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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7341406 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7328084 | System and method for carrier identification in a pneumatic tube system A system and method provides for the identification and monitoring of carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Each carrier which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326005 | Air powered storage device for pneumatic transport system An air powered storage device is provided that is operative to temporarily store pneumatic carriers within a pneumatic carrier system. Generally, the device includes a pneumatic tube that is sized to permit the passage of pneumatic carriers. A gate member is selecti... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320562 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318690 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316526 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7314338 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7314337 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7311475 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311473 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311472 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311471 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309192 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transport system including an up receive/down send customer terminal having a pivot assembly for vertically and pivotally displacing a pneumatic carrier between a vertical position and an angularly disposed presentation position. The customer terminal in... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302952 | Device and process for conveying rod-shaped filter elements Device and process for conveying filter elements to a filter element magazine. The device includes a rotatable drum comprising at least one seat for receiving a filter element and a detection device that controls a rotation of the drum and detects the filter element... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7284945 | Transporting apparatus The invention discloses a transporting apparatus provided with a air-supplying-type support device for supplying purified air toward a lower surface of a transported object to contactlessly support the transported object in a horizontal orientation or a substantiall... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7223060 | Device for simultaneously conveying and regulating the temperature of shaped parts The invention relates to a device for simultaneously conveying and regulating the temperature of shaped parts, comprising a conveying device, which is suited for advancing objects, and at least one blower by means of which the objects can be subjected to the action ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220082 | Pneumatic tube system terminal and method A pneumatic transport system including a user terminal at a service provider station having a movable member operably connected with a flexible drive member. The drive member moves within at least one side rail to vertically displace the movable member to permit acc... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219889 | Sheet-processing machine with a pneumatic sheet-guiding device A sheet-processing machine, particularly a rotary printing press, includes a blast-air supply system and a pneumatic sheet-guiding device connected thereto. The sheet-guiding device has a sheet-guiding surface formed with air passage openings and serves for having t... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7204158 | Flow control apparatus and method with internally isothermal control volume for flow verification An internally isothermal control volume of a flow verification system for measuring gas pressure drop relative to time to calculate flow rate has a thermal reservoir provided therein. The thermal reservoir is de-coupled from ambient effects so that the temperature o... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7140827 | Transporting apparatus It is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus for transporting a transported object in a transporting direction as the transported object is supported by air, the apparatus having a plurality of transporting units. A specific transporting unit of the plur... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7140810 | Pneumatic tube system terminal and method A pneumatic transport system including a user terminal at a service provider station having a movable member operably connected with a flexible drive member. The drive member moves within at least one side rail to vertically displace the movable member to permit acc... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7114276 | Inflatable projection screen An inflatable device that includes at least one display panel for displaying an image by a multimedia device positioned in and/or connected to the inflatable device. ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7104734 | One-way pneumatic delivery system A one-way pneumatic delivery system includes a plurality of sending units in fluid communication with a receiving unit via a duct system. Each of the sending units and the receiving unit include a door that selectively prevents fluid communication into the duct syst... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7093382 | Power diversion system for a hydraulic dredge A power diversion system for a hydraulic dredge diverts any or all available prime mover power to slurry production. An electronic control module (ECM) on the dredge continuously communicates with the prime mover ECM to determine the current available power of the d... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7080960 | Apparatus and method for transporting waste materials An apparatus for transporting solid waste drill cuttings material produced in the drilling of an oil or gas well, the apparatus including: a waste supply apparatus; a feeder to transport the material; a pneumatic conveying apparatus to which the material is transfer... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7032739 | Intermediate product carrying apparatus, and intermediate product carrying method An intermediate product carrying apparatus is provided for loading a carrier, which is carried between a plurality of process systems and stores a plurality of intermediate products, into the corresponding process system, and then transferring the plurality of inter... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6979168 | Method and apparatus for transferring substrate Bays 100, 200, 300 . . . are connected to an inter-bay transfer line 400 via bay stockers 130, 230, 330 . . . , respectively. The bay 100 is, in this embodiment, composed of a single wafer transfer line 120 having a looped planar s... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6971822 | Device for distributing and receiving articles in the form of sheets of paper, particularly banknotes, documents and the like An apparatus for the delivery and acception of articles made of a sheet-like material, particularly banknotes, documents, and the like, includes a carrier for the articles which can be conveyed in a tube by means of a flowing gas. The carrier includes two elements m... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6929259 | Compact bank note dispensing device to prevent duplication releases A duplicate let off prevention device for sheets includes a first exit guide, a second exit guide which is spaced from the first exit guide at a distance that is larger than the thickness of one sheet and is smaller than the thickness of two sheets, and a pre-exit g... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6905300 | Slide feeder with air bearing conveyor A slide loading mechanism utilizes compressed air as the transport medium to move the slides from a magazine to the stage of a microscope. The stage is provided with a carriage moving horizontally along a direct path between the stage and the magazine. A conveyor co... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6637982 | Gas transportation method for grain It is an object of the present invention to provide a method which is capable of reducing a crushing rate of grain when the grain such as rice is transported by means of gas through pipes. The temperature of the grain in a grain accommodation tank which i... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6244833 | Device to increase slurry density Disclosed is a device and method to increase density of slurry transported by slurry pumping systems. A connection is made to the existing slurry pipeline so that a portion of slurry is drawn into the device. Multiple settling chambers are filled and pres... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6145247 | Fluid switch The present invention provides apparatus and methods useful, for example, for introducing a desired spacing between or classifying and sorting objects, e.g. plant embryos. Objects carried serially in a fluid stream enter the apparatus via an upstream cond... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6146057 | Pneumatic transfer apparatus A pneumatic transfer apparatus (10) includes a service provider terminal (22) and a customer terminal (24). A carrier (32) is moved through a transfer conduit (26) between the customer and service provider terminals by a differential pressure generating m... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6106202 | Pneumatic conveying air assist line with air bleed A pneumatic conveying transport system for bulk materials has a conduit that carries material in a gas flow, and at spaced locations along the conduit air assists are provided to inject a supplemental amount of air into the conveying conduit when back pre... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6079547 | Connector supply method and device In a connector supply apparatus, a plurality of connectors are successively shifted along a shifting passage of a rail member, and a desired number of preceding connectors are separated from the succeeding connectors by the rise/fall of a pair of stoppers... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5988631 | Sheet transport device A device (10) to transport sheets such as bank notes (30) comprises a rectangular tube (12) along which there is a flow of air F, the tube having pairs of independently addressable computer controlled flaps (14,16,18,20,22) on opposite internal walls. The... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5269635 | Slurry processing unit By utilizing two inlet pumps and one discharge pump, and controlling the speed of the discharge pump, the pressure in a slurry processing unit can be controlled to facilitate measurement and handling of compressible slurry. It has been found that multiple... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5132917 | Method and apparatus for the combined use of dual density measurements to achieve a fast and accurate density measurement in pneumatically transported solids The suspension density of a pneumatically transported solid, such as coal, is obtained by using a combination of a radial gamma ray densitometer and a second, fast-response density meter. The combination is required to get the desired combination of accur... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5017054 | Delivery line for the conveying of viscous or pasty material A delivery line for conveying viscous or pasty material to be filled into a food can or the like from a conveyor pump to a filling machine, having a delivery path developed in the form of a trombone tube with two sections extending parallel to each other ... | 05/21/1991 |
