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Mountable Printable Placard With Headband
A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7421945 | Juice extractor including fruit feeder decoupling detector and associated methods A fruit juice extractor may include a load sensitive coupler coupling a drive motor to a drive shaft during normal operation, and decoupling the drive motor from the drive shaft when the fruit feed members become jammed. The extractor may also include a decoupling d... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7016768 | Conveyor system for transporting articles, in particular containers for baggage pieces, and method for controlling such a conveyor system A system and method is described for transporting articles, in particular for transporting container holding baggage pieces. At least two endless conveyor belts are sequentially arranged to define an upstream conveyor belt and a downstream conveyor belt for transpor... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6543603 | Unit for transferring articles A unit for transferring groups of cigarettes has a conveyor having pockets for housing the groups and for feeding the groups in a first direction; a guide for guiding each group into a respective pocket along a path in a second direction crosswise to the ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6407523 | Method and apparatus for controlling conveyor A clearing method for use with a conveyor belt driven by a reversible motor for essentially automatically eliminating swarf or other obstructions along the belt including an clearing process including sensing motor load and comparing sensed load to a maxi... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6135268 | Method and apparatus for controlling conveyor A clearing method for use with a conveyor belt driven by a reversible motor for essentially automatically eliminating swarf or other obstructions along the belt including an clearing process including sensing motor load and comparing sensed load to a maxi... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6036483 | Method of controlling the conveying speed of a grate cooler Method of controlling the conveying speed of a grate cooler as a function of the state of the bed of material to be cooled in the initial region of the cooler while taking into account the flow resistance of said bed of material. According to the inventio... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5526917 | Part feeding apparatus capable of stable feedback control of feeding amount of parts In a part feeding apparatus including a feeder bowl for discharging and feeding parts to an assembly apparatus and a hopper for discharging and feeding parts to the feeder bowl, a counter for counting parts discharged from the hopper and a counter for cou... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5267709 | Variable power conveyance apparatus A variable power conveyance apparatus for propelling loads under environments where the angle of inclination of a conveyance path may change. For these apparatuses, in particular, those located in aircraft cargo bays, drive units are constructed to drive ... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5263570 | Conveyor belt emergency stop indicator light system A system and method is provided for expeditiously locating an emergency situation of a conveyor. An emergency switch is connected to a conveyor to indicate an emergency situation. When the emergency switch indicates an emergency situation, a light is illu... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5248042 | Resilient wire-wrapped, and adjustably tensioned screen drum with drum overload-preventing feedback control A mobile screening apparatus includes a horizontal rotary drum preferably fed by underflow from a prescreening device that is reversible endless belt of screening grizzly bars. The belt reverses for expelling oversize material caught between bars. Force n... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5056647 | High-speed conveyor baggage handling system A high-speed conveyor system for conveying articles of baggage, includes a number of accelerating conveyor belt sections arranged in tandem for transporting a number of baggage articles loaded onto an upstream end of a first one of the belt sections to a ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4738350 | Apparatus for unloading bulk materials An unloader for bulk materials is provided to transfer material such as cement from a barge or other bulk container. It includes a moveable and rotatable support member such as a crane or cantilevered arm that is adjacent the bulk container. A first conve... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4645065 | Apparatus for feeding waste tire chips An apparatus for feeding waste tire chips (12) to an incinerator (11) having a feed chute (13) comprises a container (17) provided with a screw feeder (22, 23) at its bottom, upper and lower two vibrating feeders (24A), (24B), and a transfer conveyor (36)... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4601686 | Production of tobacco-smoke filters The subject invention pertains to a device for operating upon a filter-rod lengths comprising a first conveyor for transferring the filter lengths from a supply outlet to a plurality of further conveyors. The further conveyors carry the filter lengths pas... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4572356 | Safety clutch and quick release assembly for grain augers and the like The device includes an actuating lever adjacent the intake end so that the intake end portion of the auger can be disengaged from the main auger flight if desired. A remote actuating lever is situated adjacent the discharge end of the auger tube operative... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4413640 | Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry A junction zone between the first and second sections of a conveyor system for sidewise transport of cigarettes or analogous rod-shaped articles communicates with the first opening of a reservoir which normally constitutes a surge bin for temporary storag... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4352604 | Feeding device for cigarette filters and similar rods A device for feeding cigarette filters or similar rod-like articles comprises a fluted drum and a conveyor for feeding a stack-like stream of filters towards the drum and including a conveyor band which is arranged to engage one side of the stack-like str... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4282967 | Grain elevator controls Disclosed is an electronic sensor and control for monitoring the rate of transport of grain elevator buckets, the electronic control including a metal detector probe for sensing the passage of the buckets past the head and a control module for processing ... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4273233 | Apparatus for conveying rod-like articles Apparatus for conveying rod-like articles transverse to their lengths includes a first conveyor for moving a stack of articles from an inlet to an outlet and a reversible second conveyor connected to the first conveyor at a junction. The first and second ... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4240539 | Backup station for a carton filling machine A backup station in a carton filling machine for the delivery and packaging of premanufactured blanks into transport containers. The station is arranged between an imbrication station and a delivery belt which includes a rotation station. Within the backu... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4181459 | Conveyor protection system In the handling and charging of pre-heated coal, the coal is transported from a coal storage container to the oven chambers by an enclosed continuous conveyor system. The coke oven chambers are charged individually in a continual manner by transporting a ... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4173276 | Apparatus for detecting and clearing a jam of articles An apparatus for detecting and clearing a jam of articles at the entrance to an article lane divider is provided which includes a plurality of parallel guides defining lanes for articles and conveyor means operative to advance articles toward the entrance... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4138010 | Controlled bunker systems An automatically controlled bunker system includes a plurality of sensor means for sensing various operational conditions within the bunker system and for deriving signals indicative of the sensed operational conditions. The derived signals are fed to con... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4086998 | Article grader An article grader essentially comprising a feed belt for the articles, a device for simultaneously weighing a number of articles fed by the feed belt, a conveyor for conveying the weighed articles to a plurality of accumulation belts, each designed for re... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4073377 | Feed rolls having automatic speed control The shiftably supported, rotatable feed rolls on a forage harvester or other material processing machine are operably coupled to a control lever on the hydraulic pump regulating the feed roll drive motor such that the angular velocity of the rolls is incr... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4040472 | Casting mould advancing plant A casting mould consisting of closely collected uniform mould parts is advanced stepwise on a conveyor path by a main piston, exerting an endwise pressure on the endmost mould part, and by an auxiliary mould advancing device incorporating a hydraulic cyli... | 08/09/1977 |
| 4023669 | Conveyor systems for cigarettes and the like A conveyor system for cigarettes and similar rod-like articles includes a sensor device above a junction between a plurality of cigarette conveyors, the sensor device comprising a horizontal arm to which is pivoted a plate resting on the cigarettes in the... | 05/17/1977 |
| 3942625 | Portable conveyor load measuring apparatus For measuring the load output of a lifting conveyor powered by a three-phase motor, electric measuring apparatus is coupled to the motor power supply conductors by voltage take-off leads and current transformers. Voltage and current, proportional respecti... | 03/09/1976 |
