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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7547184 | Three layer stacking station for forming a pile of items from the three layers In a station for forming a pile of layers of items, a surface receives layers of items to be transferred to a first support plane situated after the receiving surface. The items arranged in layers are moved along the receiving surfaces and the first support plane by... | 06/16/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7244086 | Apparatus for vacuum treating two dimensionally extended substrates and method for manufacturing such substrates A vacuum transport chamber has a transport robot arrangement. A processing arrangement has at least one processing station communicating by at least one workpiece pass-through opening with the vacuum transport chamber. A loadlock arrangement communicates by at least... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7232027 | Pallet/skid power roll system An apparatus moves a plurality of transport media along a path of travel. The plurality of transport media define at least two groups of transport media, where each group of transport media has substantially identical transverse dimensions with respect to one anothe... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7222843 | Sheet post-process apparatus A sheet post-process apparatus has a standby tray for putting a sheet delivered from an image forming apparatus on standby, a process tray arranged under the standby tray for stacking the sheet dropped from the standby tray or the sheet delivered from the image form... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7210889 | Circulating storage system A circulating storage system (1) has at least two storage columns (4) of stored-goods carriers (5) that are arranged one above another and circulate during operation, at least one horizontal conveyor device (9) which, during operation, tr... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7125216 | Device for loading a three-knife trimmer In a device for loading a three-knife trimmer with brochures, periodicals or like bound book blocks (1), comprising a feed conveyor (4), a stacking device (16) operable in magazine mode and counted stack mode and including a magazine (17)... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7104538 | Sheet post processing device A sheet post processing device receives, sheets on an inverter structure which causes initial sheets supplied to the inverter to be overlayed first sheet on the second sheet, and moves the overlayed first and second and subsequent sheets to a sheet transport path fo... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6994220 | Mixed mail sorting machine A mixed mail sorting machine includes a feeder that receives a stack of incoming mail pieces and outputs the mail pieces one at a time in a vertical position; a scanner which receives mail pieces from the feeder and scans each mail piece in a vertical position to re... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6991422 | Method and unit for transferring blanks A method and unit for transferring blanks on a packing machine, whereby stacks of blanks are transferred from a platform, on which the blanks are arranged in stacks, to a store wherein the blanks are packed successively and seamlessly along a path for supply to a pi... | 01/31/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6719522 | Sheet feeding A mechanism and method for accumulating sheet stacks from a continuous web having sheets printed both in side-by-side relationship and with the sheets behind each other. Slitting the continuous web lengthwise between said side-by-side sheet and cutting the web trans... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6244583 | Stack transport for a sorter with pressing device A sheet handling apparatus which stores sheets ejected from an image forming apparatus in a bin, staples the sheets if necessary, takes the stapled or unstapled set of sheets out of the bin and transports the set of sheets up to a large-capacity tray nipp... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6179548 | Folded carton stacking and packing apparatus Apparatus is provided for receiving folded cartons of non-uniform thickness from a conventional gluing device, stacking those cartons into stacks of a predefined number, and rotating successive stacks 180° from each other in order to compensate for the u... | 01/30/2001 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5718558 | System for vertically stacking rows of prismatic objects A system for vertically stacking rows of parallelepedic objects includes a first conveyor adapted to arrange the objects in a first horizontal row on a first sliding table, at least a second conveyor adapted to arrange the objects in a second horizontal r... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5465824 | Stacking device Stacking device for stacking groups of articles on top of each other, the articles being supplied to that stacking device in a single stream and at a common first level, the device comprising moveable elements which are substantially parallel to the artic... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5419677 | Apparatus and method for programmable interleaving and stacking of sheet-carried food products An apparatus and method for interleaving a carrier sheet with sliced food products, such as bacon strips, has a supply conveyor for continuously conveying products with spacings that may be random or non-uniform, a delivery section to a drop-off point, a ... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5387077 | Apparatus for handling signatures The signature handling apparatus of the invention includes a first stacker for accumulating layers of signatures, a second stacker for piling a plurality of small stacks of the signatures accumulated by the first stacker, and a pair of third stackers arra... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5362200 | Sheet transporting device for a sorter A sheet transporting device applicable to a sorter of the type having a plurality of bins arranged one above another for receiving sheets sequentially driven out of an image forming apparatus includes a top tray disposed above an uppermost one of the bins... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5261522 | Pouch delivery system There is shown an endless conveyor having a loading station and an unloading station. Articles, such as pouches are loaded individually onto platters on an endless chain by a walking beam type device. Each platter on the chain co-operates with the next ad... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5217216 | HTCC/LTCC substrate blanker/multi-layer collation die Apparatus for blanking and collating a plurality of individual pyrolyzable sheets having electrical circuit patterns formed thereon from an integral pyrolyzable sheet having the electrical circuit patterns for the individual sheets printed thereon, where ... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5123807 | System for stacking veneer sheets conveyed from two different directions A system for stacking veneer sheets conveyed from two different directions includes a lower mechanism for carrying a first veneer sheet to a first position above a stack support and an upper mechanism for carrying a second sheet to a second position above... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5092448 | Equipment for stacking layers of cylindrical commodities such as rolls of paper in readiness for transfer to a wrapping machine Rolls of paper are stacked in layers without any relative movement occurring between the surfaces brought into contact, using a transfer table which pivots about a horizontal axis, such that the end directed toward the wrapping machine can be swung vertic... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5013211 | System for stacking veneer sheets conveyed from two different directions A system for stacking veneer sheets conveyed from two different directions includes a lower mechanism for carrying a first veneer sheet to a first position above a stack support and an upper mechanism for carrying a second sheet to a second position above... | 05/07/1991 |
| 5006040 | Apparatus for forming sets of accumulator plates Apparatus for forming sets of accumulator plates, with an endless conveyor chain (1) for pairs of plates following one another at an interval, and each consisting of a plate jacketed in a separator and an antiplate lying thereon, a plane of conveyance of ... | 04/09/1991 |
| 5002456 | Process and apparatus for forming stacks of folded printing products A stacking apparatus includes a stacking unit and a bundling unit arranged under the stacking unit. Located at the end of a prestacking space, as seen in the direction (F), is a limiting element which serves as a stop for the folds of the printing product... | 03/26/1991 |
| 5000655 | Installation for manufacture of ceramic products Installation for handling ceramic products comprising a closed circuit 1 of carriages 2 passing through furnaces for drying 3 and baking, an unstacking station 7 and a stacking station 6 combined with transverse endless belts, one, 10, running from an emp... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4986409 | Assembly and method for stacking articles The assembly for stacking articles comprises a conveyor for moving articles along a conveying path having a lifting work station, a storing work station and a stacking work station. The conveyor has an incoming end and a discharging end with a lifting mec... | 01/22/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4964982 | Mail stacker For a mail stacker including a compartmented path equipped with switches and stack compartments for sorting the letters, to avoid congestion of the letters assigned to the same compartment upon entry into the compartment there is provided a secondary conv... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4927318 | Method for forming, grasping and handling cubes of stacked printed products The output of a high speed press or bindery is formed into stacks which are then combined into four stack "cubes". The cubes are handled as units and formed into tiers which can be loaded onto pallets. A pickup head for manipulating the cubes is carried b... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4927000 | Conveyor system A conveyor system for positioning slices of meat or other foodstuffs by converting M input streams of products into N output streams of products where M is an integer greater than one and N is an integer not equal to M comprises an input conveyor (15, 55)... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4917229 | Method and apparatus for stacking products A method and apparatus for stacking products such as trays are disclosed utilizing a rotary ferris wheel device which raises product off a conveyor and places it on a platform where it is pushed off unto additional product being conveyed on the conveyor. ... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4820104 | Device for the stacking and/or palleting of, in particular, thin products of a printing press operation The invention relates to a device for the stacking and/or palleting of, in particular, thin products of a printing press operation, which is characterized by a gathering and depositing station rotatable about a vertical axis. The invention relates, furthe... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4813847 | Method of storing and afterwards collecting orders A method for storing and afterwards collecting orders consisting of products packed in crates and the like, with the aid of a staging with a number of storage conveyors. The crates and the like are stored as partial stacks, after which two or more partial... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4796406 | Cup-filling apparatus for a nutrient and palatable material, especially a dairy product The cup filling unit includes a guided circulating feed means which carries cup receptacles positioned in rows transverse to the feed direction. The cup receptacles also follow feed paths parallel to the feed direction. An elevator is provided for feeding... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4784558 | Apparatus for inverting and stacking folded box blanks made of sheet material An apparatus for stacking a plurality of folded box blanks such that alternating groups of a predetermined number of folded blanks are superimposed in opposite orientations. The apparatus includes a lower rail device having a stacking position, a second r... | 11/15/1988 |
