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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7861847 | Roller-belt depalletizer A conveyor and a method for depalletizing and singulating packages. The conveyor comprises, in one version, a set-down conveyor on which pallet layers are deposited and conveyed, a row-separation conveyor that separates the pallet layer into spaced rows, a row-extra... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7258604 | Device and method for the ordered deposition of parted sausage portions In order to be able to accept single sausage portions after leaving the filling machine and to be able to deposit them in an ordered manner with respect to quantity and position, an acceleration device for accepting the sausage portions from a filling machine in a r... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7220094 | Transfer device for cylindrical stacks of products arranged on an edge A transfer device for transferring stacks (4, 4a, 4b, 5, 5a, 5b), which have a cylindrical external shape, of products resting on one of their edges between a conveyor (1) set upstream for advance of the... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7204363 | Machine for inspecting bottles A machine for inspecting bottles which has a conveyor for conveying bottles at a first velocity. A bottle spacing mechanism receives bottles conveyed by the conveyor at a first location and releases bottles on the conveyor at a second downstream location. The bottle... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7131904 | Automated laterally offset retractable food dislodgement or guiding mechanisms and associated methods and systems Commercial production transport systems, mechanisms, and guides for food processing are configured so as to automate food handling and/or transport. The systems employ fingers that can be inserted to gap spaces in a carrier surface so as to dislodge, guide and/or ro... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7121428 | Supply apparatus for spouts and bags with spouts A spout supply apparatus including a spout transfer device in which two spout holding devices 43 and 44 are respectively disposed on each end of a reciprocating swing arm 41 that makes a reciprocating swing motion in the horizontal plane through... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7104388 | Conveyor system for stacked product An apparatus and method for conveying stacked product from an infeed conveyor that conveys the product in multiple rows and at irregular intervals onto a transverse outfeed conveyor, wherein the product is in a single row and spaced at regular intervals, wherein the... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7073655 | Device for processing substantially parallelepiped -shaped products A device for processing packets of cigarettes has a transportation unit for conveying a line of packets from an input station to an output station in a direction perpendicular to the line; a conveyor unit for feeding the line to the input station in a direction para... | 07/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7029225 | Stacking tray for flat mail items The present invention relates to a receiving area or stacking tray for items. The stacking tray may be flat and the items mail items. The mail items may also be flat. The flat mail items are accommodated in an upright position. The receiving area has a stacking base... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6994205 | Apparatus for controlling the deposition of feed material on a deposition build-up surface An apparatus 40 for controlling the deposition of feed material, such as coal 24, on a deposition build-up surface 64 subjected to deposition loading of feed material is provided for use in a feeder arrangement having an endless conveyor 42 | 02/07/2006 |
| 6962250 | Conveyor and method for conveying products A conveyor for conveying products (2), comprising a conveyor belt (1) and a moving endless guiding element (12) which includes a straight portion (4) extending between two guide wheels (5, 6), which straight portion (4) is c... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6845860 | Conveyor transfer apparatus A conveyor transfer apparatus (100) conveys stacks of product (S1) on a multi-row conveyor (110) having a plurality of parallel, spaced-apart belts (112) toward a single-row conveyor (120) oriented transversely to the multi-row con... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6758322 | Method and device for transferring blister packs and the like from a cutting station to a feeding line of a packaging machine According to a method for transferring blister packs to a feeding line of a packaging machine, a series of blister packs arranged in a line at a cutting station is picked-up and arranged in alignment with receiving and moving means, adjacent to the cutting station. ... | 07/06/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6726001 | Transfer apparatus and method for film bags A method and an apparatus for transferring film bags which are supplied in a plurality of parallel rows to a transfer station, to a conveying means which further transports the film bags in a continuous row substantially in a direction transverse to the direction of... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6712196 | Empty bag supplying apparatus and a product-filled bag extraction apparatus in a continuous conveying type bag-filling packaging machine An empty bag supplying apparatus used in a continuous conveying type bag-filling packaging machine in which the empty bag supplying apparatus receives empty bags and transfers these empty bags to gripper pairs of the bag-filling packaging machine that are moved cont... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6640961 | Unit for feeding an ordered succession of products to an unloading station A unit for feeding an ordered succession of products to an unloading station comprises: an arranging device including a first and a second conveyor, each constituting a first and a second conveyor portion on a feed path whose total length is the sum of th... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6575289 | Apparatus and method for feeding spout-equipped bags to bag filling and packaging machine A spout-equipped bag feed apparatus allows an increased number of spout-equipped bags to be stored. A plurality of conveyor rails are attached to a conveying device at a predetermined space and carried along an endless track. Each conveyor rail is capable... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6523462 | Aligned food processing system A food processing system for an elongated strand of food product, such as hot dogs or sausage links, provides aligned orientation of conveyor hooks and identical arrival time spacing between adjacent hooks at a reference loading point at a strand producin... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6499280 | Continuous bag supply device in continuous-filling packaging system and continuous-filling packaging system A supply device which, in a retainer type continuous-filling packaging system, converts the movement of empty bags supplied intermittently in a plurality of rows into a continuous motion in a single row and supplies these empty bags continuously to retain... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6419077 | Automated transfer station for hanging articles such as pepperoni sausages A sausage transfer station is disclosed for transferring sausages from a rack where they are hung by respective string loops in a plurality of rows to a main conveyor. The transfer station includes an unload conveyor for advancing the rack forward, a sele... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6409451 | Item handler and method for flow through storage An autonomous remote controlled vehicle for use in the automation of an existing refrigerated flow through storage facility food processing application. The remote vehicle is specifically designed to operate within a network of centrally controlled remote... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6408602 | apparatuses for forming a compressed grouping of objects The present invention is directed to an apparatus for compressing a plurality of objects into a compressed grouping and transferring said compressed grouping to a transfer conveyor. The apparatus includes a rotatable cylinder having a plurality of receivi... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6364090 | Apparatus for handling bags Apparatus for handling bags that are conveyed on a first conveyor in an upright position and on a second conveyor in a lying position, particularly for the gentle handling of bags and adapted to the handling of stand up bags, by providing a transfer devic... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6296103 | Method of and device for buffering sheets of cut stock in block shaped stacks ranged in rows for cutting A method and apparatus of buffering sheets of cut stock in block-shaped stacks ranged in rows between stock-cutting machinery and further processing machinery, whereby each row is also block-shaped. Each row produced by the cutting process is forwarded to... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6283694 | Method and device for the alignment of products In a method for aligning products, the products, being substantially aligned in crossways rows on a first conveyor, are carried by the first conveyor in hollows made in trays through a pickup position at which the products in each row are picked up by a s... | 09/04/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6202827 | Method and apparatus for feeding containers in serial order on a conveyor belt System for feeding empty containers on a conveyor belt, namely for packaging installations, such as bottling plants. The system for feeding containers comprises a supporting surface having dimensions sufficient to accommodate a multitude of empty containe... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6135448 | Sheet conveying apparatus A plurality of sheets are fed along a plurality of rows of conveying paths in a state in which leading edges of the respective sheets in the conveying direction are spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction, and fed from an outlet of the co... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6062845 | Take-out mechanism for blow molding machine A take-out mechanism for removing sets of blow molded bottles from a blow mold includes a rotary turret, a take-away conveyor and a drive for moving the turret between the blow mold and the take-away conveyor. The turret has a number of sides with a plura... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6062371 | Method of and apparatus for the braking and delivering of rolled products An apparatus for braking the travel on oncoming rolled products and depositing the rolled products on a cooling bed or other collector as a support frame extending in the direction of travel of the rolled workpieces and an array of profile braked members ... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6056543 | Article transport system A transport system operates to convey articles preferably through an oven before their subsequent removal. The transport system is synchronized with an article delivery system to receive and subsequently convey articles for final distribution on one or mo... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6053301 | Apparatus for feeding connectors to a harness-making system An improved connector feeding apparatus for use with a wire harness-making system is described and includes a series of slots for holding longitudinal trains of connectors, a finger plate positioned above individual connector slots that is driven by a lin... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5967293 | Belt feeder for component delivery system with intermittently moving conveyor A belt feeder for the rapid and successive in-line transportation of small electronic components. The belt feeder has an inclined dispensing portion with at least one dispensing lane, a conveyor portion having an intermittently moving conveyor belt and at... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5960622 | Cable depositing device A cable depositing device for processing a plurality of cables includes at least one receiving transport band having a length and an entry end, a partition that extends above the upper driving strand of the receiving transport band along the length of the... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5908030 | Device for transferring cigarette portions from a dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine to a filter assembly machine A device for transferring cigarette portions from an output bed of a dual-rod manufacturing machine to an input roller of a filter assembly machine; the device having a transfer unit rotating about an axis inclined with respect to the bed, and which picks... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5884750 | Apparatus for transferring substantially round, fragile articles, such as for instance eggs An apparatus for transferring substantially round, fragile articles, such as for instance eggs, from a first conveyor to a second conveyor or vice versa, characterized in that the transfer takes place by means of a swivel lever according to a flowing path... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5842557 | Automatic tortilla stack transfer An automatic system for arranging stacks of tortillas, first into rows, and then into a single file. The stacks of tortillas emerge at random from a stacker in a baking line or lines and are formed successively into a row, and then into a file of uniforml... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5794756 | Article conveyor and collator system and method A conveyor system useful for conveying food packages from a packaging machine includes a first conveyor for receiving the packages seriatim and conveying the packages toward a second conveyor. The first conveyor includes sensors and ejection mechanism for... | 08/18/1998 |
