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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7921980 | Device and method for vertical adjustment in container processing machines A device for processing containers with a lip on container support units arranged at regular intervals on a support frame and having at least a container support and a container dish, with the distance from the container support unit to a conveyance plane being chan... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7562762 | Rotary transfer device with finger moving on a CAM-forming path An exemplary device, for the support and rotary transfer of one or more parts, is integral with an operating shaft whose movement is brought about by the relative displacement of a transverse finger connected to the shaft on a cam-forming path. The exemplary device ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7342376 | Glass machinery motor control A machine for operating on a glass bottle. A carriage is displaceable by a servo motor having three lead lines. The rotation of the servo motor is stopped when power has been removed by shorting regenerative resistors to the three motor leads. The stopped servo moto... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7328784 | Labeling machine A labeling machine that is provided with a rotating carousel supporting at a peripheral region a plurality of pans and with an input star conveyor for conveying bottles to be labeled to the rotating carousel. Each pan is adapted to receive and support a bottle when ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7308836 | Apparatus and method for inspecting articles of glassware An apparatus for inspecting articles of glassware at a plurality of angularly spaced inspection stations includes a conveyor that moves articles of glassware to and from inspection stations, a drive roller that rotates articles of glassware at at least one inspectio... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7288154 | Apparatus for optical disc spin-coating and method of coating optical disc There is provided an apparatus for optical disc spin-coating, comprising a cap having a tapered protruding portion or a recess in its central lower portion; a turntable for rotation that has a tapered recess or protruding portion formed in an end of its central axis... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7261197 | Method and apparatus for inspecting articles of glassware Apparatus for indexing glassware through a series of angularly spaced stations includes first and second arrays of glassware gripping fingers mounted on associated carriers that are rotatable about a common axis, both conjointly and with respect to each other. Each ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7220932 | Work unit for conveying bottles between two stations and for rejecting faulty bottles A work unit for conveying bottles between two stations and for rejecting bottles considered faulty, includes a selecting disc, having a vertical axis and featuring radial seats made on its edge, for holding, in cooperation with vacuum ducts, bottles. A first track, ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7191892 | Apparatus for transferring products from a first conveying line to a second conveying line, in particular for feeding a boxing machine In an apparatus for transferring products from a first conveying line to a second line conveying line operated stepwise in a feeding direction and particularly for feeding a boxing machine a plurality of compartments are aligned along the feeding direction. Each com... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7188721 | Adjustment apparatus An adjustment apparatus, which is able to adjust a substrate position. The apparatus includes a plurality of transport rails, a plurality of rollers on each transport rail, a pin up device and an adjustment device. The roller is transported the glass substrate, a pi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7169360 | Rotary drive in an instrument for processing microscale liquid sample volumes The invention relates to a rotary drive adapted for creating liquid flow in rotatable microfluidic discs. A rotary drive for spinning a disc shaped substrate having microfluidic structures formed therein for the flow control of microliter and/or nanoliter volumes of... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7143890 | Vertical transfer device for tire assembly line A transfer device is provided for transferring tires from a tire conveyor line to a wheel conveyor line. The transfer device includes first and second surfaces rotatable with respect to one another. The first surface can receive tires from the tire conveyor line. A ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7128874 | Method and system for picking and placing vessels A method and system for picking and placing vessels are provided. The system includes a gripper assembly mounted on a positioning mechanism. The gripper assembly includes a cylinder, a plurality of flexible gripping members extending from the cylinder in a spaced-ap... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7086425 | Device for orienting springs The device for aligning springs (7) on transport from a spring winding machine to a spring interior assembly automatic machine comprises at least one rotary plate pair (17) which rotates about a rotary axle (B) and is drivably mounted about a rotary ax... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7077258 | Modular low friction spindle assembly Spindle assemblies include an upper spindle shaft with an undercut section, which reduces wear on parts. Assemblies include a depth stop on a probe pin to ensure accurate alignment upon reassembly with minimal time and effort. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7013624 | Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, a container filling plant container information adding station, such as, a labeling station, configured to add information to containers, such as, bottles and cans, and modules for labeling stations A beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material, a container filling plant container information adding station, such as, a labeling station, configured to add information to containers, such as, bottles and cans, and modules fo... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6973767 | Beverage bottling plant and a conveyor arrangement for transporting packages There is now provided a beverage bottling plant for filling bottles and like containers with a liquid beverage filling material and a conveyer arrangement for aligning and distributing packages containing filled bottles and like containers. The conveyer arrangement ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6915894 | Container inspection machine A machine for inspecting bottles. The machine has a belt conveyor with upper and lower opposed pairs of belt drives. Each belt drive includes a casing which supports opposed drive and idler pulleys which support a belt for displacement. A motor drive, mounted on the... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6848564 | Method and apparatus for inspecting articles of glassware Apparatus for indexing glassware through a series of angularly spaced stations includes first and second arrays of glassware gripping fingers mounted on associated carriers that are rotatable about a common axis, both conjointly and with respect to each other. Each ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6793067 | Container inspection machine A machine for inspecting containers has a belt drive having upper and lower pairs of belt drives. Each belt drive has its own motor and each opposed pair of belt drives can be relatively horizontally displaced and as a unit displace vertically so that 1. the ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6745890 | Method and apparatus for inspecting articles of glassware Apparatus for indexing glassware through a series of angularly spaced stations includes first and second arrays of glassware gripping fingers mounted on associated carriers that are rotatable about a common axis, both conjointly and with respect to each other. Each ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6726000 | Method of, and apparatus for, raising sheet-like products Method of raising sheet-like products (2), in particular printed products, which are taking part in a conveying process and follow sequentially one after the other, the products (2) resting, at least in certain regions, on a conveying means (1) ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6591960 | Edge grip aligner with buffering capabilities The present invention is an edge grip aligner with buffering capabilities and a method for increasing the throughput of wafers through the device. According to one embodiment, the present invention has first and second buffer arms, and a chuck arm. A work... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6581751 | Method and apparatus for inspecting articles of glassware Apparatus for indexing glassware through a series of angularly spaced stations includes first and second arrays of glassware gripping fingers mounted on associated carriers that are rotatable about a common axis, both conjointly and with respect to each o... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6578698 | Safety arrangement in a package turning device The invention relates to a safety arrangement in a package turning device. The package turning device is of the type which turns selected packages which are conveyed on a conveyor path through the package turning device. The package turning device essenti... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6520315 | Gripper assembly The invention provides a gripper assembly comprising a mounting base having a first magnet coupled thereto and having a moveable gripper coupled to the mounting base. The moveable gripper has a second magnet coupled thereto and comprises an end effector a... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6513643 | Resin vessel conveying system Resin vessels 10 are conveyed on a air conveyor 2 while they are supported at a point below a flange 10b, and are conveyed into a drier 8 which is disposed within a sterile chamber 14 through an inlet wheel 24. The drier carries resilient grippers 11 incl... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6484478 | System and method for packaging oriented containers A system and method for packaging oriented containers in a container carrier wherein a plurality of containers are fed into an orientation wheel including one or more chucks. Each chuck engages one end of the container and rotates the container into an or... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6374989 | Conveyor system for clinical test apparatus The conveyor system for clinical test apparatus includes a main transport conveyor and a plurality of auxiliary conveyors located alongside the main transport conveyor. The auxiliary conveyors define straight line paths of travel parallel to the straight ... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6343686 | Rotating clamp for changing the orientation of a substrate stack A low cost, high-speed device for rotating a variable thickness substrate stacks in a short distance, and with neatness and precision. The substrate stack rotating device includes a lower rotating disk and an upper rotating disk that are located in a subs... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6269930 | Apparatus for personalizing identification cards An apparatus for the personalization of identification cards (8) with integrated circuits (35) consisting of at least one personalizing station, for example printing stations (2, 3), furthermore a rotor (1) with a card transport device (16). Around the ro... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6202829 | Conveyor system for clinical test apparatus The conveyor system for clinical test apparatus includes a main transport conveyor and a plurality of auxiliary conveyors located alongside the main transport conveyor. The auxiliary conveyors define straight line paths of travel parallel to the straight ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6142725 | Rotatable shuttle transfer unit A rotatable shuttle transfer unit for transferring a workpiece from a first work station to a second work station along a predetermined path of travel wherein a pair of spaced carriages carry the workpiece along the predetermined path of travel and rotate... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6082523 | Packaging machine infeed device The device includes selectively operable article re-orienting means, allowing groups of articles to be packed together in a variety of orientations using a single standard packaging machine. An infeed conveyor carries the articles in a predetermined orien... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6024204 | Conveyor system for clinical test apparatus The conveyor system for clinical test apparatus includes a main transport conveyor and a plurality of auxiliary conveyors located alongside the main transport conveyor. The auxiliary conveyors define straight line paths of travel parallel to the straight ... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6021885 | Rotary drive device with axially movable receptacle A rotary drive device for a flat object which is transported by a conveyance means to a processing station. At the processing station the object is rotated about an axis orthogonal to its surface extension by the rotary drive device. The rotary drive devi... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6003185 | Hesitation free roller A method and apparatus for rotating wafers in a scrubber, wherein both sides of a wafer are scrubbed without slipping or hesitating. A rotating roller imparts rotary motion to a semiconductor wafer during a cleaning process wherein both sides of a wafer a... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5967292 | Bundle positioning device A device and process is described for positioning a bundle having a top surface and a bottom surface. The device includes a low friction surface positioned to support the bundle fed along an infeed path to a first position along the bottom surface for fre... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5934440 | Conveyor device for inspecting containers and transporting them to selected destinations A device for conveying, lifting and rotating containers (521; 522; 523), (510) are conveyed in lying position past a detector (515) in order to inspect characteristic data regarding the containers, and means (124; 538) which, on the basis of such data, de... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5823317 | Apparatus for uniformly orientating articles Apparatus is disclosed for orientating articles being moved along a conveyor for processing, so that a selected feature of each article is facing in the same predetermined direction, ie. handle leading. The apparatus comprises a support member having a pa... | 10/20/1998 |
