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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7128200 | Carton transfer unit A transfer unit is configured for use with a form, fill and seal packaging machine. The transfer unit receives a partially erected carton from a first station in a tubular form, conveys the carton to a second station, and conveys the carton from the second station t... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7080726 | Carton transfer unit A transfer unit is configured for use with a form, fill and seal packaging machine. The transfer unit receives a partially erected carton from a first station in a tubular form, conveys the carton to a second station, and conveys the carton from the second station t... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7077259 | Carton transfer unit A transfer unit is configured for use with a form, fill and seal packaging machine. The transfer unit receives a partially erected carton from a first station in a tubular form, conveys the carton to a second station, and conveys the carton from the second station t... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7059466 | Carton transfer unit A transfer unit is configured for use with a form, fill and seal packaging machine. The transfer unit receives a partially erected carton from a first station in a tubular form, conveys the carton to a second station, and conveys the carton from the second station t... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5967741 | Method and apparatus for palletizing parcels with upper accompanying device Method and apparatus for arranging book, magazine, segnature parcels (A, B, . . . ) and the like in rows with a predefined separation of the parcels from one another for transferring them onto a pallet, said rows being formed by causing the parcels (A, B,... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5947470 | Stacker with discharge control This invention relates to a stacking conveyor including slow-down wheels to reduce the exit speed of individual sheets of material. In one preferred embodiment, a non-driven friction drag belt is positioned above the slow-down wheels so as to assist in re... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5820714 | Method and apparatus for registering bottles An apparatus and method are shown and described for labeling bottles in a stream. An input conveyor is provided for supplying bottles to a presenting station. Bottles are restrained at the presenting station until the appropriate time by an entrance gate.... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5547064 | Apparatus for serially transferring objects between two conveyor means The invention relates to an apparatus for serially transferring objects between a supply conveyor and a receiving conveyor, in which the speed of the supply conveyor is not smaller than the speed of the receiving conveyor. The apparatus includes a feed ca... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5373681 | Lug folding apparatus for a packaging device A lug folding apparatus for a packaging machine in which box-like items, fed into pockets, are continuously circularly conveyed, during which a packaging sheet is wound or wrapped along the surface of each of the box-like items, the wound box-like items a... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5261520 | Custodial book transfer system An apparatus for transferring a plurality of books from a binder conveyor to another conveyor. The apparatus includes a plurality of grippers for receiving the books from the binder conveyor and gripping the books. The apparatus includes a conveyor for mo... | 11/16/1993 |
| 4938340 | Conveying rod-like articles Rod-like articles, particularly cigarettes or cigarette filter rods, are conveyed in a stream in a direction transverse to their lengths at a speed which is progressively reduced, so that the height of the conveyed stream is increased. Prior to the reduct... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4789290 | Machine for orienting and stacking receptacles A machine for orienting and stacking receptacles, such as cups having a base end and a mouth end, which machine includes a receiving area wherein the cups are initially received and are then fed to an upright, angularly disposed conveyor, the cups being r... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4518074 | Arrangement and a method for transferring products in metal processing installations Hot, elongated metallic products are delivered to a horizontal roller table and then transferred to one side of the latter transverse to the longitudinal dimensions of the products. The transfer arrangement for the products includes several pairs of I-bea... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4456118 | Single to dual indexing carton transfer mechanism A single to dual indexing carton transfer mechanism involving a turret and conveyor, wherein the turret includes equally spaced mandrels which index at a first predetermined rate, and wherein the conveyor indexes at one-half the rate of the mandrels. Part... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4391560 | Lid infeed for spinning rod restacker An assembly for use in a container lid conveyor apparatus serves to transfer container lids disposed on a generally horizontal conveyor, to disposition in a continuous stack of such lids balanced on their rims, and undergoing continuous rotation during th... | 07/05/1983 |
| 3957152 | Apparatus for changing the spacing of cigarettes or the like The spacing of cigarettes which are moved sideways in the flutes of two driven drum-shaped conveyors is changed during transfer of successive cigarettes from one of the conveyors whose flutes are spaced apart by a greater distance onto the other conveyor ... | 05/18/1976 |
