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A microwave oven adapted for use within a motor vehicle dashboard area. The microwave oven has a removable storage cassette, and slidable platforms for securing and serving containers of beverages and foods.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181768 | Mailpiece inserter adapted for one-sided operation (OSO) and input conveyor module therefor A mailpiece inserter includes a feed conveyor adapted to feed a shingled stack of mailpiece envelopes along a feed path to an insert module and a chassis module adapted to produce content material for insertion into the mailpiece envelopes processed by the insert mo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7063206 | Accumulating conveyor system An accumulation conveyor system and method of accumulating articles includes providing an accumulation assembly that is adapted to accumulating a plurality of articles into a slug of articles. Slugs of articles are discharged to a transport line which transports the... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7021450 | Device and method to correct uneven spacing of successive articles A device for correcting uneven spacing of successive articles includes a first conveyor belt having a plurality of articles spaced thereon. At least one article is unevenly spaced. A second conveyor belt is located downstream of the first conveyor belt upon which th... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6918484 | High rate induction system A sortation system and method of inducting product are useful with a sorter having a continuous member defining a plurality of transport positions of the continuous member and a plurality of sort destinations for receiving product discharged from the continuous memb... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6702096 | Intelligent deck apparatus and method for positioning workpieces in preparation for processing An intelligent deck apparatus and method for serially moving workpieces moving side-by-side on a conveyor system to a processing system. The intelligent deck is comprised of an edge detector system having at least one sensor, a shift mechanism, and a lift... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6629593 | Conveyor induction system A conveyor induct system includes a control point subsystem for measuring the point at which control of an article transitions from one conveyor to another. The induct system also includes a subsystem for accurately creating or controlling the gaps betwee... | 10/07/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6398010 | Device for depositing flat objects, conveyed individually in succession, on a forwarding conveyor in shingle formation Flat objects, conveyed in succession, are deposited on a slower forwarding conveyor in shingle formation so that a decelerating unit settles from the top on the deposited objects. To guarantee a flawless deposit of the workpieces in shingle formation, the... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6374988 | Accumulating conveyor for elongated stock An accumulating conveyor for elongated stock, such as tubes, rods, bars and similar articles. At least three independently operable conveyor banks are arranged for sequentially transferring elongated stock from one bank to the next. Each conveyor bank inc... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6244421 | Singulated release for a zoned conveyor system An accumulating conveyor system for transporting a series of loads includes a series of conveyor zones including at least an upstream conveyor zone and a downstream conveyor zone. Each conveyor zone includes a drive arrangement for operating the conveyor ... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6119846 | Collapsible gripper modules A delivery device for sheets or signatures having a plurality of gripper modules including a first gripper module and a second gripper module and a track having a variable dimension to permit changes in pitch between the gripper modules. The first gripper... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6098789 | Conveyor operation control system A package conveyor operating control system comprised of a continuous conveying belt supported on separate plates, air pressure responsive pads supporting the plates to effect lifting and lowering of the plates, photocells associated with each plate to de... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6073751 | Automatic equipping unit for electrical assemblies with a belt store unit for discharged components An automatic equipping unit for electrical assemblies with a belt store unit for discharged components wherein the components discharged by the automatic equipping unit are placed onto the belt store unit in a defined position. A belt drive that can be co... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6061887 | Method of transporting workpieces in assembly line In an assembly line in which at least two kinds of workpieces are transported by mixture and in which each of the workpieces is transported by a self-propelling transporting member, a transporting pitch for each kind of workpiece is set in advance based o... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6047812 | Asynchronous soft conveyor system An asynchronous conveyor system with controlled smooth stopping and starting. The conveyer system defines a path with sections (Z1 . . . Z6) independently driven. The conveyed items (2A, . . . 2D) may be independently accumulated on one or more path secti... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6023034 | Inter-article gap adjustor for controlled delivery to a sorting device using a plurality of gap sensors A paper sorting apparatus includes first to fourth gap measuring units to measure gaps between sheets of paper. Using the gaps between the sheets varying between the respective gap measuring units, target gap correction values are stored for respective so... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5971134 | Method and apparatus for conveying articles The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for conveying articles, particularly sheet stacks, the articles (5, 105) being conveyed in a common direction on a connecting conveyor (2) and an accumulating conveyor (3) overlapping with the latter... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5908116 | Mail accumulating device A mail accumulating device having a number of stream forming units, each of which has a pair of powered belts superimposed at a point of contact defining the input of the unit. Each stream forming unit is provided with a sensor for detecting the passage o... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5842696 | Turn-over and shingling apparatus A sheet inverter is used in a method of handling documents, preferably to invert the documents, change them from an in-line configuration to a shingled configuration, and then move them in a direction substantially transverse to the original direction of ... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5779023 | Sorting conveyor apparatus A sorting conveyor apparatus of the present invention is structured such that when objects to be conveyed are respectively positioned in outlet sides of upstream sorting conveyors under a condition that the objects are positioned on each of downstream sor... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5730275 | Cup conveyor An inclined hopper system for the conveyance of irregular shaped geometric blank material upwardly along an inclined specially configured conveyor for presentation to a specially configured gravity hopper having a plurality of adjustment mechanisms for ac... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5505291 | Package measuring system and accumulator An apparatus is provided which provides measuring and accumulation of packages for downstream sorting or stacking. The apparatus provides variable force feeding of packages to reduce chaos accumulation. Reversing of conveyors allows for reduced line compr... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5484049 | Package measuring system and accumulator An apparatus is provided which provides measuring and accumulation of packages for downstream sorting or stacking. The apparatus provides variable force feeding of packages to reduce chaos accumulation. Reversing of conveyors allows for reduced line compr... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5419677 | Apparatus and method for programmable interleaving and stacking of sheet-carried food products An apparatus and method for interleaving a carrier sheet with sliced food products, such as bacon strips, has a supply conveyor for continuously conveying products with spacings that may be random or non-uniform, a delivery section to a drop-off point, a ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5022644 | Method and apparatus for forming an imbricated formation of printed products arriving in an imbricated stream The apparatus for forming an imbricated product formation, in which the pitch between successive printed products can be deliberately selected, comprises successively arranged first and second conveyors. A scanning device detects the printed products arri... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4962844 | Method for regulating the advance of products in automatic packaging equipment, and equipment operating according to the method Conveyors are interposed between a product-supply station and a product handling station and are divided into several sections in cascade on which products accumulate when the handling station stops. When the handling station stops, the sections also stop... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4863154 | Conveyor system for planar objects A conveyor system for reducing the speed of double-piece cut banks being fed to a stacker is provided. Cut-blanks are fed in pairs with the spacing between the blanks of the pair being small and the spacing between the pairs of objects being large along a... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4744458 | Conveyor for advancing wafer-like articles A vibratory conveyor for advancing stacked wafer-like articles in an edgewise upstanding orientation includes a vibratory trough having a vibratory base portion of a width which is less than the width of the entire vibratory trough. The conveyor further h... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4609095 | Article spacing apparatus An apparatus for providing a uniform spacing between articles supported on and advanced by a conveyor in a conveying direction, comprises a carrier arranged for travel in the conveying direction at a speed less than that of the conveyor and a plurality of... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4473010 | Sensor traversing device A grouping system (10) includes parallel conveyor belts (28) for conveying the objects from the unloader system (14) to the oven-ready conveyor (24). A group end sensor (64) is moveable along the grouping system (10) between the conveyor belts (28). The s... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4469219 | Method and installation for regularizing the transfer of identical solid products A method of and apparatus for continuously regularizing the transfer of solid products having a maximum input spacing on an input conveyor, onto an output conveyor on which these products have a constant minimum output spacing, with a spillway between the... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4440288 | Group end sensor A grouping system (10) includes parallel conveyor belts (28) for conveying the objects from an unloader system (14) to an oven-ready conveyor (24). A group end sensor (64) is moveable along the grouping system (14) between the conveyor belts (28). The sen... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4369876 | Multi-layer coating apparatus, system and method Multi-layer coating apparatus and system for coating a substrate having a coating chamber and means for advancing the substrate in a horizontal position through the coating chamber. The coating chamber is provided with means for depositing the coating on ... | 01/25/1983 |
