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Wearable Pet Enclosure

An enclosure for small animals which is wearable on the front or back of an animate being.

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Class 209/544 - Means orienting item moved by gravity


Subclass of Class 209 - Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Definition: Methods and apparatus wherein the items are turned by a
No. of patents: 14
Last issue date: 10/23/2007


NumberTitleIssue Date
7284666Method and device for raising, stabilizing and further moving a bottle
A device for use with conveyor means and a detector station, said conveyor means for moving empty beverage containers, suitably bottles of different shapes and sizes, past the detector station, and said detector station for providing characteristic data about the co...
10/23/2007
7059479Apparatus for sorting pills
An apparatus for sorting small cylindrical objects has a trough having a longitudinally extending groove along which the objects can slide. The groove is of generally rectangular upwardly open shape and has a pair of upright and horizontally spaced side walls and an...
06/13/2006
6248968Method and apparatus for assaying seeds used in medical applications
A method and apparatus for assaying and sorting automatically a batch of radioactive seeds used in medical applications. The method and apparatus consist in feeding seeds from a vibratory feeder through a first gate to an EA measuring station where the eq...
06/19/2001
6059117Method for sorting product
The present invention sorts unselected product from selected product using a chute having a grain separating section, a cross section to orientate the product, and a grain stabilizing section; a laser with a laser line transmitted through the product; a p...
05/09/2000
6012588Device for a conveyor means
A device for a reverse vending apparatus which has a conveyor (102, 201) for moving containers of different shapes and sizes, e.g., cans or bottles of glass or plastic, past a detector station (100) in order to produce characteristic data about the contai...
01/11/2000
5898104Feed assembly for pack seal tester
A feed assembly for a pack seal tester includes a vertically extending housing having a top opening for receipt of packages therein and a bottom opening for discharge of packages therefrom. The housing includes a feed hopper comprised of two parallel mova...
04/27/1999
4693375Preform handling apparatus
There is disclosed a preform handling apparatus for orienting and testing a plurality of preforms. The preform handling apparatus of this invention comprises an orienter, an inverter and a tester. The orienter of the preform handling apparatus comprises a...
09/15/1987
4564110Apparatus for positioning gravity fed components in an electrical test facility
Capacitor blanks (10) are gravity advanced down an inclined chute (22) into engagement with a flipper vane (36) whereat one (18) of a pair of oppositely disposed test probes (18) and (19) is advanced to engage and push the capacitor blank into engagement ...
01/14/1986
4469229Conveying apparatus
A track for conveying workpieces of predetermined size and shape is disclosed, in which a plurality of elongated filaments are aligned parallel to each other in a predetermined spatial relationship according to the size and shape of the workpieces, so tha...
09/04/1984
4225047Magnetic can separator
A magnetic can separator which is specifically constructed for assuring the separation of all-aluminum cans from steel and steel-aluminum cans. The separator includes a magnetic drum onto which cans to be classified are directed and there is a deflector p...
09/30/1980
4146134Cold end for glass container production line
Newly made glass containers received on a conveyor belt in random orientation are conveyed and brushed into transversally separated columns in lying-down orientation, mouths randomly forwards and rearwards. An escapement periodically addresses the leading...
03/27/1979
4143769Apparatus for sorting and separating discrete articles
An apparatus for sorting and separating discrete articles such as railroad track material according to shape and size, including an oscillating conveyor, a plurality of spaced parallel bars extending longitudinally along a trough of a sorting end of the c...
03/13/1979
4127193Carrot sorting apparatus
A sorting machine feeds longitudinally aligned carrots onto a transversely directed sloping conveyer. The conveyer, after first positioning one end of each carrot against a baseboard, transports the carrots past progressively longer supporting rods parall...
11/28/1978
4042112Conveying cigarettes and other rod-like articles
Apparatus for conveying filter-tipped cigarettes, comprises means for receiving two streams of such cigarettes with the filters of the two streams facing in opposite directions, means for conveying the two streams side by side while twisting the streams i...
08/16/1977
 
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