Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7407056 | Automatic container recycling apparatus The invention relates to a unit for automatic recycling apparatuses for containers, e.g. cans and bottles made of glass, plastic, or metal. Said unit comprises a conveying device with a conveyor belt for advancing the containers in the direction of the longitudinal ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7281623 | Transport system including vertical rollers A transport system for conveying articles along conveyance paths including straight, curvilinear, horizontal, inclined and declined conveyance sections. The articles are conveyed between a pair of vertical belts while being supported by protrusions extending from th... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7237421 | High-speed sheet feeding without grip pliers The invention concerns a conveying device for sheet steel plates and for moving several sheets (1, 1′) inside or through a working zone (W; 50) wherein the sheets are machined. The inventive feeding device comprises first and second sheet feeders ( | 07/03/2007 |
| 7175516 | Poultry processing hub and belt assembly This invention relates to a hub and belt assembly for driving a poultry de-feathering machine and more particularly to a multiple bearing heat dissipating hub driven by a serrated timing belt. The hub assembly incorporates seals along a drive shaft to reduce wear ca... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7160954 | Golf ball compositions neutralized with ammonium-based and amine-based compounds The present invention is directed to a golf ball and to a process for forming a golf ball having at least one layer, where the layer is formed of an ionomer composition having greater than about 70 percent of the acid groups neutralized by a neutralizing component i... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7101506 | Takeout and transfer apparatus and method for a wheel blow molding machine Apparatus and method for transferring hollow blow molded articles from a vertically disposed wheel blow molding machine to a horizontally-disposed takeaway conveyor. Each mold on the wheel releases multiple blown articles at the six o'clock position on the wheel suc... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6915894 | Container inspection machine A machine for inspecting bottles. The machine has a belt conveyor with upper and lower opposed pairs of belt drives. Each belt drive includes a casing which supports opposed drive and idler pulleys which support a belt for displacement. A motor drive, mounted on the... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6913136 | Apparatus and method for positioning separately supplied elongate meat products A device for positioning separately supplied elongate meat products, comprises two driven endless aligning conveyors running with the transport paths substantially parallel to each other, which transport paths together form a support for the meat products for transp... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6793067 | Container inspection machine A machine for inspecting containers has a belt drive having upper and lower pairs of belt drives. Each belt drive has its own motor and each opposed pair of belt drives can be relatively horizontally displaced and as a unit displace vertically so that 1. the ... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6712197 | Board processing unit A process board is moved, positioned and processed by first and second upper conveyers and first and second lower conveyers, and a tool of a head is moved between the first upper and lower conveyers and the second upper and lower conveyers such that the first and se... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6622851 | Conveyor section arrangement in a filling station An arrangement (1) of a conveyor section (2) is provided for containers (10, 11, 12) that are conveyed on said conveyor section and that are in a filling position. The containers are to be filled with items (3) or with a bulk material in a filling station... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6585105 | Endless flexible belt conveyor with a leaktight flexible cover belt The invention concerns a conveyor belt (1) operating as a deep semicircular trough provided with a covering belt (2), characterised in that the covering belt (2) is planar in inoperative state, except for its continuous sealing loops (8) and has a width (... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6484870 | Dual belt conveyor system A dual belt conveyor includes a pair of flexible endless loop conveyor belts arranged at an incline with a lower flight of the upper belt in face-to-face conveying relationship with an upper flight of the lower belt to retain and convey granular material ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6308820 | Assembly for conveying stacked documents An assembly for conveying stacked documents includes a conveying surface extending along the conveying path and a conveyor roller that is suspended opposite to the conveying surface for movement between positions at different distances from the conveying ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6241076 | Control apparatus for conveyor of particulate material A device for controlling the conveyance of particulate material on a conveyor belt comprises a frame with an endless belt attached thereto. The apparatus is positioned above the conveyor belt and in frictional contact therewith whereby the motion of the c... | 06/05/2001 |
| 5632370 | Pivoting transfer means at belt conveyor A pivoting transfer means for a jet of bulk material between a first cover belt conveyor and a second cover belt conveyor. The bulk material leaves the cover belt conveyor in the area of the tail pulleys and enters the receiving mouth of a second cover be... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5305868 | Cover belt conveyor A cover belt conveyor for delivering bulk materials or piece goods includes, a basic belt (1) and a cover belt (2), wherein at least one of these belts (1, 2) is driven. A space for the delivery strand (4) is formed in the central area of these belts, and... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5178221 | Core-gathering apparatus and a main conveyor belt drive roller structure for the apparatus An apparatus which gathers earthen cores dug out by a boring machine operates with a main conveyor belt and auxiliary conveyor belt which are partially forced in contact with each other so as to sandwich earthen cores inbetween and transfer the cords to a... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5094443 | Sheet conveying apparatus Apparatus for conveying one or more sheets of paper. The apparatus includes a supporting housing; a first, upstream pulley and a second, downstream pulley rotatably mounted on the housing; a lower, endless, elastic belt mounted on the first and second pul... | 03/10/1992 |
| 4936441 | Vertical type conveyor A vertical type conveyor comprises a support; a plurality of belt pulleys rotatably supported by the support; a pair of endless conveyor belts traveling around the plurality of belt pulleys and defining an abutment area, in which the pair of conveyor belt... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4890721 | Belt clamp type unloader A belt clamp type unloader includes a vertical-horizontal conveyor assembly having a vertically extending portion and a horizontally extending portion, and a scraping section disposed at a position below a lower end of the conveyor assembly. In the convey... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4776450 | Twin-belt band conveyor A twin-belt band conveyor in which the flat belt of an endlessly circulating conveyor band forms a closed conveying space with a belt of a cover band running along therewith on a steep conveying track, the edges of each belt being held in superimposed arr... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4732264 | Belt conveyer system A belt conveyer system where along various sections great differences in height must be overcome. A conveyer belt that is initially spread flat is guided in steeply inclined stretches to form a closed hose. To satisfactorily transport, without loss, even ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4666032 | Pocket elevator An elevating conveyor which operates as a pocket elevator to transfer granular, powdered or like material from a loading station through an elevating section to a discharge zone wherein an endless conveyor belt cooperates with a further conveyor part. The... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4585118 | Self-tracking belt roller A self-tracking roller comprised of a plurality of individual elements is presented. These elements alternate between evenly distributed idler rings and spacer rings arranged in two groups having a central space therebetween. This central space permits tw... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4585384 | Multi-stage conveyor system A multi-stage conveyor system consists essentially of a loading unit for loose material to be conveyed, an elevator unit and a transom unit for conveying the material to a depositing station. When transferring the material from the elevator unit to a deli... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4562918 | En-mass conveyor for verticle or steep delivery of bulk material An en-mass conveyor for vertically or steeply lifting bulk material has two, primary, flat, endless belt conveyors which are vertical or steeply-inclined throughout facing, correspondingly-progressing, material-conveying runs thus forming a belt shaft. On... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4535884 | Bulk-handling belt conveyor A bulk-handling belt conveyor has a flat belt having reinforced edges which cooperate with guides in such a way that the conveyor belt is formed at least into a trough and preferably a tube of circular cross section. A twisted, or spiral undriven, belt wh... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4425995 | Cover belt conveyor A cover belt conveyor in which each of two conveyor belts have lateral corrugated edges or waved ridges of a substantially common height. The conveyor belts are mutually supported on the heads of the waved ridges to form a large conveying space therebetwe... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4355741 | Sack-filling machine A sack-filling machine having a filling tube through which material to be discharged into a sack is to be passed, the filling tube defined by at least one wall and including at least one conveyor belt having a material-feeding run which extends along the ... | 10/26/1982 |
| 4273238 | Cover belt conveyor with closure strips A cover belt conveyor including a carrier belt and a cover belt entrained over respective return drums and having proximal runs defining a conveyor path therebetween. The belts have closure strips with a periodic wave form defining wave ridges thereon and... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4230220 | Vertical bulk-conveying apparatus and bulk delivering system utilizing the characteristics thereof A novel apparatus for vertically conveying bulk materials is provided which includes a vertical belt conveyor comprised of two endless conveyor belts guided to travel upwardly along a substantially vertical plane in a face-to-face overlapping relation to ... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4195724 | Belt elevator with staggered edge rollers In a bulk material handling apparatus especially adapted for handling granular material a pair of flexible belts are arranged about drive and idler pulleys to provide a material receiving run of one belt, a substantially vertical run or section where the ... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4138872 | Method and apparatus for extrusion Method and apparatus for forming material by passing it through a container, in which the material receives the force required to form it by contact with driven, recirculating members which make up the inner wall of the container and define the passage av... | 02/13/1979 |
| 3982626 | Belt elevator for bulk material A bulk material handling apparatus especially adapted for handling granular material wherein a pair of flexible belts are arranged about drive and idler pulleys to provide a material receiving run of one belt, a first transition zone where the pair of bel... | 09/28/1976 |
