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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7156604 | Apparatus for loading and unloading aircraft An apparatus for loading and unloading aircrafts comprises a tiltable first conveyor part (7) adjustable in height and provided with a conveyor path (11) advancing and removing luggage (59), such as suitcases, parcels and the like cargo items, t... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7077615 | Apparatus for loading and unloading a cargo compartment of an aircraft A ground apparatus for loading and unloading a cargo compartment of an aircraft. The apparatus comprises a frame, a first conveyor frame comprising a first conveyor with a flat cargo-engaging surface, a first actuator, a routing station for receiving cargo advanced ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7070384 | Apparatus and method for automatically unloading brick from kiln cars and preparation for shipment Apparatus and methods for unloading and binding brick or other components include an infeed conveyor that delivers layers of brick to a transfer distribution carriage. The distribution carriage repositions the brick layers on either an outfeed conveyor or a tine con... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6769862 | Apparatus and method for placing horizontally oriented flats into vertically extending stacks thereof An apparatus for stacking horizontally conveyed individual flats into vertically extending stacks including a stacking housing with an upper station for receiving the flats singly and releasing them downwardly into an intermediate station wherein multiple flats are ... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6435352 | Sorting machine for stacks of sheet metal panels A sorting machine at the end of a sheet metal slitting and shearing line receives side-by-side stacks of sheet metal panels and separates and rearranges those stacks so that they are more easily wrapped, banded, or otherwise processed. The machine include... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6227373 | Electronic device handling system and method An apparatus for handling electronic devices in a system that assigns a category corresponding to one of a plurality of predetermined categories to the electronic devices and sorts the electronic devices according to the categories is provided. A pluralit... | 05/08/2001 |
| 5882175 | Stacker for flexible sheets A machine for stacking sheets is disclosed which includes an overhead conveyor for conveying sheets to a stacking area, and first and second sets of support fingers which support the sheets as they are stacked in bundles as the support fingers are moved h... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5707204 | Stacking apparatus Stacking apparatus includes an article feeder which feeds articles, such as cut boards, to support fingers on which a stack of boards is formed. The support fingers transfer a single stack containing a predetermined number of boards down to a stack convey... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5669755 | Device for producing individual stacks of sheets The invention relates to a device for the non-stop operation of a delivery unit of a rotary printing machine in which sheets in a flow of sheets are collated into individual stacks supported on a stack base with a surface interrupted by grooves and in whi... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5547334 | Method of forming a stack of bales of crop material An automatic bale wagon for forming a weather resistant block shaped stack from a plurality of similarly shaped bales as the bale wagon picks up and handles bales during traversal of a field in which a plurality of formed bales have been deposited. A firs... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5480278 | Automatic stacker apparatus and method Apparatus for frozen patties wherein one wide and slow conveyor feeds a plurality of narrow and fast conveyors to spread out the patties prior to stacking. Each fast conveyor conveys a stream of patties to a stacking module, each module includes a vertica... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5443357 | Apparatus for forming a tyne layer in an automatic brick stacking system An apparatus for forming a tyne layer in an automatic brick stacking system having a conveyor for moving courses of brick from a kiln car to a stacking and straping station is disclosed. The apparatus includes a set-down transfer head for removing a cours... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5437535 | Brick dehacker A brick dehacking apparatus is disclosed. The dehacker is operable to vary the number of rows of brick and number of brick in a row of brick courses removed from a kiln car and selectively combine and alternate courses of brick removed from at least two k... | 08/01/1995 |
| 4787810 | Method and apparatus for handling stacks of loose sheet material A movable body having a pair of parallel arms supported from the body and in turn supporting a pair of forks for movement for engaging and releasing the bottom of a stack of sheet material. A clamp is movably connected to the body above the forks for enga... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4680919 | Article delivery transferring device in a collective packing machine An article delivery transferring device in a collective packing machine of stop waiting operation control system is provided. Said collective packing machine comprises a main packing machine and an auxiliary packing machine each having an individual drivi... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4589812 | Method of and apparatus for stacking reams of paper sheets A method and an apparatus for accumulating reams of paper sheets into stacks. A file of reams is fed by the upper reach of a belt conveyor which is flanked by a shifting arm and an elevator platform. The arm is caused to move transversely of the conveyor ... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4540325 | Upstacker apparatus with biased gripping means An upstacker jaw clamp and palletizer apparatus in which containers are fed one at a time to an upstacker station and an elevating platform whereat these containers are lifted and at the extreme lift are retained by opposed jaw clamps. These jaw clamps ar... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4538511 | Signature handling apparatus Sheet material handling apparatus comprising a transfer vehicle movable along a guide track between a stack pickup position and a stack discharge position. The transfer vehicle has a clamping mechanism for clamping a stack of signatures at the stack picku... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4498829 | Big bale retriever and stacker A vehicular bale retriever and stacker including a multistage hoist assembly which picks up and stacks a plurality of huge first and second hay bales on a transport platform. The hoist assembly comprises a rigidly reinforced support column having a cylind... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4396335 | Arrangement for orderly placing of cross wound spools An apparatus for depositing cross wound yarn spools into an open top transport container utilizing a vertically extending dropping channel. The channel is raised and lowered into the transport container for guiding and directing the spools of yarn into th... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4197046 | Palletizer A palletizer for picking up a group of stacked cans from a first pick-up position on a conveyor, transporting the cans to a second deposit position and depositing the cans onto a pallet. The stacks of cans are accumulated on the conveyor by an exit gate p... | 04/08/1980 |
| 4119216 | Sawmill stacker assembly module An improved fully mechanized sawmill is provided which is composed of structurally independent modules which are removably mounted on a platform composed of a plurality of side-by-side longerons supported horizontally on files of spaced-apart vertical pie... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4102460 | Timber stacking assembly A timber stacking assembly having at least one elongated lifting arm, means for moving said lifting arm from a first position to a second position, a stacking foot element associated with said lifting arm adjacent one end thereof, means for pivotally moun... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4002249 | Apparatus for stacking sheet members Apparatus for stacking sheet members in a number of piles, having a conveying passage for the sheet members, so constructed that a downstream end portion thereof can be lengthened and shortened, a stop member movable up and down, facing the downstream end... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3938432 | Apparatus for forming a plurality of bales into a stack of predetermined size An apparatus for forming a stack of bales of predetermined size in which bales received singly from a baling machine are successively raised as each bale is received to form a vertical row, which, after attaining a predetermined height is moved laterally ... | 02/17/1976 |
| 3931897 | Load-out conveyor apparatus In loading apparatus for conveying the articles from inside a warehouse or the like and stacking them in a transport car parked at a loading dock or the like in a continuous operation. The loading apparatus includes a main frame positioned a distance insi... | 01/13/1976 |
