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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8056698 | Tray handling apparatus and semiconductor device inspecting method using the same Disclosed is a tray handling apparatus in which the conveyance and inversion of a tray can be performed simultaneously to thereby achieve a rapid inspecting operation and a simplified apparatus configuration, and a semiconductor device inspecting method using the tr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056699 | Pan inverting and/or cleaning system A pan inverting system (10) comprises a rotating table (11) having a central longitudinal axis (13), the table being rotatably mounted within a static frame (15) for rotation about the longitudinal axis (13). Conveyors (21) ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7753192 | Apparatus and method for orienting spheroidal containers and packaging beverages in spheroidal containers An apparatus for orienting a spheroidal container comprising a spheroidal body and a neck portion and the method for using the same, the apparatus comprising a container feeder, a channel having a longitudinal gap and arranged for receiving the spheroidal containers... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7530442 | Device for turning continuously transported, flat lying printed products The disclosed device includes a feed conveyor (2), on which printed products (6) are transported within certain distances from one another, a turning section (1) with a path guide arranged tangentially downstream of the feed conveyor and a deliv... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7360636 | Alternate package flip-over device An alternate package flip-over device includes an intermittently operable primary conveyor feeding batches of packages to a continuously operating secondary conveyor, and a flap for routing the batches to either a flip-over mechanism or to an intermediate transfer c... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7341421 | Workpiece turning apparatus This application relates to a self-contained apparatus for mechanically turning individual workpieces travelling on a conveyor, such as lengths of lumber travelling into or exiting from a sawmill. The invention reduces the need for lumber graders to turn lumber manu... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7153086 | High speed turnover apparatus and method A turnover apparatus and method for inverting articles such as lumber or board pieces being conveyed sideways on two or more conveyor chain loops in which each article is advanced on the conveyor chain loops by speed up belts engaging the underside of the articles t... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7131252 | Method of and apparatus for automatically packaging encased product An automatic packaging apparatus has an arraying and supplying station, a sorting station and a packaging station. The arraying and supplying station forcibly arrays and supplies encased products to orient their caps in one direction. The sorting station selectively... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7025192 | Device for turning objects The invention relates to an object turner or a turning apparatus (4) for end-turning of e.g. ice-cream cones (22) after selective deflection of the objects (22) from an object conveyor (2) on which the objects are placed lying in horizont... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6905012 | Device for inverting a hollow body A device for inverting hollow bodies gripped by the neck, characterized in that it includes a series of gripper mounted at the periphery of a rotary wheel and each of which is adapted to grip a hollow body by the neck, and each gripper is mounted on a wheel so as to... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6793453 | Method and device for transporting and turning objects On a processing apparatus with step-by-step conveying of the articles to be processed and a turning module for the articles, turning is performed transversely with respect to the conveying direction. This allows much space to be saved in the turning arrangement.... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6718737 | Method of and apparatus for automatically packaging encased product An automatic packaging apparatus has an arraying and supplying station, a sorting station and a packaging station. The arraying and supplying station forcibly arrays and supplies encased products to orient their caps in one direction. The sorting station selectively... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6190111 | Tray inverting apparatus and methods An apparatus (10) for simultaneously inverting a plurality of semiconductor devices includes a conveyor (12) for conveying an input tray below a frame (32) having a primer tray captured therein by tray captivators (64). The input tray is elevated by an el... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6173827 | Apparatus for handling and/or cleansing tubular articles The apparatus comprises a cylinder housing a rotary scroll Tubular preforms are fed into the cylinder in an upright state and displaced along the cylinder by a fin of the scroll. An upstream cam engages each preform in turn and inverts it. The inverted pr... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6142287 | Product inverting and diversion system A product inverting and diversion system for selectively inverting, diverting or skipping various types of products transported upon a high-speed conveyor system. The inventive device includes a frame, a pair of side members, a pair of first shafts and a ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5957264 | Apparatus for handling and/or cleansing tubular articles The apparatus comprises a cylinder housing a rotary scroll Tubular preforms are fed into the cylinder in an upright state and displaced along the cylinder by a fin of the scroll. A spring mounted on the fin engages each preform in turn and inverts it. The... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5858459 | Cassette invertor apparatus and method An apparatus and method for inverting a plurality of plate-like materials to provide for the treatment of plate-like material using techniques that must be applied to the surface from a direction other than from above the material, such as from beneath th... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5836438 | Device for automatically turning over work pieces A device for turning over work pieces includes a base, a pair of conveyor belts for transferring the work pieces in one direction, with the work pieces being kept on upper surfaces thereof. The pair of conveyor belts are mounted on the base in a parallel ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5810151 | Apparatus for upending and transporating bottles in continuous cycle An apparatus (1) for upending and transporting bottles (2) in continuous cycle is utilized especially in continuous cycle bottling plants using plastic bottles. The apparatus (1) comprises a horizontal axis (X) tubular body (70) having a guide (7) constit... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5800119 | Envelope inverter An envelope inverter comprises a conveyor (14) arranged below a surface (2) onto which envelopes (6) are delivered through a slot (4). The surface (2) is arranged such that each envelope (6) is unstable thereon, and tends to rotate about the edge (12) of ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5761335 | Apparatus for flash removal and optical inspection of O rings An apparatus for inspecting an O ring which detects surface flaws of O rings by successively sending O rings by a conveyor, projecting light and inputting pictures of O rings, and processing the pictures. The apparatus is provided with a vibrating screeni... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5482140 | Board inverter for use in lumber processing machine A rotary board inverter is provided for use in a conveyor for a lumber processing machine, with the motive force to invert the boards being provided by the forward motion of the boards themselves as they are transported along the conveyor. The device comp... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5458227 | Product package inverting apparatus and method An inverting apparatus for inverting a product package being moved by a conveyor belt comprises an auxiliary conveyor having a pick-up end to receive the package from the conveyor surface and a discharge end located vertically above the pick-up end and th... | 10/17/1995 |
| 4947981 | Apparatus for inverting articles An apparatus for inverting articles that includes a receiving chute which is mounted for movement between a generally horizontal receiving position and an inclined discharge position. A curved inverting chute has an inlet end disposed to receive articles ... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4799351 | Process and apparatus for turning head to foot and packing dissymmetrical oblong bodies According to the invention, bodies are oriented head-to-foot by propelling the bodies and deflecting them onto adjacent guide members so that the bodies on one guide member are inverted with respect to the bodies on the adjacent guide members. The bodies ... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4750229 | Device for the washing of eggs The invention relates to a device for washing of eggs in order to remove adhering dirt in which egg transport means and egg guiding means are present. The egg transport means and egg guiding means cooperate and form egg rotation means which cause an egg t... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4703859 | Apparatus and method for testing a can seam A unit for testing a can includes a first unit for testing a first end of a can, and an optional and substantially identical second unit for testing the second end of the same can. The first unit is connected to the second unit by a twister which rotates ... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4641672 | Apparatus for cleaning dish-like objects Plates destined to receive frozen dinners on them are washed automatically by apparatus which receives a train of horizontal plates, tilts the plates progressively upwardly to a more upright position as they move along a conveyor, applies sprays of cleani... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4364463 | Turnover conveyor In a double wire belt conveyor for conveying newspapers along a line of travel, a series of grooved, wire belt-carrying pulley rolls is provided, spaced along the line of travel and rotatably mounted on axes in planes substantially perpendicular to the li... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4331416 | Article transfer device A transfer device of the opposed finger type is disclosed for transferring an article along an arcuate path of travel between two stations while rotating the article, so that transfer from one station to another is effected while simultaneously turning th... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4230188 | Peanut digger-shaker-inverter The inverter section of the present peanut digger-shaker-inverter may be used under all types of field conditions and comprises two downwardly and inwardly inclined drums, each drum being associated with a set of inverting tines. Each drum includes a plur... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4105108 | Apparatus for orienting halved fruit cut side up An apparatus for orienting halved fruit with the cut sides thereof facing upwardly includes a longitudinally extending vibrating table which is inclined slightly downwardly from the receiving end to the discharge end. The table is provided with longitudin... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4104080 | Apparatus and method for washing and drying reusable containers An apparatus and method for washing and drying reusable containers are disclosed. In the apparatus and method, the containers to be cleaned, after successively passing through washing and rinsing stations, are, thereafter, flipped by 180° before passing ... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4098909 | Cookie capper method As a plurality of rows of baked cookie halves, each having a flat side and a rounded side, leave the oven-cooler on a transfer conveyor belt they are allowed to fall off the end of the belt onto a lower conveyor belt. Every other row is allowed to free-fa... | 07/04/1978 |
| 4020941 | Article inverter Apparatus for inverting an article being transported by a conveyor includes means extending into the travel path of the article to restrict the forward motion of the leading portion of the article relative to the forward motion of the trailing portion of ... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4007669 | Apparatus for reversing the running direction of tube sections in sack machines Apparatus for reversing the running direction of a tube section in a machine for making sacks or bags comprises a turning cylinder with grippers for engaging the tube sections and pairs of rollers for conveying the tube sections in the opposite direction.... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3961705 | Clamping conveyor Clamping conveyor for transporting containers of various sizes and to invert the containers during transportation. The containers are conveyed on a movable flexible endless support member to which are fixed a series of spaced clamping assemblies each of w... | 06/08/1976 |
| 3954170 | Rock slab turnover device A work turnover conveyor for stone slabs and the like. The conveyor in its normal position includes, in continuation, a work input section, a work turnover section, and a work output section. The work turnover section is comprised of first and second segm... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3945682 | Method and apparatus for transferring articles In transfer apparatus for receiving lightweight articles such as containers made of plastic material, from a chute, and delivering them to a conveying means, the combination is provided of a turntable or dial having partition members forming circularly di... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3939854 | Tray washing system A tray washing system includes conveyors which transport compartmented food service trays from a tray receiving mechanism to inverting and scrapping mechanisms and through washing, rinsing and drying mechanisms to a stacking mechanism. The receiving mecha... | 02/24/1976 |
