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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7357243 | Packaging machine and method The packaging machine includes: a plurality of lane guides, the plurality of lane guides being spaced apart to form a plurality of lanes; a moveable conveyor belt having a first end and second end, the first end located beneath one of the plurality of lanes, the mov... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7124558 | Packaging machine including laterally movable conveyor The packaging machine includes: a plurality of lane guides, the plurality of lane guides being spaced apart to form a plurality of lanes; a moveable conveyor belt having a first end and second end, the first end located beneath one of the plurality of lanes, the mov... | 10/24/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6997666 | Automated cart unloading/conveyor system An automated cart unloading/conveyor system for automated unloading of articles from a transport vehicle or cart to one or more transfer surfaces, conveyors, or other platforms. A specially configured cart carries articles to be transferred upon shelves. The cart is... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6945380 | Intermediate storage device and process for transporting objects The invention relates to an intermediate storage device for objects (11) to be transported. Said device comprises a plurality of carriers (9) which circulate on a closed strip and are used for the objects (11), e.g. printed products; an introduc... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6942087 | Conveyor system and method for transferring stacks of paper or the like to a discharge conveyor The conveyor system (11) is used for transferring rows or large cycles (66) of sheet stacks (12) from the stacking station (20) of a paper converting machine, e.g. a small format cross-cutter to several parallel-running discharge conveyor... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6895730 | Packaging machine The packaging machine includes: a plurality of lane guides, the plurality of lane guides being spaced apart to form a plurality of lanes; a moveable conveyor belt having a first end and second end, the first end located beneath one of the plurality of lanes, the mov... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6837361 | Diverter for dual track air assisted collator A collator includes a first conveyor having a discharge end and a second receiving conveyor positioned below the discharge end of the first conveyor. As each product bag falls toward the second conveyor, an air blast assists in uprighting the bag. The second conveyo... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6805230 | Palletizer for articles manipulated by suspension A palletizer for bottles having loader carriage with a plurality of horizontal corridors (11) formed by pairs of laterally adjustable guides (21), which suspend the collars (92) of the bottles, and pairs of laterally adjustable side walls (31... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6772872 | Apparatus for diverting successive articles in a single lane to plural lanes An apparatus and method for diverting articles from a single lane to one of a plurality of lanes wherein the articles in the single lane are moving on a conveyor along a travel path, the apparatus comprising a pair of spaced apart flexible rails suspended above the ... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6619017 | Apparatus and method for conveying items Apparatus and method for conveying items (P), comprising a line for transporting said items (P) from a machine (12) for working said items situated upstream, which advances and transfers to the line (15) said items (P) at a predetermined speed (V0), to a ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6547059 | Conveyor row former for objects having uneven cross section widths A row former of a conveying system is provided with a plurality of protrusions projecting from a side of a row forming arm that engage with portions of objects arranged in a row and pushed before the arm across a row forming table surface and prevent rela... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6527502 | Sod collector A sod-collecting apparatus, comprising a collecting platform for supporting juxtaposed rows of coiled sods, a feed conveyor for feeding coiled sods, and a conveyor belt downstream of the feed conveyor, the conveyor belt extending along the collecting plat... | 03/04/2003 |
| 5662207 | Procedure for loading a transport star and transport arrangement as well as uses thereof In order to increase the throughput rate of conveyors with a conveyor star, it is proposed that groups consisting of several bulk items be fed essentially radially to said star (13) and that in the process the mutual positions of bulk items (1) be adapted... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5484050 | Catalog stacker and loader A catalog stacker and loader having a conveyor, a cage assembly associated with the conveyor, and a loader for unloading catalogs from the cage assembly and loading them into shipping containers. The cage assembly has a first cage and a second cage, each ... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5327803 | Transfer apparatus for cigarettes and other rod-shaped articles A transfer apparatus for rod-shaped articles, such as cigarettes, comprising a housing rotatably mounted to a fixed main shaft with a plurality of cooperating crank arms and article holders rotatably mounted to the housing by crank arm shafts and holder s... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5193630 | Device particularly suitable for the automatic checking of the weight of a product put into bottles by high-output micro-feeders During the transfer into the weighing unit (K), the bottle (F) is held in the compartment (S1) of the transfer container (C), preferably by suction. An elevating comb (4) which receives the bottle extracted from the micro-feeder and which with a subsequen... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5169273 | Package transfer apparatus A package transfer apparatus comprising flappers which are juxtaposed at a travel start position of a package changing robot having attaching arms for supporting and attaching bobbin ends of packages to pegs of a creel, and are circulated while putting th... | 12/08/1992 |
| 4936440 | Apparatus for transporting cigarette packs in conjunction with a packaging machine For transferring cuboid (cigarette) packs (10, 11) from a (rectilinear) pack track (12) to a drying turret (13) or the like, there is a transfer turret (17) which is designed for the reception, further transport and transfer of two packs (10, 11) at a tim... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4832176 | System for automatically distributing and supplying parts A system for automatically distributing and supplying parts includes a parts distributing device for delivering an array of parts, and a parts supplying device for feeding the parts to a parts installing device at spaced intervals corresponding to parts i... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4671401 | Method of and apparatus for conveying articles A method and an apparatus for conveying articles from at least one magazine to several depositing areas includes a continuous, endless conveyor by which the articles are transported from the magazine to predetermined positions which extends on the conveyo... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4629091 | Workpiece escapement and divider A turret journalled on a vertical axis has a plurality of vertically spaced pockets open at their upper and lower ends and spaced circumferentially around its outer periphery. A workpiece hopper has a downwardly extending outlet lying on the circle define... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4462516 | Container orienting and directing apparatus Apparatus for orienting and quickly directing into a plurality of container conveying channels a single file of containers, even irregularly shaped ones, comprising a feeding conveyor on which the single file of containers is caused to travel in a guided ... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4431104 | Indexing conveyor system An indexing conveyor system wherein a feed conveyor section receives items, which are rapidly dispensed from a source thereof, and transports the items, one behind the other, on a plurality of endless belts to a pivotal conveyor section. A counter counts ... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4356907 | Machine for distributing groups of workpieces to different destinations Elongate workpieces with enlarged heads to be distributed in groups to different destinations, such as plastic parisons to be delivered to respective mold cavities of a four-cavity blow-molding unit, are fed--partly by gravity--over a pair of sloping, cou... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4339028 | Method and apparatus for checkweighing containers This invention relates to a method and apparatus for the automatic checkweighing of containers during the process of their manufacture, and particularly relates to the checkweighing of hot glass bottles during their transmit from a molding machine to a le... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4290517 | Method and apparatus for reducing loader bar impact Apparatus for modifying a drive system for a lehr loader in which a rotating cam functions to raise and lower a pusher bar for moving ware from a cross-conveyor onto a lehr belt, with a crank arm being connected to the rotating cam and the pusher bar to e... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4265355 | Cigarette tax stamp applying machine and method This disclosure relates to a machine and method of applying cigarette tax stamps to cigarette packages in cartons. The machine includes an input platform or table that receives cartons from an infeed conveyor, and three incoming cartons are fed to three p... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4227847 | Apparatus for loading ovens for the production of tiles An apparatus for loading tiles into firing ovens comprises, in combination with each firing oven chamber, a device for feeding the tiles, means for forming on such device a file of tiles which must be loaded concurrently, and means for taking up from such... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4172480 | Product feed apparatus A product feed apparatus for transferring a plurality of products such as cookies from a single holder to a corresponding plurality of transversely spaced apart conveyor lines. The apparatus includes a shuttle guide extending across the conveyor lines and... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4164997 | Article transport device and method An apparatus for receiving a single line of containers and grouping them so that a plurality of containers can be delivered to an exit line. The apparatus contains a starwheel arrangement wherein the starwheel is comprised of a plurality of sectors each m... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4157408 | Production of split tile Method and apparatus for the continuous and automatic manufacture of both glazed and unglazed split tiles by accepting automatically produced uncured newly cut and/or stamped split tile and thereafter automatically glazing and/or hacking same for kiln fir... | 06/05/1979 |
| 4104984 | Article handling and coating apparatus A method and apparatus are disclosed for precision placement of a workpiece onto a transport member. A plurality of workpieces are aligned in a predetermined spacial relationship upon an infeed conveyor. The workpieces are then moved transversely off the ... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4073372 | Apparatus for transporting containers to and from a working station Apparatus for transporting containers to and from a working station comprises at least one intermittently rotatable transporting disc provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced cutouts, which preferably extend in radial direction from the perip... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4067434 | Lehr loader Apparatus for pushing a row of glass containers from a cross-conveyor onto a lehr mat in which containers being pushed have their finish portions stabilized by both a forward and rearward positioned angle iron movable with the pushing member and mounted t... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4039072 | Apparatus and method for conveying molded briquettes from a press to bed plates via an inclined conveyance track A system for conveying molded bricks known as briquettes from a press to a bed plate wherein the briquettes are each conveyed by a plurality of spaced parallel belts to above a conveyor which carries the bed plates under the briquettes supported by the co... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4014441 | Brick tie setting machine A novel and improved brick setting machine as disclosed, which is operable to automatically produce stacks of green brick suitable for firing and which have a high degree of stability to permit their being transported from one location to another by fork ... | 03/29/1977 |
| 3973666 | Ware orientation or transfer apparatus An orientation or transfer device that is adaptable to either accurately align a plurality of articles of glassware simultaneously on a conveyor and on centers that may be easily adjusted to accommodate the users needs or to move a single row of such ware... | 08/10/1976 |
