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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6685052 | Feeding apparatus for chip component A feed lever is lowered, correspondingly to the load input of a chip mounter. A rotary drum is intermittently moved through a conversion mechanism, intermittently in one direction. Chip components placed in a component accommodation chamber are aligned an... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6095578 | Devices for handling items with a head and a shank The device for handling items (20) with a head (21) and a shank (22), such as screws, pins and the like, has a hand piece (1), which has a chamber (2) for receiving the items (20). From an inner side (11) of the chamber (2) there extends a guiding recess ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 5984079 | Method and apparatus for loading electronic components A method and an apparatus for loading and positioning of elongate terminated electronic components include a load plate having vertical slots extending therethrough, the slots being spaced apart at regular intervals and each slot having parallel opposing ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5934505 | Apparatus for feeding chip components and cartridge type chip component container An apparatus for feeding chip components includes a component container for containing many chip components in bulk, a first component reservoir for storing the chip components in bulk. The component container is attached to the first component reservoir.... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5865342 | Medication filling apparatus A medication filling apparatus is equipped with a tablet case for holding medications and a dispensing drum which lets the medications fall through an outlet from the tablet case as it rotates, thereby dispensing the medications; it is further equipped wi... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5546303 | Method of and system for correlating charitable contributions A central office correlates charitable contributions made at vending stations in food service establishments which issue information carriers in return for charitable contributions which are receipts for the contribution and entitle the donor to a beverag... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5411170 | System for metered feeding of cylindrical bodies from a stock to a processing machine System for metered feeding of cylindrical bodies from a stock to a processing machine. This involves, starting from the stock, first aligning the cylindrical bodies and then feeding them in a metered manner to a transfer device in order to move the cylind... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5305808 | Apparatus and method for inserting cylindrically shaped food product into container A device for loading dough into cylindrical containers is disclosed. A first conveyor is provided which delivers a plurality of cylindrical containers to a receiving surface which is declining with respect to the horizontal. The containers are oriented su... | 04/26/1994 |
| 4977998 | Device for ejecting wrongly oriented covers from a continuous flow The invention provides a device for removing individual covers from a continuous flow of covers, each consisting of a middle portion and a peripheral edge extending around it asymmetrically in relation to the main plane, the main planes of which covers ex... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4709798 | Rotary feeder to orient and feed bottle caps and similar parts A rotary feeder for articles is provided and consists of a rotating bowl that has a domed floor and an upper ledge, an inclined stationary ramp that will carry the articles from the domed floor to the upper ledge, a stationary guide ring that has an exit ... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4577794 | Rivet injector/rejector device A rivet injector/rejector device (10) is provided for use with a riveting machine (12) having a plurality of rivet gripping fingers (120, 122). The device (10) includes a supporting member (16) fixedly mounted to the riveting machine (12). A tubular membe... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4496039 | Bottle alignment apparatus The present invention discloses an apparatus for the alignment of bottles, which apparatus has no moving parts, and includes an assembly of trough and slide surface. The trough is substantially parallel to the major axis of the bottles. The bottles descen... | 01/29/1985 |
| 4469709 | Method for automatically feeding first products onto second products Products such as small chocolate bars, intended to be uniformly aligned on other products passing on a conveyor, such as pieces of dough in the manufacture of chocolate-filled cookies, are placed in a hopper having resiliently mounted walls. Beneath the h... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4437559 | Method and apparatus for removing non-rectified capsules from a capsule rectification and transport device A capsule rectification and transport device is disclosed. Means are provided for removing occasional improperly positioned capsules from the transported array. The capsules are carried in spaced apart pockets. When a capsule is undesirably mis-oriented w... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4343388 | Apparatus for sorting articles Diode chips (44) are cut from a p-n sheet-diffused semiconductor wafer (41). Instead of having conventional rectangular shapes, the chips have a rhomboidal shape. This makes the shape of the chips asymmetric in that one surface (46) of each chip becomes a... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4046285 | Method and apparatus for producing single flows of grains A method of diverting from a supply of grains a plurality of parallel intermittent single flows of grains, especially for sowing one seed in each one of a number of plant growing pots. The method comprises the steps of causing the grains of the supply to ... | 09/06/1977 |
| 3970218 | Cap selecting and feeding mechanism Caps loaded into the hopper of a machine are gravitationally fed at a controlled feed rate and are distributed into a plurality of guide channels. Movement of each cap through a guide channel is momentarily interruped to obtain a desired spaced relationsh... | 07/20/1976 |
| 3942645 | Feeding and rectifying apparatus and method This disclosure is directed to a feeding and rectifying method and apparatus for orienting articles of manufacture in a predetermined manner onto a moving conveyor means. The feeding and rectifying apparatus comprises essentially a system of maintaining a... | 03/09/1976 |
