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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7293656 | Adjustable sorter disc method apparatus and system The present invention provides an apparatus for sorting containers commonly referred to as bottle unscrambler. The apparatus has a bowl assembly consisting of a base and an upstanding generally cylindrical sidewall, a support disc, and an actuator disc overlying the... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7261512 | Machine for orienting aligning vessels or bottles made of plastics The invention falls within the field of machines for orienting and aligning vessels or bottles made of plastics randomly inserted into a load vessel and in particular to a type of orienting and aligning machine that provides a plurality of elevators (6) that ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7204419 | Method and apparatus for reading firearm microstamping An indicia for marking on an object, such as a cartridge case, for representing selected information, such as identification indicia identifying the firearm that discharged the cartridge, and methods and apparatus for generating, imprinting and reading the identific... | 04/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7134540 | Adaptable automatic machine for the orientation and aligned supply of lightweight hollow articles The invention relates to an adaptable automatic machine for the orientation and aligned supply of lightweight hollow articles, comprising cavities (6) delimited by front, back and lateral walls (116), an open bottom enabling the passage of articles (A)... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7111423 | Method and apparatus for reading firearm microstamping An indicia for marking on an object, such as a cartridge case, for representing selected information, such as identification indicia identifying the firearm that discharged the cartridge, and methods and apparatus for generating, imprinting and reading the identific... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7066314 | Modular belt carrier for electronic components Replaceable component carriers (40) are adapted to be freely floating in belt apertures (74) and have alignment features (160), such as conical holes (170), mated to features (162), such as tapered pins (184), in processing ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6991085 | Device for automatically adjusting means for vertically directing and aligning plastic containers in an directing-aligning machine Device for automatically adjusting vertically directing and aligning means in dependence on said containers size. The directing means are formed by a plurality of cradles (5) and the aligning means are formed by a corresponding plurality of discharge channels... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6736255 | Conveyor system for feeding small parts to a chain assembly unit It is the intention to improve a conveyor system for supplying small parts to a chain assembling unit, the system comprising a track system transporting the small parts, and a feed device loading the track system with the small parts. To this end the track system co... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6557691 | Device for container rearranging machines, provided with automatic means for directing and dropping the container received Device for receiving, directing and dropping containers arranged randomly inside hoppers of rearranging machines and the like, which is formed by at least two side walls and by a back wall and comprises automatic rotating mechanisms for directing the cont... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6494668 | Method and device for stacking unpacked processed cheese slices A method and a device are disclosed for stacking unpacked processed cheese slices. Single stacks consisting of a plurality of superimposed processed cheese slices are continuously supplied by a transportation device to a first turning station. At the firs... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6478140 | Safety device for machines for aligning containers, in particular polyethylene bottles The present invention relates to the sector of automatic plants for filling containers or in particular bottling plants, in the form of a safety device in aligning machines of the type comprising a cylindrical hopper (2) rotating about a vertical axis (3)... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6345714 | Part sorting and aligning apparatus A part sorting and aligning apparatus for picks parts out of a hopper, aligns the parts and conveys them to another location. The apparatus includes a tilted rotary wheel next to the hopper. Multiple arrays of hooks or pickup members are mounted for rotat... | 02/12/2002 |
| 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 |
| 5984079 | Method and apparatus for loading electronic components A method and an apparatus for loading and positioning of elongate terminated electronic components include a load plate having vertical slots extending therethrough, the slots being spaced apart at regular intervals and each slot having parallel opposing ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5946885 | Cigarette packaging machine including a rotary folding turret having two releasably interconnected turret portions Packaging machine for producing cigarette packs, having a folding turret (10), on the circumference of which there are arranged receiving means or pockets (26) for packaging material and pack contents along with movable folding elements and other elements... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5826696 | Apparatus for separating small articles In an apparatus for inspecting small articles, such as in particular tablets, for obtaining a precise lining up of the articles there is a rotationally symmetrical separating body (4) rotatable about a vertical rotation axis (A), which has a substantially... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5577439 | Apparatus for pitting prunes or dates An apparatus for pitting articles such as prunes or dates. Each article is loaded between jaws of a chuck assembly which translates between stations along a process path. At a pitting turret, a pitting rubber moves below the chuck assembly, and the chuck ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 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 |
| 4130194 | Apparatus for erecting and aligning articles Elongated articles are randomly received through the open top of a housing in which an inclined disc is rotatably mounted. The disc has a circumferential edge adjacent the housing and the edge defines equidistantly spaced openings capable of permitting ar... | 12/19/1978 |
