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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6746202 | Method and arrangement for the production of crossed stacks Flat objects (7) to be stacked in a stacking device (2) are supplied serially, individually held and aligned with one another. Cross stacks (12) are produced by subjecting alternating groups (11, 11′) of the supplied objects (7) ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6699005 | Booklet stacking apparatus and method The present disclosure relates to a booklet stacking apparatus and method. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a booklet stacking mechanism. In one arrangement, the booklet stacking mechanism comprises a gate that is adapted to be placed ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6494668 | Method and device for stacking unpacked processed cheese slices A method and a device are disclosed for stacking unpacked processed cheese slices. Single stacks consisting of a plurality of superimposed processed cheese slices are continuously supplied by a transportation device to a first turning station. At the firs... | 12/17/2002 |
| 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 |
| 5971697 | Device for overturning packaged editorial products, for association with a packaging line For association with a packaging line, a device for overturning packaged editorial products which grips the editorial products (12) advancing on a conveyor belt (13) and overturns them to superpose them on the next product in order to facilitate their fin... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5477668 | Mobile bale collector A mobile bale collector having a frame, bale carrier, and a coupling for connecting the bale collector to a mobile bale collector to receive bales from the baler, and the carrier is coupled to the frame by a hinge. In operation, a first bale is received o... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5096365 | Apparatus and method for lifting, rotating, and stacking trailer chassis An apparatus and method for lifting, inverting, and stacking trailer chassis has a pair of support arms engageable with arms of a forklift vehicle and a frame pivotally mounted on outer ends of the support arms. The frame is mounted by engagement of pivot... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5027700 | Bundling and stacking machine A machine forms pairs of elongated articles, bundles the pairs, and then stacks the bundles. A receiver and inverter function together to hold one of the articles in place and then invert a second article onto the first article to form an article pair. A ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4664577 | Apparatus for stacking generic sheet-like elements such as sheets, hides, boards, and the like The apparatus comprises a load-bearing frame overlying a stacking stand or shelf and supporting at least one gripping element connected to an entrainer and adapted to pick up a sheet-like element being fed from a transport. The apparatus further comprises... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4664576 | Apparatus and method for handling cargo container chassis Apparatus attachable to the front end of a vehicle having a lifting apparatus for moving a load vertically, in which a pair of arms are each pivotably mounted on a main carrier which is rotatable about a horizontal transverse axis, for holding a cargo con... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4633581 | Installation for palletising flat pieces The pieces to be palletized are conveyed by a roller table to bar elements which reciprocally turn the pieces so that they face each other. Grippers then grip the facing pieces which originally lie flat, so as to move them into a vertical parallel positio... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4619571 | Installation for the distribution of sheets A method for the distribution of sheets, especially glued together sheets of paper, cardboard, corrugated cardboard and the like, from individual small sheet stacks. The method provides for alternating ones of small sheet stacks proceeding from a machine ... | 10/28/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4569620 | Book turn-around and stack accumulator apparatus In apparatus for manufacturing and packaging bound books a turnover device is provided for turning over alternate books fed by a conveyor from a building-in machine and leading to a stacking device where such books are accumulated in stacks and delivered ... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4474521 | Method and device for continuously forming a packet of box blanks for further processing A device for receiving a flow of box blanks from a delivery end of a box blank processing apparatus and assembling a packet of two batches of box blanks in a head-to-tail arrangement characterized by a receiving or batch-forming station for forming the ba... | 10/02/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4384813 | Shingle stacker with shingle inverting feature The present invention concerns stacking of shingles, in particular shingles having one edge portion thicker than the other edge portion. Such shingles require that at least some of the shingles in a stack be oriented to place the thicker edge thereof oppo... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4369015 | Apparatus for stacking note books or the like Apparatus for stacking pads with spiral binders has a reciprocable and pivotable turn-around device which inverts each second pad of a file of equidistant pads before the pads reach a stacking platform. At the stacking station, the pads are arrested by an... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4367815 | Apparatus for stacking note books or the like Apparatus for stacking pads with spiral binders has a reciprocable and pivotable turn-around device which inverts each second pad of a file of equidistant pads before the pads reach a stacking platform. At the stacking station, the pads are arrested by an... | 01/11/1983 |
| 4364702 | Apparatus for stacking objects or groups of objects Apparatus for the head-to-tail stacking of objects or groups of objects, such as folded cardboard packaging boxes, which are substantially identical in terms of their shapes, their dimensions and the orientation with which they are presented to the appara... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4354788 | Automatic system for the formation and distribution of layers of groups of sheets A machine for the distribution of sheets comprises first and second conveyors, the first conveyor receiving groups of sheets and being drivable in directions toward or away from the second conveyor and the second conveyor being drivable in a direction awa... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4299523 | Machine for stacking mesh grids with alternate grids rotated through 180° A machine for stacking mesh reinforcement grids alternatingly in initial and reversed orientations includes a frame on which the grids to be reoriented are held during the reversing operation. The frame is mounted on swivelling arms for swivelling therewi... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4268200 | Apparatus for stacking note books or the like Apparatus for stacking pads with spiral binders has a reciprocable and pivotable turn-around device which inverts each second pad of a file of equidistant pads before the pads reach a stacking platform. At the stacking station, the pads are arrested by an... | 05/19/1981 |
| 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 |
| 3985241 | Transfer and piling or stacking machine for lengths of ferromagnetic material A transfer and piling or stacking machine for accepting rolled lengths of ferromagnetic material, e.g. steel billets or sections, moving laterally, e.g. sideways from a roller table, loading them crosswise on a conveyor conveying them to, and depositing t... | 10/12/1976 |
| 3970202 | Apparatus for stacking folded boxes Apparatus for receiving folded boxes from a machine such as a folder-gluer and stacking said folded boxes in one stack but with portions of the stack in alternately disposed directions to avoid an unbalance in overall thickness of said stack, said apparat... | 07/20/1976 |
