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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7363106 | 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 ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7314339 | Pneumatic tube system terminal A pneumatic carrier transport system includes a user terminal. A piston of a rodless cylinder can be used to telescopically move a blocking cylinder. The blocking cylinder is vertically displaced to an open position to permit manual access to a carrier received at t... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7306407 | 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... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7264421 | Door and valve assembly for a pneumatic transmission system A door and valve assembly for a pneumatic transmission system including a port configured to permit ambient air to flow into a pneumatic transmission conduit, a body having a seal and configured to open and close the port and an end of the transmission conduit, and ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7234898 | Pneumatic transmission system A pneumatic transmission system includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a transmission conduit connecting the first and second terminals in fluid communication with each other. The pneumatic transmission system may include a first blower directly connected... | 06/26/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7153065 | Multi-stage air pressure apparatus and a bi-directional pneumatic conveyance system incorporating such apparatus A multi-stage pressure/vacuum apparatus is disclosed for a bi-directional pneumatic delivery system or the like. The apparatus includes separated turbines or separated sets of turbines that are operated independently of each other to alternatively create pressure an... | 12/26/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6939088 | Pneumatic transport air shifter A pneumatic transfer system having a modular pneumatic shifting device. A teller conduit has a teller station and a customer conduit has a customer station. A housing having apertures connected to the teller conduit and the customer conduit has a teller gate and a c... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6368026 | Spherical body transport apparatus A spherical body transport apparatus applicable in accepting a small spherical body, such as a spherical semiconductor, from a first spherical body treating device and feeding it to a second spherical body treating device. Such a spherical body transport ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6334653 | Conveyor device and method of removing material using the conveyor device To move debris (6), the porosity of which presents certain properties, from a space subjected to the pressure of a compressible substance, such as air, where the pressure is high (pressure chamber, (1)) to a space (3) where the pressure is lower, the inve... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6299387 | Method for evacuating a storage silo for bulk goods, E.G. cereal grain, and an evacuation conveyor thereto A conveyor comprises perforation bands arranged in the floor of a storage space. Some of the bands emit an air stream that in quantity or pressure differs from the air stream in the remaining bands and have apertures with a larger flow area than the apert... | 10/09/2001 |
| 5234292 | Pneumatic tube conveyor system A pneumatic tube conveyor system comprises a dispatching station (13) for spatching conveying cases, a receiving/dispatching station (22) for receiving conveying cases, and an intermediate store (42). A tube system comprising a bidirectional line connects... | 08/10/1993 |
| 4941777 | Apparatus for conveying material Apparatus for conveying material between two terminals using a reversible blower system that conveys a carrier member through a tube by suction from one terminal to an intermediate location and by pneumatic pressure from the intermediate location to the o... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4826360 | Transfer system in a clean room A transfer system for transferring a SMIF pod™ in a clean room, in which the pod is adapted to contain a wafer cassette. The transfer system includes: at least one pair of SMIF arms™, the arms disposed adjacent to a semiconductor processing apparatus ... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4732512 | Pneumatic conveyor systems A rotatable valve member having four ports is provided in a pneumatic conveyor system to permit the smooth docking of a carrier at a station. One port communicates through a branch duct with a main duct for the transport of carriers to the station. The re... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4645035 | Modular conveyor system for drive-in banks and the like A system for conveying a transfer box between a first station and a remote second station wherein a pair of vertical modules are interconnected at their upper ends by a horizontal module. The modules each comprising a tubular housing, such as a cylindrica... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4459069 | Pneumatic dispatch station with a connecting tube which can be shifted into a transit position, into a receiving position, and into a sending position In an exemplary embodiment, a slide selectively closes the upper end of the connecting tube. The dispatch tube and the receiving opening are offset relative to one another in such manner that, at the moment a pneumatic traveler is transferred out of the r... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4455112 | Enclosure construction for remote banking pneumatic tube systems An enclosure construction for pneumatic tubes and power and control cables installed overhead for remote visual auto teller banking systems which is inexpensive and attractive and readily installed. The enclosure includes plastic half sections which are s... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4437799 | Pipeline transportation system A hydraulic capsule pipelining system including a pipeline adapted for flow therethrough of water or other carrier liquid to propel cargo-containing capsules through the pipeline, and means for pumping the liquid through the pipeline utilizing a segment o... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4437797 | Pneumatic mail station for the delivery, pneumatically decelerated reception and transit of pneumatic dispatch cases In an exemplary embodiment, a reception tube chamber closed at one end and a transit tube chamber open at both ends can be displaced in common, whereby, in the reception position of the pneumatic mail station, the reception tube chamber closed at one end ... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4315704 | Single line pneumatic tube system A single line (pressure-vacuum) pneumatic tube system capable of incorporating one or more novel intermediate stations. A unique pressure-vacuum chamber and a novel air shifter valve in the central station provides either pressure or vacuum for the system... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4251169 | Single line pneumatic tube system A single line (pressure-vaccum) pneumatic tube system capable of incorporating one or more novel intermediate stations. A unique pressure-vacuum chamber and a novel air shifter valve in the central station provides either pressure or vacuum for the system... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4239420 | Installation for the automatic and accounted storage and distribution of cash An installation for the transfer of cash between a cash desk and a strong room in a banking establishment includes a conveying line, a storage device, a removal line and a blower which is selectively connected to the conveying line, the storage device and... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4234271 | Method and apparatus for loading and unloading pipeline capsules A pipeline capsule transportation system and apparatus for transporting a continuous link of capsules, comprising a first elongated pipeline and a second elongated pipeline along which continuous links of capsules are to be transported, a loading station ... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4184792 | Vacuum-tube mass-transit system A vacuum-tube mass-transit system comprising at least one continuous, tubular, vehicle conveyor having a fan or blower station arranged at each terminating end thereof, wherey a partial vacuum is generated within the tubular conduit to impart linear motio... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4108079 | Releasable stop for a vehicle moving through a conduit A releasable stop for releasably stopping a vehicle moving through a conduit. A stop gate is supported for pivotal movement into and out of the path of movement of the vehicle. First and second arms are pivotally connected together between the gate and a ... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4059246 | Pneumatic tube banking system A pneumatic tube system for conducting banking transactions with a non-captive carrier traveling between a bank teller terminal in a two-tube carrier conveyor connected with a remote customer terminal with visual communication between the teller and the c... | 11/22/1977 |
