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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7182201 | Wafer carrying apparatus and wafer carrying method A wafer carrying apparatus 20 for carrying intermediate products comprises: a conveyer 40 for carrying the intermediate products in the carrying direction; and a plurality of platforms 41 arranged in the conveyer 40 along the carrying dir... | 02/27/2007 |
| 6779668 | Method of automatically sorting objects and combining objects to assortments In a method for automated sorting of objects and combining the objects to assortments according to a selectable sorting specification, the objects are removed from a supply and an object sorting position for the objects is determined, respectively, by a control unit... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6644191 | Printing materials elevator Installed in a rotary press which is provided with an upper work floor T and a lower work floor U to accommodate multi-layered printing sections, there are included upper turning bodies B installed at a high level on an upper story W, opposing each other ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6615565 | Apparatus for packing boards Apparatus for packing a pack of boards, eg plaster board, for wrapping and then delivery to a site is disclosed. The apparatus 1 comprises broadly about 30 to 40 board storage units or bins 2, 3 arranged in two sets. Each bin 2, 3 stores a different size ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6503043 | Multiple level loading apparatus and method A loading apparatus for vertically stacking a plurality of articles includes a staging assembly. The staging assembly includes a staging platform configured to receive and support the articles. The staging platform is vertically movable to a plurality of ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6387441 | Optical lens coating apparatus and method A method and apparatus are provided for batch, continuous, or semi-continuous coating of optical lenses. The method and apparatus use a plurality of carriages which are reciprocally moved in the apparatus to transfer jigs from a jig filled carriage to a l... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6379096 | Buffer storage system A storage system is disclosed which utilizes an array of at least three storage columns, each including a plurality of storage spaces. A primary automation system, which includes a robotic end effector for engaging objects to be stored, carrying objects i... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6069342 | Automated multiple lead frame strip radiant die attach material curing apparatus A method of curing a die attach material for a semiconductor device which includes providing a carrier containing a plurality of stacked leadframe strips, each leadframe strip with a die attach material thereon. One leadframe strip is ejected from the car... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6003654 | Automatic bottle rack loader A compact machine for automatically loading racks with bottled water containers, includes an in feed conveyor for delivering upright bottles, a pin wheel mechanism with spaced apart spokes for receiving each individual bottle from the in feed conveyor tha... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5897290 | Lead frame magazine handling device A lead frame magazine handling device is disclosed which includes a magazine loading assembly, a magazine unloading assembly, two sets of receiving jaw mechanisms, a guided elevating assembly, and a programmable controller. The empty magazines are moved t... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5727917 | Magazine conveying device A lead frame magazine conveying device including vertically provided magazine loader and unloader sections and an elevator system which transferred the lead frame magazine between the magazine loader and unloader sections, and the conveying device further... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5588791 | Apparatus for sequentially delivering articles contained in cassettes An apparatus, for sequentially delivering articles to a specified article-receiving position from each of a plurality of cassettes each containing a plurality of the articles slidably one above another, includes endless chains with cassette-carrying bars ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5516251 | Magazine carrying apparatus An apparatus for carrying a magazine for lead frames used in, for example, a wire bonding machine including a magazine loader stage, a magazine unloader stage, and a vertically moving elevator that carries the magazine from the loader stage to the unloade... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5501564 | System for the storage and transportation of flat objects such as extra-flat boxes and its portable rack According to the present invention, a system for storing and distributing flat objects to different working stations is provided. The system comprises storage modules (2), transportation or conveying modules (4, 4A) and distribution modules (5). All these... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5478185 | Bulk envelope container and transfer system and method A bulk envelope container for use in a bulk envelope transfer system and method includes a plurality of elongate chambers, each of which can store a stack of envelopes. The chambers can be arranged in rows and columns and the container is designed for use... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5470194 | Method and apparatus for unloading a poultry transport container In a method for unloading a poultry transport container, which comprises at least one loading tray with a side unloading flap, the end of a discharge conveyor is applied from the side of the unloading flap closely above the loading tray. This end is gradu... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5207547 | Package replacing apparatus A package replacing apparatus capable of running along a creel having a plurality of pegs comprising a fitting unit for putting packages on the pegs and a pull-off unit for pulling off bobbins from the pegs, wherein the fitting unit includes a plurality o... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5195687 | Textile tube transport assembly having independent loading and unloading capabilities A textile production system utilizes a textile spinning machine and a textile winding machine and a transport assembly for transporting the support members between the machines. The transport assembly includes a container having a plurality of vertically ... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5018618 | Device for temporarily storing a succession of newspapers A method of achieving temporary storage of a succession of objects such as newspapers, arranged in overlapping formation, comprising dividing the succession of objects into sections (1) carried along on a conveyor (22) to a position close to a series of v... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4929140 | Rack loader The invention is a loader for loading containers such as large, heavy bottles of bottled-water from a conveyor, into a rack. It comprises a transfer table spaced from the conveyor and generally coplanar therewith. The table includes pairs of upstanding su... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4772176 | Handling of palletized goods in a warehouse or the like A warehouse contains a fixed number of pallet-carrying primary modules (7) arranged in a rectangular block (8) and further arranged in side-by-side parallel longitudinal rows. A working row (A) provides an exposed front side (9) adjacent a worker's statio... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4721262 | Textile machine for producing cross-wound bobbins A textile machine for producing cross-wound bobbins includes a head end of the textile machine, a cycling conveyor disposed at the head end for transporting cross-wound bobbins in a given cycling direction, at least one bobbin frame accepting at least one... | 01/26/1988 |
| 4712963 | Apparatus for soldering printed circuit boards Printed circuit boards to be soldered are placed in a magazine and automatically fed, one by one, to a printed circuit board-processing line. The processed boards are automatically collected in another, empty magazine. Lifting means is provided for vertic... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4669047 | Automated parts supply system An automated parts supply system is disclosed for a manufacturing operation to deliver parts to individual work stations on a "just-in-time" basis. A carrier module with a supply of parts in a set of containers is placed on a computer controlled guided ve... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4600351 | Fowl metering and cooping system A fowl harvesting apparatus receives fowl which are conveyed upwardly and deposited in a metering tray which actuates a switch to cut off the conveyor when a desired number of fowl have been deposited in the tray. The tray is then moved downwardly on a su... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4458152 | Precision specular proximity detector and article handing apparatus employing same Infrared radiation is focused to a line at a site at which a semiconductor wafer is expected to appear when a wafer is transferred with, i.e., loaded onto or unloaded from, a semiconductor wafer conveyor. A cylindrical lens of selected focal length is pos... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4252488 | Storage retrieval system with pivoted holder frames An article storage and retrieval system has a plurality of annular and generally concentric tracks of any desired shape each carrying a train of holder frames each having a pair of ends spaced apart by a gap. Each train has at each of the holder frames a ... | 02/24/1981 |
| 3967740 | Article-handling apparatus A buffer store for filled and empty cigarette containers is provided between a cigarette making machine and a cigarette packing machine so that either of the machines may be kept running if the other stops. In one example the buffer store consists of sepa... | 07/06/1976 |
