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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7278551 | Dosing hopper A dosing hopper for producing wood material panels has a feed device (2) that distributes the supplied material flow of glued wood particles continuously over the width of the hopper (1). The dosing hopper supplies elongated flat wood strands for produ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7222718 | Accumulating conveyor system A conveyor system transports a multiplicity of product items from an input portion to an output portion and is provided with a first conveyor that transports the product items from the input portion to a distal turnaround region. A second conveyor transports the pro... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7168293 | Systems and methods for residue collection with improved letter handling capability Systems and methods for the detection of substances (particularly particulate substances) within mail pieces, specifically letters and other “flats” of mail. In particular, the systems and methods are for the detection of residues of Chemical or Biological Warfa... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168552 | Article joining system A conveyance path for conveying articles though an accumulation conveyor, then through a carry-out conveyor, and then through a joining station is disclosed. After a flow of articles and at a time when there are no articles present on a portion of the conveyance pat... | 01/30/2007 |
| 6966426 | Method and apparatus for integrating a pallet into a conveyor system A method and apparatus for integrating a new or transferred pallet into a conveyor system. The present invention provides a first conveyor for carrying a plurality of adjacently aligned pallets along a predetermined path of travel. A first motor is coupled to the fi... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6951230 | Continuously variable length and shaped auger for powder fillers An apparatus for controlling the denseness of powder conveyed from a hopper through a funnel and into a container includes an auger that is positioned within the funnel that is rotatable and vertically movable. The rotation and vertical movement of the auger serves ... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6681915 | High speed manufacturing system A high speed manufacturing system for processing articles of manufacture requiring processes to be performed on the articles at a pre-selected processing rate includes a trunk for simultaneously conveying a plurality of the articles of manufacture at the ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6662929 | Parcel singulation software control logic A method and an apparatus are provided for singulating articles received in a slug and/or manipulating such articles to create a controlled gap between a trailing edge of a leading article and a leading edge of a successive article, while targeting a desi... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6557693 | Conveyor section arrangement for containers being filled with items or bulk material at a filling station The invention relates to an arrangement (1) of a conveyor section (2) for containers (A, B, C, D, E) which are conveyed on said conveyor section and which are to be filled with items (3) or with a bulk material through a filling funnel (5), at a filing st... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6478134 | High speed manufacturing system A high speed manufacturing system for processing articles of manufacture requiring processes to be performed on the articles at a pre-selected processing rate includes a trunk for simultaneously conveying a plurality of the articles of manufacture at the ... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6325198 | High speed manufacturing system A high speed manufacturing system for processing articles of manufacture requiring processes to be performed on the articles at a pre-selected processing rate includes a trunk for simultaneously conveying a plurality of the articles of manufacture at the ... | 12/04/2001 |
| 5878553 | Method and device for the spreading and fitting of empty sacks and for grasping and stacking filled sacks and for conveying them into a closure device A process and device move at least one filled sack from a suspended position at an individual filling nozzle into an upright position on a moving conveyor belt for introduction into a sack closure device, where the travel speed of the conveyor belt corres... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5398598 | Food processing transport system A food product processing transport system (300) includes an overhead transport rail (302) having first and second runs (356 and 358, 390 and 392), a food product carrier (310) suspended from the rail and defining a vertical plane, a drive mechanism (326)... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5359834 | Conveyor system with variable spacing between the carrier units A cartonizing machine wherein articles are arranged either individually or in groups in trays passing through a feeding station and to and through a loading station wherein the articles on the successive trays are pushed transversely into respective carto... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5244077 | Transport gear chain arrangement A transport gear chain arrangement, in particular for the transport of glass articles, includes two gear chain sections (2 or, respectively, 3) successively following to each other in transport direction. In each case, transport gear chains (6), surroundi... | 09/14/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5103718 | Apparatus and method for processing of a food product An apparatus and method for processing a food product. A series of processing cabinets are each provided with an inlet and an outlet in one of the cabinet side walls adjacent an end wall. The product is carried by a series of individual product carriers, ... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5092450 | Method and apparatus for conveying and synchronizing the movement of articles A method and an apparatus for conveying and synchronizing the movement of articles. Two conveyor belts are thereby provided. A synchronizing device is arranged between the conveyor belts. The phase relationship of the individual articles and the speed of ... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5088590 | System for changing the speed of conveyed sheets while holding register A system for changing the speed of conveyed sheets while maintaining the sheets in register including a speed changing belt operating at a constant speed to present a radial outer surface portion which travels over a cylindrical guide and into tangent con... | 02/18/1992 |
| 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 |
| 5054604 | Conveying rod-like articles Rod-like articles, particularly cigarettes or cigarette filter rods, are conveyed in a stream in a direction transverse to their lengths at a speed which is progressively reduced, so that the height of the conveyed stream is increased. Prior to the reduct... | 10/08/1991 |
| 4987991 | System for changing the speed of conveyed sheets while holding register A system for changing the speed of conveyed sheets while maintaining the sheets in register includes a speed changing belt operating at a constant speed to present a radial outer surface portion which travels over a pulley and into tangent contact with th... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4938340 | Conveying rod-like articles Rod-like articles, particularly cigarettes or cigarette filter rods, are conveyed in a stream in a direction transverse to their lengths at a speed which is progressively reduced, so that the height of the conveyed stream is increased. Prior to the reduct... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4934510 | Device for spacing bottles A supply conveyor has a support surface for conveying glass bottles supported at their bottoms in upright condition and feed them sequentially to a gap between the supply conveyor and a delivery conveyor, also having a support surface for conveying the bo... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4822447 | High-frequency welding installation A high-frequency welding installation for welding particularly plastic material parts includes at least two work stations and one feed station arranged in linear succession and trays on which work pieces are conducted through the stations by means of a tr... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4771877 | Load spacing conveyor system A feeder mechanism for feeding load items in a predetermined spaced relationship into a loading station of a carton loading machine comprises at least two conveyors which move at different speeds along the same path and elevator ramps on each of the conve... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4717013 | Apparatus for transporting layers of paper sheets to processing machines Apparatus for delivering singularized stacks of paper sheets to a packing machine has a first conveyor which intermittently receives groups of several abutting stacks and is intermittently driven by a variable-speed electric motor to advance the groups on... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4629058 | Method and apparatus for transporting layers of paper sheets to processing machines Apparatus for delivering singularized stacks of paper sheets to a packing machine has a first conveyor which intermittently receives groups of several abutting stacks and is intermittently driven by a variable-speed electric motor to advance the groups on... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4604704 | High-speed microprocessor-controlled branch conveyor A multi-sectioned conveyor for receiving serial products from a supply conveyor, inspecting and rejecting out-of-tolerance products and adjustably conveying the products so as to establish a predetermined spacing therebetween, before transferring the prod... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4550822 | Apparatus for transporting flat products, especially printed products arriving in an imbricated formation Printed products arriving in an imbricated product formation are fed to spaced gripper units of a transport device by a belt conveyor. The conveying direction of the belt conveyor forms an acute angle with the transport direction of the transport device. ... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4549647 | Apparatus for the transfer of articles between two machines Apparatus is disclosed for transferring solid articles such as biscuits, without changing their position or spacing, between an upstream machine discharging the articles at a constant speed for a downstream machine having a higher rated speed with short d... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4546597 | Transfer assembly for literature wrapping equipment Apparatus having a plurality of controlled overlapping chain drives, each chain drive containing a plurality of raised members for receiving collated stacks of mailing literature and conveying the literature over their successive paths in synchrony with a... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4479643 | Method and apparatus for transferring newspapers from pockets to an overlapped stream Bottom opening pockets in a newspaper stuffing machine sequentially move newspapers to a transfer station at a first speed with closed edge portions of the newspapers downward and major sides of the newspapers on which headlines are printed facing in the ... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4456118 | Single to dual indexing carton transfer mechanism A single to dual indexing carton transfer mechanism involving a turret and conveyor, wherein the turret includes equally spaced mandrels which index at a first predetermined rate, and wherein the conveyor indexes at one-half the rate of the mandrels. Part... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4420073 | Apparatus for transferring rod-shaped articles from a source of supply into the flutes of a conveyor A magazine which contains a supply of parallel filter rod sections has an outlet which discharges a multi-layer stream of sections onto a receiving conveyor which delivers the sections into a gap between two parallel belt conveyors wherein the sections fo... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4417117 | Transporting can bodies for a fully automated resistance welding machine A method of transporting can bodies for a fully automated resistance welding machine comprising a roll former station for rolling the bodies, two successively arranged driven transport systems, and a pair of welding electrodes. The transport systems compr... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4360098 | Infeed conveyor Products, accumulated on a supply conveyor having low-friction belts, are transferred to a flight conveyor with an intervening single level infeed conveyor system which includes a high-friction belt squeezer conveyor that accepts products at its inlet end... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4240856 | Continuous running corrugator A paperboard web is severed transversely between the double facer machine and the slitter-scorer after the completion of a production order. The speed of the double facer machine is maintained constant while the severed web section is accelerated to a spe... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4232777 | Pan inverting apparatus and method A pan inverting apparatus comprises an input endless belt and an output endless belt, between which a revolving pan wheel is positioned. The pan wheel includes a plurality of transverse pan receivers opening radially outward to define the circumference th... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4228888 | Apparatus for feeding articles such as sweetmeat products to a packaging machine Feeding apparatus comprising an elevator, with a general structure similar to that of an escalator, having shelves of size proportioned for receiving articles; the shelves move continuously along an ascending active run of the elevator between fixed lower... | 10/21/1980 |
