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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7210568 | Apparatus for organizing articles traveling on a conveyor In laner apparatus for automatically arranging articles into lanes on a conveyor, for example for packaging or further processing, the articles are fed onto a conveyor upstream of a fence that extends at an acute angle to the direction of travel of the conveyor. The... | 05/01/2007 |
| 6068106 | Product conveying unit A unit for conveying products and having a main conveying device; two secondary conveying devices for feeding respective streams of products to the main conveying device via respective inputs; and a distributing device for so controlling the two streams t... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6026948 | Conveying and feeding method and apparatus for film in a film cartridge A conveying and feeding apparatus for conveying and constantly feeding a film cartridge one by one so as to feed the next process where a plurality of cartridges are conveyed continuously to a cartridge housing unit or a printing machine. A conveying port... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5760343 | Combinational weighing systems and methods for automatically aligning weighed article batches A combinational weighing system receives articles sequentially in a plurality of mutually parallel supply lines to be sequentially transported to weighing devices which are individually associated therewith and weigh batches of the articles received there... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5582283 | Automatic infeeder device An apparatus and method for depositing objects at separated locations on a movable belt. The device includes at least one channel through which objects enter the apparatus. Each channel includes a plurality of gates disposed along the channel. These gates... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5501314 | Method for the multiple receipt and discharge of rolled sections onto a cooling plate and device performing such method Method for the multiple receipt and discharge of rolled sections onto a cooling plate, the method being suitable to handle simultaneously groups of two or more rolled sections (11) arriving simultaneously from an intake channel, whereby at least one multi... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5361889 | Apparatus for merging multiple lanes of product An apparatus for merging two or more parallel conveyor lanes of product into one final lane includes a pair of parallel conveyors, one disposed above and in spaced relationship over the other. A pivotally mounted slide at the discharge end of the first co... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5301794 | Bar receiving and discharging device in a siderurgical facility A device (10) for receiving bars (11) incoming along two parallel guides (12) in a siderurgical facility, in order to lay the bars onto a cooling bed (38) includes at least one first element (15) having, at its bottom portion, two channels (16) each of wh... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5282528 | Belt transfer section and method of use for right angle blank feeder A belt transfer section for use in a right angle carton blank feeder. The belt transfer section nips the leading edge of articles leaving a feeding mechanism and moves them to another feeding mechanism operating at right angles to the first mechanism. The... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5246097 | Line changing system for air bottle conveyors An intersection is provided for bottle conveyor lines having individual neck guide pairs. The intersection comprises a transfer plate and a pair of changing plates. The transfer plate includes a substantially Y-shaped opening extending to the edges thereo... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5165517 | Combiner for streams of articles, such as bottles A combiner for a plurality of streams of articles, such as bottles, to be combined into a single stream (4) comprises a starwheel (16, 17) for each stream (1, 2), each starwheel having control fingers (20) spaced around its periphery, the starwheels being... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5161697 | Apparatus for selecting wood stock to form panels of predetermined size The present invention represents a further extension of the automation of the various steps of the wood gluing process. This invention automatically selects and transmits to further work stations appropriately sized pieces of stock which, when glued toget... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5137137 | Machine for the automatic production of portions of toasted bread slices An electromechanical machine for the automatic production of portions, in any desired number, of toasted slices of bread, without human intervention includes a central body, shaped as a quarter-tronco-cone, provided with a set of guides (1) which stretch ... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5100019 | Feed assembly A pair of superposed inclined feed tracks have slots along their upper and lower walls respectively. Elongate gates with inturned tips are disposed along the tracks and pivoted intermediate their ends on pins. A yoke having an axis intermediate the two pi... | 03/31/1992 |
| 4832177 | Hinged channel for steel bars A hinged channel for receiving steel bars (11, 12), cut to predetermined lengths and discharged from a rolling mill is described. The steel bars are slowed down during or at the end of entry into the hinged channel. After stopping or just before stopping,... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4754541 | Method and apparatus for joining and folding container sections to form a hinged container An apparatus for joining and folding container sections to form a hinged container. Two container sections are transported in end-to-end relation on a conveyor and the downstream section is engaged with a stop while a pusher member is pivoted into engagem... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4754866 | Apparatus for controlling the conveyance of articles A selector mechanism for controlling transfer of articles from a plurality of upstream feed lines to at least one downstream feed line (104) comprises a plurality of transfer passages (114) each provided with a gate (106) and at least one stop (108). The ... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4725181 | Method of and apparatus for storing tobacco or the like in high stacks and discharging the same Method of and apparatus for storing tobacco or the like in high stacks and discharging the same, in which tobacco is charged into and stored in a plurality of vertically elongated storage chambers arranged side by side. The tobacco is discharged to fall o... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4717026 | Container scanning and accounting device An apparatus is provided to rapidly and automatically scan the UPC, or bar code, from a series of containers and maintain tallies of the brands and types of containers processed. The containers are fed in end-to-end orientation onto the upper end of the t... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4711340 | Device to discharge rolled products onto a cooling plate, closure of the device taking place by positive actuation A device for discharging rolled products onto a cooling plate. The device, which cooperates with a tail-brake for braking the discharging rolled products, includes two channels with movable vanes which are selectively opened and closed to selectively rele... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4671707 | Disc transfer mechanism for electrical component assembly machine A mechanism for transferring chip components from a supply source onto a conveyor. A manifold of individual disc members receive the component from a supply and rotate to position the component onto a conveyor. A drive crank rotates the disc from the rece... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4634329 | Loading device for a horizontal continuous furnace for the heating of glass plates A loading device for a horizontal continuous furnace for the heating of glass plates comprises a roller conveyer (6) as part of a continuous conveying system. Support strips (12-15, 32-35) can be lowered and are arranged between conveying rollers (7) of t... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4610346 | Devices for separating contiguous articles Apparatus for handling biscuits comprises a pair of identical devices for separating and holding back advanced supplies of the biscuits, which are arranged in rows, in contiguous, upright relationship, within laterally-spaced supply channels. The rows of ... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4466529 | Separation unit for processed book blocks A separating unit for book blocks processed in a book binding system and fed at a first travelling speed from a folding or glueing machine in two parallel horizontal stacks in which the blocks are fed one-by-one in an upright position on a first conveying... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4462517 | Fastener-attaching apparatus In a fastener-attaching apparatus equipped with a feeder for selectively delivering two different component pieces of fasteners from two separate feed hoppers to an attaching point, the improvement in the feeder which comprises a pair of tracks having a p... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4448298 | Rotary trough type cooling bed run-in apparatus There is described a rotary trough type cooling bed run-in apparatus for dropping the roll bars of a steel round bar mill onto a cooling bed in an aligned state at high speed and absent the warpage associated with similar devices. Several troughs each hav... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4424894 | Sequencing lamp feeder A sequencing drop chute apparatus receives a batch of electrical components and feeds them one at a time to a single line conveyor. The sequencing drop chute apparatus includes a support frame with an inclined surface attached to the support frame. A plur... | 01/10/1984 |
| 4413720 | Article handling apparatus Apparatus for handling quantities of articles, such as containers, including an input conveyor having guides for channeling the articles into rows or files longitudinally of the conveyor, a gating station operable to open the channels for passing a transv... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4405301 | Bottle turner Apparatus for turning bottles and the like during exposure to a jet of hot gas or other heat source. Bottles are individually passed by an air cylinder gate and travel to a drive wheel and a spring loaded idler, where they are trapped by a second air cyli... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4360098 | Infeed conveyor Products, accumulated on a supply conveyor having low-friction belts, are transferred to a flight conveyor with an intervening single level infeed conveyor system which includes a high-friction belt squeezer conveyor that accepts products at its inlet end... | 11/23/1982 |
| 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 |
| 4354591 | Carton collating and transfer apparatus An apparatus for collating cartons received from a plurality of sources in a tightly packed together relationship or randomly spaced apart relationship, and transferring these cartons in a substantially uniformly spaced apart relationship into a single st... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4351578 | Automated lamp aging Automated apparatus and methods are provided for aging negative glow lamps.... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4293063 | Apparatus for inverting and transporting articles There is provided an apparatus for inverting articles and transporting the articles from a first station to a second station. The apparatus comprises conveyor means including an endless rotational member and a plurality of holding members secured to the r... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4243135 | Apparatus for inserting packs into the gaps of a moving file of cigarette packs or the like The gaps which develop at times in a file of cigarette packs moving from a packing machine to a processing machine are filled by spare packs stacked in an upright magazine which is adjacent to the conveyor for the file of packs. The lowermost pack of the ... | 01/06/1981 |
| 4240538 | Method and apparatus for accumulating and gating articles Method and apparatus for the controlled accumulating and feeding of piles of magazines from an input conveyor to a trimmer infeed conveyor. A flow director receives magazine piles and directs them to one of three parallel conveyor lanes, each lane includi... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4240540 | Gating method and apparatus Method and apparatus for the gating of piles of magazines from an input conveyor to a trimmer infeed conveyor. A pile is fed to a gating conveyor and blocked at the entrance thereto by a pair of gating pins. The gating pins and the gating conveyor are the... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4196801 | Container transport device Apparatus whereby objects are pushed in a circular motion from one location to another by a rotatable cam. A guide is used to insure the delivery of the objects to a precise location and control means are employed to activate the movement of the cam.... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4193490 | Collating apparatus Collating apparatus for inserting cubes (C) into a moving row of cylindrical articles (A) for subsequent packaging of groups of the collated articles comprises a screw conveyor (1) having a thread pitch arranged to increase the spacing of cylindrical arti... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4125583 | Method for the further conveying of the hollow articles ejected by hollow article blow-moulding machines An article moulding and conveying method including alternately extruding parisons and alternately blow-moulding articles from the extruded parisons and thereafter delivering the blow-moulded articles alternately and at different times along parallel paths... | 11/14/1978 |
