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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7975829 | Tire conveyor assembly and components thereof An improved conveyor assembly includes a conveyor belt for conveying a product to one or more product operations is disclosed. Such conveyor assembly includes a pair of spaced apart side frames that support the conveyor belt and between which the conveyor belt rotat... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7530443 | Angle changing device for automatic conveyor system Provided is an angle change device for an automatic conveyor system. The angle change device includes: a slate conveyor having guiding grooves formed to cross the slate conveyor; lift units disposed to vertically cross the slate conveyer to lift a loaded material up... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7240787 | Finger sweep A finger sweep for use with mail parcel handling systems includes an elongate mounting member for coupling the finger sweep to a drive shaft, and a parcel engaging member disposed on a distal end of the mounting member. In one embodiment, a pair of finger sweeps are... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7232027 | Pallet/skid power roll system An apparatus moves a plurality of transport media along a path of travel. The plurality of transport media define at least two groups of transport media, where each group of transport media has substantially identical transverse dimensions with respect to one anothe... | 06/19/2007 |
| 6966427 | Pallet/skid power roll system An apparatus moves a plurality of transport media along a path of travel. The plurality of transport media define at least two groups of transport media, where each group of transport media has substantially identical transverse dimensions with respect to one anothe... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6854587 | Method and apparatus for packaging tamales A tamale loading apparatus (10) includes a converging mechanism (61) and diverter wheels (83, 84) to position tamales (200) on a belt (24). The belt is run at a speed to fly the tamales (200) into a can (300) wherein ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6848565 | Device for container alignment The invention relates to a device for container alignment, comprising a transport device (1), for the containers (6), with pivoting arm pairs (2, 3) with pivoting arms (2a, 2b, 3a, 3b), arr... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6837359 | Push off diverter for sortation systems The push off diverter may be used to push objects off of a conveyor. The push off diverter may have a frame having a slide support element with a push bar attached. An electric gearmotor may be attached to the diverter frame and the output motor shaft may have a lev... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6666324 | System and method for reorienting flat articles A system and method reorients flat articles in a serial stream, by receiving a horizontally moving, serial input stream of substantially vertically oriented flat articles each having a downwardly oriented primary edge, laterally diverting the flat article... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6659704 | Loading bridge for air cargo loading In the conventional air cargo transportation system, the transportation of the cargo that is stored inside of the airport terminal building, to the area of the loading/unloading door is normally performed using the package/cargo carts. However, numerous w... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6588575 | Device for singling out articles from a flow of such articles The device (20) for diverting individual items from a stream of items which are conveyed on a transport apparatus has an extendable and retractable diversion element (22), which is operated via a gear unit (26, 28, 30, 32, 34) by a drive apparatus moving ... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6109421 | Corn transfer and alignment apparatus A corn transfer and alignment mechanism for preparing ears for being sawn into cobbettes is provided. The ears are received by the transfer mechanism from a feed conveyor on which the ears are conveyed singularly with their tip ends first. The transfer st... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6105955 | Feeder structure and receiving wheel for high speed inserter A multiple station in-line product handling machine (40) is provided which has infeed stations (42-46) equipped with improved feeder and receiving units (60, 62) as well as a unique pusher chain assembly (78). The feeder units (60) include a sucker shaft ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6041910 | Baggage pusher device and system A baggage pusher device for pushing baggage off a moving conveyor comprises a pusher cam with a pusher surface, a shaft supporting and rotating the pusher cam in a generally horizontal plane, a motor assembly and a frame to support at least the shaft. The... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5967292 | Bundle positioning device A device and process is described for positioning a bundle having a top surface and a bottom surface. The device includes a low friction surface positioned to support the bundle fed along an infeed path to a first position along the bottom surface for fre... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5692594 | Transport apparatus A transport apparatus for use in a mass production is provided, which includes a first transport belt for transporting objects at either regular or irregular intervals and for discharging such objects at a zone of transfer. A second transport belt is incl... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5685409 | Apparatus for removing bobbin tubes perpendicularly from carriers on a bobbin conveyor An apparatus is disclosed for removing bobbin tubes axially from individual tube carriers conveyed along a conveying path. The bobbin removing apparatus basically comprises a pair of bobbin withdrawal devices located at opposite lateral sides of the conve... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5518104 | Conveyor transfer A modular conveyor system includes modular conveyor units and modular transfer units, which are driven by the driveshafts from adjacent modules. The transfer units include a first driveshaft segment extending below the conveyor frame and first and second ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5437534 | Lift index table In order to maintain the quality of lifts in a binding line, particularly while they are being conveyed and/or accumulated between the stacker and palletizing robot, a binding line lift index system is provided. The system includes a rotary index table ha... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5411130 | Conveyor system with turn table transferring means A conveyor system having a frame with a first and second elongated rail which are spaced apart and parallel to each other. A plurality of first power and free rollers are rotatably mounted to the first rail while, similarly, a plurality of power and free ... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5379879 | Positioning device for a piece good The parcel (2) during the conveying with a conveyor (30) is drawn in on the back (7) by angular profiles (16,17) guided in sloping movement paths and which accelerate the parcel (2) accompanied by the alignment of the rotated position and/or its transvers... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5324025 | Physical delay buffer for paper items A mechanical buffer for imparting a substantial delay to paper items, such as envelopes which are being individually and sequentially conveyed in a high-speed paper transport system, maintains physical separation between the conveyed items and does not re... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5277295 | Textile article removal apparatus for removing textile articles from supported dispositions on the posts of support members An apparatus removes textile articles such as empty tubes or full yarn packages from the individual posts on which such articles are supported simultaneous with advancing movement of the posts. The textile articles are removed in a direction generally par... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5190141 | Stabilizing output conveyor for a cigarette packing machine A conveyor for stabilizing packs of cigarettes coming off a packing machine, the conveyor being substantially U-shaped, and defined by two substantially straight end portions connected by a curved portion extending about a cylindrical drum having two peri... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5188355 | Apparatus for conveying sheets from landscape to portrait arrangement An apparatus for changing the direction of travel of sheets of paper being conveyed seriatim along a paper path without changing the orientation of the sheets with respect to a first direction of travel, comprises a deck having an upstream end for receivi... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5188212 | Rotating transport apparatus The invention relates to a rotating transport apparatus for transporting objects from a first conveyor to a second conveyor, each conveyor having a longitudinal extending central axis. The apparatus includes a swivel arm with an axis, and a rotary plate r... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5180154 | Method and apparatus for changing the direction of motion of flat articles An apparatus and method for changing the direction of motion of flat articles being conveyed along a first path to a second path. The apparatus comprises a deck mounted on a frame. The deck has a first side for receiving an article from a first direction ... | 01/19/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5154276 | Device for handling of returnable bottles The invention concerns a device (10) for handling of returnable bottles. The device comprises a dropping tube (12), through which a returnable bottle (P) is dropped from an upper position (E1), into a lower position (E2) by the force... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5115846 | Rapid-action, anti-jolt edger charger system A lumber workpiece charger system for an edger wherein transfer of a workpiece occurs under rapid non-jolting control for pieces positioning, with the workpiece, throughout its delivery, clamped in proper orientation for hand-off to the edger.... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5101960 | Conveyance apparatus and related method of operation A system for conveying heavy loads or pallets that includes a conveyor device and a frictional pivot device for rotating these loads. The pivot device has a normal position below the conveyance plane, out of contact with a load, and is moved towards into ... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4995504 | Device for straightening articles such as letters and similar flat transported articles As a device for straightening of letters and similar flat transported articles upon passage from a free wheeling section with a bottom conveyor belt to a cover belt section, whereby the letters are transported upright on a lengthwise edge and generally at... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4900007 | Device for changing the direction of a product flow, particularly of paper products supplied in shingled formation A device for changing the direction of flow of paper products supplied in shingled formation with an inflow element, and an outflow element, wherein the inflow element incorporates suitable guide rollers for guiding pressure belts handling the product flo... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4858770 | Exit stage device for a packaging line The device disclosed is intended for the exit stage of a packaging line, in particulr a line for the manufacture of packs of cigarettes, in which an exit conveyor indexes a continuous string of packs toward respective pockets created in an indexing transf... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4822268 | Conveying and treatment apparatus for moulds fillable with a castable, solidifying body, such as chocolate mass The invention relates of a conveying and treatment apparatus for double moulds for making hollow bodies of a castable, solidifying substance, such as chocolate mass. The double moulds consist of two plate-shaped mould halves which have corresponding mould... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4817779 | Selective product feed apparatus A device for use in packaging apparatus in which an article is carried on a first conveyor and is transferred to a second conveyor during continuous motion of the conveyors. A transfer mechanism including a cam follower is engageable by a cam track underl... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4765940 | Method of transporting and forming tapered ends on piquets A conveyor-transfer apparatus for transferring artificial Christmas tree piquets (branches) from a first conveyor on which the piquets are parallel to the direction of travel of the conveyor to a second conveyor where they are arranged transverse to the d... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4760908 | Sorter conveyor An improved conveyor system having elongate conveying tubes travelling in pairs in an endless path. The invention contemplates the provision of a slider in each of the tubes in the pair, interconnection of the sliders through a support and the provision o... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4756521 | Methods and apparatus for turning flat articles An apparatus is disclosed for turning flat articles. The apparatus includes an apparatus for receiving a serial stream of the articles which are traveling along a first linear path, the path including a nonrotating surface. There is a rotating device whic... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4742921 | Conveyor system A conveyor system which receives stacks of articles in an upright position, such as boxed tape cassettes, which are deposited in stacks on a first endless belt, carried to a transition area where they are picked off one at a time, turned ninety degrees an... | 05/10/1988 |
