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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7631750 | Apparatus for and method of arranging bakery products An apparatus for longitudinally arranging elongated items may include a plurality of parallel rotatable members having at least two radially enlarged portions and a channel portion disposed between adjacent radially enlarged portions. The rotatable members are dispo... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7431148 | Universal transmission roller wheel A universal transmission roller wheel comprises a 90° roller support and a 45° roller support. There is a drive axle hole in the center of each support. The 90° roller support and the 45° roller support are integrated in parallel. 90° rollers are mounted on fir... | 10/07/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7318304 | Device for introducing pharmaceutical products into blister packs Pairs of first and second rolls are supported for rotation in a roll frame located below a pan for receiving pharmaceutical products loaded as bulk material, each first roll having a plurality of axially successive non-cylindrical sections separated from respective ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7299909 | Taper sleeve for conveyor roller A taper sleeve for a conveyor roller used in a curved conveyor section has a taper wall with internal radial ribs which mate with the surface of a cylindrical roller core. The inner edges of the ribs preferably have an interference fit with the core surface. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293639 | Case rotating system A case rotating system configured to rotate cases, such as boxes, in a case management system such that the cases are oriented in a consistent manner upon leaving the case rotating system. In at least one embodiment, the case rotating system may be configured to cau... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7246700 | Modular conveying assembly having roller cradles A modular conveying assembly for conveying an object. The assembly includes a plurality of chain modules assembled in an edge to edge relation to form a continuous belt. At least one hinge pin joins adjacent chain modules, and pivotally connects the adjacent modules... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7137505 | Split roller and modular conveying assemblies formed therefrom A split roller including at least two parts joined together forms the roller having a length defined between roller ends. At least two of the at least two parts are joined along a joint extending between the roller ends. A roller cradle assembly and a modular convey... | 11/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7073651 | Modular mat gravity-advance roller conveyor A modular gravity-advance roller conveyor for conveying articles down an inclined path. The conveyor comprises an easy-to-configure modular conveyor mat supported in a conveyor frame with an inclined base. The conveyor mat is constructed of a series of rows of rolle... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6409010 | Split drive component with maintained alignment A shaft mounted drive component, such as a cluster roller assembly, includes a body member having first and second half members and an opening defining a central axis through which a shaft is received for mounting the body member on a shaft. The first and... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6370447 | Conveyance system A communication master unit of a conveyance controller and communication slave units for a main conveyor, loading conveyors and unloading conveyors are connected by a serial transmission line to transmit and receive different kinds of data signals to and ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6315109 | Split roller wheel and method of assembly A split roller 150 may be removed from an axle 104 without requiring access to the axle end. A split wheel hub 152 supports a plurality of peripheral rollers 180, which may be arranged in two rows spaced along the hub axis. In a preferred embodiment, the ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6073753 | Roller slide device A roller slide device for products in general, in particular for forming lateral guide walls in accumulation stations in transport lines, of the type comprising two section bars (1), each presenting in opposing faces (1A) a plurality of seats (2) for hous... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6062373 | Method and apparatus for discharging a food material A method and apparatus for discharging a food material is provided, in which a plurality of supply rollers provided with grooves or ridges on their surfaces are circularly disposed to form a funnel-shaped space, into which space the food material is charg... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5997234 | Silicon feed system A silicon pellet feed system for use with a silicon melt furnace used to grow a silicon web. A reservoir for containing feed particles is coupled to the upper end of a feed tube. The lower end of the feed tube is positioned adjacent a pair of rotatable dr... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5934441 | Conveying installation The invention provides a conveying installation capable of discharging specific commodity out of conveying lines, which features decreased number of component parts and ease assemble structure. In consideration of unification of component parts, the inven... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5863177 | Apparatus and method for handling lids A lid handling system employs a lid alignment assembly for aligning lids randomly placed on a rotating input disc, a lid separation assembly for separating lids spinning on a pair of horizontal spin bars into a counted stack, a vacuum pickup assembly for ... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5806686 | Sorting device and its use The present invention provides a unique mechanical method and device for sorting pieces (e.g. vegetables and fruits) of any desired size from unsorted and irregularly sized pieces. The device includes a pair of elongated cylindrical brushes, one of which ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5720378 | Roller conveyor to arrive at the pinch-roll of the winding reel of a hot strip rolling train Roller conveyor to arrive at the pinch-roll or other downstream usage device for feeding strip or wide flat products (13) in a hot strip rolling train, the roller conveyor comprising a plurality of parallel and substantially horizontal cylindrical rollers... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5701989 | Conveyor for removing an article conveyed abreast of another article An article removal conveyor includes first and second conveying lanes disposed in parallel alongside one another and driven in a manner imparting mutually divergent conveying forces. The first conveying lane has a conveying surface with a higher coefficie... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5687833 | Support roller and workpiece conveying system A support and conveying roller and system utilizing the same for supporting and conveying a workpiece such that the workpiece is maintained in a substantially horizontal plane even though the workpiece includes members projecting therefrom toward the supp... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5531311 | Conveyor article propelling roller drive system An article unscrambler and aligner is disclosed which receives articles of different sizes in random order and position, and using plural side-by-side lanes each of which lanes has driven article transport rollers at different speeds, which speeds are uni... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5501315 | Unscrambling conveyor An unscrambling conveyor includes two side-by-side sets of rollers arranged in a herringbone pattern on either side of a central axis. The rollers of the two sets are positioned at different angles with respect to the axis and the drive speeds for the rol... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5499709 | Conveyor with separator/aligner A roller conveyor for aligning and separating material placed on the conveyor comprises a frame having side walls connected by crossmembers and a plurality of rollers mounted between the side walls. The frame further comprises a pair of supplemental side ... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5441141 | Automatic rotary sorter and cylindrical storage system A system for sorting objects having a source for providing the object for sorting and a plurality of receivers, spaced apart horizontally and vertically, for receiving the object after sorting. The system includes object receiving and discharging wings fo... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5415281 | High speed article unscrambler and aligner An article unscrambler and aligner is disclosed which receives articles of different sizes in random order and position, and using plural side-by-side lanes each of which lanes has driven article transport rollers at different speeds, which speeds are uni... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5400896 | Unscrambling conveyor An unscrambling conveyor includes two side-by-side sets of rollers arranged in a herringbone pattern on either side of a central axis. The rollers of the two sets are positioned at different angles with respect to the axis and the drive speeds for the rol... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5396977 | Conveyor apparatus for directionally controlled translation of an article A conveyor apparatus especially useful for loading a cargo airplane utilizes several parallel transverse and longitudinal shafts on which are fixed for rotation wheels which contain around their periphery rollers which have axes of rotation in a plane per... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5350051 | Agitator apparatus for cylindrical articles An apparatus for agitating cylindrical articles in a bulk flow and removing non-aligned articles from the flow includes a plurality of parallel, spaced rotating pins having helical threads on an outer surface. The flow of articles is directed through the ... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5284252 | Automatic rotary sorter An automatic rotary sorter system for sorting objects from a source stream into a plurality of destination streams which are spaced apart both horizontally and vertically. The automatic rotary sorter system of the present invention includes an object sour... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5246096 | Rotate/translate conveyor module A rotate/translate conveyor module enables a workpiece to be selectively rotated and translated between adjacent sections of a conveyor without having to be lifted above the plane of the adjacent conveyor sections. The rotate/translate conveyor module com... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5240101 | Multizone unscrambler A conveyor for unscrambling and discharging in single file articles received in random order and orientation from side-by-side sources, the conveyor having a plurality of rollers arranged in parallel relationship to each other, the central axes of the rol... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5135103 | Packaging machine, especially for cigarettes A reel-change device for feeding high-performance packaging machines with web-like packaging material wound to form reels (11, 11a, 12), wherein one of two working journals (13, 14) is resupplied with a ("full") reel (11a), while the other working journal... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5074405 | Right angle transfer deck A right angle deck having a plurality of shafts with alternating left and right hand roller clusters. A single motor is connected to rotate the shafts with left hand clusters and a single motor is connected to rotate the shafts with right hand clusters; t... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5058749 | Apparatus for sorting articles according to size An apparatus for sorting articles according to size inlcudes a plurality of moving belt assemblies and an elongated hopper provided above the moving belt assemblies for feeding a plurality of articles to the same. The fed articles are aligned and spaced a... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4981209 | Container translating and orienting apparatus and method An apparatus is disclosed for controlling the movement of flat bottomed articles in a plurality of different directions relative to a supporting platform. The article is supported on a plurality of clusters of helical, freely rotatable rollers mounted on ... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4907692 | Container translating and orienting apparatus and method An apparatus is disclosed for controlling the movement of flat bottomed articles in a plurality of different directions relative to a supporting platform. The article is supported on a plurality of clusters of helical, freely rotatable rollers mounted on ... | 03/13/1990 |
| 4789290 | Machine for orienting and stacking receptacles A machine for orienting and stacking receptacles, such as cups having a base end and a mouth end, which machine includes a receiving area wherein the cups are initially received and are then fed to an upright, angularly disposed conveyor, the cups being r... | 12/06/1988 |
