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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7905344 | Method for depositing a freely moving, flat object In a method for depositing a flat object dropping freely into a lower compartment, a wall of the compartment at an angle in relation to a vertical is used as a flat deposit point for a flat side of the flat object. During passage of the flat object into the lower co... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7343219 | Device used to organise flat packets according to a determined sequence A device used to arrange flat packets according to a determined sequence of delivery points associated with receiver addresses, whereby below a continuous part of a surrounding pocket ring designated as a covering area, one part of a collector belt, which is displac... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7225913 | Device for discharge rod-like product having one end that is larger sized A device for discharging rod-like products each having one end that is large sized. The device includes a hopper having an opening in its bottom surface, a drive mechanism for oscillating the hopper, and a bottom cover for closing the opening of the hopper. An upper... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7128202 | Apparatus and transport container for transport and controller discharge of a load An apparatus includes a frame with a guide for at least one displaceable transport container, a drive element for carrying the container in an endless track, a resetting device for placing a container in a starting position and a discharge station for selectively re... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7097027 | Scoop for transferring granular material A scoop includes a molded one-piece plastic scoop body having a bottom wall portion and a sidewall portion that extends from the bottom wall portion and that cooperates with the bottom wall portion to confine a material-holding space for holding granular material to... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6945386 | Bucket elevator conveyors A bucket elevator conveyor system of the straight horizontal, “C” and “Z” configurations. In these bucket elevator conveyor systems, loading of the buckets can occur anywhere along the horizontal run adjacent the take-up end and discharge of the buckets can ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6595346 | Device comprising a number of superposed bucket conveyors for sorting flat objects The device for sorting flat objects comprises at least one first conveyor consisting of buckets moving along a closed loop first path and a second conveyor, mechanically independent of the first conveyor, also consisting of buckets moving in a closed loop... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6523675 | Circulating mailing item container in a sorting device The invention relates to a mail-item container of a sorting device for the controlled transfer of a flat mail item into stationary sorting containers, the container having a stationary wall part and a movable wall part that is disposed at the front in the... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6334527 | Bucket conveyor A bucket conveyor for conveying loose grain in different directions, comprising a bucket having: an opening leading to the interior of the bucket; and a dead space constituting part of the interior at the rear, the space not filled with loose grain when g... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6208908 | Integrated order selection and distribution system An integrated order selection and distribution system is provided for selecting and delivering a plurality of articles associated with a preselected customer order. The system includes discrete article receptacles, a conveyor, and a plurality of pack stat... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6126017 | Device and method for sorting objects using buffer receptacles at sorting outlets The device for sorting objects, for example mail items, includes a conveyor (1) that directs the objects to be sorted to sorting output receptacles (7) associated with corresponding sorting outputs and in which the sorted objects are stored. A buffer rece... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6086065 | Apparatus for feeding sheets from a sheet store An arrangement for feeding sheets from a sheet store to either one of a plurality of stations includes a movable carriage which receives sheets fed from the store and which has driving cogwheels for coaction with a fixed cog railway outside the carriage. ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6068109 | Sorting arrangement, in particular for items of post A sorting apparatus is disclosed which includes a plurality of carriers which circulate from an upper section of a conveying device to a lower section of the conveying device. The carriers are secured to circulating carriages that are driven by an endless... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5994657 | Device and method for sorting mailed pieces A device and method for sorting flat mailed pieces. The mailed pieces are individually transferred to conveying cells which can be conveyed one behind the other along a conveying path and are delivered to receptacles which are arranged along the conveying... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5990437 | System for sorting articles A system for sorting articles, the system having a track which defines a route starting at at least one loading point, the route continuing on to a plurality of destination points and arriving back at the loading point. The system also has at least one tr... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5931282 | Component collective and component collective feeding apparatus A component carrier assembly includes component holders each for holding a component therein and connected to one another in a form of a tape carrier. Each holder is provided with a cavity to accommodate the component, a closure for shutting an opening of... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5873453 | Apparatus for transferring packets of rod-shaped smokers' products Apparatus for transferring at least partially finished packets containing cigarettes or other rod-shaped smokers' products from a lower level, where the packets are advanced along a horizontal path toward a stationary transfer station, into the receptacle... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5842556 | Device for sorting goods Device for sorting goods, comprising a stationary frame which is provided with guide means forming an endless path for a number of carriages supported by the guide means and movable along said path. Each carriage is provided with at least one tiltable goo... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5611437 | Automatically openable and closable hopper set for a fruit weighing and sorting machine Disclosed is an automatically openable and closable hopper set for a fruit weighing and sorting machine, wherein a hopper having two lower scale plates and a pivotally connected door is used to carry a fruit to be sorted by weight. The door is normally re... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5558201 | Conveyor apparatus for further conducting individually supplied, flat products A conveyor apparatus for further transporting individually conveyed, flat products includes a rotatingly driven pulling element and spaced receiving apparatuses that can be loaded and emptied secured to the pulling element for being moved in a conveying d... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5535874 | Carrier for transport and delivery of an article to a destination A system and a method for sorting are provided for distributing articles, such as mail pieces or other flats, to predetermined destinations. At the destination, the particular article is raked by a raking assembly from a carrier for placement into a conta... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5473880 | Multi-station textile machine, especially double twisting machine or cabling machine, with sequentially arranged spool containers A multi-station textile machine, especially a double twisting machine or cabling machine, has spool containers arranged adjacent to one another in rows for receiving feed spools. A guide rail of a continuously or intermittently driven endless conveyor ext... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5392894 | Transport/stacker module for improving sorting throughout of a mail processing system In a mail sorting system, a transport/stacker module comprises a plurality of mailpiece carriers included in a conveyor moving in an endless serpentine path through a plurality of distributed sorting sites. Each carrier is provided with a door at each of ... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5365831 | On-site cooking apparatus A pasta cooking apparatus includes a generally rectangular cabinet including an upright cooking tank and a sauce heating chamber with a common wall, with an opening permitting water flow therebetween. The cooking water temperature and the sauce heating wa... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5346052 | Feed bucket for programmed delivery system An overhead track construction is provided including clam-type buckets supported from the track for guided movement therealong. The track extends past predetermined feeding stations into which material contained within the buckets is to be released and ea... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5293983 | Transport/stacker module for mail processing system A transport/stacker module provides for a vertical stacking of mail bins. Carriers traveling in a transport path have openable and closable doors at both ends, and a frame of the transport/stacker module is provided with cam actuators to open the doors af... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5241899 | On-site cooking apparatus A pasta cooking apparatus includes a generally rectangular cabinet including an upright cooking tank and a sauce heating chamber with a common wall, with an opening permitting water flow therebetween. The cooking water temperature and the sauce heating wa... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5205208 | Food product carrier for an automatic cooking machine A food product carrier for use in an automatic food cooking machine having opposed integral retaining wire arch members for accepting retractable pins thereby locking a pivotal wire lid to a wire basket in a closed position which is mounted to the cooking... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5096047 | Basket in basket conveyor A basket for a basket conveyor comprising a plurality of bottom-opening baskets is disclosed. The basket is characterized in that side plates thereof spread upwardly so as to enlarge the article receiving opening sidewardly. The internal walls of the bask... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5015141 | Freight transportation system A freight transportation system is provided and comprises a loading station, an unloading station and a vehicle moveable therebetween to transport freight. The vehicle includes a lower platform for carrying freight and a pair of doors moveable between ope... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4984676 | Direct transfer sorting system Articles to be sorted are loaded into carriers which move along a predetermined path that has groups of receptacles under and adjacent to it. Each carrier has gates or doors which are normally "closed" to define a bottom that can hold an article within th... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4927004 | Feeder In order to improve the accuracy of spacing, direction and velocity, a feeder for feeding discrete objects one by one has a belt which circulates at a controlled speed. The belt carries a series of buckets formed by four flaps which are normally closed bu... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4895242 | Direct transfer sorting system Articles to be sorted are loaded into carriers which move along a predetermined path that has groups of receptacles under and adjacent to it. Each carrier has gates or doors which are normally "closed" to define a bottom that can hold an article within th... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4892185 | Automatic discharging trough for use in a weighing machine A trough has side walls tiltable around a shaft, which is horizontal and disposed radially relative to a rotational axis for a plurality of troughs arranged in a circle. The shaft is supported as a cantilever. Linkage mechanisms connect the tiltable side ... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4719849 | Food product cooker A food product cooker having a main frame with a cooking oil pan and a plurality of food product carriages driven about the frame to and from the pan, with each of the carriages including a food product holder having upper and lower sections for receiving... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4688678 | Sorter apparatus for transporting articles to releasing locations A sorting apparatus is provided for sorting articles such as film envelopes. The envelopes are loaded into carriers, on an endless conveyor, which convey them past a plurality of drop chutes. The carriers hold the envelopes so the long axes thereof, in en... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4606262 | Apparatus for heat treating food Method and apparatus for pasteurizing appropriately sized discrete fresh food pieces are disclosed in which a finite portion of the food pieces is retained in an essentially immobile condition within a confined treatment zone while heating and cooling flu... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4509635 | Sorting system A sorting system for generally flat articles includes a number of receptacles (2) mounted on a conveyor (1) each of which is disposed to receive and convey an article to be carried lying with its surface of maximum size perpendicular to the conveyor line ... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4492509 | Object-conveying box, and object-sorting machine equipped with such boxes A box formed by a set of walls closed by a pivoting bottom which is openable so that the object which it carries falls vertically in the ejection zone to be collected in a receptacle. The walls are extended below the bottom so that the pivoting operation ... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4429780 | Device for depositing goods onto conveyor belts or the like A device is disclosed for transferring pieces of goods onto conveyor belts or the like, particularly for pieces susceptible to deformation made from dough-like material, wherein pre-molded individual pieces are delivered to a conveyor belt and are transfe... | 02/07/1984 |
