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| 7921981 | Method and apparatus for conveying and arranging bakery products A method and apparatus for conveying and arranging bakery products such as hot dog buns or breadsticks. The products are delivered with their length dimensions at a variety of angular orientations and some products inverted. An aligning conveyor receives misaligned ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7322458 | Orienting and feeding apparatus for manufacturing line Apparatus for orienting and feeding blow molded preforms which are elongated generally cylindrical plastic objects, one end of which is a threaded neck portion for the ultimate blow molded container, and the other end of which extends from the opposed end of the cyl... | 01/29/2008 |
| 6733228 | Apparatus for transporting parts A part transporting apparatus comprises: a guiding groove for lining up parts in one row and guiding the parts; a transporting member which is provided at the base of the guiding groove and transports the parts in a forward direction by itself moving forwards and ba... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6675680 | Method of and apparatus for handling tandem containers Apparatus for, and method of, conveying tandem thermoplastic containers from a molding machine to a tail removal station, the tandem containers being positioned with their axes extending horizontally but possibly out of parallel with one another and with ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6619467 | Component feeder apparatus and method A feeder for feeding electronic chip components includes a hopper having a discharge opening at its bottom and having and an aligning path forming member for agitating electronic chip components. The aligning path forming member agitates the electronic ch... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6443669 | Electronic component feeding apparatus An electronic component feeding apparatus for conveying aligned electronic components includes a conveying tube, a cylinder for sucking air from an end of the tube, and a movable stopper plate for stopping the conveyed, aligned electronic components.... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6338608 | Apparatus for transporting parts A part transporting apparatus comprises a guiding groove for lining up parts in one row and guiding the parts; a transporting member which is provided at the base of the guiding groove and transports the parts in a forward direction by itself moving forwa... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6336569 | Arranging and supplying apparatus An apparatus for arranging and supplying a plurality of objects, the apparatus including a hopper which stores the objects in bulk and which has a funnelform bottom surface at least a portion of which extends in a reference direction inclined with respect... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6116840 | Component supply apparatus A component supply apparatus includes a rectangular cross-sectional component passage which can house a plurality of chip components in a longitudinal direction, and at a first side surface of the tip of this component passage a rectangular-shaped compone... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6032783 | Chip component feeding apparatus A chip component feeding apparatus translates chip components accommodated in bulk along a passage in alignment and feeds the foremost chip component to a predetermined take-out position. A curved passage having at its passage center a predetermined radiu... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5853077 | Article handling device, combination and methods A rotary puck conveying mechanism and method will qualify articles and place them within a puck or article handling device. This puck has a centrally disposed opening for receiving the articles. The mechanism includes a centrifugal feeder with a rotatable... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5564551 | Puck conveying mechanism and method A rotary puck conveying mechanism and method will qualify articles and place them within a puck. This puck has a centrally disposed opening for receiving the articles. The mechanism includes a centrifugal feeder for supply a plurality of articles to an ou... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5513739 | Method and apparatus for feeding objects into a predetermined handling position A method is provided for feeding objects (15) from a magazine (11, 14) having a set of objects (12, 15) therein, through a feeder path (4) to a correct "catch position" (6) in which the objects (15) are placed in a predetermined correct alignment. One or ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5492226 | Apparatus for sorting and feeding bead supporters for an electrode gun of a cathode-ray tube This invention relates to a bead supporter for supporting a cathode assembly of an electron gun for a cathode-ray tube and fixing the assembly to a bead glass. This invention also relates to an apparatus for sorting and transporting the bead supporters in... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5205395 | Vibratory movement and manipulation apparatus and method Methods and apparatus for vibration-generated movement and manipulation, such as transportation, orientation, loading or sorting of materials are provided. At least one electromagnetic coil is disposed to act in a horizontal plane, and another electromagn... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5101955 | Feeder for placement of components Orienting air-wound coils for placement by an automatic pick-and-place machine has been a problem for small electronic coils. Extracting damaged or deformed coils on a one-by-one basis is expensive and time-consuming. A feeder for air-wound coils uses a r... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4995157 | Component feeder system A chip component handling and loading system for orienting and transporting a plurality of generally rectangular chip components includes a storage and feed location which, by means of vibratory action, randomly shakes out the chip components into or onto... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4960195 | Component-orienting apparatus A component-orienting apparatus provided with a plurality of parallel orienting passages for aligning a plurality of components such as rectangular-parallelopipedic electronic component chips in the same orientation as each other. Each of the orienting pa... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4903724 | Liquid level control system A liquid level control system for automatically stopping the flow of water in a bathtub. The system includes an adjustable level control mechanism and a flow control device. The control mechanism comprises a float suspended from a flexible chain and slidi... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4898270 | Apparatus for aligning and transporting containers An improved apparatus for aligning and transporting containers is disclosed. The apparatus includes a hopper having dividers with the dividers having top surfaces which decline from one end wall of the hopper at different angles. A conveyor is provided an... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4854455 | Machine for grading and sorting fish, in particular fish from the salmonidae family The machine according to the invention comprises a channel which is: constituted by two shaped panels giving it an open bottomed V-shaped section and which are associated with relative spacing adjustment members, provided with spraying conduits and overlapping plat... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4539879 | Method and apparatus for forming and processing food spears Cucumber spears are rapidly and reliably packed into and around the inner periphery of a jar with the same cut side of each of the spears facing outwardly. The spears are formed by pushing a cucumber lengthwise through a set of knife blades, and the resul... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4424657 | Apparatus and method for carding pierced earrings and the like Apparatus and method for expediting the carding of jewelry items comprising piercing posts and clutches, such as pierced earrings and the like, particularly where a plurality of pairs of earrings are mounted on a single card. The clutches are vibrated int... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4265072 | Apparatus for charging receptacles with items of like size and shape An apparatus for charging tall, narrow receptacles with small, plate-like items of like size and shape. The apparatus has at least one counting and charging unit having a plurality of axially aligned counting wheels having a plurality of pockets along the... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4062462 | Method for orienting an article An article, such as a beam-lead semiconductor device, is precisely oriented by placing it on the end of a tubular member which is centered in a cavity having the form of inverted, truncated, pyramid. The smallest cross section of the cavity is smaller tha... | 12/13/1977 |
| 3982979 | Methods for mounting an article on an adherent site on a substrate A plurality of small articles, such as beam-lead semiconductor devices, are precisely positioned by placing them on the ends of tubular members which are centered in cavities having the form of inverted, truncated, pyramids. The smallest cross section of ... | 09/28/1976 |
| 3949867 | Device for changing the direction of movement of an advancing row of cylindrical containers with respect to their main axis of symmetry Device for changing the relative position of advancing consecutive cylindrical, checker-shaped containers moving in a row, the device comprising a conveyor, an inclined transport surface and a discharge path; an improvement consisting in a chute positione... | 04/13/1976 |
