclined splined rollers which form a slider bed. The plurality of splined rollers are aligned with coparallel axes and allow a parcel or other article to slide downwardly thereon under the influence o...
08/21/2001
6244422Apparatus for sensing and controlling tipping movement of a semiconductor boat
A guard fence is mounted on a transfer arm used to transport a boat carrying semiconductor wafers. The fence limits tipping movement of the boat and includes a plurality of sensors to sense tipping movement of both the top and bottom of the boat, in oppos...
06/12/2001
5890582Ball deck
An improved ball deck having a plurality of driven balls arranged in rows, with each driven ball supported on a freely rotatable ball and a pair of drive wheels secured to parallel shafts positioned on either side of the driven balls in each row, and a tr...
04/06/1999
5396977Conveyor apparatus for directionally controlled translation of an article
A conveyor apparatus especially useful for loading a cargo airplane utilizes several parallel transverse and longitudinal shafts on which are fixed for rotation wheels which contain around their periphery rollers which have axes of rotation in a plane per...
03/14/1995
5261526Conveyor system with driven balls, protectable against overloading
A conveyor system with driven balls, in which each driven ball is supported by at least one driving roller. The point of contact between the driving roller and the ball is located at some distance below the horizontal plane through the center of the ball,...
11/16/1993
5246096Rotate/translate conveyor module
A rotate/translate conveyor module enables a workpiece to be selectively rotated and translated between adjacent sections of a conveyor without having to be lifted above the plane of the adjacent conveyor sections. The rotate/translate conveyor module com...
09/21/1993
5009304Multi-directional drive for roller conveyors or similar
A multi-directional drive for roller conveyors or similar which is capable of reversible conveying of any goods deposited on it in the X and Y directions comprises essentially a plurality of rolling elements (4, 6) consecutively configured on a shaft conf...
04/23/1991
4909374Flat article direction changing device
A device for guiding flat articles being fed horizontally and changing the direction of movement from one direction to another wherein the change in direction may be as great as 90°. This is accomplished by providing a housing with internal rollers capab...
03/20/1990
4135615Tobacco feeding system
A tobacco feeding system for feeding tobacco from a source thereof to a plurality of individual cigarette-making machines includes a tobacco distribution system for the distribution of source tobacco sequentially to a plurality of tobacco reservoirs and a...
01/23/1979
 
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