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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7431147 | Carton feeding and forming machine with selectively actuated diverter and related methods A machine for intended use in feeding and completing partially formed cartons is disclosed. In one embodiment, the machine includes an overhead conveyor with selectively actuated, depending lugs that engage and convey the carton in a first direction while a first fl... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7207434 | Conveyor with center-actuatable gripper, and related conveyor link A conveyor is disclosed suitable for conveying objects along a transport direction. The conveyor includes a plurality of connected links, each link having a length extending across the direction of transport and a width extending along the direction of transport. Ea... | 04/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7021453 | Conveyor with gear mechanism gripper and related conveyor link Various conveyor designs are disclosed, along with related link designs, suitable for conveying objects along a transport direction. The conveyor may include a plurality of connected links. Each link may have a length extending across the direction of transport and ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6931826 | Dual drive material turning machine and method A machine for turning material piled on the ground in a windrow comprises first and second track assemblies spaced apart from one another and having a lift assembly therebetween. The lift assembly lifts the material upwardly and deposits it to the rear. The first an... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6360877 | Conveyors for feeding containers in equally spaced manner In a conveyor including an endless belt (3) that features equispaced recesses made on an outer surface of the belt, the recesses can be set in communication with a vacuum source when they are moving along an upper run of the conveyor, so as to grip a base... | 03/26/2002 |
| 5934670 | Apparatus having a rotary circulating mechanism A sorter includes a plurality of receiver members for receiving a workpiece, and a rotary circulating mechanism driven by a driving unit to circulate along a circulatory path. The circulating mechanism mounts the receiver members to be pivotable about a f... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5662208 | Conveyor with retractable flaps for transporting containers The invention relates to a conveyor system for transporting containers. The conveyor system is made of an endless belt to which are mounted pivotable flaps having abutments to limit their pivotal movement beyond a predetermined angle when the belt is trav... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5395204 | Truck trailer unloading apparatus A truck trailer includes a push plate extensible and retractable relative to a front wall of the trailer structure employing hydraulic ram structure to project the plate along the trailer floor, that in turn includes a row of rollers operative through a d... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5275272 | Conveyor system with article diverting mechanism A conveying system includes a transport conveyor and a diverter mechanism disposed thereabove for pushing articles transversely off the transport conveyor. The diverter mechanism includes a belt having paddles projecting therefrom. The belt is periodicall... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5186227 | Driving device A driving device comprises at least one chain (16) in the form of a closed loop. The chain is connected to at least one driving member arranged to cause the chain to orbit. Furthermore, the chain is laid over diverting members which in combination with th... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5046600 | Apparatus and method for automatically lifting conveyor sections A packaging machine of the type having a conveyor formed of pivotally mounted sections includes a mechanism for automating the raising and lowering of the sections. Each section includes a pair of rollers including a first, long roller that extends transv... | 09/10/1991 |
| 4953690 | Conveyor with slippage stops on the conveyor surface A conveyor comprising an endless elastic conveyor belt extending around guide rollers to define a conveying portion and a returning portion, and support means for supporting the returning portion of the belt, is provided with longitudinally spaced stops o... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4911286 | Steeply inclined conveyor with slippage stops on the conveyor surface A steeply inclined conveyor comprising an endless elastic conveyor belt extending around guide rollers to define a conveying portion and a returning portion, and support rollers for supporting the returning portion of the belt, is provided with longitudin... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4572357 | Sheet material conveyor with unloading apparatus A material unloading conveyor is arranged in overlapping relation to the discharge end of a bristle conveyor and includes an endless belt which has a plurality of U-shaped staples secured to its surface to pivot relative thereto. The staples move in combi... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4537301 | Pressure shoe for glass processing apparatus The shoe is used as a glass plate pressing or backing-up member attached on a conveyor of a glass plate edge bevelling machine. The shoe comprises an elongate body. On one face thereof the elongate body is provided with blocks adapted for abutment engagem... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4412612 | Drive belt connection for an agricultural pickup device An agricultural pickup device is provided in which a conveyor apron is assembled over and driven by a drive belt. The conveyor apron is drivingly attached to the drive belt by a plurality of transverse pins. The transverse pins also serve to attach pickup... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4366898 | Conveyor of a farm machine pickup A characteristic feature of the proposed pickup conveyer, comprising drive shafts, a conveyer belt carrying support elements held thereto, spring-actuated double pickup fingers provided with a yoke-shaped interspring crosspiece and made fast on said suppo... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4202159 | Conveyor for a combine harvester A flexible endless conveyor for a combine harvester comprises a number of side-by-side elastomeric belts having a plurality of molded cleats on the surface of the belt, aligned in rows orthogonal with respect to the length of the belt, and interspaced by ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4197935 | Automatic feeding of spaced articles to a processing machine Feeding a longitudinally extending lane of regularly spaced articles to a horizontal form, fill and seal wrapping machine is disclosed. To insure regularity of spacing and that no gaps are created, in-line operatively integrated storage and transferring c... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4194343 | Dry bin filler An apparatus for gently transferring delicate produce from a supply conveyor into a dry storage bin. The discharge head of the apparatus has a reversible delivery board which directs and uniformly stacks the produce within the bin without bruising the pro... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4132304 | Article counting apparatus A counting and grouping apparatus for receiving articles such as fruit, marshalling the articles so as to fill up a number of parallel supply lines for presenting a number of the articles in line abreast in the leading positions in the supply lines, the n... | 01/02/1979 |
| 3986467 | Guiding stitching and delivering system A guiding, stitching and delivering system continuously constrains a piece of material while it guides that piece of material beneath the needle of a sewing machine during the stitching of that piece of material, while that piece of material is stationary... | 10/19/1976 |
