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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7028725 | Method and apparatus for dispensing ice and water A method for actuating a dispensing system, wherein the system includes a dispenser cavity and a dispenser is provided. The method includes intersecting at least two beams of light, sensing the at least two beams of light, and actuating the dispenser system based up... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7010863 | Optical inspection apparatus and method for inspecting container lean Apparatus for inspecting lean of a container includes a light source positioned beneath a container for directing light energy onto the container bottom as the container is held in position and rotated around an axis. A light sensor positioned beneath the container ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6314705 | Operating procedures for automated needle sorting, swaging and packaging machines A machine, and operating procedures for a machine, for automatically threading, swaging and packaging surgical needles. A first mechanism is used to suture the needles and to pull test the needles to determine if certain maximum and minimum pull test requ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6016200 | Method and an apparatus for detecting toppled packages lying on a conveyor The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for detecting toppled packages (2) lying on a conveyor (1). The apparatus includes two pairs of photocells, an upper (4) and a lower (5), disposed as transmitter and receiver of a light beam (6). The phot... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5788045 | Empty bottle collector The invention relates to an empty bottle collector with an intake chamber (14) for empty bottles (16) and a carriage (20) as an interchangeable store (22). To simplify operations when the interchangeable store (22) is being filled and emptied, the empty b... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5641072 | Method for sorting post-consumed bottles and apparatus thereof The present invention provides a method for sorting post-consumed bottles exactly and efficiently and an apparatus for carrying out the method. The sorting apparatus comprises a supply section, a separating section, a detecting section comprising a first ... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5628408 | Device for handling empty beverage containers A device for handling empty beverage containers, comprising a stationary, longitudinally extending, supporting path having a first end and a second end, along which path the containers are caused to move, by means of pushing devices, said pushing devices inclu... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5505312 | Inspection machine for bottles or the like First, second and third linear conveyors are arranged in alignment with each other in the stated order. Bottles to be inspected are conveyed standing on their bottoms on the first linear conveyor through an inspection station followed by an ejector for th... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5437702 | Hot bottle inspection apparatus and method A glass bottle production line comprising a bottle mold which has a plurality of mold cavities arranged in a predetermined order for forming bottles from glass parisons and for transferring the bottles to a conveyor in a predetermined sequence correspondi... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5337902 | Tablet sensor An apparatus for measuring the capacitance of tablets of varying shapes and sizes by conveying the tablets along a curved path which includes a zone of travel between the plates of a capacitive sensing device. The tablets are conveyed in a relatively fixe... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5322152 | Method and apparatus for sorting returnables The invention relates to a method and equipment for identifying returned bottles, cans, plastic bottles or other packages (10) and for sorting them on the basis of an identification code, in which method a compensation corresponding to the package is give... | 06/21/1994 |
| 4924083 | Method and device for inspecting sidewall of bottle A method and a device for inspecting the sidewall of a bottle is disclosed. In the method and device for inspecting the sidewall of the bottle, an elongate illumination portion is moved to irradiate illumination light to the sidewall of the bottle to be i... | 05/08/1990 |
| 4906098 | Optical profile measuring apparatus An apparatus for measuring the profile of portions of an article located within a predefined plane. Each portion is scanned, such as by an optical micrometer providing a beam of radiant energy, to determine its dimension. The distance between each portion... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4762544 | Automated control of glass container manufacture A glassware production system includes an electropneumatic individual section glass forming machine having a multiplicity of operating mechanisms for converting a gob of molten glass into a hollow glass container. A glass forehearth feeds molten gobs at c... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4706336 | Apparatus for handling fish fillets for the purpose of quality inspection The invention concerns an apparatus which can be utilized for the quality inspection of fish fillets and enables the detection of faulty spots resulting from processing deficiencies, such as skin or fin remainders, blood spots, bones, as well as from para... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4625107 | Method for contour recognition of totally or partly transparent objects, e.g., bottles A method for contour recognition of completely or partly transparent objects (2), e.g. containers like glass or plastic bottles, the object being advanced through an illumination and detector station (3-13; 3, 4, 20, 21) and there being illuminated on at ... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4553217 | Glassware gauging system A non-contact optical gauger for measuring glassware articles of manufacture at the hot end of an individual section machine. As the manufactured glassware is being conveyed away from the individual section machine, a light beam is direct across its path.... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4549272 | Apparatus for filling containers with prescribed quantity of product by weight An article sensor which defines an opening through which articles to be measured are propelled in a non-supported condition. Bounding the opening are at least two mutually perpendicular arrays of light sources and of photodetectors. The photodetectors con... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4500203 | Method and apparatus for inspecting articles Apparatus for inspecting glass containers for irregularities in shape, wherein the containers are moved, in line, on a conveyor past a viewing station where there are three strobed light sources positioned at one side of the conveyor. One light is at 90°... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4476533 | Glassware gauging system A non-contact optical gauger for measuring glassware articles of manufacture at the hot end of an individual section machine. As the manufactured glassware is being conveyed away from the individual section machine, a light beam is direct across its path.... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4469150 | Dispenser for automatically dispensing a beverage or liquid food into take-away recipients A dispenser for automatically dispensing into receptacles of variable dimensions, a very accurate volume of liquid stored in bulk form in at least one tank. The dispenser has several dispensing units each having a mobile spout that can be automatically re... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4459487 | Method and apparatus for identifying objects such as bottles by shape An object such as a bottle to be identified by its shape is made to travel between a source and an elongated radiation receiver in a direction oblique relative to the travelling direction of the object so as to define, during the travelling, positions in ... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4421542 | Automatic glassware forming machine with automatic down and/or stuck ware rejection Appratus for automatically removing stuck and down ware from an automatic glassware forming machine conveyor produces a first signal for each item of normal ware, stuck ware and down ware which is conveyed past an inspection location. Each of the first si... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4410090 | Device for testing and sorting bottles A device for detecting and sorting out bottles of improper size is suggested in a bottle treatment machine of the type including a filling and closing sections switched in series. The bottles are fed to a cleaning test device and on the way thereto are te... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4354865 | Automatic glass ware forming machine with automatic down and/or stuck bottle rejection Apparatus for automatically removing stuck and down ware from an automatic glassware ware forming machine conveyor produces a first signal for each item of normal ware, stuck ware and down ware which is conveyed past an inspection location. Each of the fi... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4253573 | Apparatus for handling empty beverage containers An apparatus for receiving and handling empty beverage containers. The empty containers may be received either individually or in cartons upon a moving conveyor. An alignment mechanism separates the containers and moves them to one side of the conveyor. A... | 03/03/1981 |
| 4136779 | Ampule score line detection This invention relates to the inspection of glass ampules to determine whether or not a complete score line is present. A laser beam is directed to the point on the ampule where a score line would be located. The laser beam is reflected in a diffuse or sp... | 01/30/1979 |
| 3955179 | Apparatus for automatic pattern recognition and registration of empty bottles An apparatus for automatic recognition and registration of bottles includes detectors positioned to detect a light pattern from bottles passing a sensing stage. The outputs of the sensors are detected and converted to unique output signals for application... | 05/04/1976 |
