Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7426992 | Systems and methods for providing an improved timing conveyor Disclosed is a conveyor system for evenly spacing conveyed objects. The conveyor system includes a conveyor belt that includes a conveyor having cavities, rollers in some of the cavities and a positioning component. The conveyor system further includes a conveyor dr... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7252124 | Work feeding and conveying device for a planing machine A work feeding and conveying device for a planing machine includes a conveying unit assembled on an intermediate base of a planing machine. The conveying unit has a power source, a front shaft, a rear shaft and a conveying belt. The front shaft is secured at the fro... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7207429 | Feeding device of chocolates and similar products A feeding device of chocolates and similar products for a wrapping machine includes: a first belt means which has a continuous advance motion, supports and moves a plurality of products, aligned and arranged in a single line at mutual contact; a second belt means al... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7198146 | Device and method for forming groups of products in conveying systems, in particular for automatic packaging machinery A device for forming groups of products in conveying systems, in particular for automatic packaging machinery, includes a path of conveyance in which, in operation, an array of products advances along a direction of conveyance with the products in contact with each ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7168550 | Method and device for delivering books in the lying-flat condition For the purpose of delivering, in the lying-flat condition, book blocks or books which are fed in, standing on their back or on the front cut and at defined timing intervals along their height, from a preceding machine in a transport path, provision is made, accordi... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7086522 | Device for vibratory indexing of portioned pieces A portioned piece spacing apparatus having at least one contoured chute. The contoured chute having at least one angle of declination, a receiving area and an discharge tip. The at least one vibrating chute being coupled to a vibrating mechanism through an at least ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7055671 | Method for forming and spacing out successive batches of articles A method and apparatus for forming and separating successive batches of articles such as bottles, cans, etc. The invention includes a first driving system for receiving, at a feed station, articles driven by a first rotating transfer system. The speed of the first r... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7014032 | Method and device for aligning articles and means for detecting the position of the articles A method and apparatus is disclosed for aligning rolls in a feed system. The rolls are spaced at regular intervals so as to enable incorrectly positioned rolls to be turned to the correct feed position, when necessary, while they are moving forward in a feed directi... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7007773 | Lubrication device A lubrication device lubricates traveling lubrication sites, such as on a belt (1), in particular, on a roller or chain belt (1). The lubrication device includes a lubricating apparatus (2) having a catch (C) that is capable of assuming a restin... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6976674 | Method of, and apparatus for, conveying sheet like products The invention relates to a method of, and an apparatus for, conveying sheet like products (10, 10′), in particular printed products. In each case two or more products (10, 10′) are gripped together, in the region of their leading edges (10 | 12/20/2005 |
| 6956197 | Method and an arrangement for detecting and discharging misplaced boards at a separation elevator A method and a device for detection and removal of one or more misplaced boards (6) on an elevator for the separation of boards (6). The elevator comprises a frame (1) that supports carrier chains (2) that run over pulley wheels (3, 4 | 10/18/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6932196 | Lubrication device A lubrication device lubricates traveling lubrication sites, such as on a belt (1), in particular, on a roller or chain belt (1). The lubrication device includes a lubricating apparatus (2) having a catch (C) that is capable of assuming a restin... | 08/23/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6919122 | Flexible composites with integral flights for use in high-temperature food processing equipment and methods for producing the same A flexible composite with integral flights is provided and methods for making the same. The composite is made from, for example, silicone rubber, urethane rubber, polytetrafluoroethylene or other polymer. The composites are useful for making articles of manufacture,... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6554125 | Device for changing the position of objects conveyed in an overlapping stream An apparatus for changing the position of flexible flat objects, in particular printed products, as they are advanced on a first conveyor in an overlapping stream, and which includes a position changing device positioned above the first conveyor and which... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6510939 | Device for accelerated conveying of a package introduced between two vertical belts A device for conveying packages includes a conveyor with a running surface ending with a terminal area, a series of stationary stops and vertical prongs under the stops and above the running surface. The prongs move along a path which follows a circular t... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6491154 | Unstacker for unstacking items conveyed in a bulk stream An unstacking apparatus includes a feed conveyor for feeding stacks of items, and a decline unstacking section including at least first and second declined conveyors arranged in series. A stack of items being transferred from the feed conveyor to the firs... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6431345 | High speed board feeder A high speed board feeder for transferring boards from an infeed conveyor onto a secondary conveyor. The boards on the infeed conveyor are transported in an edge to edge configuration against a fixed stop. Hold down mechanism is provided to secure the boa... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6405850 | Apparatus and method for advancing signatures using a retracting drive An apparatus and method for advancing and/or slowing signatures in a printing press. The apparatus and method includes a series of two or more belt drives, where each belt drive includes at least a pair of opposed belts. The belts are preferably timing or... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6341685 | Ordering device for arranging products received in a loose state in an orderly succession An ordering device for arranging products received in the loose state in an orderly succession comprises a first and a second conveyor with belts defining a product feed path divided into active portions with variable lengths equaling complementary fracti... | 01/29/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6170639 | Apparatus for carrying out a sequence of successive operations on small workpieces An apparatus for performing a variety of fast and slow operations including mounting operations upon workpieces affixed to workpiece carriers in which the slow operations are carried out at one station and the fast operations are carried out at another. T... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6168008 | Drive system for a mail processing machine In a drive system for a mail processing machine a comparatively simple and clear design of the driving tracks and of the bearings for the respective shafts is obtained by feeding drive energy from a common drive motor to a bevel gear drive and a step gear... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6135705 | Product stacking method and apparatus Disclosed is a new machine for continuously stacking packages in a vertical orientation for insertion into cases. A lift area is provided having a plurality of lateral lifting panels on either side. The panels are adjustably attached to pairs of continuou... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6131372 | Article metering device and method of metering articles An article metering device, and a method of metering articles, is disclosed. The article metering device is positioned along a path of travel at a downstream end of a feed conveyor, and at an upstream end of a take-away conveyor of an article handling and... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6059508 | Commissioning installation In the commissioning installation described for automatically supplying items (18), such as cigarette cartons, computer-controlled from a storage region (1) comprising item stack throughput storage devices (2) to a transfer station (35) in accordance with... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5915681 | Sheet handling apparatus Sheet handling apparatus, and more particularly a cash dispenser unit, has a number of cassettes (1,2) which hold currency notes. Pick mechanisms (3,4) are associated with each cassette and function to transfer notes from the cassettes to conveyor belts f... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5915523 | Method and unit for ordering products A method and unit for ordering products, whereby the products, arranged with any timing, are timed as they are fed from a transfer station to a loading station through which gripping or loading elements travel at a given frequency and with a given timing;... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5762175 | Apparatus for the ordered transportation of packs The aim is for packs (10) which arrive in close proximity to one another or at irregular intervals from one another to be transported further at precisely predetermined spacings from one another, for example by a removal conveyor (15). For this purpose, t... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5746572 | Conveying apparatus and methods of use This invention pertains to removing a row or layer of material from a supporting surface, with the row or layer advancing on a removal conveyor in a line abreast, and converting the row or layer into a line, advancing single file. Apparatus and methods ar... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5740899 | Positive spacing conveyor apparatus An apparatus for placing randomly received items, such as poultry carcasses, in a single file and for placing adjacent single filed items in a substantially equidistant spaced relationship 10 includes a rotatable cone 12 having an outer periphery 14, a co... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5641072 | Method for sorting post-consumed bottles and apparatus thereof The present invention provides a method for sorting post-consumed bottles exactly and efficiently and an apparatus for carrying out the method. The sorting apparatus comprises a supply section, a separating section, a detecting section comprising a first ... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5641053 | Equally spaced product conveying method and line A method and line for feeding products in equally spaced manner to a user machine, whereby the products, aligned and traveling with a constant spacing and at constant speed along a supply path, are each removed off the supply path by a respective gripping... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5518106 | Apparatus for separating and individually feeding boards and cants to a processing unit The disclosure describes an apparatus, known in the lumber industry as a board or cant feeder, used to separate and move laterally, one by one, pieces of lumber having at least two parallel sawn or cut faces. These pieces are first brought side by side, i... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5419425 | Apparatus and method for loading lumber onto a high-speed lugged transfer deck A lumber lug loader for placing boards onto a lugged transfer deck is disclosed. The lug loader has a lower board accelerating deck and an upper board-contacting member. The lower board accelerating deck and the upper board-contacting member have driven m... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5374052 | Change of direction conveyance of paper sheets or business forms A direction of movement of substantially fiat elements, such as sheets or business forms, is changed about 90°, without rotation of the forms. Nip rolls receive the forms driven in a first direction and accelerate the forms to make them airborne until th... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5282613 | Signature stream feeding apparatus In order to accommodate either a loose lift of signatures or, alternatively, a signature log for the purpose of stream feeding a supply of signatures to a packer box on a binding line in an effective and efficient manner, a signature stream feeding appara... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5244077 | Transport gear chain arrangement A transport gear chain arrangement, in particular for the transport of glass articles, includes two gear chain sections (2 or, respectively, 3) successively following to each other in transport direction. In each case, transport gear chains (6), surroundi... | 09/14/1993 |
