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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7389622 | System for use in an assembly line A transfer system comprised of an air conveyor, a servo conveyor, and a fan feeder. In a typical configuration, the air conveyor is located at a first location where it receives packaged articles from a bagger system or a conveyor system. The servo conveyor abuts th... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7383937 | Article feeder and spacer A feeder for orienting and aligning disorderly incoming items includes a rotatable table having a peripheral wall and a discharge opening in the peripheral wall, the discharge opening allowing the items in a predetermined orientation to be successively withdrawn fro... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7347313 | Method of equally spacing items in article handling systems To equally space items along a first path, a predetermined number of items is moved towards each other to minimize distances between the items, and a gear mechanism is engaged with each item. The gear mechanism includes crossed bars, wherein pairs of the bars are co... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7306090 | Tablet package conveying apparatus for tablet automatic packing machine A tablet package conveying apparatus for a tablet automatic packing machine is disclosed. The apparatus can offset a speed difference among conveyed tablet packages while they are conveyed, such that the conveyed tablet packages discharged from the lower side of the... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7290648 | Device for moving a heavy load Arrangement for moving a heavy load wherein the arrangement includes at least one actuating unit. The at least one actuating unit utilizes a support for supporting the heavy load. A plurality of jacks are coupled to the support. A first movable element is adapted to... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7278203 | Random-period chip transfer apparatus A chip transfer apparatus includes a first carrier for feeding chips and a second carrier for carrying works on it. The transfer apparatus also includes a transfer engine including two or more coaxial revolvers, which can revolve coaxially with each other. Each of t... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275633 | Device for changing the direction of conveyance of flat postal items and the position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance A device for changing a direction of conveyance of flat postal items and a position of the postal items relative to their direction of conveyance includes a driven carousel tray to which one or more gripper arms whose lengths are modifiable in a controlled manner ar... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263409 | Method and apparatus for tracking a load on a conveyor system A method and apparatus for tracking a load on a conveyor system using the trailing edge of the load. The method includes the steps of sensing the trailing edge of the load with a first sensor and updating a load record for the load in response to sensing the trailin... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7191893 | Unit for transferring and spacing articles A unit (1) for transferring articles (1a) from a machine (MI) for producing the articles to a packaging machine (MA) includes a plurality of hoppers (4a) for receiving the articles (1a). The hoppers (4a)... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7155877 | System for use in an assembly line A transfer system (10) is comprised of an air conveyor (11), a servo conveyor (12), and a fan feeder (13). In a typical configuration, the air conveyor is located at a first location where it receives packaged articles from a bagger syste... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7004303 | Method and apparatus for singulating lumber An apparatus for spacing boards of lumber in transverse parallel contacting relation on an infeed conveyor comprising: (i) a rotatable lifting means adapted to receive said boards from said infeed conveyor, said rotatable lifting means including at least one arcuate... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6978883 | Conveyor and method of using A conveyor for transporting articles is disclosed. The conveyor is for transporting articles having an initial pitch, wherein the initial pitch of the articles is subsequently decreased and/or increased. After the subsequent increase and/or decrease in pitch, the in... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6951271 | Flight lug A flight lug is provided for releasable attachment to a conveyor belt. The lug comprises a base and first and second side walls mounted to opposite edge surfaces of the base such that the base extends between and interconnects the side walls intermediate upper and l... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6918588 | Device for separating printing products transported in an imbricated formation into a succession of spaced printing products A device for separating an imbricated formation (2) of continuously conveyed printing products (1) into a succession of spaced printing products (1), comprises a first conveyor (3) driven at a first velocity (v1), a second conveyor... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6907981 | Conveyer assembly for a produce packaging system A conveyer assembly used as part of an automated packaging system is disclosed. The conveyer assembly allows the container filling process and produce leveling process to be combined as a single process station in an automated packaging system. The conveyer assembly... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6793065 | Transport mechanism for piece goods A transport mechanism for piece goods, such as bottles, can cardboards, trays or the like, which consists of at last two transporter sections that each have at least one drive unit of its own, which is adjustable in rotary speed, with a coordinated control module, w... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6792332 | Method for dynamic acceleration in an article transporting system A method for controlling the serial transport of articles to achieve a predetermined gap between transported articles. First and second articles are transported serially on a transport system. The velocities and positions of the first and second articles are measure... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6662929 | Parcel singulation software control logic A method and an apparatus are provided for singulating articles received in a slug and/or manipulating such articles to create a controlled gap between a trailing edge of a leading article and a leading edge of a successive article, while targeting a desi... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6446783 | Electrode tip loading method and apparatus A method and apparatus for singulating and delivering wire leads as part of an electrode welding process in lamp production. Leads in bulk form are transported by a feeder. The leads are dropped from the feeder and passively caught in a desired orientatio... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6401908 | Apparatus for processing lumpy material The invention relates to an apparatus for processing lumpy, essentially spherical material such as pellets, so that the lumpy material can be applied on a surface that is set in an essentially continuous motion, as an advantageous layer for the further pr... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6379105 | Automatic lumber unloading and feeding apparatus The present invention provides a lumber unloading and feeding method and apparatus that can reliably separate individual boards from a stacked unit and feed the individual boards into other automatic machinery. One embodiment comprises a first load suppor... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6332529 | Component conveying device A component conveying device can reliably separate a head component and a second component and can easily take out the head component. A guide groove for aligning and guiding a component P, a conveying member M which is arranged on a bottom surface of the... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6311829 | Device to separate rolled bars Device to separate rolled bars (12), the bars (12) emerging from the cooling zone and being fed by conveyor means in a direction substantially transverse to the axis of the bars (12) and displaced along a plane by movement means (14), the movement means (... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6273238 | Apparatus and method for separating adjacent objects on a conveyor A method and apparatus for separating and accelerating adjacent objects on a conveyor, which does not interpose fingers, fixtures, escapements, or the like, between the objects. The apparatus uses two adjacent sideflexing conveyors traveling, at least in ... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6220812 | Separation device for rolled bars Device to separate rolled bars (12) advancing on a carrier plane (11) with a direction substantially orthogonal to their axis towards a tying and/or packing zone, the carrier plane (11) comprising a plurality of movement elements (14) arranged in the dire... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6152286 | Roll separation assembly A roll separation assembly for separating adjacent rolls on conveyors carrying roll workpieces is disclosed. The roll separation assembly includes first and second conveyors for receiving a plurality of roll workpieces positioned adjacent to one another. ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6152285 | Conveyor arrangement A conveyor arrangement, in particular for conveying suspended items inside a plant, is described, in which a plurality of conveyors are adapted to be conveyed on a track. A separator is provided for separating the conveyors. In order to improve in a struc... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6074723 | Rotating mat with holding flaps, for switching machines A rotating mat for switching equipment, fitted with one or more holding flaps and elements capable of exerting a recalling force on the mat when the flaps are on the transmission rollers, wherein the elements which exert the recalling force are flexible e... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6065586 | Spacing device for spreading stamped material A spacing device for spreading stamped material, especially soap bars, during transfer from a stamping process to a packaging process comprises a train of at least a first and last coupled carriages mounted for movement along an axis and coupled together ... | 05/23/2000 |
| 5899316 | Apparatus and method for conveying pieces of dough A compact apparatus for conveying triangular pieces of dough which are upside down group-by-group on a upstream conveyor to a downstream conveyor where each group of pieces of dough is separated from the remaining groups, and the pieces of dough of the gr... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5836437 | Apparatus for supplying chip parts and a method for same Electronic chips accumulated at random directions are arranged in an orderly line by a chip part supplier. A chip part feeder transfers the first aligned chip onto a printed circuit board. Chip parts having random directions in a hopper are fed to a disch... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5718323 | Device for spacing products or product lots A device for spacing products includes carriages each of which is capable of moving independently of the other carriages. Each carriage comprises a grasping element for grasping products, individually or by lots, a motor for driving a drive part, the driv... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5620082 | Apparatus for changing the direction of transportation of rod members A changing apparatus comprises first and second rotating disks arranged at the terminal end portion of a first transportation path which extends form a cigarette manufacturing apparatus and transports manufactured double cigarettes, pinch grooves formed i... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5518105 | Process and device for conveying objects along a circuit and use thereof Process and device for conveying objects on transport pallets along a circuit by altering the spacing (e, E) between the objects in order to pass through at least one work station (2, 3). The spacing is altered by longitudinally separating the pallets (4)... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5503299 | Inertial parts feeding apparatus and method An inertial parts feeding apparatus and method for dispensing parts, such as microchips, onto a moving belt. The feeding apparatus has a housing supporting an elongated tube accommodating the microchips. A guide mounted on the housing aligns the tube with... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5501316 | Routing apparatus for a train of containers of glass or the like Containers (2) arrive on a first conveyor belt (3) at comparatively large initial spacings (8) from one another and at comparatively high speed in a first direction of movement (4). The containers (2) are routed on a continuously curved path (11) into a s... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5283950 | Apparatus for receiving and delivering objects and method of using such apparatus The apparatus enables grasping a predetermined number of objects infed in a row and placing the grasped objects into a row arrangement containing a predetermined spacing from one another. There are provided tools containing displaceable object carriers an... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5213194 | Method and apparatus for loading a collapsible conveyor belt system Method and apparatus for maximizing the loading of streams of products on a collapsible conveyor belt which pass through a processor in helical paths. In one embodiment, a separate infeed belt is curved in the same direction and radius as the collapsible ... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5035316 | Isolating a first component to be pickup from other components on a vibratory feeder The component at the pick-up station of a vibratory feeder is isolated from the remaining components on the feeder by backing the remaining components away from the component to be picked up in preparation for removal of the component from the feeder at t... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5025912 | Shuttle type conveyor A shuttle-type conveyor having a plurality of carriages connected to one another, arranged at a predetermined uniform pitch, and reciprocable along a path through the pitch distance, and a stationary rest extending along the conveyor path, each carriage h... | 06/25/1991 |
