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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7097029 | Parcel goods aligning device A device for aligning parcel goods, in particular bottle crates, boxes, trays or the like during conveyance, and having a conveyor device with a roller conveyor belt having two-part freely rotatable rollers, whereby the conveyance takes place in a plane of conveyanc... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6883797 | Swapping feed and separation rollers A sheet feeding system has a pick roller, a first roller, and a second roller. The ends of the first and second rollers are coupled together. The pick roller acquires, or picks, a sheet from a stack of sheets and passes the sheet to the first and second rollers. One... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6832681 | Tobacco leaf elevator The invention provides an elevator for separating and distributing a plurality of whole freshly harvested tobacco leaves including clumps of agglomerated tobacco leaves. The elevator has an inclined frame longitudinally extending between a lower end and an upper end... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6637582 | Board transmitting device for an upright PC board etching machine A board transmitting device for an upright PC board etching machine, includes a plurality of units each of which includes a U-shaped frame with a pair of serial wheel frames uprightly inserted in an upper end of both sides thereof, a rotation transmitting... | 10/28/2003 |
| 5909799 | Self clearing conveyor The apparatus is a self clearing conveyor for materials which clump together. A rotating multi-faced drum is located above the moving surface of a conveyor and rotates in a direction opposite from the movement of the conveyor. Material which is higher tha... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5507380 | Stacked package separating system By providing a package processing system with pulsed or intermittently applied package retardation or separation forces, a highly effective package handling system is attained which is able to process all packages without tearing, ripping, or damaging any... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5477957 | Process for continuously forming a uniform layer of loose material and installation for carrying out the process A process and apparatus for the continuous production of a uniform layer of oose material on a forming belt has a receiving belt onto which the loose product is deposited by a gravity chute in strips transverse to a travel direction of the receiving belt. ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5152328 | Feed roller A feed roller intended for a timber processing unit includes a roller body having disposed on its outer periphery elastically supported engagement devices for driving engagement with a tree trunk advanced by the roller. In accordance with the invention, i... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5129505 | Paper metering device A paper metering device is disclosed which is adapted for handling a flow of bulky and unmanageable paper such as newspapers or computer printouts and metering the paper into a manageable flow for delivery to further processing. The flow of paper is carri... | 07/14/1992 |
| 4651758 | Apparatus for detecting foreign objects in the distributor of a cigarette maker The distributor of a cigarette maker has an upwardly travelling conveyor which transports particles of tobacco past a rotating paddle wheel serving to remove the surplus of particles and to return the removed surplus into the magazine of the distributor. ... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4610545 | Mixer A concrete mixer in this invention comprises an elastomeric lug belt carried by a first set of roller drums at least one of which is driven, the lug belt having a plurality of spaced elastomeric lugs thereon, and an elastomeric base belt carried by a seco... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4540036 | Conveyor for the stepwise advance of a vertically parted boxless mould through a pouring and cooling zone In a conveyor for the stepwise advance of a vertically parted boxless mould through a pouring and cooling zone of a guideway each side of this guideway is composed of mutually reciprocable rods or rails, at least some of which are operative to carry along... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4324495 | Fiber feeder pulley cleaning system This invention relates to a feeder 10 for glass fibers useful in feeding glass fibers to a wet-mat process. Previous fiber feeders were unreliable and caused process disruptions primarily due to fiber conveying belt breakage. Belt breakage in the present ... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4060167 | Method for converting intermittent to constant refuse flow Method for providing surge capacity and for smoothing out the flow rate of refuse in a system, wherein refuse is loaded onto a moving conveyor at variable or intermittent rates, by (1) preventing excess refuse from passing beyond a given point on the conv... | 11/29/1977 |
| 3986598 | Linen piece item separator and counter The specification discloses an apparatus for separating and counting cloth piece items such as shop towels, diapers, napkins, massage towels, etc. The apparatus comprises a mechanical separator including steeply inclined conveyor means having a plurality ... | 10/19/1976 |
