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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7993095 | Mobile split palletizer A modular split palletizer for loading layers of articles on stackable pallets. The palletizer has a frame supporting first, second, and third sections. The first section includes a layer build area and a first portion of a stacker transfer track. The second section... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7452178 | Unit and method for forming packs of products for a packaging machine A unit for forming packs of products for a packaging machine comprises at least three feed surfaces (3, 4, 5) for layers of products (2) and a receiving station (6) for the layers of products (2). The receiving station (6) comprise... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7364398 | Apparatus and method for stacking sheets discharged from a starwheel assembly An apparatus and method for moving stacks of product discharged from a stacking device. The apparatus includes a first conveyor movable at a first speed and a second conveyor movable at a second speed. The first conveyor includes an upstream end adjacent to the stac... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7318306 | Packaging method for packaging containers and lids An apparatus for use in packaging containers and associated lids together includes a moveable gantry with a first support portion and a second support portion alongside the first support portion. The first and second support portions are sized and configured to supp... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7184855 | Automated container storage and delivery system A container storage and delivery system includes an individual container storage and delivery system. A palletizer is provided for forming a group of containers from the individual container storage and delivery system into a layer or a partial layer, and placing th... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7156606 | Article aligning apparatus An article aligning apparatus for aligning a plurality article tiers to be loaded into a carton. Each article tier comprises an article array delivered from an in-feed stream at an in-feed end of a packaging machine. The apparatus comprises an article conveyor for c... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7128519 | Auto stacking machine for strip articles An auto stacking machine includes a worktable (10), a plurality of chutes (20), a pair of receivers (30), and a cushioning apparatus. Three vertical plates (14) are mounted on the worktable. The chutes are attached to outmost ones of the ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7063500 | Method and apparatus of stacking veneer sheets A method of stacking a veneer sheet carried by a conveyer onto a pile of similar veneer sheets is disclosed. Veneer sheet is separated from the conveyer thereby to allow the sheet to drop from the conveyer toward the pile. The veneer sheet being dropped is restraine... | 06/20/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6951272 | Signature-stacking apparatus In a signature-stacking apparatus, a conveyor chain holding a row of signatures travels along a conveyance path. A first signature release section and a second signature release section are provided in the conveyance path. During travel from the first signature rele... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6817829 | Work loading method for automatic palletizer, work loading method, work loading apparatus and attachment replacing method thereof A work loading method and a work loading apparatus with excellent productivity are provided. For this purpose, a work loading method includes the steps of: positioning the work with two centering devices (3a, 3b) every other press shot; a... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6804939 | Sheet sets packaging system A product packaging system for organizing and packing a number of different items into a set. The system may include a number of staging conveyors. Each of the staging conveyors may carry a stack of items from the number of different items. The system further may in... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6729836 | Automated container storage and delivery system A material storage and delivery system includes an individual container storage and delivery system (ICSDS). A palletizer is provided for placing containers from the ICSDS on a pallet. A layer storage and delivery system (LSDS) places full layers of containers on a ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6626632 | Robotic order picking system A robotic order picking system employing a plurality of pedestal robots is provided. The robotic order picking system also employs a specialized transfer car including a pallet stacker. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a robotic... | 09/30/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6145281 | Method and apparatus for packaging a series of articles in different formations The invention concerns a method and an apparatus (1) for packaging series of articles (3) in different formations (71). According to the invention, articles for each formation (71) are fed in mutually opposite directions (69, 70) by longitudinal conveyors... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6135704 | Layer-picking clamp supported on a forklift truck A layer-picking clamp mountable on a truck has clamp arms extending downwardly from and movably mounted to an upper frame section. The clamp arms are linearly movable with respect to the upper frame section in laterally inward and outward directions so th... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6085813 | Method for making plywood A method for making hardwood or decorative plywood. The plywood includes a number plies including a back veneer, a face veneer, and a number of core and center plies. The method forms subunits of plies and stacks the discrete formed subunits to form a uni... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5961274 | Installation for stacking plate-like elements In an installation for stacking plate-like elements, in particular fibre plates, supplied on an infeed conveyor, a compact construction and rapid and reliable processing are obtained by a controlled level switch which takes an infed element into one of a ... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5957653 | Transferring apparatus A transferring apparatus which enables articles interlock-stacked on a pallet for a single-article to be bar-stacked on a shipping pallet includes lifters 4, 6 for shipping pallets (transferring pallets) B, C provided on the respective sides of a lifter 2... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5953234 | Automated storage facility including a storage and retrieval system and a floor inventory management system An automated storage facility includes a storage and retrieval system and a floor inventory management system. The storage and retrieval system uniquely palletizes bossies and stores palletized bossies and palletized stacks of cases together in the same s... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5934864 | Case picking system An automated order picking system assembled from known, available components and that includes a manager computer to receive orders for goods from a customer and to break the order down into requested full pallets of multiple ordered layers of goods; laye... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5913656 | Method and apparatus for merging shingled signature streams Two shingled streams of signatures are stacked independently of each other in separate stacking bins that are aligned vertically one above the other and also vertically aligned with the collection bin of a re-feeder. The collection bin is replenished peri... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5903464 | Conveying system and method for mixing stacked articles Homogeneous layers of articles are mixed in a conveying apparatus, and in accordance with a conveying method. A first conveying path originates at a first working station and terminates at a second working station. A second conveying path originates at th... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5844807 | Automated system and method for optimizing and palletizing articles A method and apparatus is disclosed for optimizing an arrangement of articles, such as stacks of paperboard sheets, into horizontal tiers, then stacking the horizontal tiers one on top another to form a rectangular-shaped unit, wherein the rectangular sha... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5833232 | Apparatus for accumulating and directionally reorienting sheets An apparatus for accumulating sheets from a secondary source and changing their conveyance direction 90°. The accumulator is a group of vertically stacked bins that discharge batchwise and are loaded from the secondary source alternately by way of a dive... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5746568 | Article combining device An article combining device includes: an article combining portion where articles are placed; an article carrying-in portion having a plural number of article carrying-in paths for carrying article into the article combining portion, the directions of car... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5733100 | Cylindrical object palletizer A palletizer of the present invention for arranging objects in a honeycomb pattern is disclosed. The palletizer comprises a mechanism for transporting the objects from an object source, a mechanism for arranging the objects into single file while the mech... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5733098 | Case picking system An automated order picking system assembled from known, available components and that includes a manager computer to receive orders for goods from a customer and to break the order down into requested full pallets of multiple ordered layers of goods; laye... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5730579 | Bundle feed apparatus for delivering multiple bundles to a load former A load forming apparatus is described for forming a load comprised of layers of bundles, in which first and second conveyors are configured to deliver individual first bundles of load components to individual respective first and second transfer stations.... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5724788 | Foundry core assembling apparatus An apparatus for assembling foundry cores comprises a conveyor (4) operating between a removal station (1) of a core shooting machine (2) and a transfer station (3), a packing assembly (5) having at least one first manipulator (6) and adhesive applicators... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5671837 | Panel distribution system and panel distributing method carried out by the same A panel distribution system includes a plurality of panel delivery units disposed on a panel conveyance line for forcing out panels in a lateral direction from the conveyance line. The delivery units are all operative to allow the passage of the panels th... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5642603 | Method and apparatus for accommodating goods in container A goods accommodation method and apparatus in which a container is set such that its opening is directed horizontally, and box-shaped goods are stacked on a slide such that their surfaces facing the opening of the container are aligned with each other. Th... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5636966 | Case picking system An automated order picking system assembled from known, available components and that includes a manager computer to receive orders for goods from a customer and to break the order down into requested full pallets of multiple ordered layers of goods; laye... | 06/10/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5613826 | System to optimize the stacking efficiency of objects A method of stacking objects such that various factors are considered. These factors include: 1) what objects are to be removed from the stack; 2) the number of stacks that have no objects stacked; 3) the number of objects to be removed from a stack; 4) t... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5605433 | Method and apparatus for stacking box-shaped articles A method of stacking a plurality of box-shaped articles is disclosed. A plurality of pairs of supporting members are provided such that they can be switched between an article supporting position and an article releasing position. After each box-shaped ar... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5540545 | Palletizing system A palletizing system adapted particularly to the formation of stacks of rectangular prismatic shaped articles utilizes a conventional vertical stacking station which is uniquely supplied with tiers of articles alternately formed on and deposited from oppo... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5482427 | Horizontal loading apparatus An apparatus for forming stacked article groups in a packaging process, comprising a linear conveyance mechanism having an upstream end and a downstream end; and at least one article input and combining station, the article input and combining station inc... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5462399 | Vertical tray collator with sheet discharge pusher member A collating system for producing a plurality of document packets with each document packet having at least one page has a database containing requisite information for forming each of the document packets and a computer controller for accessing the databa... | 10/31/1995 |
