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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7280198 | Apparatus for optically analyzing products such as fruit having bilateral imaging devices An apparatus for optically analyzing products such as fruit for automatic sorting of the products, includes at least one conveying line (1, 2), a plurality of analysis stations, and a device for driving each product in rotation. The imaging devices (12... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7228958 | Supporting body, conveyor comprising a number of supporting bodies and method for transversally aligning objects Conveyor (1), comprising a number of supporting bodies (10) arranged successively in an array in order to form transporting positions for objects (P) for transporting between two successive supporting bodies (10), wherein the form of the support... | 06/12/2007 |
| 6888082 | Analyzing method and device for automatically sorting products such as fruit A method of analysing products arranges above a conveyer line three successive analysing stations having, in the first station, two cameras arranged in such a way that their optical axes form a V centred on the products and has a vertex angle in the range between 90... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6575305 | Arrangement for identifying and removing associated preforms from a continuous transfer line An apparatus transfers performs traveling along an inclined path from an upper loading station to a lower unloading station. The apparatus includes a device that includes plural rotary forks which rotate so as to engage and remove from the inclined path p... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6179129 | Color sorter assembly and method An article transporting, and preferably also color and/or weight sorting, assembly and method, support the articles (.g. apples or like pieces of fruit), and effect precise rotation (e.g. within about 5°) of all apples transported thereby. This allows ac... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6152282 | Laned conveyor belt A laned conveyor apparatus includes an infeed roller and an outfeed roller rotatably mounted to a frame in spaced apart relation for movably supporting a flexible product-carrying belt that forms a closed loop about the rollers to define a conveying regio... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5901856 | Paper and cardboard separator with inverting rotor A device for separating office paper and computer printout from cardboard waste material is provided. The device has two decks, each of which has multiple driving and separating disc rotors. Non-cardboard paper can fall between the disc rotors as the pape... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5721386 | Installation for inspecting compact discs An installation for inspecting compact discs includes a transfer turntable rotatable stepwise about an axis and mobile along that axis on each step with a plurality of transfer units carried by the transfer turntable which alternately pick up and put down... | 02/24/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5626236 | Method and apparatus for handling objects An apparatus for sorting objects or articles of produce according to preselected visually ascertainable criteria. Each object is singulated and transported between adjacent pairs of plural rollers attached to a conveyor chain so as to be freely rotatable ... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5497887 | Method and apparatus for handling objects An apparatus for sorting objects or articles of produce according to preselected visually ascertainable criteria. Each object is singulated and transported between adjacent pairs of plural rollers attached to a conveyor chain so as to be freely rotatable ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5388707 | Apparatus for inspecting the exterior finish of containers and associated method Apparatus and method are provided for inspecting finish dimensions of and detecting finish defects on containers moving sequentially in a predetermined path. More than one container can be inspected simultaneously. The apparatus includes one or more inspe... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5311998 | Method of grading items and an apparatus materializing same A method and apparatus for grading items such as roots and tubers in which a succession of items are conveyed one after the other in a U-shaped channel of a conveyor. As each item passes a measuring station a grading characteristic of the item is measured... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5280838 | Apparatus for conveying and sorting produce An apparatus for conveying and sorting produce, in particular fruit, provided with a mechanism to discharge the produce is described. The apparatus includes a pair of conveyor lines located on either side of an endless drive chain. Each conveyor line incl... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5277320 | Shell egg culling system An improved shell egg culling system includes a conveying system having sites for conveying shell eggs, an illuminator together with a video camera in conjunction with a computer having a first algorithm and a second algorithm for determining which of the... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5273149 | Reverse vending machine with rotary-bristle-drive scanning station A system, such as a reverse vending machine, for handling redeemable beverage containers of the type carrying side-borne, optically readable information codes. Featured in the machine specifically described herein is a scanning station along the sides of ... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5244100 | Apparatus and method for sorting objects An apparatus for sorting objects according to preselected weight and/or visually ascertainable criteria. Each object is singulated and transported between adjacent pairs of a plurality of roller assemblies attached to a conveyor chain to be freely rotatab... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5193691 | Can seam inspection apparatus A can seam inspection apparatus. The apparatus has a pathway for a can and the pathway having an inlet and a pair of outlets. There is one outlet for can with a defective seam and another outlet for acceptable cans. A releasable holding device holds the c... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5181596 | Off-loading conveying system An off-loading conveyor including a support structure mounting an endless chain to extend along a conveying path. Roller carriages including roller mounts and laterally extending elements are pivotally mounted to the chain on either side thereof. The late... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5156278 | Product discrimination system and method therefor A product discrimination system using an off-loading conveyor with rotatably mounted bow tie rollers to convey product units past a sensing station. The sensing station includes four receptors arranged along the conveying path for sensing the physical att... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5101982 | Conveying and off-loading apparatus for machines for the automatic selection of agricultural products such as fruit The conveying and off-loading apparatus, used in machines for the automatic selection and distribution of products, comprises a conveyor for transporting individual products from examination stations to discharge stations along a path, including an elonga... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5078258 | Orienting mechanism for orienting fruit, for example This invention relates to an orienting apparatus for orienting round or approximately round articles, for instance fruit, comprising two parallel rollers extending obliquely upwardly and rotating in the same direction, and a chain with conveying elements,... | 01/07/1992 |
| 4940536 | Apparatus for inspecting and sorting articles The invention is a device for sorting food products such as vegetables or fruit in accordance with their size, weight, and color or the presence of defects on them. In accordance with the device of the invention, a conveyor in the form of a plurality of r... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4872564 | Method of, and apparatus for, automatically checking eggs for flaws and blemishes, such as cracks, blood, dirt, a leak, aberrant form and the like A method of checking eggs for flaws and blemishes, such as blood, dirt, cracks, a leak or aberrant form, in which the eggs, while located on a conveyor roller track, pass an inspection station, where the unwanted eggs are determined as such, with the info... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4805778 | Method and apparatus for the manipulation of products An apparatus for the manipulation of products, comprising a conveyor for conveying a plurality of products in a prescribed path, a locator for emitting light at the position of a specific product out of the plurality of products being conveyed in a detect... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4776466 | Surface inspection apparatus Objects to be inspected are transferred successively in one direction on a conveyor and irradiated by a light source and photosensed by a single optical image sensor only, such as a video camera. The optical image sensor is so arranged that it simultaneou... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4758778 | Method and an apparatus for determining the degree of freshness of pieces of food By a method of and an apparatus for determining the degree of freshness of fish or other pieces of meat a pair of electrodes of an electrode assembly are brought into contact with the pieces of food, and the degree of freshness is determined electrically ... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4741042 | Image processing system for detecting bruises on fruit An image processing technique for detecting and measuring the size of bruises on fruit, such as apples, is disclosed. A line scan camera is employed to obtain a gray level image of each piece of fruit as it is rotated in front of the camera. The image is ... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4730719 | Roller for orientation of fruit Rollers for use with singulators for orienting articles, typically fruit, prior to optical sensing, for example, of the fruit's surfaces, wherein fruit having diverse diameters, irregular shapes and bumpy surfaces are properly oriented by contacting a pai... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4726898 | Apparatus for spinning fruit for sorting thereof Several conveyor rollers of singulators are made to rotate by a fruit orientation belt causing fruit carried thereon to rotate in accordance with movement of the belt such that the rotational axes of the fruit, typically lemons, orient themselves along th... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4717026 | Container scanning and accounting device An apparatus is provided to rapidly and automatically scan the UPC, or bar code, from a series of containers and maintain tallies of the brands and types of containers processed. The containers are fed in end-to-end orientation onto the upper end of the t... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4707251 | Container scanning and accounting device An apparatus is provided to rapidly and automatically scan the UPC, or bar code, from a series of containers and maintain talleys of the brands and types of containers processed. A guide is placed diagonally across the top of the conveyor to catch and dir... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4660726 | Bar screen A bar screen for the separation by size of lump goods, such as wood chips, according to its thickness, and comprising parallel bars (1-5) provided with flights (6), where the bars are mutually movable.... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4645080 | Method and apparatus for grading non-orienting articles A method and apparatus for grading generally spherical articles, and specifically fruit such a oranges, which do not orient along a predetermined axis when rotated on a roller conveyor comprises a pair of side scan cameras disposed on opposite sides of th... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4582201 | Product transporting apparatus A product transporting apparatus for transporting solid products of generally similar shape and/or size successively from a take-in station towards a take-out station, which has first and second rotary drums rotatable in the opposite directions to each ot... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4569445 | Apparatus for measuring the thickness of disc-like articles An apparatus (10) for automatically feeding and measuring circular discs (12) includes a gauging station (15). The latter includes a pair of opposed capacitive displacement measuring probes (27 and 28). The probes are connected to a thickness measuring te... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4493420 | Method and apparatus for detecting bounded regions of images, and method and apparatus for sorting articles and detecting flaws Image processing apparatus for detecting a bounded region of an image includes a scanning device such as a T.V. camera, to scan the image via a raster scan to produce a signal indicative of image intensity at a plurality of picture points and comparators ... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4482061 | Apparatus and process for sorting articles Successive pairs of rollers in a plurality of juxtaposed continuous feed chain conveyors receive articles, such as fruits and vegetables at an upstream portion of a sorting conveyor system and by movement of the rollers between inclined walls, position th... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4354602 | Device for inspecting the external appearance of solid medicine A device for inspecting the external appearance of solid medicine having a solid medicine supplying section, a first drum-shaped conveying section for conveying solid medicines supplied by the solid medicine supplying section, at equal intervals so that o... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4308959 | Roll sorting apparatus An apparatus for sorting articles based upon the presence of defects on the surface thereof is characterized by a roller conveyor carrying a random array of articles in transverse channels defined between adjacent rollers. As the conveyor is advanced thro... | 01/05/1982 |
