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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8092144 | Method and installation for assembling palletizable products The invention concerns a method which consists in cyclically: transferring a first row of products (3) between the station for preparing said products (6) and the pre-assembly station (7), at a speed V; transferring similarly a second row... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7736120 | Palletizer puller bar In an item-handling device, a layer head includes an item layer building platform defining an item receiving plane, the layer building platform being vertically positionable. A puller bar mounts to the layer head and moves in relation thereto within a plane above th... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7607883 | Palletizing machine pusher with raised return rail An improved palletizing machine (10) includes a frame (12), a pallet plate (16) for supporting pallets (18), and a pallet raising and lowering mechanism (20). A pusher bar assembly (26) includes at least one raised return ra... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7393176 | Handling unit for palletizing A handling unit (1) for palletizing, comprising: a support (2) for coupling to manipulator means; a framework (3) associated with said support (2) and defining an aperture; ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7264108 | Transfer unit for transferring glass articles A transfer unit for transferring glass articles from a supporting surface to a carry-off conveyor, the transfer unit includes a pickup member for engaging the articles for transfer and is hinged to one end of an actuating arm to rotate with respect to the actuating ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7168910 | Device for transporting a horizontal stack positioned on a support and formed in a gathering machine with upright, lined-up signatures A device is used for transporting a horizontal stack from a stack support to an intermediate deposit, where the stack is formed in a gathering device with upright, lined-up signatures. The device is comprised of a horizontally and vertically displaceable clamp arran... | 01/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6086320 | Stacking apparatus A stacking apparatus for successively supplying boards and forming stacks of these boards and ordering these stacks in chosen patterns having: a feed conveyor for successively supplying boards; a stacking station connecting onto the end of the feed convey... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5971699 | Case loading system This invention pertains to load forming systems, especially those designed to place cased product on e.g. a pallet. The invention contemplates receiving cases at a high rate of input, and fragmenting the input, sending it to parallel processing elements o... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5967741 | Method and apparatus for palletizing parcels with upper accompanying device Method and apparatus for arranging book, magazine, segnature parcels (A, B, . . . ) and the like in rows with a predefined separation of the parcels from one another for transferring them onto a pallet, said rows being formed by causing the parcels (A, B,... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5961275 | Palletizer and palletizing methods Palletizers and methods of palletizing are disclosed. The palletizers are adapted to receive and arrange units of material and to concurrently fabricate first and second layers therefrom; or to place them in layers at either of first and second delivery s... | 10/05/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5842827 | Bulk handling apparatus A method and apparatus for stacking newspapers is disclosed which obviates the need to fasten individual stacks. Once ejected from a stacking device, stacks of newspapers pass through an assembly station where they are arranged into groups of three, calle... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5803703 | Case loading system This invention pertains to load forming systems, especially those designed to place cased product on e.g. a pallet. The invention contemplates receiving cases at a high rate of input, and fragmenting the input, sending it to parallel processing elements o... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5769600 | Bulk handling apparatus A method and apparatus for stacking newspapers is disclosed which obviates the need to fasten individual stacks. Once ejected from a stacking device, stacks of newspapers pass through an assembly station where they are arranged into groups of three, calle... | 06/23/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5533861 | Apparatus for and method of palletizing unit loads An apparatus for palletizing unit loads including an input roller conveyor, a guide displaceable between the driven rollers of the input roller conveyor and having a plurality of stirrup-shaped elements liftable above and sinkable below the upper surface ... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5507616 | Method and equipment to palletize packs of sheets, books or the like The palletization of packs (8) of sheets, books or the like is carried out through the conveyance of the packs (8), by a roller assembly (7) formed by powered rollers, in a programmed way stopping certain rollers beneath those packs (8) which are to be st... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5399062 | Process and device to position bobbins The invention relates to a process for positioning conical or cylindrical cross-wound bobbins on a textile machine. The bobbins are rotated and tilted if required in the area between a conveyor belt and an intermittent conveyor and positioned by the inter... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5249917 | Palletizer The present invention is an apparatus useful for palletizing elongated articles including bundles of stacked sheets or signatures. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a frame and a slide system mounted to the frame. The slide system comprises... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5230602 | Sod roll stacker A sod roll stacker assembles sod rolls into rows and places the rows on a platform member to form an approximately square layer of sod roller. When the layer is complete, the platform is removed allowing the layer to fall on a support member below the pla... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5217078 | Sod stacking machine A sod stacking machine includes a conveyor system for receiving sod pieces from a sod harvesting machine and aligning the pieces in rows. The sod pieces can be translated laterally from the conveyor to form a full layer for movement to a stack of the laye... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5169284 | Grasping and transfer claw The claw (2) is made up of a front part (3), moved vertically by a jack (31) and comprising a horizontal pressing plate (30) and a rear pressing plate (34), and a rear part (4) moved horizontally via another jack (46) and comprising a lower pressing plate... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5135351 | Palletized storage method and apparatus A method of palletizing and depalletizing stacks of products in continuous, layer-by-layer succession, the products being substantially flat and thin, such as folded sheets of paper, in which a fully automatic mode of operation is achieved by depositing t... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5098254 | Proximity detection means on a palletizer hand assembly A robotic palletizer including a vertical column, a telescoping horizontal arm mounted for vertical movement along the column and a hand assembly mounted at the end of the horizontal arm. A pair of photodetectors, movable with the hand assembly, sense the... | 03/24/1992 |
| 4997336 | Method and apparatus for withdrawing, transferring and arranging textile bobbins This invention is an apparatus for withdrawing yarn bobbins, from withdrawal preparation tracks which carry the bobbins and for transferring the withdrawn bobbins into a wheel-mounted container. When the bobbins are transferred to the container they lie i... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4993915 | Packet depalletizer A pallet (4) bearing a load of objects (5) disposed in horizontal layers formed of parallel rows aligned in a certain direction (Y) is raised step by step on a frame (1) by a lift (2, 3). A transfer arrangement (7) provided with claws (31) is mounted on a... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4986726 | Plant for automatically stacking and orderly arranging packs of panels of different sizes A plant for the automatic stacking and orderly arrangement of different sized panels. The plant causes the packs of panels coming from the dividing machine to reach a first transport runway, arranged either side by side or in end-to-end sequence depending... | 01/22/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4898511 | Apparatus for stacking products that are highly susceptible to damage, particularly books A stacking of fragile articles, particularly printed matter, is achieved in a substantially frictionless manner in order to eliminate damage. The stacking apparatus includes a feed system wherein incoming books are at least in part supported on an air cus... | 02/06/1990 |
| 4843797 | Dairy casing method and apparatus High speed dairy casing methods and apparatus assemble columns of filled containers arriving on two infeed conveyors, transfer one, two or more columns to an assembly ramp adjoining each conveyor, and then sweep the assembled columns from the conveyor and... | 07/04/1989 |
| 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 |
| 4732522 | Installation for loading and unloading parts into and from a container An installation for handling parts between a container in which they are placed in layers and piles and a table which cooperates with a chute joining the installation to a service machine. The installation comprises a table mobile horizontally relative to... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4729709 | Device for transferring crosswound coils from a crosswound coil delivery location of a textile machine into a box-shaped conveyance A device for transferring crosswound coils from a crosswound-coil delivery location of a textile machine into a box-shaped conveyance includes a flat conveyor for collecting crosswound coils in mutually adjacent rows, and grippers for unloading the collec... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4711612 | Palleting device A device for the palleting of slab-form products, especially of book blocks or books, being provided with a feed arrangement for the products, an arrangement for the formation of a product row, and an arrangement for the reception of a product layer inclu... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4704060 | Palletizer A palletizing apparatus usable for depositing material on an underlying surface, and particularly an underlying layer of compressible material. The apparatus comprises a frame, a plate means mounted on the frame for vertically and horizontally moving the ... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4684307 | Arrangements for handling conical thread packages An arrangement for handling conical thread packages includes a sensing device which senses the orientation in which the package arrives on a main conveyor to a juncture with an accumulating auxiliary conveyor, and a manipulating device capable of gripping... | 08/04/1987 |
| 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 |
