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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7426991 | Adjustable vibratory feeder The tie bar supporting a feed tray (moving mass) is attached to the reaction mass using one leaf spring and one elastomeric spring. The elastomeric spring comprises first and second elastomeric pads which sandwich a portion of the tie bar to which the feed tray is a... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7392897 | Vibrational linear conveyor Vibrational linear conveyor for conveying workpieces and powdery or granular materials with a useful mass and a counter mass, which are equal in magnitude, are mounted separately at a vibrating system and, for conveying, can be brought into an opposite oscillating o... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7387198 | Balanced flat stroke bi-directional conveyor A balanced flat stroke bi-directional conveyor for conveying object, granular and powder material. The unit utilizes the skewed sine wave trough stroke principle using primary eccentric counterweights wheels driven by a motor running at the secondary speed and equip... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7383942 | Article carrying apparatus An article carrying apparatus is capable of inhibiting a force that acts on the apparatus due to vibration being applied to its carry section in order to carry an article. The article carrying apparatus includes: a carry section for restricting, to a circumferential... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7367457 | Device for the separation of non-magnetizable metals and ferrous components from a solid mixture and method for operating such device In an arrangement which including a motor-driven system for the separation of non-magnetisable metals, vibrations and resonances which generally are present in such arrangement, are eliminated. This is accomplished by utilizing a drum mounted on and rotating about a... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7253545 | Vibratory screening machine with single motor mounted to produce linear motion Disclosed within is a fist bracket comprising a base and a circumferential portion extending from the base in which the circumferential portion comprises an outer surface and an inner surface and the outer surface comprises a curved section and a planar section. Als... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7071425 | Weighing machine having a central distributor to scales The invention relates to a weighing machine for weighing portions of material, which weighing machine comprises a frame structure on which a central distributor, a plurality of linear conveyors and a plurality of scales are mounted, and wherein the linear conveyors ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6948611 | Vibratory conveying apparatus adapted to be driven by accumulatively phased rotating eccentric weights A circular vibratory conveying apparatus for conveying material. The apparatus includes a bed on which material is conveyed, a counterbalance supported on a plurality of isolation springs, a plurality of inclined drive springs extending between the bed and the count... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6659267 | Two-mass, base-excited conveyor A vibratory conveying device comprise an elongated trough for transporting materials, and a base underlying the trough. A plurality of elongated leaf springs support the trough on the base, with a vibratory drive system operatively connected to the base f... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6588581 | Vibratory apparatus having adjustable spring assembly A vibratory conveying apparatus embodying the principles of the present invention includes a base, a trough, and at least one spring assembly mounting the trough on the base for vibratory conveyance of material in the trough. At least one of the spring as... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6357579 | Linear motor drive for vibratory feeders and conveyors A differential motion conveyor includes a cylindrical moving magnet linear motor to drive a trough into vibration to convey material. The linear motor utilizes a compact, efficient and powerful design using an annular stator which drives an armature. The ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6286658 | Vibratory conveyor A vibratory conveyor employing an amplitude compensator to substantially impede the conveyor bed from moving beyond a given range of vibration amplitude is described. The amplitude compensator coacts with the conveyor bed as the vibrational amplitude of t... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6260691 | Vibratory system A vibratory system for a vibration feeder includes pulse means for generating electrical digital pulse signals. A controller controllably converts the electrical digital pulse signals either into an incrementally increasing or decreasing DC voltage level.... | 07/17/2001 |
| 5967294 | High stroke, highly damped spring system for use with vibratory feeders A vibratory conveying feeder includes a trough mounted by springs to a base with a vibratory driver bonded to the base and connected to the trough. The springs include a first vertically oriented spring at a front of the conveyor connected between the bas... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5730297 | Screening machine with improved base force reduction A screening machine of the moving base type has an oscillating force reducer and a single counterbalance drive, with the weight of the drive counterbalance sized to underbalance the longitudinal reaction force exerted by the deck on the drive shaft, but t... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5713457 | Two-way vibratory feeder or conveyor Bearing failure and noise generation problems of prior art, vibratory feeders are eliminated in a construction including a bed (10) having an elongated, generally horizontal feeding or conveying surface (56) having opposed ends (52) and (54). Spaced resil... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5547068 | Center beam two mass vibratory device A vibratory device operating as a two mass vibrating system having an exciter mass and a work member mass spring coupled and supported by isolator springs and operating at a frequency less than the natural frequency of the system. Two or more cylindrical ... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5496456 | Vibrating conveyor device dipping into a liquid with damping of vibration transmission Known large vibrating conveyors are not readily suitable as such for conveying bulk materials or small articles into or out of a liquid bath, because the liquid transmits the vibrations to other structural parts, for example a vessel for the liquid, as a ... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5462155 | Linear vibratory conveyor A linear vibratory conveyor has a bottom plate and a vibratory conveyor track. Together with a trimming weight, the latter forms a vibrating mass. Further, a countermass is provided forming a mass vibrating in an opposite direction. The support of the mas... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5314058 | Vibratory drive unit A bidirectional vibratory drive unit is disclosed for use with vibratory driven feeder bowls and parts separators, including a base member having first and second pluralities of lower spring mount pads and a top member having corresponding first and secon... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5154316 | Horizontal oscillatory feeder A horizontal oscillatory feeder apparatus is disclosed for feeding a plurality of different types of electrical components of varying mass along respective tracks to component pick-up stations. The components and the tracks are supported on a base plate, ... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5074404 | Vibration isolator having adjustability feature An isolator for use on a vibratory parts feeder incorporates a locating plate rotatable through three hundred sixty degrees in a horizontal plain to allow mounting adjustment and parts feeder micro alignment.... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5056652 | Vibratory conveyor The invention discloses a vibratory conveyor arranged so that the vibrations have a substantially greater horizontal than vertical movement. More particularly, the vertical acceleration of material carried by the material-carrying member is less than the ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5040666 | Vibrating two mass conveyor apparatus A vibrating two mass conveyor apparatus for conveying material includes a driven mass, which defines the vibratory material conveying path, and a driver mass for imparting a vibrating conveying force to the driven mass. A vibratory driven is operatively a... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4941565 | Dispersion feeder A dispersion feeder used in a combination weighing machine for distributively feeding product to be weighed out to a plurality of weighing units arranged around it. The feeder is characterized in that it includes a mechanism for effecting rotational movem... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4813532 | Natural frequency vibratory conveyor A natural frequency vibratory conveyor which substantially improves upon the slow starting and stopping times and the power requirements associated with prior art natural systems is disclosed. The conveyor employs a drive member reciprocatively connected ... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4768647 | Vibrating conveyor The invention relates to a vibrating conveyor in which the frame (1) and the trough (2) of the vibrating device are attached to each other by rigid bars (6). At the attachment points of the bars (6) to the trough (2) and to the frame (1) there are resilie... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4683966 | Weighing system A weighing system includes a weighing apparatus composed of distributive table, a plurality of radial supply troughs disposed around the peripheral edge of the distributive table for being supplied with articles to be weighed from the distributive table, ... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4354618 | Braking method and apparatus for vibratory feeder A material dispensing apparatus including drive structure for driving a feeder bowl is disclosed. A control circuit for controlling the drive includes a Hall effect amplitude sensing transducer for monitoring the magnitude of bowl vibrations and a braking... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4260051 | Vibratory conveyor system with counter vibration component and non-vibrating support A dynamically balanced vibratory conveyor system for conveying or feeding particulate material. The system comprises a horizontal trough, a counterweighting frame positioned adjacent to and generally coextensive with the trough, and a plurality of spaced,... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4214680 | Drawdown hopper isolation system having isolators with fabric lays A drawdown hopper isolation system having a series of isolators supporting the hopper in spaced relation from a support surface. Each of the isolators is comprised, in preferred form, of a rubber block having an axial bore therethrough, a series of parall... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4162778 | Vibrating machine suspension A vibrating machine, such as an oscillating conveyor, vibratory feeder, or vibratory screen, is mounted to a plurality of supports by a suspension that isolates machine vibrations from the supports. The suspension includes a plurality of U-shaped stirrups... | 07/31/1979 |
| 3954169 | Vibrating feeder device An electromagnetic feeder device operable for creating controlled vibration is provided which is particularly suited to be employed in association with automatic machinery for purposes of moving disoriented parts into orientation, for inspecting and/or co... | 05/04/1976 |
