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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7111722 | Angled-roller belt conveyor A conveyor and a method for rotating and registering an article against a rail. The conveyor includes an angled-roller conveyor belt whose article-supporting rollers are arranged to rotate about axes directing conveyed articles toward a side rail. An obstruction is ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7055672 | Baggage positioner for baggage conveyor A baggage positioner having a horizontal conveyor, a position sensor, a pair of positioning arms with bi-directional vertical belts and a positioning arm controller. Other sensors can be added to provide additional data for enhanced effectiveness. The vertical belts... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6913136 | Apparatus and method for positioning separately supplied elongate meat products A device for positioning separately supplied elongate meat products, comprises two driven endless aligning conveyors running with the transport paths substantially parallel to each other, which transport paths together form a support for the meat products for transp... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6527101 | Attitude changing device for electronic chips An electronic chip attitude changing device includes a rotor having, on the outer periphery, cavities that are formed at equal pitch to respectively contain and hold electronic chips with a part thereof projecting out; an air suction path for drawing and ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6446785 | Lumber turning tool A lumber turning device for use with a conveyer having spaced apart lumber moving therealong whereby the lumber may be turned through 180° so that all faces of the lumber may be visually inspected. A first arrangement has a four lobed member whereby a fi... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6422375 | System and method for transporting and reorienting items A system and method for transporting and reorienting one or more items is provided. The system includes a first transport apparatus that can transport and reorient an item from a loading location to a first unloading location. For example, a first carder ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6349814 | Cargo-turning conveyor A conveyor arrangement that conveys cargo along a predetermined path of conveyance between an initial cargo intake portion and a final cargo releasing portion is provided with a first conveyor that is arranged to convey the cargo along a first portion of ... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6151867 | Process and apparatus for handling, in particular, soft film packs Process and apparatus for handling (individual) packs (10), namely for packaging the latter in a folding box or the like. The packs (10), which, for production or other reasons, are fed in a specific relative position, to be introduced into the folding bo... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6138818 | Workpiece inversion system for milling machines A workpiece inversion system for orienting a workpiece in a conventional milling machine or the like. The workpiece is securely attached to a pallet. The pallet is of uniform design to provide a standard interface for presenting the workpiece to the milli... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6116317 | Apparatus having a core orientor and methods of orienting portions of a disposable undergarment An apparatus and method for orienting portions of a disposable undergarment, such as a core thereof, is provided. The apparatus preferably includes a core lifting system for lifting a core of a disposable undergarment when in a first orientation position ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6032782 | Assembly and method for turning articles An assembly and method for turning an article traveling on a conveyor. The assembly includes a conveyor having an upstream end and a downstream end, and first, second and third turning stations spaced apart from each other and disposed adjacent the path o... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5709067 | Method for making sterile suture packages A method for making sterile suture packages employs a frame assembly line, a sterilization line and a blanker/cartoner line. A web of foil is advanced in a series of movements through the frame assembly line to assemble a frame containing needle-suture as... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5472747 | Method and apparatus for treating a polyolefin surface to obtain an active surface which is receptive to inks and adhesives A method of and apparatus for treating a polyolefin surface to become receptive to inks and adhesives is disclosed. The present invention provides a method of and apparatus for treating a polyolefin surface to become receptive to inks and adhesives, using... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5427028 | Printing plates lifting apparatus having storing function A printing plates lifting apparatus having storing function in a rotary press having upper and lower printing units arranged in tiers and upper and lower work floors corresponding to the printing units. The printing plates lifting apparatus comprises uppe... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5394973 | Sorter for integrated circuit devices A sorter for orienting integrated circuit devices comprises first, second, and third sections. The first section receives the devices and sorts them into those with a leads down orientation and those with a leads up orientation. The first section comprise... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5143197 | Device for turning flat objects, such as for example bundles of notes A thrusting mechanism with a thrusting member (5) which is moved periodically with an acceleration relative to the conveying speed out of a starting position into an end position and back into the starting position by a drive arrangement is provided on th... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5125495 | Feed device for a corner finishing machine A feed device for a corner finishing machine for finishing frames consists f a framework which supports the frames, a conveyor for longitudinal movement of the frames along the support plane and a pivot device to rotate the frames around a normal pivot axi... | 06/30/1992 |
| 4977997 | System for turning shape steels upside down A system for turning shape steels upside down includes a conveyor adapted to transport shape steels along a line, a shifting device having bars rotatable across the line upwards and downwards for transferring the shape steels from a count-up station to a ... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4936764 | Inverter for brick mould An inverter adapted to gently invert multi-cell moulds used in a brick making machine includes a first carrier for transporting a mould through a first arcuate path, a second carrier for transporting a mould through a second arcuate path to cause inversio... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4915237 | Comprehensive container inspection system A comprehensive container inspection system includes axial container examining features, side wall inspection features and a controllable diverter for routing the containers to one of at least two sorting paths. Each stage of the inspection system is adap... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4880101 | Piece locating system for painting or the like An automated painting system where the parts to be painted are placed on a carrying tray in a first position and moved through a painting and a drying station so that first surface portions of the parts are painted. Then the carrying tray with the parts i... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4874077 | Device for transferring a lithographic plate A device is provided for transferring a lithographic plate (S) from a horizontal conveyor (1) to an overhead conveyor (25). The transfer device has orienting means (2) for receiving a transversely extending lithographic plate from the horizontal conveyor ... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4832173 | Device for rotating containers while transporting same A container rotating-transporting device for transporting a plurality of containers while rotating same, which comprises a transport device for transporting the containers straightly, a plurality of container stands each provided rotatably on the transpor... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4746006 | Filter cigarette manufacture Apparatus for separating axially-aligned rods of the cigarette industry comprises a first pair of conical drums (14,16) mounted on a first common sleeve (32) and arranged to receive respectively the two rods (10) of each pair to be separated, the axes of ... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4696387 | Workpiece rollover apparatus An apparatus for rolling over or positioning workpieces. The apparatus consists of two conveyor belt surfaces arranged to rotate a workpiece supported on a first conveyor surface in a vertical plane. The apparatus eliminates the need for complicated hoist... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4664249 | Turn around device for filter cigarettes A turn around device that is designed for changing two side-by-side parallel rows of filter tipped cigarettes, which are formed by a succession of parallel pairs of co-axial cigarettes (S1, S2) with their filters in facing relation, into only one row of p... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4648503 | Article turning device There is provided a device and a method for turning flat articles, more particularly letter envelopes, flat bags or the like. The article is first moved out of its direction of conveyance into a curvilinear path, whereafter--without stopping in its origin... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4629056 | Yeast cake tumbler A yeast cake device for reorienting yeast cakes by a tumbling operation has a single reciprocating part. The reciprocating part is a reciprocating ram having an upper arm and a lower arm. The upper arm serves to push articles to be tumbled across a first ... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4609090 | Method and apparatus for moving and handling heavy objects Method and apparatus for minimizing the work required for moving, handling, and rolling heavy boxes and the like having a center of gravity. The apparatus incorporates a ramp contoured to the locus of points described by the surfaces of the workpiece as t... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4598532 | Apparatus for forming flat elements, such as tiles, into packages An improved packaging apparatus includes a linear conveyor belt above which there is mounted an automatic reciprocating turning device which turns flat elements moved by the conveyor. At the end of travel of the conveyor, there is a clamp loader which pre... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4560057 | Packet handling apparatus Packet handling apparatus, particularly for use between a cigarette packing machine and a cigarette packet wrapping machine, includes a main conveyor for moving packets towards a receiving station, and a reservoir for temporarily storing packets when the ... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4553459 | Methods and an apparatus for trilaterally opening an envelope A method of opening an envelope along three edges, in which the envelope is moved to an opening or edge removing device along a supply path, one edge being guided along said device for cutting open or removing the edge. Next, the envelope is rotated throu... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4513853 | Cooling bed construction A walking beam conveyor of the type having a plurality of reciprocally movable notched beams interposed between a plurality of fixed notched beams, cools and transfers elongated articles such as cylindrical bar stock between a furnace and a discharge stat... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4495132 | Method and apparatus for making antique brick An apparatus for treating the edges of pre-fired brick includes an extruder for extruding a column of clay and a wire cutter assembly for severing the column into individual bricks having their longitudinal axes substantially perpendicular to the directio... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4479643 | Method and apparatus for transferring newspapers from pockets to an overlapped stream Bottom opening pockets in a newspaper stuffing machine sequentially move newspapers to a transfer station at a first speed with closed edge portions of the newspapers downward and major sides of the newspapers on which headlines are printed facing in the ... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4471865 | Packaging machines Article feeding apparatus includes a series of equally spaced pushers for advancing along a platform a procession of sweets or the like lying flat on the platform. The platform has a downwardly extending ramp and as the sweets travel down the ramp they ar... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4344521 | Apparatus for conveying rod-like articles Apparatus for conveying rod-like articles, especially cigarettes, includes parallel conveyors for streams of articles and two transfer conveyors which together re-orientate articles in one stream for combination with articles in the other stream. The tran... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4302141 | Bale destacker Disclosed is a mechanism for receiving bales or cartons in small stacks or cubes and delivering single bales or cartons in pre-determined alignment. The bale or carton is placed on an elevator floor and moved up in steps of one tier at a time. A pusher ar... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4271959 | Coil rotating cooling conveyor system Coils of hot strip from a hot strip mill downcoiler are transferred broadside and set down with the coil eye horizontal on a walking beam conveyor. The conveyor comprises elongated transfer members pivoted at their lower end below the path of coil travel ... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4225031 | Article orientation device A device for obtaining the proper end to end orientation of articles that are delivered to the device in a random orientation, the articles having a common longitudinal characteristic, the device including a rotating pick up and feed device for introducti... | 09/30/1980 |
