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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7980380 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material having bottle plate support tables therein A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material having bottle plate support tables therein. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7661522 | Container processing machine, and method for loading and unloading a container processing machine A container processing machine (M) with at least one carousel (1, 1′) which defines a multiple-row processing section (2, 2′), processing devices (24, 25) which move concurrently in multiple rows with the carousel, container holding element ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7281623 | Transport system including vertical rollers A transport system for conveying articles along conveyance paths including straight, curvilinear, horizontal, inclined and declined conveyance sections. The articles are conveyed between a pair of vertical belts while being supported by protrusions extending from th... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7272881 | Production installation A production installation comprises a loading transport means with a transport rail connecting processing machines. It also comprises workpiece grippers for supplying the processing machines with workpieces to be processed and for removing processed workpieces from ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 6866137 | Article turning-round apparatus The present invention aims to provide an article turning-round apparatus improved so that a series of articles can be successively turned round at a high velocity and there is no restriction imposed on the positions at which the articles are loaded and unloaded.... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6805182 | Bottle labeling machine A bottle labeling machine, comprising a rotating carousel provided with a supporting structure for pans on which the bottles rest and comprising input and output star conveyors, the input and output star conveyors being arranged at a fixed elevation, the rotating ca... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6722494 | Method and device for transportation A transfer apparatus 10 includes crank arms 22 each of which is pivotally attached to a driving wheel 21, link levers 23 each of which has its one end pin-linked to the tip of the crank arm 22, and revolving sections 30 each... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6691854 | Device for orienting a number of similar objects, such as fruits A device for orienting a number of objects. The device has a holder conveyor with holders for the objects, lifts synchronously co-displaceable with the holders and rotatable relative thereto for lifting the objects out of the holders and rotating the obje... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6520314 | Apparatus for arranging packaged bakery goods for shipment A patterning apparatus for advancing packaged baked goods such as loaves of bread, and positioning the packages for precise loading into delivery containers includes an endless conveyor having a horizontally disposed upper flight and a series of turner as... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6471036 | Method of an apparatus for inverting filter cigarettes and the like A drum-shaped conveyor rotates about a fixed axis and its core carries a set of angularly distributed sections indexible about axes extending radially of the fixed axis when the core is set in rotary motion. Each section has several parallel flutes for se... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6454908 | Vacuum treatment system A vacuum treatment system has a vacuum chamber in which there is at least one part which is driven in rotation and is connected by a gear train which comprises at least two rotating transmission bodies with a motor drive unit. The rotating transmission bo... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6398006 | Rotary turret with pedestals and a method of controlling rotation thereof A rotary turret has a plurality of rotatable pedestals thereon, each pedestal being controlled by a separate motor. The location of each motor for each pedestal is fixed so that the motors do not change location as the turret rotatesl. There is a separate... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6390276 | Methods and apparatus for packaging unstable products Apparatus (10) for packaging products (P) includes a mechanism (84) for accumulating, metering, and creating an array of products (P) in a pack pattern. The array of products (P) in a conveying orientation is transferred to a tray (36), and the tray (36) ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6378689 | Vertical conveyor for a palletizing apparatus A vertical conveyor (1) for a palletizing apparatus for stacking products (2), especially books, periodicals or other such printed products on a pallet, including carriers (7) driven by a drive chain (19) on a closed path and guided horizontally by a guid... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6321812 | Perimeter driven labeller An applicator to apply a label (11) to an object such as a container (12). Each label (11) is applied by a label applicator (68). More particularly, the apparatus (10) is adapted to apply labels (11) irrespective of whether the container (12) is of circul... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6286568 | Transportation, feeding and filling apparatus of irregular-formed vessels and transportation and feeding method A plurality of bag making machines 2a and 2b for continuously producing irregular-formed vessels 1 having a flanged mouth plug, a plurality of transportation troughs 11a and 11b connected to the respective plurality of bag making machines 2a and 2b, a sin... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6273237 | Rotating shuttle payload platform A semiconductor wafer pod payload platform is operable for rotation in response to linear movement of the platform by a cam assembly having rollers adapted to engage a cam surface. The payload platform is rotatably attached to a shuttle platform adapted f... | 08/14/2001 |
| 5990450 | Rotary conveyor A rotary conveyor comprising an annular array of a plurality of circumferentially spaced work piece support members for receiving a corresponding plurality of work pieces. They conveyor further include a first drive ring coaxially associated with the arra... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5975278 | Cam actuated bottle unscrambler system A mechanism for selectively rotating pocket assemblies between first and second limit positions. The mechanism comprises a cam follower block mounted on the shaft of the pocket assembly for limited movement relative to the shaft in a predetermined plane a... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5497874 | Article engaging insert for modular link conveyor A modular link conveyor including a series of article engaging inserts includes a plurality of downwardly extending projections on each insert is provided to engage a series of corresponding apertures across the width of the modular links. A series of tra... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5180602 | Method and apparatus for controlled molding of chocolate shell goods and the like The specification discloses an apparatus for making confectionary or other shell goods by the method of filling a mold with a desired media and then inverting the mold to drain the media from the mold while leaving the mold coated by a layer of the media,... | 01/19/1993 |
| 4977729 | Apparatus for the automatic packaging of a fragile product in a folding carton The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for packaging a fragile product (8) in a folding carton (19), the problem being to carry out the forming of the folding carton blank (1), the filling of the carton (19) and the closing of the carton (19)... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4693359 | Device for transferring bar-shaped articles A transfer device in which the bar-shaped articles, in particular cigarettes, are transferred transversely to their axis by three rollers, of which one is disposed in an intermediate position between the other two and is tangential thereto at two separate... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4579517 | Apparatus for forming and handling sectioned products Apparatus for handling edible products, comprising means for laying down a length of edible product on to a takeoff conveyor and cutting the length into sections, characterized by the use of a line of successive travelling turntables along and on which th... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4577644 | Apparatus for tip turning filter cigarettes or the like Filter cigarettes which are produced in a filter tipping machine are transported by a severing conveyor in the form of two rows wherein the filters of cigarettes in one row are adjacent to the filters of cigarettes in the other row. The cigarettes of the ... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4513682 | Positive drive rotator In a booth in which articles are carried along a pathway for treatment with sprayed material directed through nozzles or the like at the pathway, apparatus is provided for positively rotating the conveyed articles to assure uniform treatment on all sides ... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4456422 | Apparatus for handling oval articles Apparatus for handling articles of oval cross section during silk screen imprinting and the like. An oval article is engaged at top and bottom by carriages, each slidingly mounted along a diameter of a rotating support. The article is conveyed past a scre... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4394933 | Capsule orienting apparatus Capsule orienting apparatus in which misoriented asymmetric capsules inadvertently passed by a rectifying unit are segregated from properly oriented capsules. Capsules (12) are delivered by a rectifying drum (14) to capsule carrying pockets (38) in a segr... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4377971 | Gravity fed type two-drum rectifying and rotary printing system An apparatus is disclosed which transports and rectifies objects, such as pharmaceutical capsules, and prints appropriate indicia on the objects. The apparatus comprises a two-drum system, the first drum being used to shift objects from a radial to a long... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4283973 | Method and apparatus for handling articles A method and apparatus for handling articles (such as web stacks) wherein a series of articles is advanced along a first lineal path and gripped therein, thereafter directed about an arcuate quadrant to a second path perpendicular to the first path and wh... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4275807 | Support for rotatable platforms for bottles A support having a plurality of circularly arranged rotatable platforms for bottles includes a drive mechanism having a plane stationary cam plate and sensing elements for each platform in contact with the cam plate. The drive mechanism is mounted in the ... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4264001 | Conveyor with roller support workpiece holder A spindle conveyor system having a continuous conveyor chain, including a plurality of chain plates that are connected by chain pins, movably mounted in an enclosure structure. The conveyor chain is provided with guide rollers. A plurality of carrier bloc... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4221286 | Pail bail holder Apparatus for restricting the movement of a pail bail facilities pail finishing processes, such as labeling. A blocking element for engagement with the pail bail intersects the locus of movement of the bail, so that its movement relative to the pail is re... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4218863 | Continuous motion wrapping machine A synchronized wrapping machine which receives a series of articles to be wrapped and forms and heat seals a wrap of heat sealable material around each article. The incoming articles are longitudinally aligned and are thereafter conveyed in preselected sp... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4207974 | Visual inspection apparatus A visual inspection apparatus wherein a plurality of rollers conveying articles to be inspected are driven linearly at one rate of speed and the rollers are rotated at a pre-selected rate of rotation, infinitely variable at an inspection station, by frict... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4096937 | Article transport system An article transport system employs a rail assembly and a holder rotatably mounted on a conveyor. The assembly is comprised of a series of interconnected, axially-aligned, generally cylindrical members, which are relatively free to move independently of o... | 06/27/1978 |
| 3968870 | Spin cycle mechanism for glass article forming machine Spin cycle apparatus employed in a glass article forming machine to drive article carrying chucks in rotation as the chucks are conveyed through burner sections of the machine. The spin cycle apparatus includes a spin cycle chain mounted on the machine fr... | 07/13/1976 |
| 3952874 | Mail processing equipment The invention provides mail processing equipment which receives opened items of mail for moving these items individually past several stations. Each item is first gripped in a mail carrier which moves longitudinally and which is rotated as it moves to tak... | 04/27/1976 |
