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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7384491 | Apparatus and methods for making crosslinked elastic laminates An apparatus for making an elastic laminate including a crosslinked elastic layer formed of an elastic copolymer includes a die for extruding a layer of crosslinkable elastic copolymer, at least one roll for conveying the elastic layer, a supply source for providing... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7182199 | Systems, methods and apparatuses for manufacturing dosage forms Systems, methods and apparatuses for manufacturing dosage forms, and to dosage forms made using such systems, methods and apparatuses are provided. Novel compression, thermal cycle molding, and thermal setting molding modules are disclosed. One or more of such modul... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7156219 | Installation for assembling tube components Installation for assembling tube components, particularly bodies (1) with shoulders, comprising the following elements arranged in succession: a linear body conveyor (4), a transfer system (7) designed to apply a change in orientation to the bod... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6899780 | Method and apparatus for placing discrete parts transversely onto a moving web This invention pertains to processing continuous webs such as paper, film, composites, and the like, in dynamic continuous processing operations. More particularly, it relates to transferring discrete parts to a continuous web, whether paper, film, composite, or the... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6742646 | Systems, methods and apparatuses for manufacturing dosage forms Systems, methods and apparatuses for manufacturing dosage forms, and to dosage forms made using such systems, methods and apparatuses are provided. Novel compression, thermal cycle molding, and thermal setting molding modules are disclosed. One or more of such modul... | 06/01/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6565309 | Polarity inversion apparatus and polarity inversion method for chip components An object of the present invention is to enable the orientations of chip components accommodated in groove portions of an index table to be assuredly uniformized. When a polarity judgment device finds that the orientation of the chip component accommodate... | 05/20/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6401435 | Pattern former and method of pattern forming for wrapped bakery products A pattern former for assembling wrapped bakery products into predetermined patterns includes a vacuum turntable comprising a perforated plate which is driven by a belt extending around the periphery of the vacuum turntable and actuated by a motor. A first... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6151867 | Process and apparatus for handling, in particular, soft film packs Process and apparatus for handling (individual) packs (10), namely for packaging the latter in a folding box or the like. The packs (10), which, for production or other reasons, are fed in a specific relative position, to be introduced into the folding bo... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6109419 | Device for conveying products Absorbent pads passing along a feed path advance first on an infeed conveyor at a first pitch and a first velocity, then on an outfeed conveyor at a second pitch and a second velocity. The transfer from infeed to outfeed is effected by means of a head dis... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5871079 | Equipment and a method for the formation of groups of products to be fed orderly at predetermined intervals For the formation of groups of products to be fed orderly at predetermined intervals to a processing machine an equipment includes a first conveyor, a second conveyor positioned on the inlet of the processing machine and having pockets for housing the pro... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5447219 | Positioning mechanism for high speed packaging machinery A high speed packaging machine for making pouches of fluent material has a transfer wheel that changes the orientation of the finished, individual pouches. The wheel has a plurality of holder shafts rotatably mounted in the transfer wheel. The holder shaf... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5025910 | Rotary pad turner Apparatus for turning pads through an angle of 90° about an axis perpendicular to their plane as they are orbited with a drum from a pad pickup station to a pad transfer station. The drum has a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart supports inside ... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4883163 | Apparatus and method for regularly spacing apart randomly spaced objects while conveying them The apparatus and method concerns transferring commodities from A to B, distancing them at regular intervals in the same operation. Commodities traveling in random succession along a conveyor with a low coefficient of friction are gathered into a single f... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4619360 | Product transporting apparatus A product transporting apparatus for transporting solid products of generally similar shape and/or size successively from a take-in station towards a take-out station, which comprises first and second rotary drum rotatable in the opposite directions with ... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4582201 | Product transporting apparatus A product transporting apparatus for transporting solid products of generally similar shape and/or size successively from a take-in station towards a take-out station, which has first and second rotary drums rotatable in the opposite directions to each ot... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4574022 | Apparatus and method for transferring and applying material An apparatus and method for transferring and applying discrete lengths of material to a moving web is disclosed. The material is supplied to a plurality of applicator units (41). Each applicator unit (41) has a first applicator segment (42) and a second a... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4394898 | Method and apparatus for providing balanced stacks of diapers A method and apparatus for providing balanced stacks of diapers where a series of diapers are advanced toward a drum equipped with an even number of turning devices adapted for vacuum-actuated engagement of the diapers and cam means are associated with th... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4211318 | Plate with tilted reversal heads for a device for orientating cigarettes This rotary plate is of the type comprising reversal heads capable of rotating through half a revolution during a complete revolution of the plate in the opposite direction, with a view to taking up an object such as a filter-tipped cigarette and placing ... | 07/08/1980 |
| 3952865 | Transfer apparatus for cigarettes or the like Apparatus which transports cigarettes from a pick-up station where the cigarettes move axially one behind the other to a delivery station where the cigarettes move sideways in one or more rows has one or more carriers which rotate about a horizontal or ve... | 04/27/1976 |