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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136651 | Method and apparatus for orienting articles A method for sorting and/or orienting caps using an automated capping line can comprise providing a single cap to a cap-receiving cavity defined in a body of a puck. In various embodiments, the body can be vibrated to settle and/or orient the cap to a properly orien... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7347141 | Single drum rotary printing machine A rotary machine including a substantially vertical rotatable drum having pellet-receiving receptacles in its peripheral sidewall. Gravity causes pellets to collect toward the drum's bottom. As the drum rotates, pellets received in the receptacles are carried upward... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7255247 | Apparatus and methods for handling pills A brush for a pill handling apparatus and an associated pill handling apparatus and method are provided. The brush defines a non-circular profile and agitates the pills when rotated. For example, the brush can be rotatably mounted proximate a rotary slat of the pill... | 08/14/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7246701 | Machine for orienting, straightening and aligning plastic vessels or bottles The invention refers to the field of machines for orienting, straightening and aligning plastic vessels such as bottles, and in particular the invention refers to those types of machines that provide for a hopper for randomly loading the bottles that are composed of... | 07/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7114616 | Device for removable fastening of seats for housing containers to a metallic belt conveyor The device (D) for removable fastening of seats (3) housing containers (C) to a metallic belt (1) includes first fastening means (10) made on the metallic belt (1) and aimed at being mutually coupled with second fastening means (34... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6966422 | Adjustable apparatus for orienting containers The invention relates to the field of machines for directing and aligning plastic containers and particularly relates to an universal device for automatically adjusting vertically directing and aligning means in dependence on said containers size. The orienting mean... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6945410 | Automatic transfer table for a woodworking machine The invention is an automatic, unmanned, powered, variable speed transfer table for a finger joint machine which receives a controlled supply of blocks from a lineal block feeder. The slat chain is composed of two chain loops, connected at regular, equal intervals b... | 09/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6325129 | Test tube orienting system A test tube orienting system consisting of a test tube hopper, and a test tube transport system for directing test tubes out of the test tube hopper with a consistent orientation. The test tube hopper has an open mouth, an internal cavity communicating wi... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6257393 | Product collator The present invention provides a product collator for unscrambling scrambled products received at an input point, such as a hopper, and for delivering the unscrambled products to an output point, such as a transfer conveyor. The collator includes an endle... | 07/10/2001 |
| 5996768 | Quick change drum A quick change drum for receiving and orienting pellet-like items in a pellet marking machine is disclosed. The quick change drum comprises a central shaft with two end plates perpendicularly attached to the ends of the shaft in parallel spaced apart rela... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5800118 | Apparatus and method for use in manufacture of fed objects An apparatus and a method for use in manufacture of fed objects which is able to handle (e.g., convey and/or array) the fed objects in a soft manner and prevent the fed objects from suffering mechanical damage. A chamber is provided below a perforated pla... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5769203 | Automated facility for the unscrambling of light, hollow, elongated articles and for the lined up delivery of said articles An automated facility for the unscrambling of light, hollow, elongated articles and for the lined up delivery of the articles, such as empty plastic containers. Several article unscrambling and lining up units are interconnected so as to deliver articles ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5531331 | Sorting of differently identified articles An apparatus is disclosed for sorting differently identified articles, in particular for sorting differently colored gaming chips. The apparatus includes a rotating transfer disc arranged to remove individual chips from a random store and transfer them to... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5232398 | Disc conveyor A disc conveyor for conveyor for conveying disc-like objects is disclosed. The conveyor includes a feeding device for serially feeding a plurality of disc-like objects, a forcible transporting device for forcibly transporting the objects fed from the feed... | 08/03/1993 |
| 4660710 | Integrated circuit sleeve handler An integrated circuit sleeve handler comprises an input hopper, a first conveyor for sequentially removing individual sleeves from the hopper, an orientor for uniformly orienting the sleeves, a second conveyor for cooperating with the first conveyor to al... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4651864 | Apparatus for arranging containers horizontally and in sequence Apparatus for arranging containers horizontally and in sequence comprises a hopper to which loose containers are fed, an elevator with pick-up teeth defining seatings on which, on the ascending branch of the elevator, containers are disposed in a horizont... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4469215 | Can counter slide The can counter slide of the present invention comprises an elongated slide having a plurality of V-shaped grooves extending longitudinally therein. The slide is inclined so that the cans, when placed on the slide, will fit within the grooves and slide do... | 09/04/1984 |
