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...that Thomas Edison's patent application on his phonograph was approved by the Patent Office in just seven weeks? In contrast, it took Gordon Gould, the inventor of the laser, 30 years to obtain his patent -- finally awarded in 1988!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7431144 | Temporary storage system of belt type A temporary storage system (1) of belt type for lightweight hollow bodies (C), said system being particularly suitable for use with empty plastic containers (C) and of the type comprising a storage buffer vessel (2) provided with a feed entry opening (... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7328896 | Apparatus for separating a sheet of print media from a stack of sheets An apparatus (32) for separating a sheet of print media from a stack (30) of porous sheets includes a sheet conveyor for conveying a topmost sheet (30.1) of print media which has been separated from the stack (30) to a printing station ( | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 6971217 | Method and device for controlling a wrapping machine for printed products A method for controlling a wrapping machine for printed products that includes determining the size of an incoming gap in a printed product stream and controlling a speed of the wrapping machine as a function of the size of the incoming gap. The controlling step inc... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6968937 | Method and device for the suspended transport of objects on a transport track comprising an accumulated store Holding elements (1) equipped for transporting individual articles (2) in a held manner and being movable along a stretch of rail (5) independently of one another at least to a limited extent and having in pushed operation a regular minimum dist... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6942216 | Device and method for distributing a predetermined number of sheets from a group of sheets path The present invention relates to a method and a device for distributing a predetermined number of sheets (410, 412, 414, 416) from a group of sheets in which a plurality of sheets is arranged in a shingled mode of arrangement in a sheet transport direction (P... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6510937 | Apparatus for aligning fabricated snack food chips An aligning apparatus for aligning food product chips having a generally curved shape includes a longitudinally extending rib positioned with respect to a chip transport surface. As chips are transported along the transport surface, they straddle the alig... | 01/28/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6371278 | Patty loader and method An apparatus and method for stacking and loading disc-like objects into receptacles is provided. The apparatus includes a lane combining conveyor which receives multiple lanes of product and combines one or more of the outer lanes into the remaining lanes... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6125990 | Infeed slug loader An infeed slug loader provides for the formation of stacks or slugs of individual articles, and transfers the completed slugs to a wrapping machine. The present slug loader may be used to assemble stacks or slugs of various relatively small and flat artic... | 10/03/2000 |
| 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 |
| 6105955 | Feeder structure and receiving wheel for high speed inserter A multiple station in-line product handling machine (40) is provided which has infeed stations (42-46) equipped with improved feeder and receiving units (60, 62) as well as a unique pusher chain assembly (78). The feeder units (60) include a sucker shaft ... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5941365 | Air assisted collator A collator includes a first conveyor having a rotatable drum positioned at its discharge end. The rotatable drum is comprised of a plurality of disks. Two pairs of air nozzles are positioned between the rotating disks of the rotatable drum. A second recei... | 08/24/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5609335 | High capacity stacker/separating device A high capacity conveyor assembly is utilizable with pressure sealers or other business forms manufacturing or handling equipment to efficiently handle forms that may be job separated, and provides high capacity outfeed. An infeed conveyor has a first hor... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5174431 | Rotary apparatus for transfer of food material slices An apparatus for transferring individual slices of food material from a food material supply source to a support member includes at least two rotating hollow drums disposed on and rotating around two associated stationary inner drums. The first rotating d... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5161792 | Machine for transforming a stack of signatures into a shingled stream A machine for converting a group of marginally registered signatures into a shingled stream which is fed to the hopper of a binding machine includes a main frame and several conveyors located in succession along the frame. The first is a feed conveyor hav... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5095684 | On edge cookie loader Cookies (30) of uniform but irregularly shaped perimeter are received from the cookie oven in a horizontal as-baked attitude onto a first surface conveyor (19). As the cookies are passed to successive surface conveyors 920) and (21) operating at successiv... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5051268 | Method and apparatus for transferring food material strips onto a support web An apparatus for transferring individual strips of material which are sliced from a material supply to a support web includes two counterrotating rollers. The first roller is disposed proximate to a slicing station and material supply while the second rol... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4903600 | Product collator imbricator and printer An in-line array of product dispensers overlie a conveyor belt. An ink jet printer overlies the conveyor belt downstream of the product dispensers. Information identifying the product dispensers which hold the desired products for a particular set and the... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4667953 | Sheet stacker A sheet stacker for a corrugation machine having a cutter to widthwisely cut off a continuously manufactured corrugated cardboard web into corrugated cardboard sheets, and then transfer, stack and eject the sheets. The sheet stacker comprises: a shingling... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4577746 | Control system for blank presser A control system for a blank presser used to touch down blanks fed from a conveyor controls the blank presser so as to hold down each of the blanks at the proper time, so as to thereby prevent them from scattering or jamming up. The control system can con... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4562692 | Accumulating apparatus between a cartoner and a side seam gluer A cartoner has a side seam gluer for forming flat folded cartons which are vertically oriented in a magazine for feeding into the cartoner. A conveyor having a horizontally-movable discharge chute feeds the flat folded cartons in a vertical orientation on... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4548404 | Method and apparatus for forming a stream of partly overlapping paper sheets A cross cutter subdivides a continuous paper web into a file of discrete randomly distributed satisfactory and unsatisfactory sheets which are advanced by a first transporting unit at an elevated first speed into the variable-width clearance between two s... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4367997 | Device for creating batches of flat workpieces such as box blanks A device for piling up flat workpieces especially box blanks characterized by a conveyor for transporting the box blanks in at least one stream of staggered blanks, a device for braking and separating the blanks in each stream of box blanks, a device for ... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4356906 | Collating unit for bagged products and the like Apparatus is disclosed for handling a succession of horizontally oriented bagged products, such as potato chips, arriving at the apparatus after a bagging operation. The apparatus includes a detection mechanism for detecting the arrival of each bag, upon ... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4240539 | Backup station for a carton filling machine A backup station in a carton filling machine for the delivery and packaging of premanufactured blanks into transport containers. The station is arranged between an imbrication station and a delivery belt which includes a rotation station. Within the backu... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4082176 | Apparatus for handling snack chips Apparatus is provided for handling a column of nested, uniformly shaped snack chips. The apparatus comprises a pair of parallel, spaced elongated conveying surfaces which support an imbricated column of chips and a stationary support bar positioned thereb... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4041676 | Apparatus for packing strips of material A method of packing strips of material such as bacon by feeding film over a rotating stepped roll, feeding strips or slices of the material onto the film over the steps of this roll, picking up the slices from the roll in shingled relationship with film i... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4020614 | Packing strips of material A method of packing strips of material such as bacon by feeding a film over a rotating stepped roll, feeding strips or slices of the material onto the film over the steps of this roll, picking up the slices from the roll in shingled relationship with film... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4007824 | Device for equalizing the spacing of successive stream-fed printed products A device for equalizing the spacing of printed products, such as newspapers, comprises a plurality of spacers movable in a path parallel to the path of the products. Each of the spacers receives the leading edge of a printed product and is driven thereby ... | 02/15/1977 |
| 3978971 | Bulb accumulator A bulb accumulator for electric lamp bulbs is disclosed wherein the bulbs are supported, in transit, by moving belts and a fixed member or, when accumulated, by the fixed member and the bulb ahead.... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3961697 | Apparatus for shingling and packing of articles An apparatus for packaging articles received as a strip having individually filled pouches which are separated by transverse seals at opposite ends of the pouches characterized by severing the pouches and then depositing the pouches on a conveying device ... | 06/08/1976 |
