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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167119 | Low-pressure accumulation system A low-pressure accumulation system and a conveyor belt in an accumulation conveyor for the use with the system. The belt, which is flanked on opposite sides by lines of gravity rollers, has a longitudinal lane of article-supporting belt rollers arranged in groups al... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167118 | Conveyors, belts, and modules with actuated rollers A conveyor, a conveyor belt used in the conveyor, and a belt module used to construct the conveyor belt, in which the module includes belt rollers that extend outward of a conveyor surface of the modules to support conveyed articles. The belt rollers are mounted in ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162132 | Deflection apparatus for a conveying system A deflection apparatus for a conveying system has a central body with a roller body which circulates around the central body, wherein the roller body has a multiplicity of rollers which are guided with play and roll in a roller track of the central body wherein the ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162133 | Support device for conveying heavy loads A support device for conveying heavy loads includes a support body and a roller body which revolves around the support body, wherein the roller body includes a series of support rollers and distancing rollers, the distancing rollers have a smaller diameter than the ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162134 | Conveyor belt A conveyor belt, in particular for a pasteurizer, with a conveyor surface and with support rollers, which are arranged beneath the conveyor surface and support it on a carrier. In order to improve the protection of the conveyor belt against glass breakage without ha... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8109384 | Conveyor and method for spacing packages A spacing conveyor having article-accelerating rollers and selectively retractable stops to control the gaps between consecutive conveyed packages. A sensor measures the length of a package being fed onto the spacing conveyor. A controller selectively actuates one o... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8079463 | Conveying device, rolling body and conveying body A conveying device (100) according to the invention includes several conveying bodies (102), which roll on a guidance (101) via several rolls (3), wherein the rolls (3) are connected and mutually distanced by means of a flexible co... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7997404 | Conveyor belt with intermodular supported spheres A series of rows of belt modules wherein a first one of the rows may have a plurality of hinge elements along an end of the first row. A second one of the rows may have a plurality of hinge elements along an end of the second row. The plurality of hinge elements of ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7942257 | Roller-belt conveyor with infeed pull-away A separation conveyor using a roller belt whose rollers are already rotating before receiving an article to provide immediate pull-away from an infeed conveyor. The rollers of a roller belt extend through the thickness of the belt and into contact with a bearing sur... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7918331 | Transport device, rolling body and transport body A conveying device (100) according to the invention includes several conveying bodies (102), which roll on a guidance (101) via several rolls (3), wherein the rolls (3) are connected and mutually distanced by means of a flexible co... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7900768 | Split-level singulator A split-level singulator for arranging and conveying articles in a single file. The singulator comprises a central conveyor and two flanking conveyors advancing in a conveying direction. Rollers in the conveyors protrude through the thickness of the conveyors and ri... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7891481 | Conveyor belt for mounting oblique rollers on lateral rods A conveyor belt and a method for providing a conveyor belt with rollers that rotate on axes oblique to the direction of belt travel. Axles are mounted on rods extending perpendicular to direction of belt travel. The axles have cylindrical outer bearing surfaces that... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7870948 | Rolling conveying device A rolling conveying device including guide rails 6, 6′, 5′ in which, respectively, at least one rolling body 1, 1′, 8 with a plurality of freely rotatable rollers 2 is arranged in operational interaction with a plurality of conveying bodie... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7857124 | Conveying apparatus having a thrust element In the conveying device (1) with pusher elements (2) every one of the pusher elements (2), respectively, comprises at least one roller element (3) and at least one spacer body (4), wherein the at least one spacer body (4) is... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7798312 | Compression passing roller Methods and apparatus for conveying a stack (22) of paper products by the use of rollers (50, 150, 250 or 350) that include lobed outer surfaces for contacting the stack of paper. ... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7775345 | Conveyor and belt with clutch-driven flights A belt conveyor having clutch-driven flights for extremely low-torque operation. The flights have pivot members that rotate about an axis over a limited range of angles. A clutch mechanism includes a spring pushing a clutch wheel against a pivot member. The clutch w... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7757838 | Link of conveyor chain A link of a conveyor chain, connectable to similar links comprising a main base body with two shoulders, which protrude upward from the ends of the transverse sides of the main base body and are parallel to the direction of advancement of the chain. Ends of a pair o... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7721874 | Roller chain for a linear guideway A roller chain for a linear guideway comprises: a plurality of spacers each having two retaining portions and two links, each retaining portion is a hollow structure for holding the rollers. The retaining portions are formed at both sides of the rollers, one side of... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7628266 | Roller drive element A roller element (10) has a central body (1) and a roller unit (2). The roller unit (2) is mounted so as to circulate on a non-circular race (21) about the central body (1) and so as to be mobile with respect to the central ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7607533 | Conveyors and methods for non-uniformly accelerating conveyed articles Conveyors and methods for operating conveyors to accelerate laterally adjacent conveyed articles over different distances. The conveyors provide a conveying surface atop rollers in a conveyor belt. The belt rollers ride on a bearing surface underlying the belt on a ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7588137 | Conveyor belt having rollers that displace objects In one embodiment, a conveyor belt includes multiple roller sets, each roller set including a first roller and a second roller, the first and second rollers being placed in contact with each other such that driving of one of the rollers in a first angular direction ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7556143 | Sprocket construction for conveyor rollers A sprocket assembly for a roller conveyor comprising a hub and a sprocket plate, the hub having a central cylindrical bore for fitting onto a round shaft of a roller, the hub having provisions for rotationally and axially locking it on a shaft in a manner adequate t... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7540372 | Belt driven and roller assisted media transport Disclosed in this specification is a media transportation apparatus that is comprised a conveying and supporting sections. The conveying section is comprised of a motor and a first timing belt, wherein operation of the motor causes the first timing belt to travel in... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7537106 | Apparatus and methods for conveying objects Disclosed are conveyors and methods for making the conveyors. In one embodiment, a conveyor comprises a modular conveyor belt that includes a plurality of mat-top chains having a plurality of cavities and a plurality of first rollers disposed in the cavities of the ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7527143 | Conveyor belt with intermodular supported rollers The invention may include a series of rows of belt modules. A first one of the rows may have a plurality of hinge elements along an end of the first row. A second one of the rows may have a plurality of hinge elements along an end of the second row. The plurality of... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7523820 | Rolling element chain A rolling element chain is applied to retain and arrange multiple rollers at intervals in a line and has a belt assembly and multiple clamping assemblies. The rollers are cylinders mounted parallelly in the rolling element chain. The belt assembly is resilient and h... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7513358 | Roller conveyor A non-powered roller conveyor for conveying parts along a conveyor path includes a downwardly sloped conveyor support frame with a plurality of rollers rotatably mounted along the frame. The rollers comprise a length of prefabricated roller top conveyor chain mounte... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7506750 | Conveyor having a conveyor belt with flights, including segmented flights for gapless end transfer A conveyor having a flighted belt and providing a gapless end-off or end-on transfer of articles. The conveyor belt includes segmented flights at spaced intervals along its length. Each segmented flight includes slots dividing the flight into laterally spaced segmen... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7426992 | Systems and methods for providing an improved timing conveyor Disclosed is a conveyor system for evenly spacing conveyed objects. The conveyor system includes a conveyor belt that includes a conveyor having cavities, rollers in some of the cavities and a positioning component. The conveyor system further includes a conveyor dr... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7374035 | Supporting installation and bearing element therefor A supporting installation (1) for supporting a number of turns, extending helically one upon the other in a stack, of an at least partly self-supporting conveyor belt (2) comprises at least one bearing element (9) for supporting the conveyor bel... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370752 | Controlled conveyor A declined conveyor for conveying articles in a downstream direction, which is parallel to a longitudinal direction, has one or more controlled conveyor sections interposed between gravity conveyors. Each controlled conveyor includes a plurality of driven rollers wh... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367448 | Chain with undulated edge A chain module with an undulating edge has an upper conveying surface having an opening for receiving a projecting portion of an adjacent chain module. The upper conveying surface has a top edge, a leading edge and a trailing edge. The leading edge has first and sec... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364038 | Conveyor belt link incorporating one or more rollers A conveyor comprising an endless conveyor belt made from a plurality of rows of hinged interconnected belt links where each row extends in a width direction substantially perpendicular to a traveling direction of the belt and comprises at least one link, where subst... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360641 | Conveyor belt having rollers that displace objects In one embodiment, a conveyor belt includes multiple roller sets, each roller set including a first roller and a second roller, the first and second rollers being placed in contact with each other such that driving of one of the rollers in a first angular direction ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357246 | Belt conveyor having self-clearing flights A conveyor having rollers supported above the conveying surface of a belt to prevent conveyed articles from being stranded atop flights or other positioning elements. The rollers may be passive or driven actively either directly by rolling contact with a carryway or... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357245 | Chain-type conveyor having direction-changing roller Disclosed is a chain-type conveyor having a direction-changing roller capable of easily changing the orientation of an article to continuously transfer the article, without using any separate direction-changing unit at a corner part of the conveyor, in the case in w... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7344018 | Conveyor and method for diverting closely spaced articles A conveyor and associated method for diverting closely spaced articles conveyed along the conveyor. The conveyor includes a conveyor belt with belt rollers oriented to rotate on axes oblique to the direction of belt travel. A series of arrays of bearing surface elem... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7331448 | Modular conveying assembly having roller cradles A roller cradle for use in a modular conveying assembly having a direction of travel in which an object is conveyed includes a first half and a second half. Each of the halves include integral hinge members defining a space therebetween. A roller having an axis of r... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7314132 | Rodless conveyor belt or chain A unitary modular link or link section for use in forming a rodless conveyor belt or a section thereof is provided. The link section includes a plurality of laterally-repeating link-shaped portions, each including an apex portion and a pair of leg portions. Each ape... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311192 | Systems and methods for providing an improved timing conveyor Methods and apparatus for a conveyor system for evenly spacing conveyed objects are provided. In one embodiment, the conveyor system includes a conveyor belt that includes a conveyor having cavities, rollers in some of cavities, and a positioning component. The conv... | 12/25/2007 |
