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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7658275 | Carrier type conveying apparatus and conveying carrier connection system of the conveying apparatus A carrier type conveying apparatus capable of solving a problem in a conventional conveying apparatus wherein a conveying carriers (1) stop abnormally, comprising a rear-pushing traveling district (3) having, at its inlet, a rear-pushing drive means ( | 02/09/2010 |
| 7364031 | Split spin bar for use with plastic lid handling system An apparatus for handling horizontally oriented flat circular articles, such as plastic lids, employs a pair of parallel rotating spin bars, one of which is divided or split into a shorter lid entry section and a longer lid discharge section. The shorter lid entry s... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7258224 | Arrangement for conveying a plate-like product from one position to another An arrangement for conveying an anode plate from one location to another, whereby said arrangement comprises gripping elements attached to a conveyor for gripping a plate-like piece. Elements are attached to the gripping element connection for the correction, at lea... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7182199 | Systems, methods and apparatuses for manufacturing dosage forms Systems, methods and apparatuses for manufacturing dosage forms, and to dosage forms made using such systems, methods and apparatuses are provided. Novel compression, thermal cycle molding, and thermal setting molding modules are disclosed. One or more of such modul... | 02/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7165668 | Apparatus and method for the delivery of rod-shaped articles An apparatus for transferring rod-like articles from a longitudinal conveyor that longitudinal-axially conveys the articles onto a transverse conveyor that transverse-axially conveys the articles. Moreover, the apparatus includes a conveyor that receives the article... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7156219 | Installation for assembling tube components Installation for assembling tube components, particularly bodies (1) with shoulders, comprising the following elements arranged in succession: a linear body conveyor (4), a transfer system (7) designed to apply a change in orientation to the bod... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7040480 | Zero back pressure conveyor A conveyor comprising an outer roller-top belt loop and an inner drive belt loop inside the outer belt loop for accurate and smooth control of conveyed articles. Rollers on the outer belt loop extend beyond outer and inner sides of the roller-top belt. The inner dri... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7021302 | Active feed paintball loader with flexible impeller An impeller for an active-feed paintball loader has resilient arms that engage paintballs in the lower portion (well) of the loader and advance them to and through the outfeed tube. The resilient arms are sufficiently stiff to move unobstructed paintballs located be... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7016768 | Conveyor system for transporting articles, in particular containers for baggage pieces, and method for controlling such a conveyor system A system and method is described for transporting articles, in particular for transporting container holding baggage pieces. At least two endless conveyor belts are sequentially arranged to define an upstream conveyor belt and a downstream conveyor belt for transpor... | 03/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6899780 | Method and apparatus for placing discrete parts transversely onto a moving web This invention pertains to processing continuous webs such as paper, film, composites, and the like, in dynamic continuous processing operations. More particularly, it relates to transferring discrete parts to a continuous web, whether paper, film, composite, or the... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6874615 | Conveyor chute A chute system for selectively moving articles with little to no damage to such articles from a supply source oriented at a first level to a transversely moving conveying system oriented at a second lower level. The chute system includes a powered conveyor belt adap... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6848566 | Continuously adjustable apparatus for repositioning discrete articles An apparatus for changing the spacing between discrete articles having at least one linear motor disposed radially from a central axis, and a pick-up disposed proximate to the linear motor. The at least one linear motor is capable of adjusting the radial position of... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6814217 | Method and apparatus utilizing servo motors for placing parts onto a moving web Method and apparatus for receiving parts traveling at a first speed through a receiving zone and applying the parts onto a carrier traveling at a second speed through an application zone. Transferring devices transport the parts between the zones. The transferring d... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6811019 | Method and apparatus utilizing servo motors for placing parts onto a moving web An apparatus and method for receiving a material web traveling at a first speed in a receiving zone, forming discrete parts from the material web, and applying the discrete parts onto a carrier traveling at a second speed through an application zone. The apparatus h... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6766898 | Surface conveyor with variable delivery rate for bagging bakery products A conveyor 20 comprising a continuous conveyor belt 35, driven at a constant speed, and configured for compression and expansion along the direction of travel of the continuous conveyor belt 35. The continuous conveyor belt 35 passes over... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6764069 | Apparatus for processing flat objects, especially printed products An apparatus for processing flat objects, such as sheet-like printed products. The apparatus has a rail system which defines a closed path of travel, and a plurality of conveyor elements are supported by the rail system for free and independent movement along the pa... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6751524 | 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 desired through... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6705453 | Method and apparatus utilizing servo motors for placing parts onto a moving web A method and apparatus for receiving parts traveling at a first speed through a receiving zone and applying the parts to a carrier traveling at a second speed through an application zone. The method and apparatus utilizes transferring devices for transporting the pa... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6675713 | Eccentric belt drive A drive device for producing an at least approximately sinusoidal speed pattern for a transport belt provided in a printing machine for transporting printing material selected from the group thereof consisting of sheets and signatures, includes non-round ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6648125 | Apparatus for evenly spacing packages on an assembly machine An apparatus to enable products to be evenly spaced so that they can be loaded onto a collator or other receiving device on a packaging machine. The packages are caused to be placed on a chain conveyor belt which has a multiplicity of spinning rollers to ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6629595 | Conveyor system A conveyor system includes a first conveyor, a second conveyor and a transfer mechanism interposed between the first and second conveyors. The first conveyor has an input end, an output end, and a pair of laterally spaced belts rotating between its input ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6543767 | Device and method for changing a speed of sheet products A sheet product transfer device includes an elastic belt forming a continuous loop, the elastic belt having an inner surface, a first drive unit contacting the inner surface, a second drive unit spaced apart from the first drive unit and contacting the in... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6523672 | Zero-back-pressure conveyor with inverted roller belt loop A zero-back pressure conveyor in which a transport belt is flanked on opposite sides by two series of inverted roller belt loops. The transport belt forms an upper carryway for transporting articles in a transport direction between the two series of inver... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6511065 | Method for transferring signatures and gripper assembly for a matched velocity transfer device A method for transferring signatures is described. A gripper assembly contains a gripper bar having a gripper and a pivot arm having a gripper seat. The gripper assembly is moved such that the gripper projects through a space in front of a leading edge of... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6450321 | Method and apparatus utilizing servo motors for placing parts onto a moving web A method and apparatus for receiving parts traveling at a first speed through a receiving zone and applying the parts to a carrier traveling at a second speed through an application zone. The method and apparatus utilizes transferring devices for transpor... | 09/17/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6234300 | Method and device for supplying, discharging and transferring of objects, like fruits Apparatus for transporting and/or classifying objects such as fruits, comprising: a supply conveyor (11) for supplying the objects at a relatively small pitch; a discharge conveyor (13) for discharging the objects at a relatively large pitch, for instance... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6098785 | Conveyor device for accelerating a series of products The invention relates to a conveyor device for accelerating a series of products. The conveyor device includes a feed device for supplying products at a feed velocity along a transport path in the direction of transport T1. By operating an acce... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5979147 | Article grouping assembly and method for a packaging machine A method is provided for selecting a predetermined number of articles from a plurality of articles and grouping the selected articles into an ordered group for delivery to an article packaging machine. The articles are moved at an infeed speed in series p... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5878865 | Variable speed conveying apparatus Variable speed conveying apparatus includes a conveyor (16) having a plurality of conveying surfaces (18) for engaging a stream (10) of articles along a path, and elements for progressively changing the speed of the surfaces as they progress along the pat... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5738202 | Methods and apparatus for establishing a desired positional relationship between random-length articles conveyed in single file Articles of random length are conveyed in single file while being transferred from a first driven conveyor to a second driven conveyor. The second conveyor is driven faster than the first conveyor so that an initial gap is established between the articles... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5732944 | Process and device for the correctly positioned tansfer of folded signatures in folders The actual position of a leading edge of a transversely folded signature is detected. This actual position detection event is used to trigger an instantaneous measurement of the actual angular position of the gripper system used for receiving the signatur... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5699651 | Selector assembly A selector assembly for dividing a continuous line of products moving along a processing path is positioned between a product infeed line and packaging machine line. As the line of products enters the selector assembly, the products are engaged by a rotat... | 12/23/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5638941 | Apparatus for loading the containers of a distributing conveyor An apparatus for loading containers of a distributing conveyor with flat product includes an endless belt including a plurality of ribs that define at least one compartment that forms a support surface for supporting the flat product. The endless belt is ... | 06/17/1997 |
