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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7364398 | Apparatus and method for stacking sheets discharged from a starwheel assembly An apparatus and method for moving stacks of product discharged from a stacking device. The apparatus includes a first conveyor movable at a first speed and a second conveyor movable at a second speed. The first conveyor includes an upstream end adjacent to the stac... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7131247 | Method and device for finishing cellophane-wrapped packets A method and device for finishing cellophane-wrapped packets, whereby a succession of stacks, each defined by two superimposed packets having respective heat-shrink overwrappings, are fed successively by a conveyor wheel along a circular track extending through an u... | 11/07/2006 |
| 6926132 | Hold down assembly, with tubular container transport apparatus and methodology incorporating the same A hold down assembly for use in a tubular container transport apparatus comprises upper and lower pieces movably mounted relative to one another. Preferably the lower piece is removably seated on a mounting plate of the transport apparatus and the upper piece is ada... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6659287 | Apparatus and method for grading articles An apparatus and method for inspecting and sorting articles such as fruit and vegetables in which the articles are presented, on a conveyor, under a viewing device and classified. A take-off position is determined from the classification and the article i... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6651842 | Article dispensing machine and method An article dispensing apparatus is described. The dispensing apparatus includes a plurality of slats, each having one or more holders for holding and dispensing articles. Each slat has a cavity and an open end. Further, each holder includes an aperture th... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6652215 | Rotary deblistering apparatus A rotary deblistering apparatus is described. It comprises a rotatable drum having plurality of circumferential pack holding means each adapted to hold and retain a blister pack. The drum can rotate to locate the pack holding means at a plurality of perip... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6554557 | Inter-box connector (IBC) installation and removal system An inter-box connector (IBC) installation and removal system for a buffer crane formed to operate under a quay crane for supplementing operation thereof by semi-automating the previously "by hand" IBC installation and removal procedures.... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6540065 | Transferring apparatus for chips and method of use A measuring and classifying apparatus (transferring apparatus) for chips includes an immovable base and a turn table (transferring member). The turn table is rotatably disposed on an upper surface of the immovable base, and is provided with receiving conc... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6520318 | Device for introducing and/or eliminating containers An installation (V) for the introduction and the removal of plastic bottles into or out of a treatment room, which is provided with a drivable lock rotor (4), with lock chambers (3), external and internal star wheel pairs (17, 20; 18, 19), and, in the loc... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6422418 | Article dispensing machine and method An article dispensing apparatus is described. The dispensing apparatus includes a plurality of slats, each having one or more holders for holding and dispensing articles. Each slat has a cavity and an open end. Further, each holder includes an aperture th... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6220591 | Apparatus for processing flexible, sheet-like products An apparatus (10) for conveying flexible sheet-like products wherein a plurality of conveying elements (12) are arranged one behind the other on a rotatable support member in a circular array, and each conveying element comprises a roller segment (24), wh... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6112881 | Product conveying assembly A conveying assembly for conveying products, and having a conveying wheel for feeding a number of pockets in steps along a path extending through a loading and an unloading station having, respectively, a loading device and an unloading device, which in t... | 09/05/2000 |
| 5810152 | Conveyor device with a circular path A conveyor device with a circular path, particularly for groups of fragile cylindrical objects and for use in cigarette packing machines, includes a wheel (1, 1') made to rotate about its axis and preferably in steps of predetermined angular size. The whe... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5695071 | Small flats sorter A system and a method for sorting are provided for distributing articles, such as mail pieces or other flats, to predetermined destinations. At the destination, the particular article is raked by a raking assembly from a carrier for placement into a conta... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5632594 | Machine for ordering textile tubes for a continuous spinning machine The machine for ordering textile tubes for entry into the distributor of a continuous spinning machine includes mechanisms that perform that ordering so that, independently, the textile tubes can be delivered to one side or the other of the spinning machi... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5439095 | Apparatus for serially conveying receptacle lids An apparatus for serially conveying receptacle lids includes two lid-advancing wheels each having a plurality of circumferentially spaced peripheral pockets for receiving individual lids. The wheels peripherally adjoin one another in a border zone for tra... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5392927 | Sorting apparatus for CD, Micro-cassette and video tape or similar article Sorting apparatus for flat, stackable articles, such as CDs, micro-cassettes, video tapes or similar articles. A single article is continuously removed from a stacked stock at the bottom side of the stack, and is then coded and moved forward by pushing me... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5392894 | Transport/stacker module for improving sorting throughout of a mail processing system In a mail sorting system, a transport/stacker module comprises a plurality of mailpiece carriers included in a conveyor moving in an endless serpentine path through a plurality of distributed sorting sites. Each carrier is provided with a door at each of ... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5314057 | Flight bar path having a large radius A packaging machine having a working reach interconnected with a return reach over which flight bars are movable is provided with a ramp formed with a long radius for interconnecting the working reach with the return reach. This long radius ramp eliminate... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5293983 | Transport/stacker module for mail processing system A transport/stacker module provides for a vertical stacking of mail bins. Carriers traveling in a transport path have openable and closable doors at both ends, and a frame of the transport/stacker module is provided with cam actuators to open the doors af... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5244078 | Selective gripper release A selective release for grippers on a conveyor, each of which has a movable arm and a stationary arm. Arms move toward each other to grip a planar product (e.g. a newspaper) therebetween and move away from each other to release the product. The gripper is... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5174429 | Conveyor discharge apparatus and method A conveyor discharge apparatus, and a related method of operation, that can lift and thereby eject any article carried by a conveyor of the apparatus through substantially relying on the motor that advances the conveyor of the apparatus. The apparatus inc... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5154687 | Rotary accumulator for pallet stringers or decking members A rotary accumulator for folded beams of corrugated paperboard with adhesive applied thereto, such as pallet stringers or decking members, comprises a conveyor for feeding the beams longitudinally with spaces therebetween, a generally circular array of be... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5042637 | Conveyor discharge apparatus and method A conveyor discharge apparatus, and a related method of operation, that can lift and thereby eject any article carried by a conveyor of the apparatus through substantially relying on the motor that advances the conveyor of the apparatus. The apparatus inc... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4905589 | Ink-jet system for marking pellet-shaped articles A pellet marking device which does not rely upon contact between the marking device and the pellets to be marked in the course of its operation makes use of a system for carrying the pellet-shaped articles to be imprinted, and an ink-jet system for applyi... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4892185 | Automatic discharging trough for use in a weighing machine A trough has side walls tiltable around a shaft, which is horizontal and disposed radially relative to a rotational axis for a plurality of troughs arranged in a circle. The shaft is supported as a cantilever. Linkage mechanisms connect the tiltable side ... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4890718 | High-capacity physical and/or chemical treatment apparatus in an automatic product production plant In an automatic plant for the production of products, such as food products, in which modular supports carrying a determined number of products are used. A high-capacity physical and/or chemical treatment apparatus provides a temporary storage facility su... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4801236 | Mechanical inventory storage and delivery cabinet A mechanical cabinet for storing and delivering inventory, wherein carrier units having inserts are selectively delivered to a delivery station by a conveyor mechanism which includes a vertical conveyor having an endless chain and sprocket wheels. The inv... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4796744 | Apparatus for separating test strips In the apparatus for separating test strips, a supply container (1) for the test strips (13) is provided with an orifice (14). Arranged in this orifice (14) is a transport device (12) which is equipped with a guide plate (7) and with drivers (3) and which... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4784253 | Blow molding apparatus A reheat blow molding machine has an improved article handling system that carries heated preforms by a carriage assembly from an oven to a roller chain conveyor which moves them to a blow mold from when the blown product is moved to an eject station. The... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4685554 | Ejection method and apparatus Partially completed cigarette packages are ejected from cells mounted on a turret of a wrapping machine by a pusher device which is caused to both reciprocate axially with respect to the cells and also to move with the cells over a limited arcuate range. ... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4641740 | Bobbin tube magazine A bobbin tube magazine assembly, includes: a bobbin tube feeding device; a bobbin tube conveyor connected to the bobbin tube feeding device, the bobbin tube conveyor being controlled by the bobbin tube feeding device for discharging bobbin tubes from the bobbi... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4586598 | Method and apparatus for delivering articles from a high-speed production machine A method and apparatus for delivering articles from a high-speed production achine manufacturing hygienic articles, such as sanitary napkins, whereby the sanitary articles, which are separated from the production line and transported at high speed, are tur... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4519180 | Wrapping machine The apparatus according to the invention consists of a hollow rotating cylinder 10 having openings 14 disposed at regular intervals the length of its peripheral surface. Said cylinder is engaged in stepping rotation by hollow shaft 34. A cylindrical block... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4497400 | Load-unload device--limit overload sensing device A load-unload device is disclosed for use in a vertical conveyor system hng means for sensing a jam condition between a downward moving conveyor tray and an article that has failed to remove from the load-unload device. The device includes linkage means ... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4475646 | Apparatus and method for conveying flat members through a processing unit Apparatus for conveying flat, preferably plate-shaped members that have previously been processed on one or both surfaces through a processing unit, for example, conveying printed electrical circuit boards through a circulating air drying or auxiliary fin... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4458803 | Packaging conveyor for cylindrical articles A packaging conveyor for cylindrical articles serving to maintain cylindrical articles such as stacks of cups or the like in a desired orientation with the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical article maintained perpendicular to the direction of movement ... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4442934 | Glass container inspection handling system Apparatus for inspecting glass containers in which an indexing starwheel moves a plurality of containers in series through a plurality of positions or stations where the containers are physically and optically examined. One station, or position, is described i... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4441878 | Bottle ejector This relates to an unloading mechanism for unloading blow molded articles from collects carried by a pallet. At an unloading station there is provided a plurality of vertically disposed, guided plungers or ejectors which are carried by a common support an... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4388989 | Continuous rotary method of transporting articles Rotary transport of singulated articles, i.e., utilizing the periphery of a rotating transport disc to advance an article from one stationary work station to another. Particularly, radially outwardly pushing the article from the rotating transport disc in... | 06/21/1983 |
