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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7565959 | Article orientating apparatus An apparatus for orienting random oriented lightweight articles. The apparatus includes a wheel which rotates on an axis which is substantially horizontal. A plurality of alignment troughs is mounted on the interior of the wheel. Each of the alignment troughs has a ... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7407050 | Tablet filling device and PTP packaging machine It is to provide a tablet filling device having improved quality and productivity by correctly filling the tablets in pocket parts of a container film even when the tablets have a non-circular shape such as triangle. The tablet filling device 52 has a rotary ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7258222 | Article positioning machine Comprises a pre-orientating device (2) suitable for placing a plurality of articles (50) in the vertical position, randomly head up or head down, on a conveyor (1); detection means (3) for detecting the articles (50) that are in at... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7246695 | Conveyor apparatus for conveying closure A conveyor apparatus for conveying and orienting multi-diameter plastic closures includes a conveyor belt having a plurality of conveyor flights each having a channel configuration. Each conveyor flight includes a pair of spaced apart sidewalls which are spaced apar... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7222719 | Container transport and organizing apparatus for use in manufacturing operations and method thereof An apparatus and method for transporting containers to be processed in a manufacturing operation includes a transfer assembly that transfers containers from a load area on an upstream conveyor assembly to a discharge on downstream conveyor assembly for further proce... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219789 | Bailing apparatus with handle orienter A bailing apparatus includes a bailer feeder and a bailer. The bailer feeder is arranged to feed handles to the bailer. The bailer is adapted to couple the handles to containers. ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7161346 | Method of holding an electronic component in a controlled orientation during parametric testing A component handler includes an improved test seat having a shape that ensures that an electronic component seated in the test seat is in an appropriate orientation for parametric testing. The test seat has a base surface and first and second opposed seat side surfa... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7117987 | Article orientating apparatus An apparatus for orienting random oriented lightweight articles. The apparatus includes a wheel which rotates on an axis which is substantially horizontal. A plurality of alignment troughs is mounted on the interior of the wheel. Each of the alignment troughs has a ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7040489 | Object orienting and sorting apparatus An object sorting and orienting apparatus is for sorting, orienting and discharging a plurality of objects, such as, container closures dispensed from a hopper. An endless conveyor transports the closures from a loading area, through an intermediate area, to a disch... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6938530 | Tablet conveying apparatus and tablet cutting apparatus A tablet conveying and cutting apparatus capable of adjusting the position of a tablet is a structure suitable for downsizing. A tablet conveying and cutting apparatus has an arranging device for arranging a long side of the tablet to be perpendicular to the tablet'... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6919532 | Method of forming dimensionally precise slots in resilient mask of miniature component carrier A laser beam (102) cuts through a component carrier mask (96) made of thin elastomeric material such as silicone rubber to form slots (98) having slot openings of a desired shape. In a preferred embodiment, a light absorptivity enhancement mater... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6886683 | Conveying apparatus, inspecting apparatus and aligningly and supplying apparatus A conveying apparatus is provided with a rotary disc portion with a suction means which forms a slit on an outer peripheral surface and sucks through the slit so as to convey a conveyed article in a state of holding the conveyed article by suction to both sides of t... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6644460 | Apparatus for sorting pills An apparatus for sorting and feeding identically shaped small objects has a funnel adapted to hold the objects and having a downwardly open outlet and a housing and a wheel together forming an arcuate passage generally centered on an axis and having an up... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6491152 | Conveyor assembly A conveying system for lifting and orienting bottle caps comprises a conveyer belt of articulated sections and with guide rollers with an upper lifting section having an essentially vertical path of travel and a lower loading section with an angled path o... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6446783 | Electrode tip loading method and apparatus A method and apparatus for singulating and delivering wire leads as part of an electrode welding process in lamp production. Leads in bulk form are transported by a feeder. The leads are dropped from the feeder and passively caught in a desired orientatio... | 09/10/2002 |
| 5842579 | Electrical circuit component handler One or more concentric rings of component seats are rotatable about the rings' center. The seats are uniformly angularly spaced and the rings are incrementally rotated, the increment of rotation being the angular space between adjacent seats. The rings ar... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5806654 | Rotating singulator A singulator for transporting and separating tires is provided having a disk with inverted cone shaped front surface at an angle , a center hub and a plurality of flights. Each extends from a side of the hub to an edge of the disk for dividing the ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5582796 | Feed and orientation mechanism in automated analyzer An analyzer for performing automated assay testing. The analyzer includes a storage and conveyor system for conveying cuvettes to an incubation or processing conveyor, a storage and selection system for test sample containers, a storage and selection syst... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5540317 | Machine to detect and process to correct capacitor chip misalignment in loading for processing In a capacitor chip processing apparatus, including a rotating loading wheel mounted on a spindle and carrying an inventory of chips, passageways formed in the wheel for receipt of chips from the inventory in controlled alignment, a belt containing resili... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5454464 | Solid article conveyor In a solid article conveyor, guide grooves and pockets are formed in a manner so that one width of each guide groove and pocket is made narrower than the largest dimension of the solid article. Thus, only one solid article can be contained in each pocket.... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5394972 | Variable angle conveyor assembly A new and improved conveying system for lifting and orienting bottle caps comprising a conveyer belt which is formed of articulated sections and with guide rollers to support the belt with an upper lifting section having an essentially vertical path of tr... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5038914 | Automatic tie plate sorting conveyor A sorting conveyor for rail tie plates or the like including an inclined frame having an upper end and a lower end, and an endless conveyor belt formed of a plurality of links pivotally joined to each other. The links are designed to have plate retaining ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4979607 | Bottle unscrambler A bottle unscrambler has a hopper which rotates while oriented at an angle to the horizontal through a random distribution of bottles at the low portion of the hopper. The bottom of the hopper is bounded by a ring which rotates counter to the direction of... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4909375 | Automatic tie plate sorting conveyor A sorting conveyor for rail tie plates or the like including an inclined frame having an upper end and a lower end, and an endless conveyor belt formed of a plurality of links pivotally joined to each other. The links are designed to have plate retaining ... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4735343 | Feeder for bottle capper A feeder for a bottle capping machine comprising a hopper to receive and direct the caps to a conveyor which transports the caps to a chute transversely disposed to the conveyor housing wherein the conveyor housing is adjustably secured to the capping mac... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4673077 | Article supply apparatus For transporting solid pharmaceutical products successively from a supply station to a processing station while they have been aligned in position, an article supply apparatus has a rotary transport drum supported for rotation in a plane inclined at an an... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4632028 | Apparatus for orienting and printing capsules A carrier for aligning a plurality of generally cylindrical articles for presentation to a printing apparatus incorporates at least one pocket having a pair of recesses formed at an angle to one another, a first of the recesses being oriented so as to rec... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4353456 | Capsule orientation control method and apparatus A capsule orientation control method and an apparatus for effecting the method are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving and holding the capsules from a supply hopper in such a manner that the axes of the capsules are aligned with the radi... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4335810 | Capsule turning apparatus (random spin printing) Capsule turning apparatus and method for use in a spin printing procedure in which a printing roll moves at a greater speed than the capsule, thus causing the capsule to rotate about its own axis while it is being printed. Many capsules, randomly arranged... | 06/22/1982 |
| 4327825 | Capsule positioning guide and associated vacuum manifold for capsule orienting mechanisms In a turning and orienting apparatus of the type adapted to transport capsules in a plurality of pockets or the like, which pockets are formed in a continuously moveable transport conveyor, and wherein said apparatus is further adapted to rectify the caps... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4308942 | Single drum material orientation apparatus and method An apparatus for transferring, in a substantially uniform manner, a plurality of shaped objects, such as tablets, from a hopper adapted to contain a plurality of the tablets to a conveyor system for subsequent processing comprising a transfer drum in rota... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4266477 | Material orientation apparatus and method An apparatus and process for transporting and orienting materials which have dissimilar ends, like capsules, to and in a predetermined orientation and position. The apparatus includes two rotatable drums in tangential arrangement. Each drum includes a plu... | 05/12/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4205743 | Conveyor feeder for candy eggs A conveyor feeder for positioning and loading candy eggs on a chain link conveyor. The feeder receives candy eggs from a controlled feed chute, a cone member distributes the eggs radially in a cylindrical hopper onto a counter-rotating ring. Rotating brus... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4138009 | Endless belt parts transporter A material handling apparatus for transporting parts having a bowl provided with an upright curved wall surrounding a rotatable floor. The curved wall is formed with a track that supports an endless belt capable of bending in an edgewise direction for mov... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4104966 | Capsule orienting and turning apparatus Capsule orienting and turning apparatus and method for use in a wrap-around capsule printing procedure. Many capsules, randomly arranged in a hopper, are picked up in a rotary conveyor which arranges them first in an upright arrangement relative to the pa... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4042099 | Air controlled switch In an apparatus for processing items wherein there is a rotatable sorting table for orienting items and delivering the properly oriented items to a discharge passage, and an air jet for driving the items along the discharge passage, a pressure responsive ... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4042098 | Intermediate storage points for cops, and the intermediate storage points thus improved Apparatus for conveying cops from bulk storage to a usage station through intermediate storage points which includes a first conveyor belt which is sloped substantially upwardly carrying lateral limiting dividers to define single cop compartments, a secon... | 08/16/1977 |
