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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7421801 | Method and apparatus freeze-drying chamber loading and unloading devices using charging plates, conveyors, sliders A freeze-drying apparatus has a chamber (3) in which are located superposed charging plates (4) as well as loading and unloading equipment. The chamber has a loading aperture (2) equipped with closing doors (11, 12) through which the char... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7124880 | Feeding device with a pivotable pushing member A feeding device includes a rail with a feeding unit and a pushing unit located on two sides of the rail. The feeding unit has a transverse member on which the cylindrical pieces are located and a pivotable arm pivotably connected to the transverse member to push th... | 10/24/2006 |
| 6871389 | Workpiece feeder for a cutting metal-working machine or the like A workpiece feeder adapted to feed workpieces to the processing main shaft of a cutting metal-working machine individually is disclosed to include a frame base adapted to carry individual workpieces, a conveyer, two striking blocks fixedly fastened to the conveyer, ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6708593 | Folding, straight-line, workpiece guide for a band saw A folding, straight-line, workpiece guide for a saw having a base, a saw blade extending vertically through the base, and a feed path relative to the saw blade. The workpiece guide comprises an elongated table which can be collapsed into a folded configuration or se... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6568895 | Feeder system for feeding object-carriers with objects, in particular for printing machines, and a printing machine equipped with the system A feeder system for feeding objects to object-carriers of a machine for processing the objects, in particular a printing machine, includes a reciprocating finger for pushing each object directly towards an object-carrier to place the object on the object-... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6257817 | Pneumatic bar feeding apparatus for feeding a length of bar stock to a lathe or the like A pneumatic bar feeding apparatus for advancing a length of bar stock to a CNC center machine for processing and including a pair of concentric tubular members which are housed in a housing supported by a pair of vertical spaced apart support stands. The ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6024002 | Bar feeder with pre-feed device for an automatic lathe A bar feeder for an automatic lathe provided with a carriage which feeds, by a certain extent, into the bar guiding channel the bar fed from a magazine before the bar is pushed towards the lathe by the bar pusher.... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5911803 | System and method for delivering elongate workpieces to a point of use A system for delivering elongate workpieces to a point of use. The delivering system has a first storage unit for a supply of a first type of elongate workpiece, a second storage unit for a supply of a second type of elongate workpiece, a pickup unit for ... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5896296 | "Short part" detector for automatic screw machine A simple wire probe is positioned between work stations of a multi-spindle automatic screw machine so that, when the spindles of the machine are indexed, the probe is contacted by the distal end of a properly-sized workpiece and a signal is sent to a conv... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5863018 | Bar feeder support A bar feeder support has two longitudinally spaced swivel mounts for supporting longitudinally spaced portions of a cylindrical body for both sliding and swivel movement. The cylindrical body supports a feed tube for feeding a bar stock to a lathe. The fr... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5755546 | Apparatus for loading billets and, if necessary, pressing discs into horizontal metal extrusion presses A loading shell is carried by a movable arm so that a billet to be extruded can be brought from a loading station (furnace) into line with the extrusion axis, between a billet container and a die, extrusion stem or die stem. A pusher which pushes the bill... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5584648 | Bar guide device for bar feeders in machine tools The present invention relates to a bar guide device for bar feeders in machine tools. The device has a plurality of guiding units which are longitudinally aligned. Each guiding unit has a pair of sprockets which are rotatable and have polygonal peripheral... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5562381 | Bar loaders for automatic lathes A loading device comprises a pusher for feeding a bar along a guide towards a lathe spindle. The pusher comprises a first thrust part (16, 116) which is constrained to traversing means (14) along, said path. Said first part comprises a constraint element ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5551821 | Worktable loading and unloading apparatus and method An apparatus for loading and unloading components such as circuit boards from a transport unit to a work station. The apparatus includes a flexible tape which is wound on a storage drum and selectively extended or retracted relative to the drum. Component... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5520493 | Device for loading bars into automatic lathes A device (10) for loading bars in an automatic lathe comprises a pusher (13) with handling means (15,18) to push axially the leading end of a bar (12) into a lathe chuck (11) to be grasped by lathe means (21) moving parallel to the bar axis to feed the ba... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5406821 | Tube bending apparatus and method A tube loading assembly for use in loading a tube on a flexible mandrel of a tube bending machine; said assembly comprising mandrel receiving means for receiving said mandrel; mandrel alignment means for aligning said received mandrel to be co-axial with ... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5343788 | Hydrodynamic support pump Apparatus for an automatic bar feeder is given which provides fluid to the space between the barstock and guide tube having a pump integral to the piston pusher to control pressure on the barstock being fed to the machine tool.... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5333524 | Pressure stabilizer for barfeed apparatus A pressure stabilizing apparatus is given which is capable of storing and supplying the volume of hydraulic fluid needed for rapid advances as well as accepting displaced hydraulic fluid required for rapid retractions in a barfeed apparatus. This pressure... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5326210 | Machine for automatically loading bar stock A machine for automatically loading elongated bars into an automatic screw machine. Each bar initially is advanced at a rapid rate and with relatively low force by a first fluid-operated actuator. When the leading end of the bar reaches the feed finger of... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5323633 | Apparatus and method for orienting a curved workpiece An apparatus for presenting a curved workpiece to a workstation, includes a frame member and a guide channel associated with the frame member for receiving a curved workpiece in a generally upright position. A first pusher mechanism is reciprocally movabl... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5320010 | Guide bar tube for automatic lathe The invention relates to a guide-bar tube for an automatic lather. The guide-bar tube includes a centering traveler comprising balls distributed in two parallel planes in a manner which allows the centering traveler to be locked either to the guide-bar tu... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5320008 | Double-pusher bar feeder for machine tools A bar feeder for a machine tool, comprising a first guide and first pushing member for feeding bars in alignment with a spindle of the machine. A second bar guide and a second pushing member are laterally arranged to the first pushing member. A drive slid... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5165837 | Apparatus for feeding articles from tube magazines Component feeder for feeding comonents (8) from a tube magazine (2) comprises a pusher (44) on the end of a flexible steel tape (48) which extends from a tape housing (52). A filled tube (2) is supported on retractable pins (30, 30') in alignment with the... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5140878 | Bar-pusher actuation device for bar feeders applied to machine tools The bar-pusher actuation device for bar feeders applied to machine tools includes a linear actuator composed of a chain with which the bar-pusher is associated and which is closed around a pair of fixed pinions and a pair of gearwheels which are movable w... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5108245 | Device for the axial transport of elongated objects A handling unit for axially transporting elongated objects from a first location to a second location such as from a feed table into a machining unit where machining operations are to be performed upon the object. A feed table, or corresponding depository... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5066185 | Bar feeder A bar feeder for machine tools, comprising at least first and second carriages for bearing the bars, the carriages being movable along guide rods which are supported at their ends so as to freely oscillate with the carriages and the bar. The guide rods be... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5056978 | Shelf system with a conveyor arrangement A high shelf system and a conveyor arrangement including a vertical mast ucture which is movable in longitudinal direction of a corridor between shelf racks. The mast structure includes load receiving members which can be aligned with the shelf compartme... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5031291 | Apparatus for bending elongated materials in a continuous manner A bending apparatus has a fixed supply head, a movable bending head, a material feeding device, a sliding device, and a swinging device for sliding and swinging the movable bending head. The sliding device and the swinging device slide and swing the movab... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5015141 | Freight transportation system A freight transportation system is provided and comprises a loading station, an unloading station and a vehicle moveable therebetween to transport freight. The vehicle includes a lower platform for carrying freight and a pair of doors moveable between ope... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4977801 | Multiple-channel guiding device for bar-loaders of automatic machine tools The multiple-channel guiding device for bar-loaders of automatic machine tools comprises an elongated body, peripherally defining a plurality of grooves with different diameters and being rotatable about its own longitudinal axis so as to move one of the ... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4914993 | Device for controlling bar facing on automatic lathes for machining bars The device for controlling the facing of a bar on an automatic lathe for machining bars, comprises a bar-pusher actuated by a traction element to cause the advancement of a bar towards the lathe, a carriage slideable on a guide parallel to the traction el... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4914992 | Device for improving the feed of a bar in an automatic lathe for machining bars The device comprises a box-like body inside which two shoes are slideable and are actuated in opposition. A shoe is compsed of a plate which has a guiding opening for a gib of the other shoe. Brackets are rigidly and protrudingly associated with the top o... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4708039 | Bar feeding apparatus A stock pusher for a bar feed apparatus includes an improved bar gripping collet in which the bar gripping force applied by the collet may be easily adjusted in the field.... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4689202 | Reagent test strip reading instrument A multiple reagent test strip-reading instrument having rails extending from a loading area to one or more reading station platforms and then to a waste receptacle, a reciprocating blotter arm which contacts individual reagent strips sequentially placed t... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4646597 | Pusher head for feeder for automatic lathe In order to permit the use of bars of material to be machined without a piminary preparation of the rearward end of the bar being necessary, the pusher head presents ribs extending inwardly, and the surfaces of which directed toward the axis form cone po... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4624612 | Guide-bar device for multi-spindle lathe The device comprises a barrel which is indexed by a multi-spindle lathe at each machining operation. The barrel comprises guiding tubes for the bars to be machined which are in rotation in a fluid delivered between the guiding tube and the bar by pipes co... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4596170 | Bar stock guiding device for use with automatic latches A bar stock guiding device for use with automatic lathes comprises two cushions which have the shape of semicylindrical annuli. The cushions are applied against each other in a recess of a freely rotatable sleeve. This sleeve is located between the lathe ... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4557165 | Rod-supply arrangement for an automatic lathe A rod-supply arrangement is described, comprising a guide tube containing oil and mounted in a support and a feed rod movable axially in the guide tube and coupled to a feed drive, the forward end of the feed rod carrying a rotatable coupling element, and... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4543711 | System for automatically inserting U-tubes of heat exchanger or the like Disclosed is a system for automatically successively inserting a plurality of U-shaped heat transfer tubes into holes of support members of an equipment such as a heat exchanger. The system has fixing means for removably fixing the support members such th... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4526505 | Fast retract feed An apparatus and method are provided for feeding elongated products, such as feeding large sausage chubs or loafs to a slicer, which apparatus includes a transport for engaging such elongated products during the feed mode. At the end of the feeding mode, ... | 07/02/1985 |
