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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7364398 | Apparatus and method for stacking sheets discharged from a starwheel assembly An apparatus and method for moving stacks of product discharged from a stacking device. The apparatus includes a first conveyor movable at a first speed and a second conveyor movable at a second speed. The first conveyor includes an upstream end adjacent to the stac... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7112305 | Automation-optimized microarray package A method and system for economically packaging microarrays into sealed reaction chambers and storage vessels. A pocket strip is manufactured as a linear sequence of pockets, or wells, into which microarrays are positioned. A cover strip is then heat sealed to the up... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7036656 | Vacuum belt conveyor for plates A conveyor 1 for holding glass plates 2 in position during grinding and drilling operations comprising one or more than one belt 3, 3′ 3″ having a rotating surface and a suction generator 6 for generating a vacuum on the surface. ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7017513 | Dosage reminder device and medication carton A dosage reminder device (100) and medication carton (130) includes an indicator/support (140) formed from the carton's flat exterior wall (132) retentively engaging a rotateable ring (110). The ring includes dosage time period ind... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6966423 | Station for connecting a packaging machine, in particular blistering machine, with a feeding line, leading to a boxing machine A station for connecting a blistering machine with a boxing machine includes an endless conveyor defining an inlet section, where articles are received from a blistering machine, and an outlet section cooperating with the boxing machine. A series of bars are connect... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6581752 | Method and device for splitting-up a stream of piece goods For splitting-up a supply stream (2) of piece goods into a plurality of conveying away streams, the supplied objects (3) are guided onto a plurality of conveying away paths (4.1, 4.2, 4.3) in a predetermined splitting-up sequence. The device includes a su... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6510938 | Soft touch infeed The present invention provides a feed mechanism for feeding containers. The feed mechanism includes an infeed starwheel and a main turret starwheel, wherein the pitch line of the infeed starwheel and the pitch line of the main turret starwheel are non-int... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6125990 | Infeed slug loader An infeed slug loader provides for the formation of stacks or slugs of individual articles, and transfers the completed slugs to a wrapping machine. The present slug loader may be used to assemble stacks or slugs of various relatively small and flat artic... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6092979 | Method and apparatus for taking over and piling articles supplied in a plurality of rows and for conveying obtained piles of articles to a packaging line The present invention describes an apparatus which carries out a method for taking and piling articles supplied in a plurality of rows for transferring the obtained piles of articles to a packaging line. The articles are moved along at least two working l... | 07/25/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5722532 | Convergent/divergent product conveyor A flow directing conveyor mechanism includes a lower conveyor defining an article supporting surface for transporting articles for movement along a path of travel extending between inlet and discharge ends of the lower conveyor; and an upper conveyor havi... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5551209 | Production line for packaging rows or layers of products and production line recycling device The present invention concerns a production line for rows or layers of products, especially food products and more specifically, confectionery products such as chocolate wafers, bars, or the like, comprising a recycling device for the timed reintroduction... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5549189 | Machine for automatically positioning and aligning containers A machine for automatically positioning, aligning, and continuously feeding containers, for example, bottles or other hollow articles made from synthetic material, which may be of very different sizes and shapes. The machine includes a main hopper for rec... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5184712 | Device for transporting articles to a conveyor apparatus of a packaging machine A device for transporting articles from a plurality of dispenser machines to a packaging machine including at least two delivery belts, a delivery device assigned to a furnishing device with furnishing places. Drivers that transfer the furnished articles ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5094142 | Handling system for merging ammunition rounds from multiple ammunition bays to feed a rapid-fire gun An endless ammunition conveyor includes a set of laterally moveable carriers and a set of laterally fixed carriers arranged in alternating relation with the moveable carriers. Incident with conveyor movement, the moveable carriers are cammed between later... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5002016 | Device for collecting eggs A device for the collection of eggs includes a number of egg conveyor belts lying above one another, an egg discharge belt and a device disposed between the egg conveyor belts and the egg discharge belt for transferring eggs from the egg conveyor belts to... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4854440 | Apparatus for transferring articles to a packaging machine conveyor apparatus A packaging system, in which a plurality of production machines supplying one high-capacity packaging machine has a plurality of readying devices and transfer apparatuses for the articles that are to be packaged. In order to transfer the readied articles ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 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 |
| 4508206 | Conveyor and sorting switch A sorting switch comprising a plurality of pallet support members mounted for movement around a course including an upper article sorting portion comprising spaced, parallel article conveying paths. Pallets are slidably supported on the pallet support mem... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4434700 | Automated ammunition mixer Ammunition sorting system including a plurality of storage hoppers each adapted to releasably store a different type of ammunition, and a conveyor system including in sequence a plurality of rungs, each rung having two alternative dispositions, one wherei... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4381596 | Method and apparatus for battery plate stacking An apparatus for alternately stacking finite numbers of n positive battery plates and n+1 negative battery plates wherein a negative battery plate is provided at both the top and bottom ends of the stack. The apparatus includes a moving conveyor belt on w... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4319676 | Article combiner conveyor apparatus Article conveying apparatus having a suitably wide conveying surface for receiving articles from a plurality of delivery conveyors, and wherein the articles are directed on the conveying surface by laterally movable pushers carried by the conveying surfac... | 03/16/1982 |
| 4244460 | Process and equipment to form modules of biscuits or other like products A process and apparatus is described for the formation of a single row of regularly spaced discrete modules of thin products such as biscuits stacked face to face, from several rows of continuously moving products. As each row of products enters the appar... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4135619 | Apparatus for transferring confectionery products from a feeding conveyor to a receiving conveyor An apparatus for the collecting and transferring confectionery products onto a receiving conveyor feeding a wrapping machine, in which above a feeding conveyor belt carrying the dies provided with the products there is arranged a transfer conveyor equippe... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4050591 | Stacking apparatus and method Stacking apparatus for generally flat objects, particularly useful for the stacking of magazines by zip code. According to the invention, a continuous input stream of the objects is alternately diverted in preselected numbers pursuant to a shift signal to... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4036376 | Cargo transport system A cargo transport system is provided for a vessel in which a transfer mechanism separately transfers discrete cargo loads from a loading station on the deck of the vessel to a vertically extending conveyor system. A powered cargo delivery system sequentia... | 07/19/1977 |
| 4023666 | High speed bottle transfer machine Discloses a machine for feeding groups of bottles in case formation in one-by-one fashion onto an outlet conveyor. The machine involves the use of a spacing conveyor interposed between the feed conveyor and the outlet conveyor and channel means disposed o... | 05/17/1977 |
| 3952855 | High speed bottle transfer machine Discloses a machine for feeding groups of bottles in one-by-one fashion onto an outlet conveyor. The machine involves the use of a spacing conveyor interposed between the feed conveyor and an outlet conveyor and channel means disposed over the end of the ... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3933236 | Article transfer mechanism A mechanism for rapidly transferring and changing the spacing of easily damaged articles between a multilane input conveyor and a single lane output conveyor. The mechanism includes a pair of diverging transfer conveyors with evenly spaced article receivi... | 01/20/1976 |
