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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6644191 | Printing materials elevator Installed in a rotary press which is provided with an upper work floor T and a lower work floor U to accommodate multi-layered printing sections, there are included upper turning bodies B installed at a high level on an upper story W, opposing each other ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6523462 | Aligned food processing system A food processing system for an elongated strand of food product, such as hot dogs or sausage links, provides aligned orientation of conveyor hooks and identical arrival time spacing between adjacent hooks at a reference loading point at a strand producin... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6419077 | Automated transfer station for hanging articles such as pepperoni sausages A sausage transfer station is disclosed for transferring sausages from a rack where they are hung by respective string loops in a plurality of rows to a main conveyor. The transfer station includes an unload conveyor for advancing the rack forward, a sele... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6415907 | Article transfer apparatus Apparatus of the tributary garment hangers on to the moving carrier include a conveyor for transporting the garment hangers, a drive for moving the carrier, and a coordinating mechanism cable controlling the relative movements of the conveyor and the driv... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6199682 | Conveyor loading apparatus An apparatus (1) for loading articles (2) onto a moving conveyor, the apparatus including (a) transport means (3a, 3 b, 3c) on the conveyor which includes holding means (5) adapted to engage at least a portion of an article (2) so as to hold the article (... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6092644 | Transporting hanger for a hanging-type conveyor The invention relates to a transporting hanger for a hanging-type conveyor, in particular a circular conveyor, for conveying articles hanging on hooks (45), it being the case that the transporting hanger has a transporting hook (2) with a hook lug (6) whi... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5927472 | Conveyor transfer unit A transfer unit for transferring a ware supporting hanger from one conveyor to another conveyor. The unit is positioned between the conveyors and includes a centrally positioned rotatable support. There is provided a linear rail or arm assembly suspended ... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5897709 | Suspension device A suspension device for workpieces in electrostatic painting thereof comprises a carrier, a suspension member (2) in which the workpieces are suspended and which, by the intermediary of a connector (4) is suspended in the carrier. The suspension member (2... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5878867 | Carrier device for a hanging conveyor A conveyor pocket for a hanging conveyor system, in particular for the transport of conveyor articles hanging on hangers, having a pawl (3) which is arranged swingably in a base body (2) and is provided for holding in each case only one carrier on its hoo... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5526562 | Wiring harness assembly line There is disclosed a wiring harness assembly line wherein a member supply line (2) including a looped track (20) and hangers (30) movably suspended from the track (20) is provided on the outer periphery of a plate supply line (1) so that the hangers (30) ... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5427028 | Printing plates lifting apparatus having storing function A printing plates lifting apparatus having storing function in a rotary press having upper and lower printing units arranged in tiers and upper and lower work floors corresponding to the printing units. The printing plates lifting apparatus comprises uppe... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5404989 | Method for distributing goods and a sorting installation for practicing this method A method for sorting goods, suspended on garment hangers, each of which is carried by a travelling releasable carrying member, circulating along a path having a series of ejection stations. Subsequent carrying members are provided with a lever capable of ... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5143201 | Carrier assembly A carrier assembly is adapted to releasably support hooked members for supporting articles to be conveyed. Each carrier assembly has a frame and several integral biasing and latch members, each pivotally supported on the frame by a pin member. Each pin me... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5141094 | Apparatus for unloading articles An apparatus conveys hooked members and has a plurality of carrier assemblies coupled together in an end-to-end fashion. Each carrier assembly is adapted to receive and support several hooked members, and includes several apertures, wherein each aperture ... | 08/25/1992 |
| 4972938 | Apparatus for the filling of spacer frames for insulating glass In an apparatus for filling spacer frames for insulating glass with a hygroscopic material, a lateral support (1) is provided for the spacer frames, as well as an apparatus (1) for rotating the spacer frames by 90°, two charging stations (2, 3) for filli... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4953495 | Article coating system A system for coating articles by the use of electrostatic attraction of ionized particles which are subsequently cured. The system includes a pair of carriers for jointly carrying each article through the system, from application of the particles to the a... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4909373 | Overhead conveyor An overhead conveyor comprising an endless draw member travelling along a closed stretch and containing regularly spaced claws in which a carrier hook such as a coat-hanger can be suspended, each claw being capable of closing and opening for carrying or d... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4907689 | Apparatus for transporting reels of packaging material in a packaging machine plant For supplying sheet-like material to packaging machines and other processing machines, a rotating circular conveyor (32) is installed within a production or packaging plant. Reel carriers (34) rotate continuously in its conveying rail (33). Reels are auto... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4903819 | Apparatus for transporting garment hangers Apparatus for transporting garment hangers has an overhead track for one or more trolleys having horizontal webs for the hooks of a series of garment hangers. An upwardly sloping first ramp is adjacent a portion of the path of movement of the web of an on... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4874077 | Device for transferring a lithographic plate A device is provided for transferring a lithographic plate (S) from a horizontal conveyor (1) to an overhead conveyor (25). The transfer device has orienting means (2) for receiving a transversely extending lithographic plate from the horizontal conveyor ... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4756401 | Load transfer apparatus for power-driven overhead conveyor Load bars are transferred, in loaded condition, to or from the hangers of an overhead conveyor by a load transfer apparatus having a pair of parallel tracks approaching the power-driven conveyor path perpendicularly. The parallel tracks guide manually mov... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4616746 | Apparatus for removing strips from compartments An apparatus for removing strips (13) from compartments (2) wherein the strips (13) are disposed horizontally in hook-shaped brackets (3) comprises an inclined conveyor (7) movable into the region of a compartment (2) that is in the pickup position. A dev... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4602774 | Apparatus to receive folded paper products To pick up folded paper sheets, being folded, for example, by a standard folding apparatus (1, 2, 4-6), an endless transport belt or chain (71; 7, 7, 7', 18) retains thereon carrier elements (9) made of highly elastic flat spring steel, being guided by th... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4336875 | Apparatus for the transfer of hanks An apparatus for transferring yarns in hanks from hank carriers or supports movable along a feeding line to a container or conveyor device comprises a head (40) movable in at least one direction parallel with the extension of the hank holding supports (11... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4178659 | Transfer apparatus for poultry processing conveyor Suspended birds traveling in one direction on a linear delivery conveyor are transferred to a parallel oppositely moving receiver linear conveyor by an intervening rotary transfer conveyor and coacting stationary bird camming bars which nudge the birds fr... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4034440 | Device for transferring slaughtered poultry A device for transferring slaughtered poultry from a first conveyor track to a second conveyor track with a guide for the suspension shackle disposed along a part of the first conveyor track and a similar guide along a part of the second conveyor track. B... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4022338 | Conveyor loader device A device for loading garment hangers onto a conveyor utilizes a vertically arranged elongated member fixed relative to a conveyor and on which is mounted a first elongated movable member which is longitudinally and vertically movable relative to the fixed... | 05/10/1977 |
