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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7942255 | Transport apparatus A transport apparatus for the low-pressure transforming of a stream of containers into at least two separate single rows is provided. The apparatus has a multiple-lane feed conveyor, a plurality of single-lane discharge conveyors and an acceleration conveyor arrange... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7650983 | Member for removably connecting at least one vertical guide and slide wall above a conveyor, the vertical guide and slide wall, and guide and slide means for said wall A member for removably connecting at least one vertical guide and slide wall (1A, 101A) to a support structure (2, 102), in which said at least one lateral guide and slide wall is provided above at least one flat conveyor (3) for conveyin... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7607531 | Device for adjusting tracks on a conveyor The invention relates to a device for adjustment of tracks, comprising a mechanism for moving the walls in order to simultaneously adjust the width of different tracks. The device also comprises a system for transverse displacement of the tracks with relation to the... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7441645 | Accumulation table An accumulation table is disclosed. The accumulation table includes a frame, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, and an adjustable discharge chute. Each conveyor has a U-shaped product carrying section on the top of the frame and an arcuate return section located o... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7364052 | Unit for feeding cigarettes to a packer machine A unit for feeding cigarettes to a packer machine is equipped with a hopper containing a mass of cigarettes and a device serving to compensate the depletion of the mass as groups of cigarettes are removed from the hopper and directed into a plurality of boxes carrie... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7322459 | Differential speed conveyor accumulation system and method A product conveying and accumulation system and method employs a primary product transporting conveyor with accumulation and re-circulating sections. The conveyor is configured to receive products from an upstream destination and discharge products to a downstream d... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7252186 | Accumulation table An accumulation table is disclosed. The accumulation table includes a frame, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, and an adjustable discharge chute. Each conveyor has a U-shaped product carrying section on the top of the frame and an arcuate return section located o... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7240783 | Unit for feeding filters to a filter assembly machine A unit for feeding filters to a filter assembly machine, wherein at least one deflecting device receives a respective succession of filter portions in an axial direction, and feeds the filter portions to the filter assembly machine in a transverse direction crosswis... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7222718 | Accumulating conveyor system A conveyor system transports a multiplicity of product items from an input portion to an output portion and is provided with a first conveyor that transports the product items from the input portion to a distal turnaround region. A second conveyor transports the pro... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7207428 | Transport device for containers A conveyor device for containers having multiple narrow lanes formed by guide railings adjustable horizontally across the direction of conveyance, with horizontally adjustable sensors for the containers arranged above the narrow lanes across the direction of conveya... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7198147 | Conveyor unit with accumulation of receptacles such as bottles A conveyor unit with accumulation of receptacles, such as bottles, includes an accumulation table onto which a feed conveyor opens out upstream, whilst downstream, the table supplies receptacles onto a passive aligner for leading the above in single file to a proces... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7168552 | Article joining system A conveyance path for conveying articles though an accumulation conveyor, then through a carry-out conveyor, and then through a joining station is disclosed. After a flow of articles and at a time when there are no articles present on a portion of the conveyance pat... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7147098 | Bendable/twistable rolling conveyor guide Readily bendable and twistable rolling conveyor guides are provided. The guides include axle-positioning members that slidably engage channels of a structural support member. A plurality of axles carrying rotatable elements and spacers are disposed between the axle-... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7111723 | Conveying unit with container accumulation A conveying unit with accumulation of containers (6), especially of bottles, includes an accumulation table (2) equipped laterally with guide rails (12, 13) and composed of a juxtaposition of at least one feed conveyor (9) and one accumul... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7073656 | Method and apparatus for removing holes from nested product patterns Holes are removed from nested product patterns by conveying products on a conveyance mechanism (12) through an infeed section (14) in nested pattern streams (a1, a2, b1, b2), into a narrowing section (24) of a width l... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6974299 | Method and device for packing articles Collection assembly for collecting and stacking articles. The articles are first moved adjacent to one another with the aid of positioning elements. The positioning elements comprise the conveyor belt that extends obliquely with respect to the distribution conveyor ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6896474 | Process and device for conveying products, for instance for automatic packaging installations Associated to the first product of each group or slug of products being formed is a first engagement element which follows the movement of advance of said first product, preventing it from falling forwards in the direction of advance. In such conditions, the product... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6648124 | Product path splitting and merging conveyor system A continuous product conveyor system of loop configuration is provided to receive products from an upstream destination in a given product delivery path arrangement and to deliver those products to a downstream destination in a different product delivery ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6598729 | Wall element incorporating idle rollers A wall element incorporating idle rollers, presenting a body with seats into which stationary pins carrying idle rollers are snap-fitted; said body presents two parts (22, 30), of which one is the lower base part (22) and the other the upper base part (30... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6575287 | Product conveying and accumulation system and method A product conveying and accumulation system is provided for use with products of various sizes, shapes, and stability characteristics. The system comprises multiple moving conveyors, including a first conveyor which transports product from an upstream loc... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6523674 | Belt conveyor transition with vacuum stabilization A transition between two sections of belt conveyors transfers a series of objects conveyed on the ending section of one conveyor through a pair of guide rails laterally over to a beginning section of the second conveyor. A source of vacuum is positioned b... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6328151 | Method and apparatus for feeding and forming a single row of containers along a conveyor The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for combining randomly oriented containers on a conveyor into single file. The apparatus includes a pressureless combining conveyor having at least two or more conveyor sections adjacent to one another, ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6241074 | Guide device for transferring articles between conveyors An apparatus for regulating and controlling the flow of articles between conveyors includes a first conveyor moving in a first direction and a second conveyor onto which the articles from the first conveyor are to be transferred. The second conveyor moves... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6206174 | Pressureless multi-lane dividing apparatus An apparatus for the pressureless division of a flow of objects from a conveyor system into multiple paths. The apparatus is ideally suited for use in conveying and combining streams of bottles. The apparatus generally is connected to a feed conveyor carr... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6131723 | Methods and apparatus for conveying packages in manner minimizing jams Packages are conveyed in a direction of travel by transferring the packages from an upstream conveying surface to an intermediate conveying surface, conveying the packages along the intermediate conveying surface, and transferring the packages from the in... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6079544 | Dividing wall for installation above a belt for conveying articles such as bottles and the like A dividing wall for installation above a conveyor belt intended to convey articles such as bottles and the like, which allows conveying of the articles divided up into two flows in an easy manner and without obstacles and which is also suitable for constr... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5950842 | Line connector with 90 degree rotation mechanism A line connector apparatus has at least one table receiving items to be conveyed from at least one feeder conveyor. At least one guide mechanism is rotatably mounted on the table for selectively guiding items into two different directions, one direction l... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5950800 | Conveying methods and apparatus Articles are conveyed along a singulator conveyor system by being conveyed upwardly along an inclined first conveyor which is inclined at an angle of at least twenty-five degrees, so that any articles disposed atop other articles will fall off. The articl... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5873448 | Automated separating packaging system for continuously feeding warp flakes An automated separating and packaging system for continuously feeding warp flakes mainly makes use of the funnel-shape guiding plates at each of the front end of two tracks respectively to guide the warp flakes into filling conveyers which have partitions... | 02/23/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5575465 | Apparatus for transporting documents conveyed from two directions Apparatus for transporting documents from two directions includes first direction transporting structure for transporting first documents seriatim over the deck in a first direction, and second direction transporting structure adjacent a downstream end of... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5337882 | Transport system for mutually independent caddies A transport system for mutually independent caddies carrying bobbins or bobbin tubes and having base plates, includes one transport path and another transport path entering the one transport path at a converging point. Moving surfaces, in particular surfa... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5228550 | Arrangement for converting a called-for multi-track, densely packed container stream into a plurality of parallel container rows separated from one another by separating elements An arrangement for converting a multi-track container stream supplied by a feed mechanism into a plurality of parallel container rows in a withdrawal mechanism. The container rows are separated from one another by a lane separation or separating elements.... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5222586 | Methods and apparatus for conveying packages in a manner minimizing jams A conveying junction includes upstream and downstream conveyors, and an intermediate conveyor which transfers packages from the upstream conveyor to the downstream conveyor. A drop-off zone is located adjacent an outer edge of the intermediate conveyor. T... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5170879 | Single file conveyor system A conveyor is provided for producing a single file from a mass of articles comprising a conveyor surface, an article engager for engaging articles in the mass and transporting a single file of them off of the conveyor surface, and a guide rail mounted alo... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5161665 | Lane merger apparatus An apparatus and method for merging articles on multiple infeed lines into a single outfeed line. The apparatus comprises a frame structure with an infeed end and an outfeed end, and at least two side transfer conveyors, each with a pair of parallel upsta... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5161663 | Conveyer system for rod-like articles A receiver unit for a pneumatic distribution system for rod-like articles, particularly cigarette filter rods, includes multiple vertically spaced devices (10) each of which receives axially moving rods and transfers them into a transversely-moving stream... | 11/10/1992 |
| 4974719 | Process and apparatus for aligning and supplying articles on a conveyor A process and apparatus for regularly and continuously supplying articles to an evacuation conveyor from at least one feed conveyor. The articles are arranged in successive rows on each feed conveyor and are deposited onto the evacuation conveyor which mo... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4925003 | Apparatus for converting a multi-row stream of upright articles, in particular bottles, to a single row An apparatus for converting a multi-row stream of upright articles into a single row comprises a rectilinear supply conveyor provided with guide surfaces, an intermediate conveyor consisting of a rotating surface, a removal conveyor, and a frame-fixed gui... | 05/15/1990 |
