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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172073 | Device for detecting faulty positioning of a carrying cable in a cableway system An assembly on a cableway or a goods-conveying system for detecting incorrect positioning of a carrying cable on a mount with a channel in which the carrying cable is located. The assembly includes a device for detecting the faulty positioning of the carrying cable.... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8079461 | Belt driving control device, belt driving control method, and image forming apparatus A belt driving control device that includes a belt, a driving roller transmitting drive force to the belt, a belt phase detecting section detecting a phase of the belt, a correction amount computing section computing a correction amount of a belt travelling velocity... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7712601 | Article processing system A star wheel H of a blow molding machine 13 constituting a blow molding line 2 as a master machine driven by a motor M is provided with an encoder E for generating a pulse depending on rotation of the star wheel H, and a filling line 3 as a slav... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7318516 | Substrate transfer apparatus for component mounting machine A mounting-waiting process for making a substrate to be transferred into a mounting process wait before the mounting process; and a substrate discharge-waiting process for making the substrate transferred from the mounting process wait before the following process a... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7269475 | Distributed control system with global contraints for controlling object motion with smart matter Embedded in a transport assembly are arrays of microelectromechanical sensors and actuators for detecting and propelling an object. A controller having defined therein local computational agents and a global controller controls the array of sensors and actuators. Th... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263409 | Method and apparatus for tracking a load on a conveyor system A method and apparatus for tracking a load on a conveyor system using the trailing edge of the load. The method includes the steps of sensing the trailing edge of the load with a first sensor and updating a load record for the load in response to sensing the trailin... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7162326 | Mask identification database server The physical movement of reticles and solder bump masks within a wafer processing plant are continually tracked and documented in a historical database for the useful life of the reticles or masks. In an example embodiment of the mask tracking method, the method inc... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7157873 | Systems and methods for reducing torque disturbance in devices having an endless belt A system for reducing torque disturbance includes a motor mechanically coupled to an endless belt. The motor is operable to drive the belt, and the belt has a seam that causes a torque disturbance to the system. The system includes a data structure having a set of v... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7138021 | Shaping and laying a tire belt ply Method of laying a tire belt ply on a form, using one or two transporters each having gripping assemblies, for gripping and moving the gripping sectors situated at the two longitudinal ends of a belt ply. The front and rear edges are aligned, after having determined... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7090068 | Palette conveyance mechanism and assembling line using it It is the pallet conveying mechanism to move a pallet P arrived at an end point 17b of a friction conveyer FC2 to a starting point 7a of a friction conveyer FC1 in just as it is the direction without turning. The pallet conv... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6897625 | Load-dependent asynchronous drive for a transport path A conveyor system for transported goods which are transported with a preset transport speed and method for operating the conveyor system are described. The individual conveyers of the system are driven by asynchronous motors. Sensors associated with the conveyors me... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6853876 | Distributed control system architecture and method for a material transport system An automated transport system for use in a material handling system. The automated transport system employs a distributed control system including a top level controller (transport controller), a plurality of second-level controllers (control logic computers) and a ... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6823984 | Automatic developing device, roller washing method, photosensitive material processing device, and preparation method for processing liquid A photosensitive material processing device for processing a photosensitive material with a processing liquid while conveying the photosensitive material by a roller pair. A driving device for providing a rotation drive to the roller pair. A drive controlling device... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6705454 | Accumulating power roll conveyor system A conveyor for transporting parts includes a first electrical switch, a second electrical switch and an automatically movable stop. In another aspect of the present invention, an accumulating power roll conveyor system has two or more independently driven zones. Yet... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6668211 | Arithmetic processing device, object-to-object communication method and robot An arithmetic processing device, an object-to-object communication method and a robot, such as an entertainment robot, in which software suited to a current robot configuration is set. The software is changed corresponding to the configuration based on a ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6459224 | Zone control method in roller conveyor and zone controller In a roller conveyor system for carrying out zone control, a conveyed article can be stopped in an approximately constant position without varying the position where the article is stopped in a desired control zone even if the weight of the article varies... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6264042 | Bilateral sorter A system for sorting objects includes an upstream and a downstream conveyor positioned to sequentially receive and convey an object along a first path, and a sorting conveyor belt positioned transversely in a gap between the upstream and downstream convey... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6264457 | Servo infeed system for transferring preforms in a container manufacturing facility A system for transferring preforms to an oven starwheel of a blowmolding manufacturing facility includes a transport mechanism that is constructed and arranged to be able to hold at least one plastic preform member, a first sensor for sensing a transport ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6227351 | Transport system A transport system (10) for feeding or discharging goods to be conveyed at machining units (24) or node points (18-21) while passing through a speed profile (43) which, beginning at a basic speed (V1) other than zero, assumes a different speed ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6155400 | Mobile conveyor including adaptive alignment system A conveyor system having a plurality of segments and articulable joints connecting adjacent segments is disclosed. Each segment is provided with an individually controllable drive unit for moving the conveyor segment over a surface on which the conveyor s... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5749452 | Mobile conveyor including alignment system An articulated apparatus including a first section having first and second ends, and a length between the first and second ends; a second section having first and second ends, and a length between the first and second ends; a joint connecting the second e... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5732944 | Process and device for the correctly positioned tansfer of folded signatures in folders The actual position of a leading edge of a transversely folded signature is detected. This actual position detection event is used to trigger an instantaneous measurement of the actual angular position of the gripper system used for receiving the signatur... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5692292 | Transfer type circuit board fabricating system A transfer type circuit board fabricating system having a plurality of working modules each including (a) a conveyor device for transferring circuit boards in a predetermined transfer direction, (b) a working device for performing a predetermined operatio... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5555713 | Apparatus for feeding bobbins and bobbin cores to and from a spinning or twisting machine A rotary position sensor is connected to the belt of an apparatus for receiving the full bobbins and delivering the empty bobbin cores to both sides of a spinning or twisting machine. The microprocessor control unit has a memory which stores the restartin... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5487461 | Apparatus for transporting packs Disclosed is a process and an apparatus for transporting pack rows. When a pack string (12) formed from several superposed rows (13, 14, 15, 16) of cuboid packs (10) is transported, it is required to compensate misalignments of the individual rows (13 . .... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5228558 | Control system for an accumulating conveyor An accumulating conveyor includes a plurality of load carrying rollers over which loads are conveyed from an upstream end of the conveyor to a downstream end. The rollers are divided into a plurality of zones. Each zone includes at least one drive roller ... | 07/20/1993 |
| 4720967 | Transport apparatus for roving bobbins for a group of spinning machines In the transport apparatus for roving bobbins in a plant including a group of spinning machines according to our invention each spinning machine has a closed circulating belt on which suspended carriages equipped either with full or empty roving bobbins a... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4660708 | Bottle feeding machinery This invention concerns a connecting device for synchronously intercoupling machines mounted in series and handling a stream of objects 9 e.g. bottles which are uninterruptedly fed by a first machine 1 toward a second machine 4, the device essentially com... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4557711 | Phase control device Phase control device comprising a driven wheel and a driving wheel. The driven wheel engages an endless loop, whose going part toward the driving wheel and returning part from the driving wheel engage a pair of idling wheels and one or plural pairs of mov... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4513882 | Continuous transport method and apparatus A particulate product is transported on at least one tray vibrated at a pre-determined basic frequency. A product overload on the tray is avoided by monitoring its vibrations and detecting whether the amplitude of at least one harmonic sensitive to the lo... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4379671 | Synchronized bottle unloading system Improvements in an unloader unit for an automatic system for unloading articles, such as plastic milk bottles, from a truck trailer and depositing them onto a conveyor system includes a synchronization control system and means for stably positioning the a... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4361318 | Apparatus and method for controlling sheet stacker speed Apparatus and method for controlling the speed of the conveyor on which a stack of sheets is being collected. A first conveyor moves a stream of sheets into a stacker and onto a second conveyor which moves the stack away from the incoming stream. The stre... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4188861 | Apparatus for the continuous stacking of paperboard blanks Disclosed is an apparatus for the continuous stacking of paperboard blanks issuing from a continuously running corrugator capable of producing orders of blanks of different sizes. The stacking apparatus includes a vacuum control box and a variable speed e... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4112999 | Conveyor control system A cooling conveyor control system which selectively controls a mold cooling conveyor assembly adapted to receive poured molds from the pouring rails of an automatic molding machine and transport them to a collecting conveyor or shakeout mechanism in a con... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4067436 | Apparatus for conveying articles Packet blanks are fed stepwise along an elongated blank bed by a succession of pawls reciprocating along the length of the bed. Mechanism is provided for lifting the pawls at the end of their working strokes, and for lowering them at the end of their retu... | 01/10/1978 |
| 3992182 | Conveying sheets at non-uniform speed A system for conveying a series of glass sheets at a non-uniform speed through sheet treatment apparatus comprising a plurality of treatment stations. Longitudinally spaced conveyor rolls are rotated at a first speed at a first sheet treatment station whe... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3952856 | Apparatus for regulating article-treating machines that maintain an accumulation of articles at an inlet end A machine for treating articles, such as containers, for example, includes an infeed worm conveyor to receive a continuous flow of containers. The speed of machine operation is regulated by a speed control mechanism so as to maintain a desired constant le... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3944086 | Material handling facility and apparatus therefor A pair of elongated, parallel pits receive materials for handling. Just inwardly of each pit there is located a parallel running belt conveyor. Feeder vehicles mounted on rails in the pits outwardly of the belt conveyors are powered to traverse the pits l... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3938684 | Combine unloading auger drive A self-propelled combine has an elevated grain tank with a laterally extending auger in the bottom of the tank for moving grain to an auger type discharge conveyor mounted on the side of the grain tank and swingable between a fore-and-aft transport positi... | 02/17/1976 |
