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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6540218 | Sheet feed shaft, apparatus for manufacturing same and method for manufacturing same A plurality of spike-like projections A, B risen at an obtuse angle, at an acute angle or at right angles in a rotational direction of a metallic rod 1 are formed on an inner peripheral surface of the metallic rod 1 by plastic processing.... | 04/01/2003 |
| 5951001 | Device for raising an edge of a topmost sheet of a pile of sheets A device for raising an edge of a topmost sheet from a pile of sheets comprises two cursors slidably coupled to a mobile head. On one end of each cursor two needles are fixed, which needles pierce into said edge. The device is especially useful in the man... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5931635 | Device for removing flat articles from a stack The device for removing flat articles from a stack comprises at least one roller which contacts the uppermost article of a stack and is rotatable about a shaft and whose circumferential surface is covered by a layer consisting of a resilient material. The... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5669602 | Veneer hoisting apparatus A veneer hoisting apparatus in which even a top veneer of piled veneers is inclined, a piercing unit is adapted to the inclination to pierce and hoist the veneer by piercing members. The veneer hoisting apparatus comprises: a piercing unit with a sharp pi... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5653430 | Veneer hoisting apparatus A veneer hoisting apparatus in which at the hoisting of a veneer by a piercing body, the decrease in sustaining force applied to the veneer by the piercing body is prevented, and it rarely happens that the veneer drops down from the piercing body. With th... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5624110 | Cut segment pick-up assembly A segment pickup apparatus for handling material segments. The apparatus includes a frame and at least one pair of picker assemblies coupled to the frame. Each of the picker assemblies includes a linear array of carding elements, and each of the carding e... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5611456 | Apparatus for dispensing tickets, cards and the like An apparatus for dispensing articles such as tickets and cards includes a cabinet and a plurality of article dispensing assemblies inside the cabinet. Each article dispensing assembly includes a base and a frame for enclosing articles to be dispensed in a... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5505994 | Fabric-handling equipment Fabric-handling equipment which removes a fabric web from a stack of such webs or from a supporting surface, dries ink printed on a fabric, and removes a porous fabric held onto a surface by a vacuum. To remove a fabric web from a surface, like a stack of... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5496021 | Method and apparatus for automated handling of cut material Method and apparatus for nondestructively removing a cut segment of predetermined shape from a limp material sheet workpiece and transporting the cut workpiece segment to a staging area for further processing. The cut segment is picked up by a picker whic... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5494275 | Cloth piece supply apparatus and method A cloth pick-up apparatus is used which comprises pressing mechanism for a pressing one end of the top cloth piece from the upper side, a catch roller having on a part of its circumferential surface catch needles and movable toward and away from the other... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5409368 | Apparatus for punching In an apparatus for detaching an article from a member attached thereto, the attached article and member are supported on a grid such that the member is in contact with a substantially rigid surface of the grid and the article is suspended away from the r... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5356126 | Method and apparatus for separating piled textile cuts A method and apparatus for separating an uppermost textile cut from a pile of textile cuts by gripping the uppermost cut at the top surface. The uppermost cut is lifted, and a loader is placed onto a restricted area closed to the edge of the uppermost cut... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5324016 | Self-adjusting fabric ply picking device There is disclosed an improved fabric picking device having a circumferentially toothed picking wheel carried at one end by an elongated inner frame, a shoe adjacent thereto carried by an outer frame, the inner and outer frames being hingedly connected fo... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5314178 | Automatic feeder for workpieces of limp material An automatic feeder for feeding workpieces of limp material one after another from a stack of workpieces, the feeder includes a moving support mechanism for supporting the stack, and a gripper located generally underneath the stack and the moving support ... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5275451 | Material handling apparatus for transporting lay-out patterns A material handling apparatus particularly suitable for transferring lay-out patterns to a molding die press comprises a central drive unit, a plurality of outstretched wing units operatively connected to the central drive unit, and a plurality of grippin... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5273268 | Sheet member grasping device for supply apparatus A device for grasping a sheet member includes a support unit, a pair of grasping units having sharp pawls, respectively, and supported by the support unit rotatably about parallel pivot axes, respectively, and a pivotally rotating unit for rotating the gr... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5190275 | Sleeve loader A sleeve loader having a table for positioning trays container either a stack of folded or unfolded sleeves at a processing position, a device for lifting up an upper ply of a garment in the stack of sleeves, a device for picking up the upper ply of the s... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5161844 | Process and grasping device for picking up, transporting, and depositing flat parts made of textile material, etc. The present invention pertains to processes and gripping devices for picking up, transporting, and depositing flexible, limp, flat workpieces (1) made of textile material, plastic, or other materials that can be grasped with needles (3). To handle such wo... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5149077 | Hybrid nudger roll A hydrid nudger roll for use in a friction retard feeder includes alternating elastomeric and studded rolls positioned on a support shaft. The outer surface of the elastomeric rolls extends beyond the tips of the studded rolls, but when the elastomeric ro... | 09/22/1992 |
| 5114132 | Device for taking up, transporting, positioning and assembling a flexible, plane workpiece A gripper for handling limp workpieces has piercing needles slanting downward on translatable needle bars. Slots in the needle bars slant parallel to the needles and engage stationary pins for constraining the needles to move axially. The needles mutually... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5087315 | Fabric lifting apparatus and method Disclosed is a device for lifting a single layer of fabric or fiber reinfed plastic sheets from a stack of such sheets with minimal damage to the structure of the fabric. A frame and a flexible base plate are provided with a plurality of individual needl... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5040778 | Apparatus for automatically inverting workpieces of limp sheet material Apparatus is disclosed for automatically inverting workpieces of limp sheet material, such as fabric sheet material. The apparatus includes an endless conveyor having a forward-traveling upper reach for conveying workpieces in a forward direction. A gripp... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5039078 | Separating and feeding garment parts Apparatus for the seriatim separation and feeding of garment parts from a shingled stack of the parts to a predetermined destination. Comprising the apparatus is a movable hold down mechanism for engaging the trailing edge of the second part in the stack ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5039079 | Process and apparatus for superimposing at least two flexible layers in particular the front and rear panels of an article such as a slip in the textile and knitted goods industry The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for superimposing at least two flexible sheets, in particular a back panel and a front panel of an article such as a slip. The process comprises forming a stack of each type of sheets and arranging said ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5018715 | Fabric pickup device A fabric pickup device useful for a fabric handling system. The fabric pickup device includes a fluid operated cylinder and piston having four individual fabric clutches attached to the cylinder and aligned with and substantially equality spaced apart fro... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4960361 | Separating sheetlike structures from piles Individual air permeably sheetlike structures are efficiently lifted from a pile by a vacuum lifter and deposited again at a processing station, the pile including as an alternate interlayer a sheet of air impermeable material.... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4955656 | Gripping device for nappy materials A gripping device for nappy workpieces which is capable of handling both small and large pieces of textile materials. A gripping device is provided having a base part and a slidable part, between which is provided a substantially closed hollow to which pr... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4955506 | Device for the individual withdrawal of sheet-type printed products, in particular newspapers A device for individually removing newspapers from an inclined stack, including a movable carriage which is placed over the stack, the carriage having an endless conveyor carrying spaced-apart grippers, the conveyor being connected to drive mechanisms to ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4892298 | Device and method for pickup of sheet-form flexible fabric or the like A pickup device for a piece of sheet-form flexible fabric or the like includes first and second fabric gripping elements that come together at the face of the fabric piece to grip a localized portion of the fabric, a support for resiliently biasing the fa... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4871161 | Separating and feeding garment parts Apparatus for the seriatim separation and feeding of garment parts from a shingled stack of the parts to a predetermined destination. Comprising the apparatus is a picker head containing a depending array of needles adapted to positively engage the leadin... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4838536 | Fabric picker and separator A fabric picking and transferring device for transferring one or more top fabric plies from a stack of such plies. The device comprises a support body having a fabric engaging end. The housing is displaced toward the stack to position the fabric engaging ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4822020 | Advanced apparatus for gripping flexible, and in particular textile, layers The present invention relates to an apparatus for gripping layers of flexible material, comprising a head (14) provided with a contact surface, a clearance (16) in the said surface, a needle (103) mobile with respect to the head, a thin groove (15) in the... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4805949 | Material-handling apparatus Improved material handling device for selective pick up, holding, and release of material is disclosed. The device includes arcuate talons mounted to a first shaft capable of pivotal movement about an offset centerline and by means of talons mounted to a ... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4802948 | Apparatus for producing interior trim component for a motor vehicle An interior trim component 1 for a motor vehicle comprises a base 2 of a fibrous base material of approximately 80% wood fibers and approximately 20% synthetic resin fibers, which is compressed and consolidated by the action of pressure and heat into the ... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4781091 | Conveyor system for conveying veneer sheets with spacings therebetween A conveyor system for conveying veneer sheets with spacings therebetween comprising a sheet supply conveyor for feeding a train of cut veneer sheets of a predetermined length in contact with one another, the cut sheet length measured in the direction of s... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4765214 | Apparatus for handling veneer sheets Veneer handling apparatus having a veneer clipper at one end thereof and a veneer sheet stacker at the other end is disclosed. Veneer sheets cut into a format size by the clipper are sorted so as to allow defective sheets to be discharged from the apparat... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4761027 | Device for picking up flexible and/or porous and/or sticky flat articles or shapes The device for picking up flat articles or shapes has a gripping mechanism secured to the end of a moving arm, which is for example part of a robot. The gripping mechanism consists of at least two grippers that face each other in a plane on a frame and ha... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4740129 | Slice separating and feeding apparatus and method A device for separating slices of bread from sliced loaves of bread and for transferring the separated slices one by one to a conveyor for further processing. The device incorporates an inclined, intermittently driven infeed conveyor for conveying the sli... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4694748 | Device for moving offset plates A device for moving offset plates from a stack of such plates to a fixing device by grasping a plurality of offset plates having positioning engagement holes from a stack and moving them through a print-through device to a fixing device utilizing a transp... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4690393 | Apparatus for separating stacks of cloth A machine for separating single plies of fabric from a stack of fabric plies uses a roller provided with a fabric ply engaging mechanism. The roller engages the top ply of fabric and removes it with a rolling action. The engaging mechanism comprises a piv... | 09/01/1987 |
