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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7926665 | Method and apparatus for transferring sheet products from a product stack to a conveyor belt The method according to the invention of transferring stacked, sheet-like, flexible products (10), in particular printed products (12), to a belt conveyor (20) has a gripper (26) by means of which the product (10) at the bottom of the sta... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7591380 | Recovery of reprocessable medical devices in a sharps container A recovery device and method of use ensure that any reprocessable medical device that has been disposed of in a sharps container is recovered, cleaned, sterilized, and repackaged for reuse. In one embodiment, a sharps container and sorting surface are manipulated to... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7407056 | Automatic container recycling apparatus The invention relates to a unit for automatic recycling apparatuses for containers, e.g. cans and bottles made of glass, plastic, or metal. Said unit comprises a conveying device with a conveyor belt for advancing the containers in the direction of the longitudinal ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7332680 | Conveying device having container order changing mechanism, and combination weighing device and quality inspection device provided therewith A conveying device is disclosed that changes the order of containers during conveyance in order to speed up processes, such as a discharging process performed by a combination weighing device and a rank-order sorting process performed by a quality inspection device.... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7293638 | Orientation unit for a fruit sorting and grading machine The present invention relates to an orientation unit for a fruit sorting and grading machine, for rolling apples around their major axes at a fixed rpm depending upon the imaging and processing speed so as to make it possible for the camera to scan the entire periph... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7284667 | Apparatus for separating laundry articles There is provided an apparatus and methods for separating an article of laundry from a bundle of articles. The bundle is located in a truck which is clamped into a carriage by means of clamping arm or attached to guide rails. The truck is moved by suitable drive mea... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7264113 | Pivotable conveyor and link A link is disclosed for a conveyor, as is a conveyor itself, suitable for conveying objects along a transport direction, a plurality of the links being attachable to form the conveyor, the link includes a body having a length extending along the direction of transpo... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7237680 | Air separator and splitter plate system and method of separating garbage An air separator system for separating shredded trash into relatively light material and relatively heavy material. An air stream is provided at an end of a conveyor. A splitter plate system comprises a rotating cylinder supported by a frame, and a splitter curtain ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7156234 | Sorting technique for recycle of device units The sorting apparatus receives the electromagnetic wave from a storage element of a collected toner cartridge, and specifies the recyclability of the toner cartridge based on information extracted from the received electromagnetic wave. The sorting system then sorts... | 01/02/2007 |
| 6997326 | Apparatus for separating laundry articles There is provided an apparatus and methods for separating an article of laundry from a bundle of articles. The bundle is located in a truck which is clamped into a carriage by means of clamping arm or attached to guide rails. The truck is moved by suitable drive mea... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6915550 | Device and method for eliminating front and end trimmings from series of rolls The device includes at least one continuous flexible suction conveyor which is equipped with openings and which conveys articles along a transfer path from an article feeder to an article received. A discharge point for the trimmings is provided along the transfer p... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6834759 | Flower sorter An apparatus is provided for sorting flowers which includes a conveyor positioned in an endless conveyor chain having attached thereto, at predetermined intermediate distances, forks movable between at least two positions, a transport position and a hang-in position... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6799685 | Medication packing apparatus A medicine packing apparatus feeds medicine in accordance with prescription data and then separates and packs the medicine by one dose. A discriminating mechanism (4) determines the type of medicine package belt to be formed in accordance with prescription da... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6779668 | Method of automatically sorting objects and combining objects to assortments In a method for automated sorting of objects and combining the objects to assortments according to a selectable sorting specification, the objects are removed from a supply and an object sorting position for the objects is determined, respectively, by a control unit... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6674037 | Apparatus and method for transporting and sorting flowers A method and apparatus for transporting and sorting flowers or other stem-shaped or elongate products with a conveyor provided with arm-fork units which are moved along a transport path in a substantially horizontal plane. In one form, the method includes... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6533126 | Produce sizing transport mechanism A produce sizing transport mechanism includes an endless conveyor carrying a plurality of downwardly depending produce retaining members which define an elongated produce retaining zone below at least one portion of the endless conveyor. At least part of ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6341699 | Method and apparatus for sorting carpet or similar types of material The invention relates to a method for sorting carpet or similar pieces of material to material type and the like, wherein the method comprises the following steps of: placing pieces of carpet on a transport system; disentangling or separating the pieces o... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6305553 | Rolling screen gapping system The present invention provides a roller screen gapping system for a roller screen including a series of spaced parallel rolls mounted on pillow blocks at each end thereof, the pillow blocks slidable along respective bed plates transversely of the roll axe... | 10/23/2001 |
| 5505311 | Apparatus for removing bottles from conveyed containers Containers containing a mixture of acceptable and unacceptable bottles are conveyed to a removal station in the path of movement of a carrier head that has at least one group of gripping elements that are adapted to selectively grip and remove acceptable ... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5305896 | Apparatus for separating crossed garment hangers An apparatus for detangling a plurality of conventional garment hangers located on a common supporting rail, comprising a generally cylindrical elongated rigid barrel having a plurality of spaced elongated bristles fixedly attached to the barrel projectin... | 04/26/1994 |
| 4917659 | Packaging container ejection apparatus Apparatus for removing defective knocked down carton blanks, from a carton erecting machine. In one embodiment opposed sets of tractors for clamping the selected unit and driving it from the conveyor line with moving tractive belts. A sensing device detec... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4651881 | Method and apparatus for rejecting too short and/or too low products, particularly fish fingers The invention relates to a method and apparatus for rejecting too short and/or too low products, particularly so-called fish fingers. Products (7, 8, 9) are advanced on at least one conveyor (1) towards a final position or stop (11) at a reception unit (3... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4638914 | Fruit selecting machine Fruit, which may be oblong fruit such as olives, are mechanically sorted into two separate vessels, depending on whether they are, or are not individually thick enough to be clamped between a reciprocating head and a plate, while the head and plate rotate... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4417979 | Pile-unloading device for piled moulded articles A pile-unloading device for moulded articles such as bricks, with pickers for each time grasping a layer of articles from the pile and depositing them onto a surface of e.g. a conveyor. Sets of pickers side by side move simultaneously, but are operable se... | 11/29/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4402411 | Apparatus for separating articles An apparatus (10) for separating articles is disclosed. Apparatus (10) includes a frame (16) having upper and lower portions (24, 26) yieldably separated by compression springs (28). Belts (90) extend between drive rollers (30) supported by upper frame po... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4382471 | Low damage beet cleaner and elevator A low damage beet cleaner and elevator for a beet harvester is described. Beets are lifted elevationally between a lugged, endless elevator draper and an endless, upwardly inclined belt having flexible, finger-like projections. The draper and the belt are... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4380294 | Apparatus for assorting articles according to size An apparatus for assorting articles, such as fruits, according to size, the apparatus having a conveyor which includes a pair of belts disposed in transversely upwardly divergent, V-shaped relation for transporting articles rested on the belts through a p... | 04/19/1983 |
| 4379509 | High efficiency sorting apparatus Apparatus for sorting items according to size wherein the items are dropped between a pair of opposed sorting discs having facing sides with the spacing between the sides varying radially of the discs, with withdrawing elements being interposed at various... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4349112 | Pellet inspection apparatus Apparatus for inspecting nuclear fuel pellets in a sealed container for diameter, flaws, length and weight. The apparatus includes, in an array, a pellet pick-up station, four pellet inspection stations and a pellet sorting station. The pellets are delive... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4330064 | Broken package culling system A system for culling broken packages wherein the packages are transported while maintained between support means and restraining means in the form of narrow conveyor belts in such a manner that broken packages will tip under the influence of gravity and b... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4330061 | Method and apparatus for detecting and segregating defective commodities from a series of discrete commodities Cigarette packs which leave a packing machine by moving sideways so that one of the major surfaces of each pack faces forwardly are monitored for the presence of defective envelopes during travel between two endless belt conveyors. When the monitoring sys... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4314644 | Zip sort registration system A method and apparatus for segregating articles, such as envelopes (14a, b, or c) bearing address labels (15) into separate groups, with all the articles in each group having the same unique mark (such as a zip-code-area mark). The apparatus includes a ri... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4284145 | Separator device A harvesting device for separating round root crops, such as potatoes, from soil and other unwanted material. The crop and the soil in which it is growing is uplifted into the harvesting device by the forward movement of the device. The uplifted material ... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4265361 | Apparatus for handling wound rolls of fibrous webs Apparatus for removing trim from ends of elongate rolls, or logs, of paper cut into several short rolls of uniform lengths. The cut logs are transported longitudinally, in side by side disposition, while the short rolls are individually supported by first... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4148213 | Apparatus for discarding leaky packages from a row of filled sealed packages Apparatus for discarding leaky packages from a row of filled sealed packages on a conveyor belt comprising means for exerting pressure on the packages while on the belt and means for removing packages from the belt which appear to be leaky when subjected ... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4108762 | Transparent container inspection apparatus Apparatus for inspecting either empty or filled transparent containers for foreign matter in which the containers are moved through spaced apart inspection stations to present different sides thereof to high intensity pulsed light sources which casts the ... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4096950 | Sorting systems and sensing devices for use therewith The invention discloses a weight sorting system wherein a single weighing station controls a plurality of weight-range article removal stations. These removal stations are disposed downstream of the weighing station and sorting information is synchronousl... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4091932 | Control device for vial filling machines A control device for vial filling machines is disclosed. The device comprising a reciprocating slide carrying a plurality of sensors, and wherein a suitable member is provided for the removal of vials where such are presented in an unopened condition at a... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4055252 | Container liquid level detector apparatus A liquid level detector for electronically examining containers through the use of microwave sensors for determining the presence of liquid in the containers including a mounting member to adjust the position of the detector to accommodate different size ... | 10/25/1977 |
