Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8056700 | Tray flipper, tray, and method for parts inspection Manufacturing lines include inspection systems for monitoring the quality of parts produced. Manufacturing lines for making semiconductor devices generally inspect each fabricated part. The information obtained is used to fix manufacturing problems in the semiconduc... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7909156 | Turnover device A turnover device for turning over a substrate comprises a motor and a tumbler driven by the motor to rotate. The tumbler is provided with a transmission mechanism thereon and connected to an upper turntable and a lower turntable with the transmission mechanism, the... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7857117 | Bottle inverting and bottle draining station configured to drain rinsed bottles from a rinser in a container filling plant A conveyor for transporting bottles from a sterilization machine or rinsing machine to a filling machine, in which the container mount, which is configured to move around and/or all along at least one axis on the transport element, is moved to invert a container to ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7367442 | Device for transferring continuously transported printing products from a flat lying position into an upright position or vice versa A device (1) for transferring continuously transported printing products (2 a . . . g), e.g., book blocks, books or sheet stacks consisting of folded and/or non-folded sheets, from an essentially flat lying position into an upright position or v... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7284946 | Mobile skid turner A mobile skid turner for inverting skid loads of paper includes an H-shaped base frame portion with casters for facilitating movement in desired directions and opposing upright structural members at an intermediate location. A rotatable shaft facilitates the rotatio... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7273143 | Powered rotary board turner A method and apparatus of turning a board while the board is being transferred in a conveyance system includes a conveyance system for transporting a board, a rotary turning device for rotating the board, a bumper stop for restraining the board and a speed-up belt f... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7258224 | Arrangement for conveying a plate-like product from one position to another An arrangement for conveying an anode plate from one location to another, whereby said arrangement comprises gripping elements attached to a conveyor for gripping a plate-like piece. Elements are attached to the gripping element connection for the correction, at lea... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255220 | Conveyance system A conveyance system, wherein dividable horizontal conveyance units are connected to each other through joint plates and a support post and rails of the horizontal conveyance units are connected to each other without any step and clearance. A joint conveyance carnage... | 08/14/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7143890 | Vertical transfer device for tire assembly line A transfer device is provided for transferring tires from a tire conveyor line to a wheel conveyor line. The transfer device includes first and second surfaces rotatable with respect to one another. The first surface can receive tires from the tire conveyor line. A ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7128516 | Workpiece transport apparatus While periphery or peripheries of workpiece(s) W lifted in floating fashion by simultaneous suction and expulsion of gas(es) between pair(s) of first and second, or upper and lower, transport stages 14, 15 is/are retained by plurality of elevator pins 16 | 10/31/2006 |
| 7128205 | Turn-around device for packets A turn-around device for packets, in particular packets of cigarettes, wherein the packets are fed successively, with a first surface facing forwards, to a turn-around station, from which they are extracted, with a second surface facing forwards, by a gripper convey... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7077867 | Prosthetic knee joint having at least one diamond articulation surface Prosthetic joints, components for prosthetic joints, superhard bearing and articulation surfaces, diamond bearing and articulation surfaces, substrate surface topographical features, materials for making joints, bearing and articulation surfaces, and methods for man... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7004717 | Plate cassette loader for platesetter A plate cassette loader for a platesetter comprises a cassette holder for receiving a cassette, containing a stack of plates. A cassette inverter then rotates this cassette to a feed position in which the plates can be fed into the imaging engine of the platesetter.... | 02/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6782991 | Board turner A board turner (1, 31) is intended for use on a conveyor (3) for transporting large volumes of boards. The conveyor (3) defines a plane for carrying boards (14) and the board turner (1, 31) has a rotation unit (4) and a grip... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6769529 | Turning device for lumber and the like A turning device comprises turning members moveable between an idle position and an operational position, a sensor located upstream of the turning member, for scanning the wood pieces on a conveyor, and an deflector controlled by the sensor and adapted, when actuate... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6752257 | Device for transferring blister packs and the like from a cutting station to the feeding line of a packaging machine A device for transferring blister packs to the feeding line of a packaging machine includes a pick-up member capable of picking-up a series of blister packs disposed in reciprocal alignment at the blister packs cutting station and releasing this series of blister pa... | 06/22/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6578700 | Item handler for sorting and packing An item handling system that sorts and packs items in a storage or shipping receptacle. The system is specifically designed to handle items such as sub-primal cuts of beef or pork or items of like size and weight. The system is adapted to sort items based... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6557692 | Board turner apparatus The present invention relates to an apparatus for turning the top side of planar objects (1, 2) such as plywood or particle boards into the underside, the apparatus comprising an importing conveyor and an exporting conveyor, and a board turner assembly mo... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6527100 | Turning device for graphic publishing products in a conveyor line and/or packaging machine A turning device for graphic publishing products in a conveyor line and/or packaging machine that can be combined with a push conveyor (14) for the advancement of products (11), spaced out one after the other, including a supporting member (16) bearing in... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6409008 | Turnover conveyor A conveyor system lifts advancing signatures from a conventional conveyor, conveys the lifted signatures along an upright path of travel, turns the advancing signatures from the upright path of travel to a downward path of travel, deposits the advancing s... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6364089 | Multi-station rotary die handling device The invention relates to apparatus and methods for semiconductor device handling. In one aspect, the invention relates to a rotary flipper including a wheel having a plurality of stations. A semiconductor device is placed within a first station in a first... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6299405 | Material handling device A material handling system, apparatus, and method for transferring and inverting a generally planar panel is disclosed. The system, apparatus, and method is comprised of a panel-engaging member and a panel-engaging member rotator. The panel-engaging membe... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6234742 | Process and apparatus for decorating flat self-supporting articles In a process and apparatus for decorating a flat self-supporting article which is turned for decoration thereof on both sides, the article is firstly removed from a horizontal position in an article holder by being lifted by a first pivoting means and the... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6227532 | Sheet turnover mechanism A turnover mechanism for handling sheets having a pair of belts, said belts are spaced one above the other, sheet turnover tubes interposed between the two belts, one of the turnover tubes facing in a direction opposite to the other turnover tubes, the sh... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6206172 | PTP conveying method and apparatus therefor A method and an apparatus for inverting selected ones of a plurality of PTPs being conveyed very easily and simply are disclosed. An inverting device 20 is disposed above a conveying passage along which a plurality of PTPs 1 are conveyed in a standing pos... | 03/27/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6142288 | Fanfold sheet feeder having stack positioner Apparatus for feeding stacks of fanfold sheets is comprised of a belt conveyor, a positioner, and a splicer. The conveyor feeds stacks deposited thereon by the positioner toward the discharge end. The postioner is comprised of a U-shape bin which receives... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6139243 | Method and system for flipping a tray of parts A method and system are provided for flipping a tray of parts such as integrated circuit packages including a pair of flippable storage trays. A first storage tray has an upper surface which forms a grid of storage compartments wherein each of the storage... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6098783 | Transfer machine tipper mechanism A transfer machine tipper mechanism for overturning a container being moved from a first station to a second station. The transfer machine tipper mechanism has a plurality of actuators to engage and rotate the container. The actuators are sequenced to rot... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6098782 | Rotary manipulator for conveyor goods A rotary manipulator for conveyor goods comprises a generally cylindrical manipulator disposed between an input or feed conveyor and one or more output conveyors, with its axis parallel to the planes of the conveyors and normal to their direction of trave... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6073748 | Multiple lane inverter An inverter for flipping articles traveling on a conveyor system is provided. The inverter includes a flipping member which has a plurality of substantially parallel lanes defined by side walls. The flipping member is attached to a frame member such that ... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5971695 | Turner with adjustable feed means A turning device for turning paper material has a reception tray used for receiving therein the material to be turned and arranged such that it is adapted to be rotated about an axis of rotation. The material is arranged in said reception tray in such a w... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5878864 | Device for turning and feeding bundles The manufacture of bags requires stacks of tube sections to be separated as desired. The stacks must also be able to be turned 180° and then fed to a separating device so that filling valves can be attached to varying end areas. A suitable device for fee... | 03/09/1999 |
| 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 |
