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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7255551 | High volume print-forming system A system is provided for high volume print-forming of structures made up of multiple separate layers. A support bed is provided which has multiple steps arrayed thereon at different heights. Substrate blocks rest upon each of the steps. A printing process is utilize... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7210280 | System and method for loading a cargo space with piece goods A machining system and unit, especially a welding cell, is provided for use for the machining of workpieces (2), especially body parts of vehicles. The machining system has one or more machining stations (15, 16) with robots (18, 19, 20) and at ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7201555 | Pallet loader and separator A system for loading pallets onto an assembly line wherein the system has at least one arm capable of lifting a stack of pallets and then depositing the bottom-most pallet of the stack of pallets onto an assembly line surface for subsequent delivery to the assembly ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7191892 | Apparatus for transferring products from a first conveying line to a second conveying line, in particular for feeding a boxing machine In an apparatus for transferring products from a first conveying line to a second line conveying line operated stepwise in a feeding direction and particularly for feeding a boxing machine a plurality of compartments are aligned along the feeding direction. Each com... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7118101 | Device and method for the input and storage of banknotes An apparatus and method for inputting and depositing bank notes, whereby checked bank notes are temporarily stored in a stacking device singly or in bundles. To permit secure transport of bank notes from a stacking position to an end cashbox, temporarily stored bank... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7108648 | Bundled sheets processing apparatus A bundled sheet processing apparatus has a chute unit tilting between the first and second positions. A downstream side in the chute unit conveying direction, there is provided a stopper that has the contact surface narrower than the thickness of a bundle and stops ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7069708 | Sheet package producing system, sheet handling device, and fillet folding device A sheet package producing system includes at least a cutter module and a packaging module. The cutter module has a cutter blade, for producing X-ray films by cutting a continuous sheet material. The packaging module has packaging robots, for producing a sheet packag... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7033130 | Depalletizer for a material handling system A depalletizer includes an input assembly for supporting a loaded pallet loaded with at least one product, a lift assembly, and a product take-away assembly. The input assembly presents the loaded pallet to the lift assembly, which moves the loaded pallet to a produ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7028450 | System and method of processing and packing disk-like objects A system for automatically forming several parallel rows of disk-like objects on a conveyor into stacks and packing those stacks into boxes is disclosed along with a method of operating the system. The system includes a stacker receiving the disk-like objects as the... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6890141 | Method and device for transporting and rotating stacks of sheet-form print materials The invention relates to a method and device for transporting and rotating sheet-form print material. A rotation unit carried on a transport unit is moveable along a carriage guide. A gripper on the rotation unit holds the sheet form print material. Mechanical inter... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6439973 | Polishing device, end face polishing apparatus having polishing device, and end face polishing method An end face polishing apparatus in which whereas a jig board mounted with a rod-like member is supported by an apparatus main body by a supporting mechanism, a polishing board mounted with a polishing member for polishing the rod-like member is supported ... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6302773 | Polishing device, end face polishing apparatus having polishing device, and end face polishing method An end face polishing apparatus comprises a polishing board and a jig board for supporting workpieces. A polishing member is detachably arranged on the polishing board and has a polishing film for polishing end faces of the workpieces while the workpieces... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6257824 | Fin alternating and delivering apparatus A fin alternating and delivering apparatus is provided for orientating and delivering fins emanating from a fin mill to a fin trayer for assembly into a heat exchanger. The fin alternating and delivering apparatus includes an entrance chute for receiving ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6048165 | Apparatus for packing connector plates The invention relates to an apparatus for packing connector plates or the like. The apparatus comprises a horizontal conveyor (V) for conveying connector plates (N) to a stacking station (P) at the end of the horizontal conveyor (V) with the plates orient... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5979634 | Infeed section for packaging apparatus An apparatus for feeding, stacking, and/or upending products includes a pair of indexing star wheels. A conveyor advances a row of products toward an upstream star wheel. One or more products are metered into one of the notches in the upstream star wheel,... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5681141 | Tire stacker A tire stacking apparatus includes a base frame with a carriage pivotally mounted on the frame for selective movement between a horizontal loading position and a vertical stacking position. The carriage includes a pair of parallel support members connecte... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5665197 | Plywood lay-up system A plywood layup system for assembling veneer plies includes a carousel feeder that supplies core veneer plies to an accumulator gate system. The accumulator gate system accumulates one or several plies into a predetermined ply assembly pattern before rele... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5647589 | Fully automatic device for removal of spot samples A device which enables fully automatic removal of spot-check samples from unfolded cartons, and predetermines, by means of a counting and marking unit, a precise selected stack quantity from a travelling endless stack disposed in a scale-like configuratio... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5634548 | Brick dehacker A brick dehacking apparatus. The dehacking apparatus is operable to blend the upper and lower courses of brick from a kiln car with each other and further blend these brick with brick from the middle courses of the stack in preparation for stacking and st... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5344521 | Coating film separating device and coating film separation method using the device A coating film separating device includes a substrate holding device for holding a substrate, at least one side of which is covered with a coating film, a roller unit equipped with a roller and a device for pressing the roller against an end portion of th... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5249917 | Palletizer The present invention is an apparatus useful for palletizing elongated articles including bundles of stacked sheets or signatures. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a frame and a slide system mounted to the frame. The slide system comprises... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5160558 | Petri dish stack transfer system Agar-filled petri dishes with covers on them are taken in rows from a first conveyor belt through interface equipment to a horizontal infeed conveyor transporting them in axially aligned packs of ten through a conventional wrapping machine. Two alternate ... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5028201 | Transport of materials with controlled lowering before upset Apparatus for the transport of materials by elevating a stack of materials, moving a selected group of the materials and controllably lowering the materials to an upset position, from which the group is moved simultaneously to an output position.... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4967898 | Conveyor apparatus for the transport of sheet metal blanks The conveyor apparatus is connecting a cutter, by means of which sheet metal blanks are produced in adjacent rows, to the magazine of a can welding apparatus which produces from the sheet metal blanks can bodies. A row of adjacently arranged depositing re... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4795297 | Apparatus for feeding boards An apparatus for feeding boards, said apparatus being provided with reversing arm means 23 which comprises a table 21 and a conveyance surface 22, said conveyance surface making an obtuse angle with said table, and fork means 33 capable of pivoting edge r... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4743154 | Pallet inspection and repair system A pallet repair and inspection system includes pallet destacking apparatus for automatically dispensing pallets from stack of vertical pallets one at a time and discharging the pallets onto an inspection table. The destacking apparatus includes a vertical... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4676708 | Stack developing and vertical elevating assembly and method therefor Method and apparatus for supplying can ends or the like to a downstream processing unit, such as a rotary carousel feeder unit or the like comprises a generally horizontal trough section for accumulating in stacked array can ends delivered from an upstrea... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4618302 | Device for accumulating and delivering paper sheets An apparatus for accumulating and delivering paper sheets for use with a bank note dispenser including a paddle wheel for receiving paper sheets among swirling paddles provided on the paddle wheel and supporting the paper sheets thereon, a scraper for scr... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4583727 | Device for picking up, transferring and turning a textile web A device including unpiling apparatus of the gripper type, each gripper including a pick-up beak, the fixed plate of the gripper being rigid with a carriage movable on a horizontal guide, this carriage being coupled to the piston rod of a fixed fluid-oper... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4552350 | Transport for diverted and purged sheets in a sheet dispenser A sheet dispenser in which sheets are delivered from cassettes to a collector and held thereon. The collector is mounted on a moveable support, and the collector and bills thereon are moved to either left or right delivery areas of the terminal in respons... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4460304 | Tile orientation apparatus Disclosed is an apparatus for removing the top tile from a stack thereof formed face down on a first conveyor at a first location and placing it on a device which flips the tile over onto a second conveyor adapted to travel at right angles to the first on... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4377111 | Cassette stacking device An automatic cassette stacking apparatus has first and second three-sided chutes connected to a stacker chute. A cassette to be stacked is moved through the first three-sided chute and can be stamped with a date. The cassette then moves through the second... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4363584 | Paper sheet accumulator assembly and bank note dispenser provided therewith A paper sheet accumulator assembly for successively underlaying paper sheets in good order at a collection station which has a paddle wheel disposed downstream of a conveyor belt assembly for delivering paper sheets, such as bills of money, to the accumul... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4234279 | Automatic apparatus for discharging loose products in bins An automatic apparatus for discharging loose products, such as fruit, vegetables and the like, contained in the generously dimensioned crates that are commonly known as "bins", are open at the top and have their lower part provided with a support plate in... | 11/18/1980 |
| 4161368 | Brick blending apparatus Apparatus for selectively blending rows of bricks includes a blending station having a blending area into which bricks are introduced from first and second staging areas on opposite sides of the blending area. In a preferred embodiment, the bricks are del... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4159761 | Cookie dispensing apparatus Apparatus for automatically dispensing stacks of cookies into the pockets of cookie packaging trays. The cookies are stacked edgewise on a delivery line which includes a cookie shingler and a cookie separator feeding the cookies one by one onto an acceler... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4124128 | Shingle stacking Shingles or the like are usually rectangular in shape and of non-uniform thickness being of a greater thickness at one long edge and of lessor thickness at the other. Such shingles are arranged by automatic equipment for stacking in squared bundles by del... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4060955 | Machine for mechanical production of brick masonry The invention relates to a machine for mechanical production of masonry of bricks arranged in courses and in an offset manner having a carrying and guide frame adapted to move on rails along the masonry to be produced, comprising a carrying and guide fram... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4022332 | Apparatus for orienting case blanks An apparatus receives case blanks in a given faced orientation within an upright stack and delivers the blanks in shingled arrangement in reverse faced orientation. Two forks are pivoted about a common pivotal axis and move independent of one another, in ... | 05/10/1977 |
| 3992245 | Machine for delivering secondary work-pieces to primary work-pieces A machine for lifting secondary work-pieces, such as stamp mounts, from stacks on one work-piece support and delivering them to primary work-pieces, such as catalog pages, on a second work-piece support by means of vacuum-operated intermittently moving pi... | 11/16/1976 |
