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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6334527 | Bucket conveyor A bucket conveyor for conveying loose grain in different directions, comprising a bucket having: an opening leading to the interior of the bucket; and a dead space constituting part of the interior at the rear, the space not filled with loose grain when g... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6237745 | Bucket conveyor A bucket conveyor for conveying loose grain in different directions, comprising a bucket having: an opening leading to the interior of the bucket; and a dead space constituting part of the interior at the rear, the space not filled with loose grain when g... | 05/29/2001 |
| 5494150 | Conveyor belt system with shock-absorbing belt side travel control means A batter board is interposed between an upper conveyor belt, that is discharging granular material, and a lower conveyor belt that is receiving it. The batter board is adapted to deflect the downwardly arching stream of material, to laterally adjust the l... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5183147 | Chemical handling system A system for handling agricultural chemicals, such as herbicides, pesticides, and the like which are supplied in dry form. A refillable tank includes an integral, internal auger that horizontally extends through the bottom portion of the tank and is adapt... | 02/02/1993 |
| 4948321 | Automated storage system A horizontal storage silo or bin for particulate matter such as, for example, peanuts and cereal, includes a moving apron or floor and a dam for gently receiving product, controlling product deposit into the silo and supporting the rear face of the produc... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4882860 | Apparatus for removing ballast from beneath railroad tracks A railroad undercutter economizes both weight and space requirements through the use of a single continuous chain which carries ballast from beneath a railroad track to a track supported conveyor with the chain entering beneath and exiting from beneath th... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4856640 | Stopper elevator conveyor A device for transferring small discrete objects such as pharmaceutical stoppers andn caps including a frame movably positionable at a predetermined location for delivery of the objects and an angularly displaced conveyor on the frame having a discharge c... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4754864 | Bin infeed system for surge or blending bins or the like A bin infeed system for a surge or blending bin or the like including an endless belt trained about a pair of rolls at opposite ends of the bin, a track assembly providing a pair of transversely spaced tracks longitudinally spanning the bin laterally flan... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4492300 | Resilient-feed ball injector for microballistic printer Apparatus for feeding balls one by one from a cylindrical reservoir in which a rotary saw blade disposed at the bottom of the reservoir is driven to move balls resiliently fed to the intertooth recesses of the blade into the entrance of a passage out of w... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4447382 | Apparatus for making foam carpet pad An apparatus for making a foam pad for carpets has features to improve the quality of the pad. The apparatus has a hopper section for receiving foam particles coated with heat activated bonding agent. An extruder section compresses the particles as they a... | 05/08/1984 |
| 4421148 | Device for feeding particulate material A device for feeding particulate material to a moving surface comprising a hopper for containing particulate material and having an outlet in the bottom for dispensing that material; a moving surface spaced downwardly from the outlet of the hopper and ada... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4421226 | Article receiving and decelerating device Rapidly descending articles are decelerated in a segmented walled mechanism which alternately decreases in cross-sectional area to decelerate and restrain an article and subsequently increases in cross-sectional area to permit the article to fall safely t... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4271953 | Automatic feeding hopper employing an anti-jamming mechanism An automatic feeding hopper employs a reservoir for storing disk-like objects in a plurality of substantially horizontal rows in a substantially vertical plane. A conveyor adjoins the reservoir for engagement with a substantial portion of the lowermost ro... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4221764 | Horizontal extractor Horizontal basket extractors with a continuous conveyor with spaced baskets or cells are arranged with traveling splitters movable along the top and/or bottom runs of the conveyor synchronously with the baskets arranged to divert a continuous flow of soli... | 09/09/1980 |
| 4174028 | Method and apparatus for orienting and storing similar articles An unoriented supply of similar articles, each having a shank and a head of greater dimension than the shank are introduced into orienting means which include a trough having an inclined slot at its bottom and a plurality of cleats positioned at fixed loc... | 11/13/1979 |
| 4044887 | Apparatus for removing coke from an inclined wharf An apparatus for transferring coke in measured quantities from an inclined wharf on to a horizontal conveyor, which comprises a roll being provided with a circumferential shell enclosing a chamber with a peripheral aperture. The peripheral apeture extends... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4003498 | Method and apparatus for controlled feeding of friction material A novel method and an improved combination of apparatus are provided for controlled feeding of dry friction and other high bulk materials along a closed path, whereby release of dust particles of the friction or other high bulk material is substantially e... | 01/18/1977 |
