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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120037477 | SWITCHER A vertical switcher includes a first conveyor belt mobile in rotation about a first tilting axis and a second conveyor belt mobile in rotation about a second tilting axis. A movement device moves the first and the second conveyor belt between an aligned condition in whi... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120024663 | CONVEYOR DEVICE In a conveyor device including a branch path, the number of articles sorted to the branch path is counted accurately. The conveyor device conveys a plurality of articles and includes a main conveyor, a first branch path, a first detector, a second detector, a detection ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110168527 | MULTI-BELT CONVEYOR HAVING LINK BELTS A conveyor system having a first conveyor intersecting a second conveyor is provided. A multi-belt transition conveyor assembly is provided at the intersection of the first and second conveyors. The transition conveyor assembly includes a plurality of parallel conveyors... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110120834 | CONVEYING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SORTING PRODUCTS A conveying apparatus comprises a first conveyor for conveying products in a first conveying direction, which first conveyor comprises a first supply location, where a first series of products are supplied to the first conveyor via a first supply station, a second conve... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110056801 | DEVICE FOR UNLOADING COMPARTMENT TRAYS, USED IN TOBACCO INDUSTRY, FILLED WITH ROD SHAPED ELEMENTS System having a transitory store (S), in the inlet zone (5) of which, there are disposed fillers (4) for compartment trays, to which rod shaped elements are delivered by in-feed conveyors (3) in form of mass flow from making machines (1), and... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110031092 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING A UNIFIED PRINTED PRODUCT FLOW FROM TWO FED PRINTED PRODUCT FLOWS Two supply streams of printed products are combined to form a combined printed-product stream. For this purpose, the supply streams are conveyed into a combining region (V) in a main conveying direction (F) in a state in which they, for example, rest loosely on conveyin... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100200370 | CONVEYOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FEEDING TO A DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING UNIT A conveyor system and a method for feeding articles of at least two different types to a downstream processing unit are disclosed. The conveyor system comprises an infeed unit for the articles, an arrangement zone downstream from the infeed unit, and a lane zone downstr... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100101712 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMBINING TWO FLAT PRODUCTS WITH ADHESIVE A method for combining with adhesive at least two flat products positioned at least partially one above the other is provided. The method includes moving first flat products in an overlapping flow along a guiding line in a conveying direction and separating the first fl... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20090294253 | Apparatus and method for diverting in a conveying system The invention relates to an apparatus and method for diverting the path of container units or other articles from an initial conveying direction in a conveying system. In a preferred example, the conveying system incorporates a hinged divert section along a conveying pa... | 12/03/2009 |
| 20090272623 | Mail processing system and method of delivering articles to delivery locations therein A mail processing system that delivers articles to delivery locations includes a predetermined number of casing towers arranged in parallel, wherein each casing tower has a plurality of slots to receive articles. A transport system is associated with the casing towers a... | 11/05/2009 |
