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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8069970 | Transport star wheels A transport star having at least one replaceable mounting part with a first locking element and a mounting part holder with a second locking element, and where one of the two locking elements is locked with the other locking element by rotation. In addition, a trans... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7275897 | Drilling machine for panels A drilling machine for drilling variable-thickness on-edge supported wood, plastics material, aluminum panels, comprises a bottom intermittent conveyor for abutting against a bottom edge of a panel and horizontally conveying a panel to be processed to a tool bearing... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7198262 | Envelope-turning station In the case of an envelope-turning station with a turning cylinder which is oriented parallel to the mail-conveying direction and is equipped with openable and closable jaws on its circumference, it is possible, following charging of the turning-cylinder jaws with h... | 04/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6702121 | Rotating sorting device and sorting method A rotating sorting device for sorting packaged goods has one or more linear supply conveyors and a plurality of removal locations arranged circularly about a central axle. One or more linear removal conveyors are positioned between the central axle and th... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6698576 | Method and device for transferring a product in a packaging machine In a method for transferring a product in a packaging machine, the product is engaged from behind by a pushing element which is mounted on and driven by a first circulating continuous conveyor and moved from a transfer station along a sliding surface for ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6652698 | Method and installation for manufacturing personalized coupons An installation for manufacturing personalized coupons comprises a set of work stations with at least a feed station (110) for supplying blank coupons (C), a personalization station (120) for personalizing blank coupons (C), and a cutting-out station (130... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6494307 | Flexible track and carriage system A track and carriage system is provided for moving a work piece along a flexible track (10). The system includes a track (10) having at least one track segment (12), the track segment (12) including a rack assembly (16) formed by a plurality of spaced rac... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6439376 | Pocket conveyor A pocket conveyor wherein a flexible toothed belt is fitted with conveying pockets equally spaced along the belt, and wherein each pocket is connected to the belt by a first and at least one second connecting member, both hinged to the belt; the first con... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6408602 | apparatuses for forming a compressed grouping of objects The present invention is directed to an apparatus for compressing a plurality of objects into a compressed grouping and transferring said compressed grouping to a transfer conveyor. The apparatus includes a rotatable cylinder having a plurality of receivi... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6334526 | Hybrid closed loop conveyor A conveyor, such as a baggage reclaim or air-side collection carousel, having a moving surface with overlapping flat plates. The plates are horizontal in some portions of the conveyor, and are tilted in at least one other portion of the conveyor, with tra... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6332530 | Apparatus for manipulating block-shaped commodities An apparatus for transporting successive at least partially wrapped blocks of cigarettes or the like, e.g., in a packing machine, employs a mobile block supplying member which advances successive blocks of a series of blocks on top of an opening in a bott... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6296434 | Product supply unit with offset wheel axes for non-tilting horizontal product supports A product supply unit which has a pair of plate members disposed opposite to each other and connected together by a number of supports that are in between the two plate members and disposed around the circumference of the plate members. Each support has a... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6213310 | Arrangement for handling banknotes An arrangement for handling banknotes having a banknote magazine (10) which is arranged to permit banknotes (39) to be fed into as well as out from the magazine one by one, and a memory device (44) for storing continuously updated information about the co... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6070712 | High efficiency mechanical transducer A high efficiency mechanical transducer assembly including a primary drive assembly defined by at least one but preferably a plurality of synchronized conveyors being vertically oriented and structured to travel in a continuous path which is defined in pa... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6058985 | Bottling machine with a set-up table and a set-up table for a bottling machine and a set-up table for a bottle handling machine A set-up table or conveyor system for bottle handling machines with inlet and outlet star wheels and corresponding guide rails for the bottles. The drive mechanisms for the individual star wheels are located below and at a distance from the star wheels. T... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5593269 | Automated work center An automated work center for use in materials handling operations is disclosed. The work center includes a randomly accessible vertically moving temporary storage queue 11 for receiving containers 25 that hold material goods. A fixed loading ramp 20 is ar... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5273392 | Automated work center and method This invention relates to an automated work center for use in materials handling operations. The work center includes a randomly accessible vertically moving temporary storage queue 11 for receiving containers 25 that hold material goods. A fixed loading ... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5201354 | Feed system with improved prepositioning A feed system with improved preposition is shown and describe wherein a prepositioning stage is located vertically above a feed stage such that movement of a wood product from the prepositioning stage to the feed stage corresponds to movement of the wood ... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5199840 | Automated storage and retrieval system An automated storage and retrieval system includes two confrontingly opposed, columnar arrays which define a plurality of vertically spaced tray-receiving recesses. A platform is vertically displaceable along and between the arrays and carries an extracti... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5167317 | Apparatus for and method of transferring articles such as eggs A method and apparatus for transferring discrete articles such as eggs or fruit from a conveyor having at least one row of article holders to a receiver having a resilient upwardly facing portion which then carries the articles generally horizontally to a... | 12/01/1992 |
| 4883161 | Apparatus for the form-stabilizing storage of packs A (drying) turret (27) is used for the form-stablizing storage of cuboid packs with folding tabs connected by means of glue spots, and a plurality of pivotably mounted storage pockets (29), each intended for receiving a multiplicity of packs (20), is arra... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4790424 | Conveying systems A carousel conveyor system for transporting articles, including a first conveyor for directing articles in a general horizontal direction, a set carousel conveyor carrier having a first section for elevating an article from the first conveyor and a second... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4778044 | Material magazine for a metal working machine A material magazine for automatically feeding material such as long steel bars to a metal working machine including at least two parallel chain-conveyers, material guide rollers, a material arrival detecting means, and a material feed roller. The chain-co... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4718536 | Stack storage elevator for sliced, stacked comestible products A stack storage elevator for sliced, stacked comestible products includes a frame assembly disposed adjacent to a roller conveyor interposed in a conveyor delivering stacked slices to a packaging apparatus. A pair of vertically spaced sprocket wheels are ... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4625857 | Endless belt conveyor system having patterned belt transport surface An endless belt conveyor system has patterned belt transport surface for engaging loads having spaced protrusions on their bottom surfaces, such as, for example, multi-wheeled carts. The endless belt is trained over a pair of rollers, and has a plurality ... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4542818 | Displacement bench for mail sorting equipment and letter guidance insertion flap equipping such a bench The invention relates to an insertion flap for guiding letters during their insertion into the compartments of a rotary drum. It is a question of the axial insertion into the compartment of a drum rotating at an angular velocity Ω of a letter arriving at... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4352424 | Device for conveying molded pieces A device for obliquely conveying pieces of cylindrical hollow shape with a bottom for forming a thin, transparent, bottle-shaped container from the floor level to the height for supplying the pieces to the mold of a blow-molding machine. The numerous piec... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4199051 | Egg transporting system An egg transporting system for receiving eggs from a plurality of egg belt conveyors leading from cages of a poultry installation receives eggs on an input side and transfers them to an opposite side of the system to an accumulation conveyor. The transpor... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4101020 | Packaging machine transfer mechanism In a packaging machine having a load transfer station and a packaging station there is provided an improved mechanism for loading articles onto a main conveyor for movement through the packaging station. A plurality of article receiving compartments are c... | 07/18/1978 |
| 4073375 | Method of and apparatus for feeding randomly received items A method of and apparatus for feeding randomly received items and for placing these items on apparatus, such as a flight conveyor or a packaging machine, which cycles continuously at a steady rate, with the flight conveyor being operated at a cycling rate... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4055257 | Stacking apparatus Apparatus is disclosed for stacking bundles such as bundles of paperboard sheets on a receiver. The apparatus includes an L-shaped conveyor having a top run and a bottom run. The top run of the conveyor has a position defined by the location of spaced fir... | 10/25/1977 |
| 3986599 | Mechanical part feeder A mechanical part feeder in which an endless conveyor elevates parts retained in pockets provided by slightly inclined transverse strips extending between endless chains and guided to incline forwardly so as to cause the strips to tilt and release the par... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3970188 | Carrier element for a hydrastatic cooker Device for thermal treatment of articles such as tins containing foodstuff, comprising an overpressure treatment chamber and an endless conveyor traversing the chamber, in which the conveyor is provided with carrying elements consisting of two or more mir... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3944046 | Article transfer apparatus An apparatus for transferring articles from a lower horizontal conveyor to an upper horizontal conveyor that includes a first drive means having a flexible carrier provided with lifter members arranged in horizontally spaced relationship for receiving art... | 03/16/1976 |
