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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7284666 | Method 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 |
| 7040489 | Object orienting and sorting apparatus An object sorting and orienting apparatus is for sorting, orienting and discharging a plurality of objects, such as, container closures dispensed from a hopper. An endless conveyor transports the closures from a loading area, through an intermediate area, to a disch... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6439367 | Bowl diverter A sorting and conveying system has a longitudinally extending conveyor having at least one tilt tray, but preferably a plurality, on the conveyor for diverting selected articles from the conveyor. There is at least one hanger for holding a plurality of ba... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6016922 | Rotating lumber sorting device A rotating lumber sorting device has a rotatable transfer element provided on its periphery with a plurality of receptacles which are spaced from one another in a peripheral direction and have different widths substantially corresponding to different thic... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6012588 | Device 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 |
| 5954205 | SIMM board handler A circuit board handling and testing apparatus comprising a housing which defines a top surface. Attached to the housing is a magazine assembly which accommodates a plurality of circuit boards and is adapted to dispense the circuit boards onto the top sur... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5704489 | SIMM/DIMM board handler A circuit board handling and testing apparatus comprising a housing which defines a top surface. Attached to the housing is a magazine assembly which accommodates a plurality of circuit boards and is adapted to dispense the circuit boards onto a testing a... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5114015 | Delivery device and sorting machine for rod-like articles A device for sorting rod-like articles, for example cigarettes, according to their weight. The device feeds a single article from a hopper into a channel with the aid of two ribbed drums. The article then drops into a groove in a delivery shaft where it i... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5048695 | Reject station in a gravity conveyor A first rotatable conveyor section (16) is positioned axially between upper and lower fixed sections (14,18) of a gravity conveyor. Rotatable conveyor section (16) rotates about an axis extending perpendicular to the conveyor section. A gate (42,44) is pr... | 09/17/1991 |
| 5045102 | Blow box for heat tempering glass sheets in horizontal position A lower blow box of a device for heat tempering glass sheets in horizontal position exhibits a series of nozzle plates which are placed at a distance (A) from one another. Between nozzle plates there are obliquely placed sheet-metal chutes, U-shaped in cr... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4889241 | Discharge chute with variable slope bottom for fragile article sorting system An optical inspection machine has a discharge chute provided for receiving fragile articles thrown from a high speed belt in the course of ejecting such articles. The chute has an "S"-shaped bottom with the top of the "S" under the trajectory of the eject... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4804078 | Sorting device for conveyor belt systems The device comprises a flat element (9), mounted on a pivot (12) substantially lying in the plane of symmetry of the conveyor belts, and having a stroke that runs from a first lateral sorting position of the carried objects (8), to a second symmetrical po... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4646404 | Apparatus for manufacturing electrical harnesses An apparatus for manufacturing electrical harnesses, the apparatus comprising a wire feed path extending horizontally and axially of the apparatus, a connector attaching device located alongside the wire feed path. The attaching device includes a punch an... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4411366 | Device for grading products In a product grading apparatus in which the articles are conveyed in trays which are allowed to tilt downwardly at a discharge station to deposit an article onto an inclined chute leading to a support underlying the path of travel of the trays, each tray ... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4385701 | Article elevating apparatus with inclined roller carriers In an article elevating apparatus, articles such as cigarette cartons, are picked up at a loading station by inclined roller carriers moving in an upward vertical direction. During upward movement the articles are held on the roller carriers by sliding en... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4273649 | Apparatus and process for weighing articles successively An article weighing machine having a turntable with fixed rakes for directing articles, i.e., fruits or vegetables, on the turntable along prescribed paths into side-by-side metering assemblies where successive articles are placed in successive pockets fo... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4258850 | Apparatus for sorting workpieces belonging to different classes An apparatus for sorting workpieces belonging to different classification classes from a loading device, to a plurality of outputs for the different classification classes, comprising a quide chute to direct the workpieces towards the relevant outputs and... | 03/31/1981 |
| 3980180 | Transmissive article sorting apparatus A sorter for reclaiming particles, such as glass particles, of a predetermined color or transmissivity utilizes a belt conveyor having a longitudinal row of openings over which particles are positioned for being conveyed past a light source and light sens... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3930995 | Grade distributing apparatus In a system for classifying objects, particularly fruits, which pass successively through an inspection station for evaluation according to respective grades and for generating evaluation signals corresponding to such grades. The inspected fruits are then... | 01/06/1976 |
