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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6810784 | Glass workpiece transporting and locating system A glass transporting and locating system for a glass cutting table with a bridge extending across the glass cutting table which is movable along the length of the glass cutting table. A glass workpiece feeding table is positioned adjacent the glass cutting table and... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6164434 | Apparatus for transporting profiles Apparatus for transporting profiles of different size and cross section, such as flats, angles, I sections, U sections, T sections and bulb sections, in longitudinal direction, includes a plurality of support elements for transporting the sections along a... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5655452 | Method and apparatus for an automated plate handler with slip sheet removal mechanism The primary function of the optional handler is to make plates available on demand to the imaging engine. A multitude of plates are stored inside cassettes and these cassettes are loaded into the handler. There may be up to four cassettes residing in the ... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5354153 | Machine tool part loading and unloading method and device particularly for machining printed circuit boards On a drilling machine for drilling packs of printed circuit boards, the packs are loaded and unloaded between a support and the work table by engaging a pin on the pack via a pair of jaws and by moving the table longitudinally. The pack is retained by a b... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5180049 | Device for supporting and transporting a metal sheet in relation to a workstation at which the metal sheet is to be punched and/or sheared A metal sheet is supported and transported in relation to a punching and/or shearing station, by supporting the sheet on upwardly projecting flexible bristles, the tips of which define a supporting plane. The bristles have their bases embedded in strips t... | 01/19/1993 |
| 4995778 | Gripping apparatus for transporting a panel of adhesive material The present invention relates to a gripping apparatus for carrying along a adhesive panel of material and includes a carriage which is movably guided in the longitudinal direction of the panel and a holding tong disposed on the carriage with its long arms... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4655662 | Gripper mechanism for feeding elongate strips A gripper mechanism for feeding a pair of elongate strips such as a pair of slide fastener stringers has a pair of gripper holders supporting a pair of grippers for gripping the slide fastener stringers, respectively, and a pair of sliders joined to the g... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4545517 | Continuous forms leader A forms leader is disclosed for use in printing of business forms by a printing device. The leader includes a rectangular sheet of flexible material having a series of line holes formed along the edges of the sheet. The sheet is folded along a crease to d... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4540324 | Device for detecting whether or not one end of a belt-shaped sheet is locked A device for detecting whether or not one end of a belt-shaped sheet is locked having a depressing bar for depressing one end of a belt-shaped sheet perpendicular to the surface of an end thereof when the end is at a locking position where to be locked by... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4489873 | Intermittent feed mechanism A mechanism, for intermittently feeding a tape-like article along a longitudinal path, comprises a slide having a first clamping jaw and reciprocably movable parallel to the longitudinal path, and a second clamping jaw carried by the slide and movable rel... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4457123 | Method and apparatus for depacking articles A method and apparatus of removing articles from a package wherein the articles are arranged in a plurality of side by side rows and sealed in a film of thermoplastic material wherein the package is positioned with the rows of articles supported on a hori... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4389156 | Device for lifting, gripping and transporting printing plates Disclosed is a device for lifting, gripping and transporting printing plates in a processing apparatus of the type in which the printing plates are fixed by suction on a processing table during processing at individual stations of the apparatus. The devic... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4381169 | Manipulator A support carriage of a manipulator carries an outrigger arm on which is mounted a grab assembly. Upper and lower jaws pivotal on the assembly about respective superposed upper and lower parallel axes can be moved by an actuator head engaging both of thes... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4285759 | Apparatus for stripping a cover sheet An apparatus for stripping an adherent cover sheet from a photosensitive film sandwich. A leader from a roll extends over a film having a cover sheet and is attached to an edge of the cover sheet. When the roll is driven, the leader wraps on it and strips... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4284382 | Off-loader An expandable modular housing is adjustably positioned with its open entrance side adjacent the output end of a conveyor feeding one or more lanes of parts. Affixed to the undersurface of the top of the housing are a pair of normally open jaws aligned wit... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4217068 | Protecting device of a clamping means for a sheet-shaped material working machine A protection device is provided for a machine which works sheet shaped material to stop the displacement of the machine when the protection device encounters an obstacle. The machine includes clamps which are displaced by the machine and which hold the ma... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4079877 | Web-dryer threading apparatus having anti-centrifugal structure Disclosed herein a web-treating system equipped with web-threading apparatus having as principal structure, pulleys in endwise coaxial relation with web-conveying rolls, an endless drive cable extending over the pulleys, and a web-tail gripping device wit... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4073386 | Powered material handling apparatus Powered material handling apparatus comprising an elongate carriage having two trucks which are located respectively at its ends, said trucks having wheels which are arranged to enable the carriage to travel laterally of its length along a pair of spaced-... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4055289 | Photographic apparatus A photographic apparatus in which strip-shaped material is to be advanced by means of a travelling leader tape, has a carrier for the strip-shaped material, the carrier being formed with a channel. An arrangement is provided by means of which the leader t... | 10/25/1977 |
| 3995553 | Paper web threading apparatus for rotary printing presses A plurality of drive elements, such as electric motors supplied with sprockets, are located along a threading path for the paper web of a rotary printing press; a threading element, such as a sprocket chain of a finite length somewhat longer than the maxi... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3987887 | Apparatus for transferring and positioning paper reams onto a conveyor system Apparatus for transferring and positioning paper reams onto the feed conveyor of paper ream wrapping machines, comprising a lever member hinged at one end and connected with its opposite end to a gripper assembly, a connecting rod member having its ends r... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3939879 | Method and apparatus for forming pipe reinforcing cages and like closed loop objects Apparatus for forming a closed loop object such as a pipe reinforcing cage from wire fabric includes an infeed carriage assembly receiving sections of wire fabric and transporting the fabric to a pair of gripping assemblies. Each gripping assembly include... | 02/24/1976 |
