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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7641073 | Apparatus and method for preventing irregular packaging for automatic medicine packing machine A method for preventing irregular packaging for automatic medicine packing machine having a last hopper that contains the tablet just before the tablet is packed, includes steps of sensing whether a tablet is received in the last hopper, sensing and deciding whether... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7299943 | Automatic dispensing tip supply apparatus An automatic dispensing tip supply apparatus includes a tip storing box whose bottom has a tapered surface having a tip collecting position in a lowermost part thereof to collect a plurality of inserted dispensing tips in one spot, a tip individually-sending mechani... | 11/27/2007 |
| 6799413 | Apparatus and methods for filling containers with pills There is provided an automated packaging apparatus for depositing a predetermined number of pills into a series of containers. The packaging apparatus includes a plurality of independently rotatable rotary slats. Each rotary slat includes an outer peripheral edge po... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6726057 | Orienting ejector An orienting ejector is provided capable of orienting and ejecting fasteners of any size such as fasteners having a length that is greater than, equal to, or less than the diameter of their head. The orienting ejector is able to orient a fastener to an appropriate o... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6575454 | High capacity document sheet processor A high capacity document sheet processor combines significant speed and efficiency enhancing improvements in existing approaches to stack feeding particularly in the stack loading, feeding and singulating functions with novel operational arrangements adap... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6286715 | Transparent front vending machine A vending machine for increasing consumer interest in the vending process and vended product includes a tipping mechanism. The tipping mechanism is positioned at a first end of a shelf, and modifies the orientation of an article being delivered from the s... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6264061 | Electronic component supply apparatus A supply apparatus for prism-shaped chip components has two relatively movable taking-in members. When the members move relative to each other, flat surfaces thereof contact each other and a parallel space is formed between the upper portions of the two t... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6247610 | Transparent front vending machine A vending machine for increasing consumer interest in the vending process and vended product includes an internal elevator. This elevator has a conveyor or tiltable bed mounted thereon whereby a vended article is both horizontally and vertically moveable ... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6161676 | Component feeder A component feeder is provided in which damage to chip components is minimized, being capable of efficiently discharging chip components aligned in a line. A bulk case is attached on the top portion of an outer storage housing capable of being supplied by... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6116840 | Component supply apparatus A component supply apparatus includes a rectangular cross-sectional component passage which can house a plurality of chip components in a longitudinal direction, and at a first side surface of the tip of this component passage a rectangular-shaped compone... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6039209 | Ampule feeder An ampule feeder which is simple in structure and which can discharge ampules one by one with a high degree of efficiency without the possibility of clogging. The feeder includes an ampule container having a bottom plate that is pivotable in one direction... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6019143 | Orientation means for cable tie delivery system An improved orientation means for a cable tie delivering system is adapted to complement a cable tie delivery system and includes an elongated conduit for orientation of an elongated, generally planar cable tie therein. The elongated conduit orients eithe... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5909751 | Automatic cable tie installation tool An automatic cable tie installation tool includes a frame supporting a handle and a manual trigger. A movable jaw is provided to grasp a bundle of cables which are to be tied with ties straps. Actuation of the trigger operates the jaw to move the jaw into... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5899357 | Ampule dispenser An ampule dispenser for dispensing ampules from an ampule container in which a plurality of ampules are stored in a disorderly manner. It has a stocker for stocking ampules discharged from the ampule container. The stocker has a bottom wall sloping downwa... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5704516 | Ampule dispenser An ampule dispenser is capable of discharging ampules stored in a random manner one by one after arranging them in an orderly manner. A hole is formed in the bottom plate of an ampule housing. The bottom plate has a top surface sloping downward toward thi... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5603429 | Motorized hand-held transportable dispenser for dispensing disc-shaped objects one at a time A transportable, hand-held motorized dispenser having an amusement characteristic includes a disc-shaped housing of a top shell and a bottom shell and a motor driven turntable mounted for unidirectional rotation therein. The housing defines a recess for r... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5558248 | Headed rod member aligning and supply apparatus An aligning and supplying apparatus 1 comprises a container 2 to store screws, a chute which enters the container 2 and is formed on the top surface thereof with a groove 3 having a smaller width than the diameter of the screw head so as to receive the sc... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5507410 | Meia cartridge feeder A cartridge feeder for dispensing a plurality of cartridges in single order and in upright position, each cartridge being cylindrical shape and having a top end tapering to an aperture therein and a substantially flat bottom end. A hopper stores a plurali... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5419442 | Separating device for discriminating between defective and nondefective articles The separation device includes a container having a dome-shaped base and a peripheral wall surrounding the base to define a chamber for receiving a random mixture of defective and nondefective articles. A spiral-shaped ramp on the peripheral wall which su... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5335810 | Air actuated flow control/load breaker/gas seal unit A control apparatus is provided for use in an article handling system having a conduit through which articles such as can ends in a facewise nested condition are conveyed from a first location to a second location. The control apparatus comprises a housin... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5160066 | Apparatus for aligning electronic component chips An apparatus for aligning electronic component chips, which is made of a resin material as a whole, comprises a chamber for storing a plurality of electronic component chips in random orientation, and an aligning passage for guiding the electronic compone... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5114039 | Apparatus and method for discharging articles from a vibratory feeder An apparatus is disclosed for transferring flanged articles from a vibratory feeder to a discharge station which features a pair of feed rails one of which has a curved external hearing surface for providing point bearing contact with a flange of the arti... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5065898 | Apparatus for orienting and injecting fasteners Apparatus for initially orienting and then injecting fasteners (F) into fastener grasping fingers (46), the fasteners being received by the apparatus (10) from a non-dedicated feed tube (18). The apparatus includes, as its principle components, a mounting... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4928808 | Machine for unscrambling and positioning containers An unscrambler for unscrambling and orientating containers such as plastic bottles includes a hopper (1), having straight or slightly curved walls, a plurality of travelling carriages (20) having holding elements (5) with openings (6) for receiving indivi... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4828142 | Capsule rectification apparatus An apparatus for handling empty two-piece capsules includes a vertically reciprocating feeder which extracts capsules from a hopper and forms randomly ordered linear arrays. A horizontal row of capsules are fed by the feeder to key-shaped slots in a block... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4736667 | Speed-loading device for cartridges A speed-loading device comprising a container having an interior chamber and a discharge opening leading from the chamber to the exterior of the container. The container has a storage section in the chamber for storing cartridges in side-by-side relations... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4721230 | Capsule rectification apparatus An apparatus for handling empty two-piece capsules includes a vertically reciprocating feeder which extracts capsules from a hopper and forms randomly ordered linear arrays. A horizontal row of capsules are fed by the feeder to key-shaped slots in a block... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4700471 | Device for orienting and conveying a headed fastener Disclosed is device (10) for orienting and conveying a headed fastener (14), wherein the device is positioned beneath any suitable dispenser (12) whereby headed fasteners are removed from a supply container and successively dropped with random orientation... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4693464 | Apparatus for arranging the obverse and reverse sides of the bills or the like An apparatus for arranging the obverse and reverse sides of the bills or the like includes a carrying-in passage and a carrying-out passage. A reversible conveying passage is provided between the carrying-in passage and the carrying-out passage for convey... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4636126 | Electrical connector pickup station An electrical connector pickup station for long electrical connectors, comprises an escapement assembly for receiving connectors from a gravity feed magazine and which is mounted above a base plate so as to be inclined in a vertical plane. A connector loc... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4623293 | Apparatus for orientating elongate bodies Apparatus for orienting elongate bodies, for example electrical connectors, comprises magazines for containing vertical stacks of the elongate bodies, escapement slides for releasing one body at a time from each magazine, as required, first and second sli... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4619356 | Programmable parts feeder A programmable parts reorienter and feeder utilizing a fiber-optic array in a sensing head to determine an initial orientation of a part passing through a parts handling unit. The sensing head is coupled to a microprocessor that has been programmed to rec... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4586668 | Bobbin conveying system A cop and bobbin conveying system including a cop feeding lines and bobbin ejecting lines which are interconnecting fine spinning frames and a winder. The cops and bobbins are conveyed by carrier members on which they are fitted and carried. A bobbin supp... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4515260 | Escapement orienting mechanism A guide bar reciprocally movable at an inclined angle accepts a fastener in an upper leg of the guide bar when in a retracted position, moves that fastener past a stationary member and drops it onto a lower leg of the guide bar when in the extended positi... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4476997 | Automatic device to distribute, orient and position axes on machines A device is disclosed for separating, orienting and positioning axes including at least one operational flat. The device includes a static chute equipped with a wide bottom opening closed by a drawer which is moved with a back and forth motion from a with... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4385712 | Automatically and semiautomatically unjamming nail selection device, designed particularly for machines riveting footwear heel seats onto corresponding heels An automatically and semiautomatically unjamming nail selection device, designed particularly for machines riveting footwear heel seats onto corresponding heels. The device has a nail tank or magazine coupled with a rotary chamber equipped with units desi... | 05/31/1983 |
| 4354588 | Device on an attachment machine A device for the correct angular positioning of fasteners such as buttons, rivets or the like in the tool of an attachment machine which has a trough-shaped guide rail for these fasteners arranged in front of the tool, the rail having a curved friction li... | 10/19/1982 |
| 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 |
| 4337877 | Apparatus for supplying slide fastener sliders An apparatus for supplying slide fastener sliders comprises a track for carrying thereon the sliders stacked sideways with their respective pull tabs arranged in the recumbent position for gravity delivery of the sliders to a groove in a base. A slider re... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4336893 | Device for orientation and transportation of elongated objects such as tree plants A device for orientation and transport of elongated objects such as tree plants comprises a container having an inclined bottom member which is movable to generate an outlet slot which successively widens upon the movement thereby causing the object resti... | 06/29/1982 |
