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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7220932 | Work unit for conveying bottles between two stations and for rejecting faulty bottles A work unit for conveying bottles between two stations and for rejecting bottles considered faulty, includes a selecting disc, having a vertical axis and featuring radial seats made on its edge, for holding, in cooperation with vacuum ducts, bottles. A first track, ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7121399 | Small item pneumatic diverter A small item pneumatic diverter for high speed diversion of articles, such as fruit, from a moving conveyor in a product handling system. The pneumatic diverter is particularly suited for diversion of small, relatively fragile articles after they have been optically... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123987 | Rod member receiving apparatus A receiving apparatus for a filter cigarette making machine comprises a rotatable catcher drum (2). The drum (2) has receiving grooves (6) in its outer circumferential surface, for each receiving a cigarette rod (CR). A rod (CR) received in the ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6961638 | Reject bottle detection and ejection mechanisms A reject bottle detection and ejection apparatus has a plurality of sensors positioned along the length of a belt conveyor that senses whether a bottle conveyed by the conveyor is positioned in an upright orientation, in an inverted orientation, in a sideways orient... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6868958 | Device for eliminating the front and end trimmings from series of rolls and for sorting the rolls The device for removing front and end trimmings in a series of aligned rolls comprises: at least one continuous flexible suction conveyor (13); a suction system (3) associated with the conveyor so as to generate a suction through openings (13A) ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6630633 | High speed pneumatic weighing device A pneumatic weighing device has a weigh pan, which is supported for vertical movement by a load cell in response to the weight of an article; the weigh pan is provided with a plenum chamber having an apertured upper surface through which air under pressur... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6588576 | Methods of and device for feeding fastening elements A fastening element 30 is fed from a feed track 64 through a feed chamber, formed by interfacing closed channels 132 and 160, to a junction point located in a feed passage 84, formed by two communicating feed openings 86 and 88. An inclined surface 82, lo... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6575288 | Sorting device for laminae A sorting device for laminae, especially for inlaid floor laminae of wood, is proposed which has a delivery point in a horizontally extending transport track and a delivery track proceeding from the delivery point. The laminae to be sorted out are lifted ... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6523670 | Article conveyance having line and/or spacing adjustment Conveying apparatus and method are disclosed for receiving articles, such as cans, adjusting, or rearranging, the received articles between single and multiple lines during conveyance, and/or adjusting the spacing between the articles so that the articles... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6520317 | Packaging and casing system A system and method for case-packing articles utilizing an infeed conveyor and spaced apart outfeed conveyors positioned at opposite sides of the infeed conveyor and a robotic operating arm arranged for transverse operation with respect to the longitudina... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6494063 | Apparatus for pushing hollow glass articles onto a conveyor belt The apparatus serves for pushing at least one of two hollow glass articles from a dead plate of a glass forming machine onto a conveyor belt. A pusher serves for this purpose, and includes a base portion and, for each glass article which is to be pushed, ... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6419217 | Drawings-in- of paper webs A paper web is drawn into a printing and can be guided along a selected one of several paths. The paper web is weakened along a line of separation and is then held by a retaining system that can move the web in a conveying direction along a first path. Th... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6394097 | Device and method for inspecting filter rod for cigarette A device for executing an inspection method of a filter rod for cigarettes includes an inspection drum (6), and the inspection drum (6) has plural pickup grooves (8) for receiving one filter rod (F) each in its outer periphery. The filter rod (F) in each ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6209194 | Apparatus for loading and unloading semiconductor device packages using servo motors An automatic loading and unloading apparatus using servo motors allows simultaneous loading and unloading of two or more semiconductor device packages into and from test devices. The loading and unloading apparatus has a feeding mechanism which has a feed... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6145650 | Apparatus and method for transferring blow-molded containers to a trimmer Apparatus and method for transferring empty blow molded containers with precisely timed and directed blasts of air to a trimmer. The transfer apparatus includes a first set of air nozzles for transferring multiple bottles at a time from a wheel discharge ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6015040 | Transfer device A device for transferring objects, especially hollow bodies, such as cans, tubes and the like, from an arriving conveying device to an exiting conveying device. At least one rotatingly driven rotor is provided. At least one holding device, for the objects... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5957655 | Lid infeed system using a vacuum A lid infeed system includes a pair of adjacent and parallel spinning rods for holding a stack of lids thereon; a rotatable transfer plate at one end of the spinning rods and rotatable in a plane substantially transverse to an axial direction of the spinn... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5931278 | Receiving device for rod members A receiving device for a double cigarette is provided with a rotatable catcher drum, receiving grooves, suction holes and pusher rods. The receiving grooves are formed on an outer peripheral surface of the catcher drum. Each of the receiving grooves recei... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5829332 | Variable count direct deposit knife A rotary knife apparatus for depositing filled pouches in preselected count stacks along a travelling product conveyor. The rotary knife apparatus includes a rotating disc valve intermediate negative and positive pressure sources on one side and a rotary ... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5657850 | Apparatus for receiving rod members A receiving apparatus for cigarettes having a catcher drum rotatable in one direction, a large number of receiving grooves formed in the outer peripheral surface of the catcher drum, each receiving groove being tunnel-shaped and permitting a received doub... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5607043 | Device for aligning rod members A device for aligning rod members includes a separation drum, feeding grooves, which are disposed at equal intervals on the outer peripheral surface thereof, for receiving a pair of charcoal half rods, and a sealing sheet for covering part of the outer pe... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5423410 | Conveying device for vertically positioning can bodies A conveying device is provided for vertically positioning ferromagnetic cans discharged from an upstream unit in a horizontal position. The conveying device includes a first direction changing band for receiving and transporting horizontally disposed ferr... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5388682 | Diverter for diverting articles transported along a conveyor belt An article diverter for changing the conveyor path of successive conveyed articles from a single succession to at least two successions of articles. The diverter includes actuators positioned adjacent to one conveyor path but on opposite sides of the conv... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5329945 | Apparatus for discharging defective filter cigarettes during the manufacture of filter cigarettes A discharge apparatus of the present invention includes a discharge drum replacing one transportation drum in a drum train of a filter attachment, transportation grooves on a drum shell of the discharge drum, jet holes opening in the bottom of each transp... | 07/19/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5322152 | Method and apparatus for sorting returnables The invention relates to a method and equipment for identifying returned bottles, cans, plastic bottles or other packages (10) and for sorting them on the basis of an identification code, in which method a compensation corresponding to the package is give... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5232079 | Article transfer rejection apparatus and method An apparatus and method for selectively removing articles, such as cigarettes, from a transfer conveyor system in which the transfer of the selected articles to a receiver conveyor from a transfer conveyor is rejected within a transfer zone. Vacuum suctio... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5220993 | Multiple lane pouch drop-off Pouch transfer apparatus for positioning over and generally transverse to the upstream end of a multiple lane pouch conveyor. The apparatus includes a transfer wheel carrying a plurality of suction heads about its outer periphery for picking pouches off a... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5211384 | Inserter with diverter for faulty members An in-line inserter device comprises envelope and insert feeding assemblies, an envelope inserting station assembly, a sealing and stacking assembly, and various diverter stations. The envelope feeding assembly withdraws envelopes from a hopper-held envel... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5135101 | Diverter of articles on conveyor A diverter changes the conveyor path of successive articles from a single succession to at least two successions of articles. The diverter includes a wheel mounted for rotation in a common plane with the path of the single succession of articles and being... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5048818 | Apparatus for subdividing a shingled stream of paper sheets An apparatus for splitting a shingled stream of paired coextensive sheets into two partial stream is advanced below an upper conveyor to which suction can be applied and which displaces the sheets at an acute angle to the main path defined by the lower co... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5048696 | Conveyed item divider/sorter A conveyed item divider apparatus and method for automatically dividing a mixture of a plurality of first items and a plurality of second items into a first group containing only the first items and a second group containing only the second items. The app... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5011132 | Load accumulator having positive drive conveyor A load accumulator which has one or more stacking wheels mounted for high speed rotation is provided with an improved conveyor for conveying load items to the stacking wheel. The conveyor includes platforms that extend toward each stacking wheel in a plan... | 04/30/1991 |
| 4986407 | Apparatus for controlling the path of transportation of articles An apparatus for controlling the path of transportation of articles comprises a first conveyor belt which delivers the articles to a plurality of second conveyor belt which delivers the articles to a plurality of second conveyor belts arranged in parallel... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4962771 | Filter assembly machine cigarette sampling unit A unit for sampling cigarettes on a filter assembly machine, which unit is designed to cooperate with a conveyor for feeding the cigarettes through the filter assembly machine, and features a sampling conveyor tangent to the feed conveyor and having an ev... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4942955 | Container transfer system A transfer system for transferring decorated containers, having images of wet ink on the outer peripheries thereof, from a first container carrying apparatus, comprising a continuously rotating mandrel wheel type apparatus carrying decorated containers wi... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4911423 | Apparatus for multiple lane stacking of flexible products The present invention provides a transfer device for receiving a series of flexible products from a single path and delivering the flexible products to a plurality of paths where they can be separately stacked and packaged. The device includes a vacuum tr... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4825994 | Apparatus for transporting and removing samples from a stream of cigarettes or the like Apparatus for removing samples from a single-layer stream of cigarettes which move sideways in the peripheral flutes of hollow rotary first and second drum-shaped conveyors has two valving elements which are disposed in the interior of the respective conv... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4782939 | Can unscrambler system A can unscrambler system, having a longitudinal can arranger and an unscrambler apparatus, orients randomly oriented unfilled cans having an open end and a closed end such that all of the open ends face the same direction. The longitudinal can arranger ar... | 11/08/1988 |
