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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7686546 | Pneumatic transport tube system A pneumatic transfer system includes a service provider terminal and a customer terminal. A carrier is moved through a transfer conduit between the customer and service provider terminals by a differential pressure generating mechanism. Each of the customer terminal... | 03/30/2010 |
| 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 |
| 6461085 | Sputter pallet loader A sputter pallet loading and unloading device includes in one embodiment a spindle that rotates the pallet while an arm is engaged with the spring in the pallet to open and close the spring. In another embodiment, the spindle is located adjacent an air tr... | 10/08/2002 |
| 5217329 | Pneumatic tube conveyor station A pneumatic tube conveyor station serves for receiving conveying cases (12) rriving from a forwarding tube (11) and having a high weight of, for example, 12 kg and a high travelling speed of, for example, 7 m/s. The conveying cases (12) are initially brake... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5215412 | Pneumatic transport system A pneumatic transport system, particularly useful as a mail transport system, which includes a transport carrier moving through a pneumatic tube line between remote sending/receiving stations is described. Movement of the transport carrier through the pne... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5127773 | Carrier delivery terminal for a pneumatic transport system A pneumatic transport system includes a pneumatic transport tube having a stop device mounted therein. A window aperture is defined through a wall of the transport tube such that a pneumatic tube carrier is presented for retrieval through the window apert... | 07/07/1992 |
| 4971481 | Pneumatic tube stop device and terminal The present invention describes a stop device for stopping a carrier traveling in a pneumatic tube. The invention also includes a terminal comprising the stop device. The stop device includes a pneumatic tube having an exhaust aperture and a shutoff apert... | 11/20/1990 |
| 3964693 | Counterbalanced door mechanism for teller carrier receive tube of a pneumatic banking system A vertical carrier receiving tube at the teller station in a pneumatic tube system for banking is provided with a door upon which the carrier arrives from the customer kiosk station. The door is counterbalanced so that upon arrival of the carrier its weig... | 06/22/1976 |
