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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6349125 | Apparatus for counting flat objects An apparatus for counting flat objects, such as printed products, which are conveyed in an overlapping formation, and which comprises a guide means extending in the conveying direction and mounting a contact element for reciprocatory movement therealong. ... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6053302 | Object singulating and counting device Disclosed herein is a device for counting small objects which is capable of accurately and reliably counting large numbers of small objects such as pharmaceutical tablets, capsules, and the like. The device employs linear pickup tubes radially affixed to ... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5579892 | Apparatus for the counting, collection and transportation of sausage casings and process An apparatus 1 for counting, collecting and transporting sausage casings is equipped with collecting rails 3, 4, initiators 6, 12, a lever 5, a counter 7 and a rotating collecting chain 10 with drivers 11, 14, 24. The sausage casings 15 are counted by way... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5531312 | Apparatus and method for singulating articles An apparatus and method for singulating individual articles from a group of articles. A rotary vacuum wheel includes a plurality of article pockets in its outer edge periphery. Apertures within each pocket are in communication with a vacuum pump. An artic... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5526917 | Part feeding apparatus capable of stable feedback control of feeding amount of parts In a part feeding apparatus including a feeder bowl for discharging and feeding parts to an assembly apparatus and a hopper for discharging and feeding parts to the feeder bowl, a counter for counting parts discharged from the hopper and a counter for cou... | 06/18/1996 |
| 4921088 | Device for forming a batch consisting of a predetermined number of discs A device for forming from a batch consisting of an undetermined number of more or less disc-like objects, such as metal covers, of a part batch consisting of a pre-selected number of objects, which device comprises a conveyor chute for supplying the batch... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4733769 | Device for counting moving objects, such as eggs A device is provided for counting moving objects, such as eggs lying on a moving conveyor belt. This device comprises a lever which can be moved by the moving objects, a signalling element for generating a detectable signal as a response to a movement of ... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4712666 | Device to count bars This invention concerns a device (10) to count bars which is suitable for performing the counting with counter (16) to count bars (11) arranged even in heaps on a conveyor (12). The device (10) includes in cooperation a guide funnel (14) which ables to ar... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4469215 | Can counter slide The can counter slide of the present invention comprises an elongated slide having a plurality of V-shaped grooves extending longitudinally therein. The slide is inclined so that the cans, when placed on the slide, will fit within the grooves and slide do... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4410078 | Article density sensing In a mass conveying system a variable branch of an electrical bridge network is sensitive to changes in the numerical density of articles within a predetermined portion of the system. The bridge network is responsive to an imbalance therein to generate a ... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4298118 | Stick separating apparatus with improved radiation counter Apparatus for counting a plurality of pointed sticks and segregating the sticks into groups containing a predetermined count. The sticks are fed onto an endless conveyor belt from either a pointing or alignment station and are counted by a radiation count... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4241293 | Scanner for detecting and indicating missing and wedged articles in slat-type counting machine A slat-type article counting machine includes slats provided with cavities which carry the articles, an exact count of which are designed to be discharged into bottles or containers. Each cavity defines a hole which penetrates the entire slat depth. Two p... | 12/23/1980 |
| 4222313 | Machine for counting flat articles A machine for counting flat articles includes a sequence of conveyor belts driven at successively increasing speeds from input to output. At the input end the articles are stacked and withdrawn from the stack from the bottom. A separator above the conveyo... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4199051 | Egg transporting system An egg transporting system for receiving eggs from a plurality of egg belt conveyors leading from cages of a poultry installation receives eggs on an input side and transfers them to an opposite side of the system to an accumulation conveyor. The transpor... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4031999 | Apparatus for and method of accumulating and thereafter releasing, en masse, a pre-determined number of individual, elongated, cylindrical articles A plurality of elongate, cylindrical articles are continuously, sequentially advanced toward and selectively introduced into the upper and lower compartments of one or the other of a pair of article-receptive chambers. A first finite number of articles ar... | 06/28/1977 |
| 3986598 | Linen piece item separator and counter The specification discloses an apparatus for separating and counting cloth piece items such as shop towels, diapers, napkins, massage towels, etc. The apparatus comprises a mechanical separator including steeply inclined conveyor means having a plurality ... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3951304 | Apparatus for transporting small objects A pot-shaped vibratory conveyor discharges small objects along a circular path successively into an outlet which is directly connected with the inlet of a gap between two parallel confronting belt portions extending tangentially to the circular path so th... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3944051 | Automatic package selector Apparatus is disclosed for selecting at random one out of any predetermined number of articles passing along a conveyor line for the purpose of removing that selected article from the conveyor line for inspection. The apparatus consists of two separate re... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3944049 | Conveyor system and method for assuring a continual backlog A conveyor system for conveying pies from an oven to a pie wrapping machine comprising a cooling conveyor, an accumulator conveyor and a retarder conveyor. Optical sensors extend along the sides of the accumulator conveyor to determine the backlog. The ou... | 03/16/1976 |
