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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7128217 | Bun laner A bun laner sorts buns into a predetermined number of lanes, for providing buns to a packaging unit. The bun laner detects when some lanes are filling faster than other and closes those lanes while the other lanes fill. A vacuum may be used to hold buns in a filled ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6915895 | Container group delivery mechanism, and equipment and method for transporting container An air conveyer receives an uppermost container group elevated by a lift device and transporting the container group horizontally. A pushing device is provided for pushing the uppermost container group onto the adjacent airflow conveyer by contacting the container g... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6783318 | Sod stacker A towable sod stacker having a pallet holder for holding a stack of sod, a conveyor for receiving and temporarily storing a plurality of cut sod slabs and a sod pickup mechanism for lifting the plurality of cut sod sections from the conveyor and vertically placing t... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6695569 | Device for collecting and palletizing bottles A process and a device for collecting and palletizing bottles 3 is provided, especially empty plastic bottles, which are fed from a bottle producer 36 or a bottle conveyor 8 in one or more rows one behind the other to a collecting device 4. They are trans... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6589008 | Container handling device and method An apparatus and method for packaging containers, of the type having an engagement lip, wherein the apparatus includes tacks to engage the engagement lip to move the containers from starting point to a delivery point. The containers are moved by the appar... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6264421 | Apparatus for palletizing containers on a load carrier and/or depalletizing containers The invention relates to a method for palletizing packing drums (7) on a load platform (P), especially barrels, kegs or the like in substantially cylindrical or barrel-shaped receptacles, and/or for depalletizing the packing drums. The inventive method pr... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6206173 | Device for compactly accumulating identical objects coming from a conveyor line Device ensuring maximum coverage of an area in which identical cylindrical objects such as bottles or cans transported by a conveyor line accumulate. The device including, a vibrating table over which the bottles advance in short skips after being deposit... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6196788 | Container handling device and method A method and system for packaging a plurality of containers, wherein each container has a body and an engagement lip surrounding a neck portion, which comprises a plurality of steps. First, a set of containers is provided. Next, containers are loaded on a... | 03/06/2001 |
| 5924838 | Tray loader A tray loading apparatus for the efficient loading of cylindrical articles onto trays. The apparatus functions to align cylindrical articles in a staggered manner so as to make the most efficient use of space. As such, a subsequent manufacturing process s... | 07/20/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5271709 | Device and method for repeatedly forming a preselected arrangement of conveyed articles Device and method are disclosed for repeatedly forming a predetermined arrangement of conveyed articles. Cylindrical articles, such as cans, are accumulated on a conveying unit at an accumulating area, the articles at the accumulating area being normally ... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5267590 | Container filler, especially for ballast having contoured sweep for arraying containers Open containers having uniform dimensions are handled in a group for loading of ballast and/or for filling with container contents prior to sealing. The containers are provided upright on a substantially unobstructed surface and are forced into a substant... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5080551 | Apparatus for palletizing layers of circular containers arranged in a honeycomb pattern An apparatus for arranging nested, parallel rows of generally circular containers on a conveyor, the rows extending in the direction of conveyor movement, with the containers of alternate rows being offset relative to the containers of the remaining rows,... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5074744 | Apparatus for article handling An article handling apparatus is provided for arranging a mass of randomly supplied articles into a group and moving the group from a group arranging area to a group loading area. The apparatus comprises retractable pattern forming pins closable to halt a... | 12/24/1991 |
| 4934508 | Apparatus and method for promotion of preselected article orientation in an assemblage of articles An apparatus and method are disclosed for promoting preselected article orientation by elimination of unoccupied spaces in an assemblage of articles at a staging area, and, more particularly for precisely grouping cans prior to palletization thereof. The ... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4909702 | Device for automatically palletizing upright automible wheels An automobile wheels automatic loading device according to the present invention provides full automation of pallet preparation and automobile wheels loading work; a lining up apparatus lines up automobile wheels in the specific number, an automobile whee... | 03/20/1990 |
| 4834605 | Apparatus for palletizing layers of circular containers arranged in a honeycomb pattern An apparatus for arranging nested, parallel rows of generally circular containers on a conveyor, the rows extending in the direction of conveyor movement, with the containers of alternate rows being offset relative to the containers of the remaining rows,... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4759673 | Apparatus for enabling transit of articles between adjacent surfaces An apparatus for transit of articles between a transfer surface and an adjacent separator sheet is disclosed with the apparatus having a selectively positionable and extendable bridge for providing a transitional surface between the transfer surface and t... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4744457 | Method and device for collecting commodities A method for collecting commodities in a group, a longitudinal series of commodities being fed set by set into a tapered pusher on which stages having enough size to accommodate square commodities are continuously formed, a pusher advancing a length equal... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4667808 | Loading apparatus particularly useful for the loading or unstable containers Apparatus for loading rows of containers onto a loading station in which the containers are pushed onto the loading station in rows, preferably with the containers in adjacent rows being staggered relative to one another, the leading container row engages... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4603896 | Method and gripping head for gripping a layer of containers arranged on a plane The invention provides a process for gripping a layer of standing containers (23) such as bottles, and a head for gripping a whole layer of such containers. The process is characterized in that the layer of containers (23) is framed by four simultaneously... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4584821 | Automatic cartoning machine and method for packaging articles such as fruit A machine and method for automatically cartoning fruit in the cells of a protective honeycomb, in which the method includes the steps of positioning a foldable carton blank at a first station, disposing an expanded honeycomb defining a plurality of open c... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4576531 | Device for stowing loads of large-sized bales of fodder on a vehicle Device for stowing loads of large-sized bales of fodder on a vehicle. Said device is constituted of a T-shaped movable member composed of at least one horizontally-extending elongated element in the middle part of which is perpendicularly fixed the upper ... | 03/18/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4498573 | Pail palletizer with rotatable clamps A method and apparatus for transferring articles, such as pails, from a first station to a second station so that the articles may be loaded at the second station in a preselected spaced-saving array includes a transfer carriage operable for selective shi... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4324190 | Pallet and method of loading vehicles utilizing same This relates to the storage of drums and like cylindrical objects in a vehicle body for shipment. More specifically, it has to do with the provision of a pallet which has the opposite ends thereof notched in a complementary manner so that cylindrical obje... | 04/13/1982 |
| 4316693 | Variable array can palletizer Apparatus for transferring articles such as cans from a receiving station to a stacking platform to form a preselected article array on the platform. The apparatus includes a transfer carriage shiftable along a horizontal path between positions overlying ... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4154347 | Method and apparatus for palletizing articles Method and apparatus for palletizing articles delivered by an accumulator belt onto a pallet in transverse rows of alternating orientation, with the first and last transverse rows of each tier of articles on the pallet being of the same orientation, such ... | 05/15/1979 |
| 3990566 | Method to be used at packaging a number of articles and a device for effecting the method When packaging round articles such as bottles, jars and the like, it is a desideratum that the articles be automatically arranged in such a formation so that the largest possible number of articles are brought together on a parallelepipedic base of a give... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3978970 | Loader for containerized cooker A live roll conveyor receives randomly supplied upstanding containers, such as cans, and arrests the leading cans with a pattern stop bar having pockets that arrange a transverse row of cans to receive a next assembled row of cans in nesting relation. Whe... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3937336 | Palletizing and depalletizing apparatus for supplemental feed A conveying system for conveying cans from a can-making machine to a can-filling machine includes a first conveyor to supply cans from the can-making machine to the filling machine and a second conveyor or supplemental feed conveyor at right angles with a... | 02/10/1976 |
| 3934713 | Method and apparatus for palletizing articles A method and apparatus for palletizing articles such as, for example, hollow cylindrical containers or the like is disclosed herein and includes an apparatus section positionable adjacent a support member such as a pallet and defining a receiving station ... | 01/27/1976 |
