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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7274971 | Methods and apparatus for electronic device manufacturing system monitoring and control In a first aspect, a computer program product is provided. The computer program product includes a medium readable by a computer. The computer readable medium has computer program code adapted to (1) create a band map that indicates an expected status of one or more... | 09/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6481561 | Container feeder A container feeder for feeding pillowlike uncompleted containers C1 each having a container body M1 and upper and lower ears U1, L1 projecting laterally from upper and lower ends of the container body to a conveyor 21 of a container forming device 14 for ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6290453 | Unit for feeding flat diecut blanks of wrapping material to a user machine A unit for feeding flat diecut blanks of wrapping material to a user machine is equipped with a conveyor by which blanks disposed on edge transversely to a given feed direction and ordered in a substantially continuous column are caused to advance along a... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6203004 | Device for feeding blanks on a packing machine A method and device for feeding blanks on a packing machine, whereby a conveyor feeds along a horizontal path a succession of blanks positioned perpendicular to the path; the path terminating at a pickup station having a stop surface defined by a frame, w... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6189293 | Container filling machine A filling machine for sheet bags comprising a transportation means including a plurality of transportation elements for the sheet bags, for supplying the sheet bags to an opening station, a filling station, a closing station and a cooling station. The tra... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6035994 | Conveyor The conveyor comprises a conveyor belt (5), two main drums (R1,R4) around which the conveyor belt forms a main loop, two auxiliary drums (R2,R3) mounted between the main drums and around which the conveyor belt forms a secondary loop, and two auxiliary ro... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5980196 | Counter-ejector and box feed machine A counter-ejector and feeder for receiving flexible boxes delivered at a prescribed infeed rate in end-to-end relation along a plane, and a counter-ejector machine, for stacking the boxes in discrete bundles for discharge. The machine includes a general f... | 11/09/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5536001 | Apparatus for transporting and decelerating folded products An apparatus for transporting and a dependable deceleration of folded products, e.g. before being fed to a second longitudinal fold, including two groups of belts, each of which contains upper and lower belts, supplemented by a further belt group containi... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5472078 | Method of and apparatus for converting a single layer of rod-shaped articles into a mass flow A single layer of spaced-apart rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry is advanced sideways toward a transfer zone wherein successive groups of two or more neighboring articles are diverted along separate paths against a concave friction su... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5394974 | Method and apparatus for the buffer storage of printed products in scale formation Buffer storage of printed products conveyed in scale formation on a conveyor belt (10) is brought about by buffer device (12.1, 12.2, 12.3 etc.), running in a conveying section with a speed which is lower than the speed of the conveyor belt (10) and havin... | 03/07/1995 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5197586 | Automatic machine for uprightly positioning and feeding containers An apparatus for use with a continuous belt type conveyor transporting containers from the exit portion of an automatic machine for uprightly positioning and feeding containers, includes at least one first braking unit (1, 11) each having an endless belt ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5080551 | Apparatus for palletizing layers of circular containers arranged in a honeycomb pattern An apparatus for arranging nested, parallel rows of generally circular containers on a conveyor, the rows extending in the direction of conveyor movement, with the containers of alternate rows being offset relative to the containers of the remaining rows,... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4852717 | Computer controlled light contact feeder A light contact feeder uses a pair of individually controlled conveyor belts to receive randomly spaced articles and to deliver the articles in a lightly abutted arrangement. The feeder uses a trio of accumulator scanners above an accumulator belt to cont... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4809964 | Apparatus and method for converting bundled signatures to a shingled stream Bundled signatures are placed on a first set of conveyor belts which move the signature bundle to a shingling station. A pair of side belts at the shingling station are spaced so that the signatures are individualy bowed forwardly upon encountering the be... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4795022 | Biscuit conveyor A conveyor system for transporting relatively planar articles such as biscuits, includes a pair of upwardly divergent conveyor walls formed by belts 1, 2 which extend on either side of a stationary element which can be a single member 3 or lips. An articl... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4765451 | Apparatus and method for segregating counted slugs of flats An apparatus for handling a plurality of flat, collapsed, folded paper boxes which have been produced on a high speed, folder-gluer, delivered in shingled formation onto the advancing apron of a stacker, counted into slugs of about fifty each and must be ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4718538 | Method and apparatus for conveying flat articles A conveyor apparatus is divided into a plurality of end-to-end arranged conveyor tracks to advance flat items, in an edgewise upstanding, face-to-face engaging orientation to an item processing machine situated downstream of the conveyor apparatus. Each c... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4718534 | Collating conveyor for bagged products A belt conveyor system carrying bagged product toward a packing station is interrupted and offset downward to form the basis of an automatic collating station for placing the bags in a column, side-by-side and upright, for easier packing into a carton. A ... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4650061 | Crowding lug transfer conveyor system A crowding lug transfer conveyor system has an infeed and an outfeed end with a primary conveyor surface serving to a convey pieces therebetween. A plurality of lugs, each slideably mounted on a lug chain, are held at the infeed end and then released ahea... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4308944 | Low-noise speed reduction for a one-track bottle flow, especially for bottling plants An arrangement for a low-noise speed reduction of a one-track bottle flow in a bottle distributing station, especially in bottling plants, according to which a flow of bottles arranged in spaced relationship to each other in conformity with a desired bott... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4200016 | Apparatus for forming a horizontal stack of vertically oriented sheets There is disclosed a sheet handling apparatus wherein sheets are delivered onto a conveyor belt traveling at a slower speed than the speed at which the sheets are delivered. The leading end of a sheet is sucked against the conveyor belt such that a traili... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4164996 | Tile stacking machine and method A tile stacking machine wherein each tile is tilted while being conveyed at high speed and supported by its lower edge. The tiles are then transferred to a set of speed reducing belts to travel on edge. In most instances they are then transferred to at le... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4142345 | Nestable container packaging apparatus A cup packaging device for seriately receiving, counting and loosely nesting into a group on a first conveyor segment a preset number of cups, nesting the cups into a more tightly nested stack on a subsequent conveyor segment, conveying the tightly nested... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4129207 | Product alignment mechanism An apparatus for aligning product being conveyed in a forward direction where a conveying element urges product to be re-distributed laterally for advancement to an adjacent accumulation plate to form interlocking hexagonal close pack clusters. Further di... | 12/12/1978 |
