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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7364030 | Apparatus for conveying objects An apparatus for conveying objects such as fruits, comprises a first endless conveyor, with conveying elements such as diabolos connected thereto. A conveying position is defined between at least two conveying elements. A second endless conveyor, with product carrie... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7261209 | Multi-disc module and method of application A modular multi-disc assembly for use in material separation screens and a method of application to those screens are provided. The modular multi-disc assembly includes an inner securing hub that clamps onto the drive shaft of a material separation screen. The modul... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7255224 | Feed conveyor An endless conveyor for receiving, conveying in a conveying direction and delivering rotation-symmetrical products. The conveyor is provided with at least a single endless transport element, as well as with a number of transverse elements extending perpendicularly t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7117996 | Adjustable object size grader An adjustable apparatus for sizing objects, mainly delicate foods, by the rotation of a set of at least 7 rollers, each roller having one less tooth so that the rollers move at progressively higher revolutions per minute, from the in-feed shear roller of 144 revolut... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6726028 | De-inking screen Multiple shafts are aligned along a frame and configured to rotate in a direction causing paper products to move along a separation screen. The shafts are configured with a shape and spacing so that substantially rigid pieces of the paper products move along the scr... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6609617 | Trommel A trommel for classifying and sorting objects. The trommel is an open cylinder including a drive plate and a feed plate. A series of supporting rods extend between the drive plate and the feed plate. Disposed therebetween is a rod support ring dividing th... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6454101 | Endless conveyor An endless conveyor for conveying substantially rotationally-symmetrical products, comprising at least one endless conveying element and a number of transverse elements extending substantially perpendicularly to a conveying direction. At least one hourgla... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6381516 | Modular off-line micro device processing system An off-line micro device processing system is provided having a longitudinally extending feeder/processing/buffer system for providing processed micro devices to a pick point. A portable robotic system has a longitudinally extending robotic system body ex... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6321914 | Apparatus for grading objects such as fish A grading apparatus, especially for delicate material such as fish. The apparatus consists of a feeding device, ridged belts, rail guides for the transport and grading of material, grading compartments, a driving device and adjustment mechanism. The mater... | 11/27/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6260713 | Cherry sizing process and apparatus A cherry sizing process and apparatus in which cherries are sized in stages, with each stage including substantially parallel rollers and with each stage having a gap different than the other stages. Preferably, the larger size cherries are removed before... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6253927 | Roller screen The invention relates to a roller screen for screening pellets for sintering, the roller screen including several successive rotating rollers that are spaced apart and arranged transversally in relation to the proceeding direction of the material. The rol... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6234322 | Roller device to separate chips and particles of wood or material similar to wood of different gradings, and the relative forming machine employing the device Device incorporating rollers to separate particles of different gradings a plurality of adjacent rollers (11) forming a selection bed where each roller (11) has a surface conformation defining a plurality of circumferential peaks (12) alternating with cir... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6182832 | Easy-to-adjust grader An easily adjustable grader for sizing and sorting food products, especially shellfish such as shrimp. The grader includes a series of parallel rotating rollers attached at either end to drive chains. The drive chains include adjustment levers attached ro... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6076684 | Waste paper sorting conveyor for sorting waste paper form waste cardboard A waste paper sorting conveyor for sorting waste paper from waste cardboard has a sorting bed formed by a row of rotatable, driven shafts mutually spaced in a conveying direction and each extending transversely to the conveying direction. The shafts each ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6065607 | Grading machine and equipment The invention relates to a method and equipment for grading by thickness sensitive objects (particularly fish), large and small, involving gentle treatment of the objects, using ridge belts which are drawn by a drive along guides which are wider at the ou... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6053330 | Adjustable roller screen A roller screen is provided with an assembly for adjusting the spacing between the rolls simultaneously. The assembly includes an elongated bar is provided adjacent one end of the rolls and has a plurality of wedges slidably mounted thereon. Bearing suppo... | 04/25/2000 |
| 5810175 | Adjustable size sorting apparatus for round produce An apparatus for sorting round produce by diameter size using a conventional transport conveyer assembly and including a sorting size adjustment mechanism to automatically adjust the produce sorting size and an anti-pinch mechanism to prevent damaging the... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5740922 | Sizing screen with individual row spacing adjustability Sizing screen apparatus is provided with mechanism for enabling the extent of spacings, longitudinally of an elongate sizing screen between transversely extending, individual rows of spacing members, to be adjusted individually. Each transversely extendin... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5590793 | Roll screen with variable aperture The invention relates to a roll screen having variable screening apertures having axle-fitted rolls which are spaced at adjustable distances apart and a device for adjusting this spacing. The roll spacing adjusting device functions to act on all rolls sim... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5513741 | Proportional spacing mechanism with assisted drive A proportional spacing mechanism proportionally spaces objects from a reference position on a fixed support frame. At least one supplemental drive mechanism assists the proportional spacing mechanism in moving the coupling elements and respective objects ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5450966 | Multi-stage disc screen for classifying material by size A disc screen for classifying material by size. The disc screen comprises a frame, a plurality of shafts mounted on the frame parallel with one another, a first stage including discs mounted on the shafts in a substantially coplanar row, each of the discs... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5425459 | Stone separation table for potatoes and other root crops A stone separation table (30,70) selectively separates and drops stones, clods, and dirt (27) between selected rollers while conveying potatoes (33) or other root crops from one side of the table to the other. The stone separation table incorporates sets ... | 06/20/1995 |
| 5413226 | Apparatus for sorting objects according to size A roll (110) sorter includes a pair (111) of counter-rotating rollers (112,114) separated by a gap (124). A sorting region (128) is defined by the gap and the facing roller surfaces (130,132). Particles (46) fed into the sorting region float on the roller... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5411152 | Apparatus for sorting objects according to size A roll sorter (110) includes two counter-rotating, circular cross-section, spaced rollers (112,114) defining a gap (124) therebetween. Particles 46 float on the rollers (112,114) within a sorting region (128) and are sorted by passing through the gap (124... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5373948 | Device for separating long-size materials A device for separating long-size materials included in the scraps of a crushed car, etc., has an inner cylinder which is installed with a slope and around which a plurality of short pipes are radially installed as they open to the inside of the inner cyl... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5279427 | Rotary feed table for food product and sliver remover A roller bed for separating fines and slivers from sliced food product such as french fries includes a plurality of rollers placed side-by-side on parallel roller shafts and are shaped to provide alternating crown and flat portions about the periphery of ... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5167328 | Rotary micrometer A classifying machine for sizing articles, separating the articles so sized and delivering those within given size limits to particular bins having a pair of juxtapositioned rollers raised at their feed ends so that they move in part under the force of gr... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5077963 | Vine crop harvester A vine crop harvester having improved harvesting features for reducing damage to the vine crop and increasing the efficiency of the harvester is provided, wherein a harvesting apparatus attached to a tractor has a digger chain employed to carry the vine c... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5060806 | Variable-aperture screen Apparatus for separating material into first and second portions according to size including a plurality of shafts, a plurality of spaced disks radiating outwardly from each of the shafts to define apertures and linkage interconnecting the shafts for movi... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4979624 | Sizing apparatus and proportional spacing mechanism A roller conveyor bed is formed by a plurality of driven conveyor spools or rollers rotating in the same direction for conveying and sorting objects. The conveyor rollers define a substantially common conveyor plane along the upper surfaces of the conveyo... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4948498 | Separating drum A separating drum, having a multiple of cylindrically shaped separating elements, which are arranged parallel to the axis of rotation of the drum is provided with an arrangement by which a single part can be moved to form an adjustable separating slot. Th... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4790439 | Grading machine A shrimp grading machine sorts progressively smaller sized shrimp as they fall through the mechanism. Plural pairs of parallel grading rollers are inclined from an upstream inlet end to a downstream outlet end. Graded shrimp are rejected by and will not p... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4627541 | Apparatus and method for sorting produce A roller conveyor for automatically sorting produce or other items according to size which includes an apparatus and method for hydraulically adjusting the space between the rollers to permit optional uniformly graduated increments or fixed spacing betwee... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4600106 | Separation of molded parts from connectors A driven, rotatable cylinder (11-1) spaced from a counterstructure (11-4, 11-2&3, 11b-2,3&4, 11c-2&2', 11B-2, 11C-2, 11-5, 11-6) to permit parts or connectors (P or C) to fall between the rotatable cylinder and the counterstructure. A continuous drive bel... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4538734 | Disk screen apparatus, disk assemblies and method Disk screen apparatus and disk assemblies therefore wherein each disk assembly comprises an elongate shaft adapted to be rotatably mounted in the disk screen apparatus. The shaft has elongate indexing and keying structure extending longitudinally along an... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4469229 | Conveying 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 |
| 4440179 | Stone trap for an axial flow rotary separator In an axial flow rotary separator, a transition zone between the infeed section and threshing sections is modified to serve as a stone trap or arresting and ejecting device. Radially aligned inner and outer stone collars carried by the separator rotor and... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4436208 | Guide member for a roller-type classifying machine A guide member is provided along the length of and between the two rollers of a classifying machine. The guide member is positioned in proximity to one of the rollers and the height of the guide member is fixed according to the shape and size of a workpie... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4405050 | Quick roll adjustment for a roller screen conveyor A roller adjustment apparatus provides for the independent adjustment of spacing between any two adjacent rigidly spaced apart rollers without affecting the spacing of any of the other rollers in a roller screen conveyor. A support block of the apparatus,... | 09/20/1983 |
