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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7207359 | Apparatus and method for transporting containers within a packaging system A method of transporting containers from a first station to a second station within a container filling machine. Each container defines opposing first and second end sections, with the second end section forming a longitudinal recess defined by an inner surface of a... | 04/24/2007 |
| 6510937 | Apparatus for aligning fabricated snack food chips An aligning apparatus for aligning food product chips having a generally curved shape includes a longitudinally extending rib positioned with respect to a chip transport surface. As chips are transported along the transport surface, they straddle the alig... | 01/28/2003 |
| 5531563 | Tray saddle arrangement for automated product handling system In order to prevent stacks of containers from shifting under the influence of vibration produced by an automated product handling system and assuming positions wherein jamming/mishandling is apt to occur, a container saddle ad stopper arrangement is provi... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5201984 | Device for the orienting of bottles applicable, in particular, to bottling machines A device for the orienting of bottles or similar containers, in particular for treatment machines such as labeling or decoration machines, each treated bottle being provided with a mark intended to come into engagement with an associated element of the or... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5107977 | Method of and system for drawing out torsion spring A torsion spring has a coil portion and a leg portion extending from the coil portion. A pin is inserted into the coil portion of the torsion spring in a first position so that the torsion spring is supported by the pin for rotation about the pin. The pin... | 04/28/1992 |
| 4995779 | Method and device for aligning and storing in a given order moldings having a tubular perforation "Method and device for aligning and storing in a given order moldings having a tubular perforation."Individual moldings (6) are introduced successively from above into a turbulence space above a receiving mandrel (5) profiled for reception in the perforat... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4863007 | Orienter for cup-shaped objects A bottle cap orienter has two rotating pin sorters, one positioned above and the other below a path over which randomly oriented bottle caps must travel. A stationary cam adjacent each sorter causes a plurality of pins at selected locations to project int... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4802568 | Sorting and orienting apparatus Apparatus for selecting elongate containers from a mass of randomly-disposed containers such as capsules open at one end and at least partially closed at the other and depositing them with their open ends aligned for receiving a charge of material. The ap... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4801043 | Parts orientor & method A parts orienting machine comprising a frame, a vertically actuated plunger reciprocating block mounted on the frame with a pair of side-by-side vertical passageways therein. One of the passageways is in periodic co-axial alignment with an inlet parts fee... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4775279 | Method and apparatus for loading/unloading dip devices An apparatus for the transfer of DIP devices to or from DIP delivery tubes is shown to include a hopper for the storage of several tubes, an elevator member for removing individual tubes from the hopper and depositing such tubes into a hopper, an orientin... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4721199 | Method and apparatus for orientating can ends Apparatus for orientating circular can ends having an eccentric aperture encompassing the geometric center of the can end comprises a supply stack for delivering can ends to a table and a first conveyor for moving can ends one by one to a first station at... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4711020 | Top end-stop attaching machine with improved top end-stop supplying apparatus An apparatus for supplying U-shaped top end stops reliably one at a time to a holding portion of a top end-stop attaching machine, includes a movable guide rail reciprocably movable between a receiving position for receiving the top end stop from a fixed ... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4690266 | Belt conveyor having article sorting and orienting features Belt conveyor comprises first and second endless belts in side-by-side relationship which move in opposite directions. Articles such as connector housings are loaded onto the first belt at its first end and carried towards the second end of the first belt... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4629054 | Apparatus for supplying slide fastener sliders A slider supplying apparatus, for use with a slide-fastener finishing machine, includes a rail for slidingly supporting a number of sliders in succession from a reservoir, with the opposite wings of each slider body astride of the rail and with a pull tab... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4628972 | Apparatus for reconditioning drums Apparatus for reconditioning drums has a conveyor extending through a series of equally spaced stations. The conveyor has a series of members, each in the form of a forwardly opening V and with the members so spaced that when any one is at a station, othe... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4482044 | Apparatus for separating nested coils Apparatus for partially or wholly separating individual coils from batches of interengaged coils comprising supporting structure for receiving the batches of coils standing upright, columnar springs supporting the structure, vibrators fastened to the supp... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4434885 | Overcap orienting apparatus Apparatus for arranging overcaps in like orientation. The apparatus includes a cylindrical bin for holding a large number of jumbled overcaps. The bin has an opening on one side along which a chute is located. A cylindrical array of horizontal flight bars... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4347926 | Screw orienter A screw orienting assembly in which slotted headless screws are sequentially fed with their elongate axis perpendicular to and in the same plane as a guide rail having a width less than the width of the screw slots. The screws are rotated about their elon... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4270650 | Process and apparatus for the aligning of fish A process and an apparatus are proposed for the aligning of fish, especially those to be reckoned as belonging to the gadidae species, in respect of the position of their planes of symmetry. Beheaded fish are cyclically loaded on a feeding device of a pai... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4238023 | Apparatus for orienting hollow, cap-like articles Apparatus is provided for orienting cap-like articles in the same direction and delivering them to an exit port from which the cap-like articles may be delivered to any suitable apparatus for placing them over the ends of tubes, bars or other parts. Inclu... | 12/09/1980 |
