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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7364035 | Airless accumulation conveyor An accumulation conveyor and method, according to the invention, includes providing a plurality of tandem accumulation zones, each of the zones including a conveying surface and at least one drive roller selectively driving the conveying surface. A drive member belo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7249669 | Apparatus and methods for high speed conveyor switching Disclosed are conveyors and methods for making and using a conveyor. In some embodiments, the conveyor comprises a modular conveyor belt that includes at least one mat-top chain having at least one cavity and at least one first roller disposed in the cavity of the m... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240973 | Crawler, crawler pin, crawler bush, and crawler manufacturing method A crawler having a crawler pin and a crawler bush having lubrication between the crawler pin and the crawler bush without lowering the strength of the crawler at the running time, thereby to prevent the creak or seizure, as might otherwise be caused at the running t... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7168552 | Article joining system A conveyance path for conveying articles though an accumulation conveyor, then through a carry-out conveyor, and then through a joining station is disclosed. After a flow of articles and at a time when there are no articles present on a portion of the conveyance pat... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7114613 | Article unscrambler with high speed tapered roller An unscrambler conveyor including a frame, a plurality of tapered rollers rotatably supported by the frame for unscrambling packages, and means for driving the rollers. Each of the rollers has a longitudinal axis and a polyurethane body that extends along the longit... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6996454 | Method and control system for controlling a conveyor system and a plant for baling paper pulp Methods are disclosed for controlling conveyor systems including providing status information for each of a plurality of conveyors, providing control information for each of the conveyors based solely upon the status information from that conveyor and from adjacent ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6823984 | Automatic developing device, roller washing method, photosensitive material processing device, and preparation method for processing liquid A photosensitive material processing device for processing a photosensitive material with a processing liquid while conveying the photosensitive material by a roller pair. A driving device for providing a rotation drive to the roller pair. A drive controlling device... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6710505 | Direct drive inside-out brushless roller motor A brushless d.c. motor is integrated with a conveyor roller (14) by placing a plurality of stator coils (15) on a stationary shaft (18) and securing a rotor (10) with segments (12) of permanent magnetic material to the inside of th... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6473991 | Apparatus to transport and cool rolled products such as rods, wires, round pieces or similar Apparatus to transport and cool rolled products such as bars, round pieces, rods or similar, arrangable downstream of a coil-forming head, comprising a plurality of transport rollers, at least partly motorized and parallel to each other to define a substa... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6450325 | Powered conveyor system with multiple rollers The present invention relates to a powered roller bed with multiple rows of rollers, wherein two or more self-powered rollers are provided on each row along the bed. The rollers are preferably powered by electromagnetic motors having a stationary shaft an... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6244427 | Modular gearless motorized conveyor roller A drive roller has a brushless D.C. motor with a stator or armature mounted on a fixed shaft and directly driving a 16 pole permanent magnet rotor mounted inside a roller tube. A motor controller drive supplies three-phase power to a Y-connected three pha... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6244426 | Speed-increasing and accumulating conveyor chain A speed-increasing and accumulating conveyor chain includes a large-diameter mounting roller and small-diameter traveling rollers that are loosely fitted concentrically around a connecting pin through over an oil-impregnated sintered oil bushing concentri... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6206181 | Gearless motorized conveyor roller The drive roller of this invention utilizes a brushless D.C. motor which has a stator or armature mounted on a fixed shaft which directly drives a permanent magnet rotor mounted inside a roller tube. A variable frequency drive supplies three-phase power t... | 03/27/2001 |
| 5918728 | Gearless motorized roller with variable frequency controller A drive roller for a conveyor is rotated by a brushless D.C. motor without any intervening gear reducer. The drove roller has a laminated metal stator with at least three windings external to the stator core. The stator is fixed to a rigid axially extendi... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5730274 | Gap optimizer An apparatus for optimizing the gap between objects on a roller conveyor is provide which enables independent precise speed and acceleration control of individual rollers and articles carried thereon using small, relatively inexpensive motors and control ... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5558234 | Product size grading system A product size grading system comprises a roller bed having a plurality of rotary shafts wherein each shaft supports product sizing roller members. A motorized transmission is coupled to the plurality of rotary shafts and drives the rotary shafts in a uni... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5497871 | Tire singulation system Singulation apparatus (10) for transforming a plurality of randomly oriented tires (T) in an inlet hopper to a linear alignment of tires reposing on their sidewalls including, a singulator assembly (20) having a plurality of stepped conveyor stages (21-24... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5228558 | Control system for an accumulating conveyor An accumulating conveyor includes a plurality of load carrying rollers over which loads are conveyed from an upstream end of the conveyor to a downstream end. The rollers are divided into a plurality of zones. Each zone includes at least one drive roller ... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5193659 | Conveyor A conveyor for arranging articles (9) which comprises a plurality of rollers (5) arranged side-by-side and means for rotating the rollers such that each roller can be rotated at a different rate from rollers adjacent to it. By appropriate selection of the... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5061380 | Screening system and method The invention is a screening device suitable for screening a liquid material having solid matter suspended in it, which comprises a number of sets of discs, the discs of each set being rigidly mounted on a shaft, with the discs on each shaft being separat... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5012914 | Diverter assembly for article conveyor An article conveyor having a frame, a first conveyor with opposite sides for conveying articles in an first path, a wheel mounted to the frame for rotation relative thereto about a first axis and having an article engaging surface which advances articles ... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4863012 | Accumulating conveyor system An accumulating conveyor system and method for accumulating articles are disclosed. The first embodiment of the conveyor system (10) includes a primary conveyor belt (11) which moves within a transport channel (30) having horizontal rest rails (31). The p... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4844231 | Roller conveyer system A roller conveyer system employs a plurality of driven roller assemblies. Each driven roller assembly comprises a roller and a driven pulley, wherein the driven pulley is connected to a driving device, such as a drive motor via a drive belt for transmitti... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4572353 | Reversible stow conveyor track A reversible conveyor wherein transmission of power is effected by a driving source to the conveyor, the conveyor being divided into two sections, wherein intermediate rollers are thrown from a drive position to a neutral position by a unit-load-controlle... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4481398 | Multi-directional oscillating breakoff mechanism for separating billets A conveyor for removing billets from an induction heating furnace and for separating them from following billets to which they may have become adhered employs a roller having a contoured surface. The roller is rotatably mounted about an axis skewed relati... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4354788 | Automatic system for the formation and distribution of layers of groups of sheets A machine for the distribution of sheets comprises first and second conveyors, the first conveyor receiving groups of sheets and being drivable in directions toward or away from the second conveyor and the second conveyor being drivable in a direction awa... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4284186 | Unscrambling conveyor A conveyor for sorting and arranging in single file randomly received articles is disclosed. The unscrambling device has an acticle conveying surface consisting of skewed rollers divided into a number of zones arranged in tandem along the conveyor. The ro... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4274780 | Apparatus for stacking layers of objects Objects to be stacked on a pallet or packaged without using a pallet, are transported by a conveyor to an inlet roll track where the objects are assembled into rows, from the inlet roll track a row of the objects is transferred to an intermediate support ... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4219114 | Conveyor stop structure A conveyor stop structure arrests the forward motion of a selected article carried by a belt driven live roller conveyor and simultaneously disengages an associated roller from powered engagement with the belt. The stop structure includes a stop connected... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4111412 | Conveyor for separating and aligning glass sheets A conveyor for separating and aligning glass sheets moving along a sheet movement path includes a plurality of cylindrical rolls skewed relative to the movement path to displace the advancing sheets toward a side of the conveyor. At the side of the convey... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4006815 | Article transporting conveyor An article transporting conveyor having live rollers driven through power transmission rollers having a slip or non-slip connection with the live rollers in which the presence of the weight of articles to be conveyed increases the drive between the transm... | 02/08/1977 |
| 3992182 | Conveying sheets at non-uniform speed A system for conveying a series of glass sheets at a non-uniform speed through sheet treatment apparatus comprising a plurality of treatment stations. Longitudinally spaced conveyor rolls are rotated at a first speed at a first sheet treatment station whe... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3980170 | Drive system for an annealing lehr A drive system is disclosed which is particularly suitable for use in the glass industry. The drive system is for a plurality of conveying mechanisms to support and to move a load which may be discrete glass objects or a strip or sheet of glass. An electr... | 09/14/1976 |
