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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7329081 | Apparatus for transporting containers An automated apparatus suitable for transporting containers arranged in a row of stacks or partial stacks includes an overhead gantry system. The overhead gantry system has a moveable support for supporting at least one stack or partial stack of containers and movin... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320780 | Sterilising unit A sterilizing unit for food, pharmaceutical and like products, packaged in rigid or soft containers, includes at least an autoclave adapted to receive, through at least an access door and through a loading/unloading unit, at least a container wherein are arranged pa... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7229045 | Store control device and system for the preparation and intermediate storage of paper reels and feeding thereof to at least one reel stand and method for its operation A store control device of an intermediate store carries, on a pivot mounting which is mounted on a chassis capable of travelling along a track, so as to be rotatable about a vertical axis through 360°, a pick-up device for a paper reel which has a continuous track ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7062893 | System and method for accommodating atypical customer requirements in a mass customization A build cell is utilized to manufacture computers and load data into the computers according to customer orders. The build cell may include a build station at which components are assembled into a computer and a first network connection that links the computer with ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7054704 | Method, system and facility for controlling resource allocation within a manufacturing environment A method and system provide for the control of resource allocation within a build-to-order manufacturing environment. One example embodiment of a method according to the present disclosure includes an operation for monitoring a work-in-process (WIP) profile that rep... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7048488 | Apparatus for transferring wafer and ring For wafer processing, wafers are transferred between a thermal treatment chamber and a thermal treatment installation. The treatment chamber has a top section and a bottom section between which the wafer is accommodated during treatment. The thermal treatment instal... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6808592 | High throughput plasma treatment system A system for the plasma treatment of parts. The system includes a chamber base sealingly engageable with a reaction chamber to form a treatment chamber and a lifting device operable to lift the reaction chamber from the chamber base. A transfer mechanism is operable... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6676355 | Apparatus and method to effectuate pre-lift positioning for a drop furnace cage An apparatus and method whereby precise furnace cage positioning may be effectuated. The apparatus of the instant invention is embodied as a uniquely structured multi-plane positioning device which comprises the positional attachment of a drop furnace cag... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6473151 | Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus has a film forming unit group disposed along a first transfer route and a developing processing unit group disposed along a second transfer route. A substrate is transferred along the first transfer route, undergoes film f... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6466300 | Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus for performing processing having a plurality of processes, for example, resist coating and developing processing for a substrate, comprises a plurality of processing mechanisms each for performing predetermined processing ... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6234091 | Feed chute apparatus for gravity feeding tires and other materials in to a rotating kiln A feed chute apparatus for injecting fuel into a rotating cement kiln by gravity. The apparatus, which is positioned adjacent to a cement kiln and supported at an angle of inclination sufficient to allow tires or other combustible materials to be gravity ... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6210156 | Heat treatment material handling unit A method and apparatus for sequentially heat treating small parts processes the parts individually through a heat treatment process at a predetermined rate, so that each part is heat treated for a predetermined time and all parts are heat treated equally.... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6038886 | Mold support frame assembly having thermally stable center A mold support frame assembly including a pair of mold support frames between which a connector extends and cooperates with to provide a thermally stable center. Each mold support frame includes a linkage extending between a pair of spaced legs and having... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6036424 | Cart for unloading and transporting chain A cart for unloading and transporting chain is provided. The cart includes a frame with a number of tracks of a predetermined configuration which are superimposed over one another. Long segments of chain are routed from an oven onto a transfer rail assemb... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6027262 | Resist process method and system A resist process method includes the steps of, preparing a process section for processing a wafer, means for extracting the wafer from a cassette and conveying the substrate to the process section, a cleaning section for finally cleaning the wafer process... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5976258 | High temperature substrate transfer module A system and method for processing a substrate. The system includes a substrate heating station, a processing station, a conveyor for transporting the heated substrate from the substrate heating station to the processing station and a conveyor heating sta... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5915308 | Discharge apparatus A discharge apparatus includes a housing into which a discharge pipe of a carbonization drum opens. A residue discharge chute which starts from the housing opens into a conveying device ending at an outlet. A filling-level meter is disposed at the residue... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5749283 | Oven with slide-out transfer guides An oven with slide-out transfer guides is provided for use in conjunction with multiple conveyors ovens to provide quick and convenient accessibility to an oven's interior in case of product transfer difficulties. A slidable rail assembly is mounted in th... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5688096 | Tray for carrying concrete blocks and system for handling and curing concrete blocks adapted thereto The present invention relates to a tray for carrying a plurality of pallets loaded with several concrete blocks. The tray is a rectangular frame defining an upper surface, front and rear ends and upwardly-projecting flanges at both front and rear ends. Th... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5664254 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method A wafer processing apparatus includes a common path, extending in a Y-axis direction, in which one wafer or a plurality of wafers are conveyed, a plurality of process units stacked on both sides of the common path to constitute multi-stage structures, a m... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5586855 | Apparatus and method for infeeding batched materials An apparatus for infeeding batched material to an inlet opening of a material processing apparatus includes a lift mechanism disposed alongside the material processing apparatus and being operable to lift the batched material at least to the elevation of ... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5435686 | Bearing race hardening line A pusher furnace for heating workpieces has an elongate and generally horizontally extending chamber housing a plurality of trays to receive workpieces thereon to be heated within the chamber. The chamber is divided into at least two generally parallel ro... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5433573 | Apparatus for injecting fuel into kilns and the like An apparatus is provided for injecting fuel in the form of pieces of various sizes into a burning zone of a kiln having an end inlet. The apparatus includes two rubber tires rotating in opposite directions, at least one motor for rotating the tires, an en... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5430271 | Method of heat treating a substrate with standby and treatment time periods A method of heat-treating a substrate to be loaded/unloaded to and from a substrate heating device for a prescribed time period cycle including the steps of transferring the substrate from a substrate conveying robot to a substrate transferring and receiv... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5392696 | Tortilla transfer guide and method for transferring tortillas An apparatus and method for maintaining the lateral spacing of parallel rows of tortillas while transferring tortillas between two vertically spaced conveyors. The tortilla transfer guide is positioned adjacent to two generally horizontal, vertically spac... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5338144 | Apparatus and method for transferring batched materials A batched materials transferring apparatus includes an elongated drum, a bucket disposed in the drum, and a drive arrangement operable to move the bucket relative to the drum. The drum defines an interior chamber having a longitudinal axis. The drum has a... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5178639 | Vertical heat-treating apparatus A vertical heat-treating apparatus which is effective for preventing dust or fine particles from being attached to a wafer during the loading/unloading or transport of the wafer thereby to manufacture a high-quality wafers. This apparatus comprises a carr... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5161457 | Hydrostatic cooker discharge A hydrostatic cooker discharge apparatus comprises a flight conveyor, a first belt conveyor and a second belt conveyor. The flight conveyor sequentially receives horizontally oriented sticks of containers from a cooker. The first belt conveyor in conjunct... | 11/10/1992 |
| 4955775 | Semiconductor wafer treating apparatus An apparatus is disclosed which can automatically load semiconductor wafers into a vertical type heat treatment furnace and unload treated semiconductor wafers out of the heat treatment furnace. The semiconductor wafer treating apparatus comprises exchang... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4938691 | Heat-treating apparatus A heat-treating apparatus includes a furnace for heat-treating wafers, installed so as to set its longitudinal direction vertically and having an opening which is formed in its lower end so as to allow a boat having semiconductor wafers mounted thereon to... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4876225 | Cantilevered diffusion chamber atmospheric loading system and method A system and method for loading and unloading articles, especially adapted for moving semiconductor wafers into and out of a diffusion chamber. An article support is cantilevered for moving the articles into the chamber without touching it. A separately c... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4767251 | Cantilever apparatus and method for loading wafer boats into cantilever diffusion tubes An apparatus for loading semiconductor wafers into a cantilever diffusion tube includes a cantilever paddle supporting a boatload of wafers. The paddle is moved into alignment with the open end of the cantilever diffusion tube. The open end portion of can... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4690626 | Rotational mold system with multiple stations A rotary molding apparatus is described, including a heating chamber, cooling chambers and supports for molds which melt and cast workpieces of plastic. The cooling chambers can be arranged circularly around the heating chamber which is disposed at the ce... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4626203 | Furnace Disclosed is a furnace having a furnace chamber formed with a work inlet and a work outlet, and a work mount turntable rotatably provided within the furnace chamber, the furnace further comprising work carry-in means for carrying a work while mounting the... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4613305 | Horizontal furnace with a suspension cantilever loading system A horizontal furnace for processing semiconductor devices having a suspension cantilever which supports workpieces in the furnace tube to achieve particle or dust-free operation while still allowing the loading and unloading of workpieces to be heat-treat... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4578011 | Device for charging steel products in a reheating or treatment furnace A treatment furnace having a longitudinally extending charging opening has a transversely extending furnace conveyor having an upstream end in the vicinity of the opening. A loading conveyor has an array of transversely extending approach rollers adjacent... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4553893 | Article transfer apparatus Apparatus and methods for transferring articles, such as concrete blocks, from a conveyor to a curing kiln and return comprise a carriage movable along a path leading from the block conveyor to any selected one of a number of curing kilns. The carriage su... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4507039 | Automatic parison feed system The present invention relates to an automatic parison feed system for tubular plastic parisons. The parisons are fed, one at a time, from a parison feed unit into a parison loading unit. The parison loading unit, which holds a parison vertically, is posit... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4505630 | Article transfer apparatus Apparatus and methods for transferring articles, such as concrete blocks, from a conveyor to a curing kiln and return comprise a carriage movable along a path leading from the block conveyor to any selected one of a number of curing kilns. The carriage su... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4492503 | High speed pusher An apparatus for transferring palletized uncured concrete blocks to a curing kiln from a block making station and rapidly loading the palletized uncured blocks into the kiln. Typical kilns include a plurality of rows of tiered passageways extending from a... | 01/08/1985 |
