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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7363753 | Method for removing a pouch from a plurality of pouches including bending and pulling of the pouch A method and apparatus for removing the first pouch from a stack of pouches includes apparatus adapted to bend an edge of the first pouch away from the second pouch of a stack to define a bent edge and a bend in the first pouch. The first pouch is then slid away fro... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7320573 | Method for packaging articles having varying thicknesses A system for continuously packaging or sorting fragile articles having varying thicknesses in a stack includes a plurality of proportional shifters coupled to each of a plurality of stripping devices in an article infeed assembly. Each proportional shifter has an ar... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7275633 | Device for changing the direction of conveyance of flat postal items and the position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance A device for changing a direction of conveyance of flat postal items and a position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance includes a driven carousel tray to which one or more gripper arms whose lengths are modifiable in a controlled manner ar... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7246696 | Apparatus for forming groups of battery plates An apparatus for forming groups of battery plates includes at least first and second plate supply lines each including a separation station and a downstream plate supply. The apparatus further includes a first common plate feed line for the envelopers and a second c... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7163502 | Carton erecting apparatus Rotary transfer mechanism is mounted on a frame for removing a flat folded carton from a storage hopper to move the carton to a flight conveyor assembly and in cooperation therewith erect the carton to be in an open rectangular condition. The transfer mechanism incl... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7070384 | Apparatus and method for automatically unloading brick from kiln cars and preparation for shipment Apparatus and methods for unloading and binding brick or other components include an infeed conveyor that delivers layers of brick to a transfer distribution carriage. The distribution carriage repositions the brick layers on either an outfeed conveyor or a tine con... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7059478 | Method and a device for the rejection of commodities A cigarette packer (1) incorporates a station at which cigarettes (2) are formed into groups (12) and from which the groups (12) are advanced by a first conveyor (13) along a first feed path (P) toward a wrapping station (16... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7051861 | Conveying system An apparatus for transporting articles includes a first transporter (e.g. a conveyor) for transporting articles in a line and a member that separates the articles in the line into groups and also removes the groups from the line while the articles continue to be tra... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6971838 | Battery plate feeder having low vacuum, high flow rate pick-up head A feeder for porous battery plates has a vacuum-operated pickup head that is positioned above the plates. The pickup head pulls the top plate off of the stack of plates and moves it to an outfeed device. The opening in the pickup head has an area that is at least 50... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6964148 | Method of wrapping orderly groups of cigarettes A method of wrapping orderly groups of cigarettes arranged, in each group, in a number of superimposed layers, of which an outer layer is narrower than the adjacent layer and defines, in the relative group, at least one longitudinal lateral gap, the method providing... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6925775 | Apparatus for filling marine mattresses An elongated, mobile apparatus for filling and depositing marine mattresses for use in erosion control. The apparatus comprises a frame system for supporting the apparatus on the ground and positioning for depositing an aggregate filled marine mattress at a desired ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6718606 | Apparatus for molding and applying liners in caps An apparatus for molding and inserting in caps liners made of plastic material dispensed by an extruder, comprising: a dosage carousel; a molding carousel; an insertion carousel; a cap feeder for feeding the insertion carousel with caps, the carousels being rotatabl... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6648586 | Sample chip collating apparatus A collating for collecting sample chips includes a framework supporting a plurality of supply bins housing sample chips and a track running adjacent the plurality of supply bins. The apparatus further includes at least one collection bin shaped and dimens... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6298976 | Device for assembling article groups from rod-shaped articles in the tobacco-processing industry A device is provided for assembling article groups from layers of rod-shaped articles used in the tobacco-processing industry. The rod-shaped articles are stacked one above the other and side-by-side in group forming bins that are intermittently movable i... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6269931 | Device for forming groups of cigarettes A device for forming groups of cigarettes having a number of superimposed layers, whereby each layer is expelled by a movable push member from a respective outlet of a hopper having a number of outlets, and is fed into a respective movable pocket for rece... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6213283 | Apparatus for transferring rod-like articles Apparatus for transferring rod-like articles such as cigarettes comprising a series of hoppers (2, 4, 6) which deliver rows of cigarettes to fluted planetary wheels (8, 10, 12) which are mounted on a rotating carrier and driven around a central drum (20),... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6189678 | Apparatus for forming groups of superposed flat items An apparatus for forming groups of superposed, flat items, includes a conveyor having a transporting device traveling in a conveying direction along a generally horizontal working flight; and a plurality of upstanding pusher fingers secured to the transpo... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6044957 | Multiple item loading system and method A system for loading two items, such as bags, into a bucket on a bucket conveyor, first selects a first item for delivery to a second loading station. Thereafter, a second item is delivered to a first loading station and then loaded into a bucket at the f... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5860427 | Unit for forming group of cigarettes A unit for forming groups of cigarettes, wherein a transfer device transfers the cigarettes from a fixed withdrawal station, defined by an open bottom end of a hopper for cigarettes, on to a release surface traveling continuously along a given first path;... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5782334 | Method and line for forming and conveying orderly groups of elongated products, particularly cigarettes A method and line for forming and conveying orderly groups of elongated products, particularly cigarettes, whereby each group is formed of a number of superimposed layers of products arranged side by side and separated by a given distance less than the wi... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5718102 | Method and device for forming and transferring groups of cigarettes on a packing machine with multiple wrapping lines A method and device for forming and transferring groups of cigarettes on a packing machine with multiple wrapping lines, whereby each group is fed into a respective pocket of a conveyor, and presents a number of superimposed layers fed successively into t... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5699896 | Transfer device, and in particular, a packaging machine for cigarettes or the like, which is provided with the said transfer devices A transfer device includes a transfer tool which is activated by a rectilinear guide, i.e. by a mechanism made such that a point of attachment of the transfer tool describes a rectilinear trajectory when the guide is activated. A drive element for activat... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5649615 | Conveyor for compressing cigarette blocks A conveyor for compressing cigarette blocks to an appropriate size for packaging having a plurality of open cell bodies, each body defining an open cell therein, for receiving cigarette blocks in a configuration corresponding to that of cigarettes in a ci... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5522493 | Supply hopper for delicate, rod-shaped products, in particular in cigarette packaging machines Supply hopper for delicate, rod-shaped products, in particular in cigarette packaging machines, which hopper (1) is provided in its lower part with a plurality of separate discharge channels (2), each of which is divided by means of intermediate walls (4)... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5511769 | Sheet material collating apparatus A sheet material collating apparatus includes a conveyor and a plurality of hoppers which hold sheet material articles. Feed drums are operable to sequentially feed sheet material articles from each of the hoppers to sheet material receiving locations on ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5482427 | Horizontal loading apparatus An apparatus for forming stacked article groups in a packaging process, comprising a linear conveyance mechanism having an upstream end and a downstream end; and at least one article input and combining station, the article input and combining station inc... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5299679 | Apparatus for piling and transferring cigarettes A plurality of cigarette piling heads are provided on a cigarette piling drum. The same number of cigarettes as the number of cigarettes in a cigarette package are piled on each cigarette piling head. An intermediate drum includes the same number of cigar... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5282527 | Apparatus for arranging and piling cigarettes An apparatus for arranging, side by side, cigarettes to form three cigarette layers, seven, six and seven cigarettes in the corresponding layers, the total number being twenty cigarettes and piling the cigarette layers on one after another in a staggered ... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5244075 | Cigarette ejecting apparatus of a cigarette packaging apparatus A piling machine of a cigarette packaging apparatus comprises a number of transferring drums disposed between the respective aligning drums of the apparatus for aligning a given number of cigarettes in rows and the piling drum for piling rows of cigarette... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5228267 | Method and apparatus for making frozen dessert cones with attached removable sanitary jackets Frozen dessert cones made from a cooked batter capable of having lower and higher moisture contents, which respectively cause the cone to assume dimensionally contracted and expanded states, are provided with sanitary jackets while in their dimensionally ... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5122030 | Method and apparatus for transporting can blanks and the like An apparatus and method for transferring can blanks from a steel slitting machine to a welder includes a two stage chain conveyor feeding stacker pockets on a dial indexer or turntable for holding a predetermined number of stacks. A gripper assembly mount... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5106069 | Apparatus for positioning covers on stacks of superimposed sheets Apparatus for positioning covers on top of stacks of paper sheets has a transporting unit which advances a series of successive stacks along a first horizontal path and discrete covers along a second horizontal path above and adjacent the first path. The ... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5070991 | Apparatus for forming groups of rod-like articles Successive rows of cigarettes delivered axially from a packing machine hopper outlet (12) are engaged by a cyclically-movable transfer member (24, 32, 425) which accelerates each row sideways and closes up spaces between cigarettes (C) before transferring... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5059274 | Tire forming apparatus including upper and lower conveyors In a tire forming method or apparatus, a plurality of belt-shaped tire forming members are cut to predetermined lengths and piled one on another with their ends shifted in a longitudinal direction to form a member assembly, and the latter is wound on a ti... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5058726 | Tray feed arrangement A means for precisely depositing containers into a moving nest, with the means being relatively insensitive to the speed of the nest. Each container is positioned over a lug which is driven at the speed of the moving nest and the container is aligned with... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5046917 | Apparatus for forming stacks of accumulator plates Apparatus for forming stacks of accumulator plates having an endless horizontal conveyor device (13) for accepting and removing the stacks, whcih are each formed from a predetermined number of plates. To the conveyor device, a device for transferring sets... | 09/10/1991 |
| 4967898 | Conveyor apparatus for the transport of sheet metal blanks The conveyor apparatus is connecting a cutter, by means of which sheet metal blanks are produced in adjacent rows, to the magazine of a can welding apparatus which produces from the sheet metal blanks can bodies. A row of adjacently arranged depositing re... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4964501 | Apparatus for transferring layers of rod-shaped articles in packing machines The lower ends of several ducts which dispense layers of parallel cigarettes are located at different levels adjacent the path of movement of a stepwise advancing chain with receptacles for multi-layer arrays of cigarettes which are to be draped into blan... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4880102 | Device for the transfer of articles from a first to a second conveyor Device for transferring articles, preferably absorption bodies (A) intended for diapers or corresponding articles, from a first conveyor (1), on which the articles are advanced with first given spacing (a) therebetween, to a second conveyor (2), on which ... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4872544 | Apparatus for oriented strand lay-up A process for continuously forming a product having elongated members at least about one foot long which are oriented, compressed and bonded is provided, the process comprising depositing elongated members on a moving carrier with an orientation that is s... | 10/10/1989 |
