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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7478721 | Device for conveying sheet-type flat items A feed conveyor feeds in flat items to a discharge conveyor that discharges the same. A joint upper belt conveyor extends across feed-in and discharge regions and has a lower belt section above the feed and discharge conveyors. An operating mechanism moves a lower b... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7434679 | Vertical conveyor A vertical conveyor for conveying a stream of closely spaced articles along a conveyor path includes at least one pair of roller chain assemblies that face the conveyor path. Each chain assembly includes a roller chain carrying grippers that extend into the conveyor... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7367558 | Machine for processing printing material sheets A machine for processing printing material sheets has a signal generator for position monitoring and a sheet delivery. The sheet delivery has a first conveying device, for example with a holding crossmember, for leading sheet ends and a second conveying device, for ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7334676 | Compensating roller system A compensating roller system is adapted to adjust to size variation of product moving through a conveyor system. In one example, the compensating roller system is used to control a force resulting in deflection of a conveyor belt. In a specific implementation of suc... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331444 | Conveyor transfer system A transfer system that laterally grips an open container at a position along a first belt upstream of a conveyor transfer and then transfers the container across the interface between belts before depositing the container on a second belt downstream of the conveyor ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325483 | Automated belt cooking machine pancakes or the like An automated belt cooking machine (10) for pancakes and the like food products has upper and lower overlapping, thermally conductive belts (12, 14), counter-rotatably mounted to a frame (16) so that, in use, a bottom run (30) of the upper... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7281622 | Conveyor system for high speed, high performance bagger A conveyor assembly is configured to convey and maintain compression of multiple compressible batts. Adjacent pairs of conveyor systems within the conveyor assembly define a space between the pair of conveyor systems for receiving and conveying compressible batts. E... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7255222 | Unloader An unloader that includes a pad replacing device provided adjacently to at least one of an upper carrying device and a lower carrying device. Each of the carrying devices includes an endless rotating member and plural unloader pads, the endless rotating member havin... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7222724 | Apparatus for transporting flat work pieces An apparatus for transporting flat work pieces has a first conveyor and a second conveyor. An inlet mouth is formed from the first conveyor and the second conveyor. The apparatus is distinguished by a geometry of the inlet mouth which can be optimized with regard to... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7210889 | Circulating storage system A circulating storage system (1) has at least two storage columns (4) of stored-goods carriers (5) that are arranged one above another and circulate during operation, at least one horizontal conveyor device (9) which, during operation, tr... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7172064 | Device for feeding a wall frame The present invention relates to a device for feeding a planar section, e.g. a wall element, in relation to one or more working stations, e.g. nailing and/or hole making stations, the planar section having an upper portion (2) and a lower portion (1) a... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7156222 | Magazine apparatus for retaining flexible bags A powered magazine apparatus for retaining and transporting flexible bags comprises a base conveyor, and a pair of first and second digitated conveyor belts positioned on respective opposite sides of the base conveyor. Each of the digitated conveyor belts comprises ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7110590 | Method and return vending machine device for handling empty beverage containers The method of handling an empty beverage container having a bottom end and a mouth region and includes moving the container, from a return vending machine inlet, in a direction towards an outlet thereof. Through use of the method there is detected by means of a vide... | 09/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7073657 | Conveying arrangement for processing printed products A conveying arrangement for processing printed products, comprising a conveying section, a plurality of deposit trays on which the printed products are transported along the conveying section, the conveying section having an intake area where the printed products ar... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7048183 | RFID rag and method of user verification An identification tag (100) facilitates use of a secure computer system (300). The tag (100) is adapted to be worn on a user's wrist and includes an identification and registration circuit (102) that includes an identification component (... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7032737 | Conveying apparatus for open containers A conveying apparatus for transporting open containers is provided with at least two conveying elements located opposite to each other that are adapted frictionally or positively engage the containers. Each conveying element comprises a plurality of gripping element... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6955256 | Conveyor A conveyor assembly 18 that detects bags that leak. The assembly 18 includes a first conveyor 24 that operates in unison with a second conveyor 29. The conveyors 24 and 29 confine the bags in chambers, with the bags being en... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6945530 | Device for conveying stacks of sheets of paper In a device for conveying stacks of sheets of paper, each stack is caused to advance along a pre-set path inside a pocket, which has a resting surface for supporting the stack and is provided with at least one pressure member designed to grip the stack on the restin... | 09/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6776279 | Unit for automatic container returns systems The invention described here concerns a unit for automatic container returns systems, with a conveyor device for transporting the containers in the direction of their longitudinal axis, with two rotary-driven rollers arranged along the conveyor path and which can be... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6669461 | Takeout and transfer apparatus 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 th... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6622852 | Continuous container-supplying apparatus A continuous container-supplying apparatus in which a plurality of container holding assemblies, each comprising right-side and left-side holding members are provided on conveyor belts that run as an integral unit along an annular track that has a pair of... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6533104 | Device for receiving and transporting objects A device for receiving and transporting objects has at least one pair of parallel chains or belts situated opposite each other and driven in synchrony, which define a space between each other for transporting the objects therethrough. Each chain has at le... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6497320 | Conveyor A conveyor has a rotary encoder for measuring the amount of rotation of a driven sprocket having an intermittently drivable chain reeved therearound, and a processor for processing the measurement obtained by the encoder as operation support operating dat... | 12/24/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6471050 | Board conveying apparatus and operation performing system A printed-board conveying apparatus includes a first belt conveyor and a second belt conveyor. The first belt conveyor includes first stationary and movable guide rails and two first belts. The second belt conveyor is arranged in parallel with the first b... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6454102 | Belt press with adjustable inlet guide A belt press having a frame with a first belt and a second belt rotatably mounted on the frame. A curved inlet guide is movably carried on the frame. The inlet guide has a decreasing radius of curvature from an inlet end to an exit end. A positioning asse... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6390282 | Horizontal belt conveyor with quick vertical adjustment A conveyor system comprises pairs of vertically spaced and horizontally oriented pulleys and belts that are positioned on opposite sides of a conveyor path. The belts wrap around the pulleys and engage with opposite sides of an object being conveyed by th... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6386535 | Loading mechanism for a modular commercial printer A print media loading mechanism for a printer includes a feeding device comprising a pair of surface-defining elements which define surfaces which are movable relative to each other in the same direction parallel to a direction of feed of the print media,... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6360873 | Article grouping mechanism A grouping mechanism and method for grouping articles delivered to the mechanism from an infeed stream at an infeed end of a packaging machine, which mechanism comprises a pair of opposed spacer elements, each said spacer element adapted to engage at leas... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6352252 | Conveyor device for bookbinding machines A conveyer device for bookbinding machines having a number of processing stations and having plate or cleated chains or the like which take over book blocks and convey them intermittently to the processing stations. The plate or cleated chains are driven ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6341630 | Filling and handling bottles A bottling apparatus has a frame and an endless conveyor element on the frame and having a horizontal lower stretch, an upper stretch above the lower stretch, and upstream and downstream corners where the element changes direction. A plurality of pairs of... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6311523 | Process for forming a glass sheet A process for forming a glass sheet, which is a process for continuously forming a glass sheet, and which comprises a step of introducing a vapor film-forming agent, which is not vapor at least around room temperature and which is vapor at a temperature above ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6305896 | Vehicle discharge system A system for discharging material, having a material holding container, a first material transport device, to transport material from the material holding container, a second material transport device, to deliver material from the first material transport... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6296107 | Individual caterpillar, in particular for take-off devices, and take-off device for elongate components The invention relates to an individual track (1), in particular for off-take conveyor devices (2), having a base frame (4) and conveyor means (28) arranged thereon for displacing an elongated component (3) relative to the base frame (4). The conveyor mean... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6293544 | Apparatus and method for registering and conveying a compiled set of sheets A sheet registration and conveyance apparatus for registering leading and trailing edges of a compiled set of sheets. The apparatus includes a first movable belt; a first registration stop fixedly mounted on the first belt for registering the leading edge... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6281478 | Food cooking apparatus Food cooking apparatus having a two conveyor belts, one of which is heated by a platen to provide a moving cooking surface. Since both belts are movable, they are operable to grip a bun heel or crown and convey it along a cooking path between the two belt... | 08/28/2001 |
