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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7819239 | Feeder for an auto mounting device An feeder for an auto mounting device includes a main frame, a blocking mean, an intake assembly, a transmission assembly, an input assembly and a sensor. By the sensor detecting the movement of the auto mounting device and transmitting a signal to activate the tran... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7431144 | Temporary storage system of belt type A temporary storage system (1) of belt type for lightweight hollow bodies (C), said system being particularly suitable for use with empty plastic containers (C) and of the type comprising a storage buffer vessel (2) provided with a feed entry opening (... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7168556 | Curved assembly line and/or conveyor belt The invention relates to a curved assembly line and/or conveyor belt, especially for assembling and transporting motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts during production, said line or belt being formed by articulated carrier elements that positively engage in each ot... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7121107 | Continuous transfer type freezer A continuous transfer type freezer for cooling or freezing articles such as foodstuffs transferred on a conveyor belt by spraying chilled air from slit nozzles on the articles is provided in which chilled air jets rectified to have long spray travel is produced, thi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7011206 | Vertical conveyor in the form of a c-shaped circulating conveyor for vertical conveyance of unit load items A vertical conveyor in the form of a said C-shaped fixed tray conveyor (1) for the vertical conveying of individual products from and to a lower level (3) to or from a upper level (2) on essentially horizontal, vertically movable spaced carrying... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6907985 | Device for conveying piece goods A device for conveying piece goods. The device comprises a sorting system for sorting the piece goods. The successively arranged conveying systems are guided with this device along a conveying line and can be driven by at least one driving means that engages a drivi... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6758320 | Pallet positioning system A positioning system utilizes a shot pin to fix the position of a grooved pallet at stations in a production line. The pallet travels along the production line under the influence of advancing feed pins. When the pallet arrives at a station, the head of the shot pin... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6460691 | Filling machine This invention is directed to improved parts for a container filling machine, and in particular, to a tube filling machine. It has been found that moving parts of such machines that come into contact with the products being packaged shall be constructed o... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6432338 | Propulsion system for contoured film and method of use Film treatment surface provided with a propulsion system for circularly contoured film (5) along a circular path are disclosed. The essential propulsion and steering system is represented by two adjustable disks (2, 3), one being equipped with a propulsio... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6357580 | Belt-type carrier system A belt-type carrier system is described, that comprises a guide rail structure having straight and curved sections. The guide rail structure has at least one track extending therealong. A belt extends along the guide rail structure. A drive device is prov... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6244307 | Transportation, feeding and filling apparatus of irregular-formed vessels and transportation and feeding method A filling apparatus of irregular-formed vessels having an intermittent swinging table (111) disposed above a continuous rotation table (5) and having a plurality of filling nozzles (121) at a same pitch as the vessel holding pitch, filling means for pushi... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6170643 | Dining table conveyor A dining table top conveyor having a flat base of rectangular/oval shape and flat endless belt guided over two flanged pulleys. One pulley is electrically driven by a variable speed geared motor and other is an idler and belt tensioning pulley. The flat b... | 01/09/2001 |
| 5996658 | Feed roller The present invention relates to a feed roller (1) by means of which a felled tree (2) trunk is fed into a timber harvester for delimbing. The apparatus comprises a drive wheel (4) and at least one transmission means (5) arranged at the outer circumferenc... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5888263 | Method of annealing a glass product and annealing apparatus for a glass product A mesh belt is stretched in an annealing lehr and a plurality of fine mesh elements, which constitute a fine mesh having gas-permeability and elasticity, formed by weaving a heat-resistant wire, are fixed onto the mesh belt so as to be arranged along the ... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5814566 | Belt assembly There is disclosed a belt assembly including: (a) an endless belt capable of repeated cycling over rollers having a first side edge and a second side edge and defining a center region between two side regions, wherein a low friction composition comprised ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5477959 | Serpentine conveyors especially for automatic packaging machine A link chain conveyor has rollers on opposite sides of the chain, a track has a groove in which the rollers travel, in both the vertical or the horizontal orientation. The link chain has a U-shaped bracket which is pivotally connected at each of its ends ... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5351811 | Serpentine conveyors especially for automatic packaging machine A link chain conveyor has rollers on opposite sides of the chain, a track has a groove in which the rollers travel, in both the vertical or the horizontal orientation. The link chain has a U-shaped bracket which is pivotally connected at each of its ends ... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5330062 | Light tree display for a horizontal carousel A programmable, visible display system or "light tree" for indicating loading and picking information to an operator of a storage conveyor of the horizontal carousel type is disclosed. The system includes a vertically extending array of regularly spaced l... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5305867 | Method and apparatus for feeding articles A feeding apparatus includes an upper movable carrier (1) having a plurality of guides or receptacles (7) which are transported at a predetermined speed and with a predetermined spacing along a predetermined path. The guides each have an open bottom and a... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5247778 | Self cleaning stabilizing or anti-inertia mount for high speed automatic packaging machine The invention provides a mount for attachment to a link chain conveyor, especially--but not exclusively--for use in an automatic packaging machine. The mount has two pivot points of attachment to prevent unwanted motion caused by centrifugal forces as the... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5207335 | Carousel conveyor with rotatable storage racks A carousel-type storage and access system provides storage units having first and second storage zones accessible through first and second opposed access faces. Each storage unit is mounted for pivotal movement in an access position to one of two operated... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5161929 | Automated work center The present invention relates to an automated integrated work station for handling goods within distribution and production environments. In one of the preferred embodiments the work station is specifically adapted for consolidating goods.... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5154273 | Platform conveyor A floor mounted inside chain loop carousel conveyor with chain pivots at the inside corners of successive rectangular platforms and with use of spanning "butterfly" bifold guards comprising a pair of identical triangular sides with upper edges pivotally c... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5144790 | High speed automatic packaging machine with anti-centrifugal force transport means A high speed automatic packaging machine is constructed from standardized modules in order to reduce cost and standardize operational and maintenance procedures. The standardized modules include conveyor chains trained over sprocket wheels to form modules... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5090941 | Apparatus for feeding fish processing machines An apparatus for the timed feeding of fish into fish processing machines serves to supply such fish into a conveyor pushing them along in a direction transversal to their longitudinal axis and being provided with receiving troughs or entrainers. In order ... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5065872 | Dual access storage and retrieval system A storage, transportation and retrieval system, and accompanying storage racks, are disclosed for increasing the effective storage capacity of the storage racks, providing simultaneous access to two adjacent storage racks, requiring less call-ups to locat... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4774796 | Apparatus for inserting the leading end of a packaging band in a conveyor device The apparatus is composed of an oscillating framework, rotatingly supporting the new and old reels, and of a closed loop flexible element provided with pegs having the same spacing as the pins of the conveyor. The flexible element is movable between a res... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4770885 | Ice cream conveyor line tray and system A tiered ice cream product tray for attaching to a conveyor includes a sheet member with a mounting region for affixing the sheet to the conveyor, and a support region extending therefrom and including vertically offset horizontal portion support tables. ... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4765440 | Food service conveyor A food service electrically driven conveyor having a substantially rectangular table with a flat top and a sprocket chain disposed in a continuous loop parallel to it. The chain is trained over sprockets of relatively small diameter located at each end of... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4736787 | Lost foam handling system A conveyor system for use in a lost foam casting system connects a plurality of stations where operations necessary to the process are carried out. The system utilizes an interconnected train of open frame gondolas supported on a set of elevated parallel ... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4450954 | Electrostatic spray support A support fixture for holding irregular shaped nonconductive articles for electrostatic paint spraying on a conveyer line, particularly plastic molded articles usable as components in the manufacture of automobiles, having a conductive bracket for grounde... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4402393 | Conveyor driven fixtures which are precisely positionable at work stations A conveyor system includes a number of closely spaced pallets (14) having nested pairs of ears (47,48 and 56,57) mounted on chain pins (33). First rollers (37) are mounted on pins (33) to ride between guide walls (38 and 39) and are engaged by a drive spr... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4296589 | Packaging machine with cam-operated cutter and container supports therefor A packaging machine for applying and securing a continuous web of material, especially of the heat sealable type, to containers, especially open-topped containers. The machine includes an intermittently rotatable cutter for severing the web between adjace... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4293067 | Conveyor assembly for a wrapping machine A longitudinally, self-adjustable linking element is used to form a conveyor assembly for moving an article along a path. The linking element has two end sections, bearings mounted at each end section, and coupling elements for connecting the end sections... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4233907 | Mold conveyor drive assembly A mold conveyor drive assembly is provided to selectively drive an endless mold conveyor chain with a central unitary driving force exerted along the longitudinal (horizontal) axis of the mold conveyor chain being driven. The mold conveyor drive assembly ... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4223781 | Endless conveyor construction An endless conveyor, particularly for the precision assembly and disassembly of parts, comprises a plurality of pivotally interconnected links at least one of which includes a block member having at least one longitudinally extending bore defined therethr... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4157753 | Conveyor plant In a conveyor plant for equipping both sides of a wall or partition in which two spaced apertures are formed to permit the free passage of the movable component elements of the conveyor plant, a pair of casings are each adapted to be clamped by means of j... | 06/12/1979 |
| 4096943 | Snap-on top plate assembly The specification discloses a snap-on top plate assembly for a roller chain. The assembly comprises an inside saddle in the shape of a channel, an outside saddle in the shape of a channel shaped to fit over the inside saddle, and a top plate. The inside s... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4088220 | Endless conveyors for the horizontal rotary conveyance of objects An endless conveyor having two adjacent, aligned, parallel chain loops each having two rectilinear portions. Between the loops and entrained by friction are suspended carrier members for carrying objects along the two rectilinear conveying tracks defined ... | 05/09/1978 |
| 4055257 | Stacking apparatus Apparatus is disclosed for stacking bundles such as bundles of paperboard sheets on a receiver. The apparatus includes an L-shaped conveyor having a top run and a bottom run. The top run of the conveyor has a position defined by the location of spaced fir... | 10/25/1977 |
