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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6405857 | Transportation mechanism of magnetic handling for accessing compact disks A transportation mechanism of magnetic handling for accessing Compact Disks. The transportation mechanism includes a reciprocating device having a base, an electromagnetic head provided on the base, a control unit controlling the reciprocating device such... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6142465 | Magnetic end justifier for a drop stacking machine A device for justifying an end of a section released from a drop stacking machine. A capture member for engaging an end of the section is slidably mounted to a frame and is shiftable between an extended capture position wherein the capture member is posit... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5915772 | Rotary electromagnetic head with improved mechanical expulsion device for automatic stackers of iron sections originating from a rolling mill A rotary electromagnetic head for automatic stackers of iron sections originating from a rolling mill. And an expulsion device is provided with a bar rotating together with the head but also provided with simultaneous movement relative to the head. This r... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5570995 | Packing system for rolling mill stock by means of an improved suspended transfer means A process for a packing system for rolling-mill stock in which the packing system includes a continuous conveyor, an overhead transfer with a suspended electromagnet, and a lifter positioned below the conveyor in association with the overhead transfer. Th... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5460480 | Installation for handling the conveyance of blanks from a cutting machine to a stacking device An installation for handling the conveyance of a blank from a cutting machine to a stacking device has at least one cyclically operable conveyor programmed to convey the blank from the cutting machine to a position above the stacking device and to stop in... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5458455 | Apparatus for stacking cartridge shell plates of a photographic film cartridge A cartridge shell plate stacking apparatus has a plurality of arms circulating along an annular cam rail. Each arm has a magnet in its distal end. The cam rail lowers the distal end of the arm in a pick-up station to cause the magnet to attract one of the... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5413455 | Apparatus for collecting and ordered bundling of long rolling stock An apparatus for collecting and bundling long rolling stock includes a collecting station for a layer of rolling stock lying side-by-side, a receiving device for the layer of rolling stock, a bundle forming station arranged at a side of the collecting sta... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5340270 | Packing method and bar packer with hanging transfer A bars packer plant having hung transfer magnets for packing bar layers differentiated in number including a single linear system of rotating hung transfer magnets movable between a position above a supply line with bar layers to be picked up to a positio... | 08/23/1994 |
| 4820101 | Automated in-process pipe storage and retrieval system An automated storage and retrieval system for use at a pipe manufacturing facility includes a computer and memory; a storage/retrieval crane operable in a storage yard; a plurality of containers, each being capable of containing material for storage and a... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4648770 | Stacking profile elements in nested groups Small bundles of elongated profile elements that arrive generally regularly at an intake station wherein the elements are first displaced in a transport direction generally perpendicular to their elongation direction from the intake station to a pickup st... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4642017 | Automated in-process pipe storage and retrieval system An automated storage and retrieval system for use at a pipe manufacturing facility includes a computer and memory; a storage/retrieval crane operable in a storage yard; a plurality of containers, each being capable of containing material for storage and a... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4579498 | Stacking apparatus for forming a stack of a predetermined shape from pipes or other similar long pieces The invention relates to a stacking apparatus for stacking pipes or other similar long pieces into a stack of a predetermined shape for bundling and storage. The purpose is to provide an apparatus in which the stacking need not be interrupted for the dura... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4568231 | Method and equipment for palletizing and depalletizing can-tops A method and apparatus for handling can tops separates single layer can top grid frames from palletized stacks and loads and unloads the can tops automatically without damaging the can tops. The apparatus has five work stations interconnected by conveyors... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4566833 | Device to bundle rolled bars or rolled sections A device to bundle rolled bars which are advantageously flanged and channel sections coming from a delivery line, comprising a conveyor cooperating with retractable separating and sorting stops and a two-armed lever able to take the bars from the conveyor... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4487540 | Stacking machine for rolled bar shapes A feed roller table with rollers (11a) is divided into partial widths (A and B). The rolled shapes to be stacked are passed onto the feed table in layers of different numbers of bars n and n-1 and are braked during bar movement by elevation of braking ski... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4419928 | Bundling and stacking apparatus A material handling apparatus has a first operational mode for bundling elongated elements having round cross-sectional profiles, and a second operational mode for stacking elongated elements having shaped flat-sided cross-sectional profiles.... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4407628 | Apparatus for handling cuttings from a shear A car on tracks behind the knives of a shear machine, has a section for receiving product cuttings when the car occupies one position on the tracks, and means are provided for receiving scrap cuttings when the car is moved to another position, the car bei... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4392765 | Angle stacking and inverting device A device for sorting and alternately inverting and stacking lengths of ferromagnetic material such as rolled steel angle sections includes horizontal conveyors moving the angle sections automatically from a final mill roller table to a selected position. ... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4303365 | Continuous chain stacker/unstacker A stacker/unstacker for receptacles such as bread pans or baskets or the like includes a pair of laterally spaced-apart endless chains having receptacle carriers mounted therebetween for conveying receptacles between an infeed-outfeed conveyor and the top... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4278377 | Method of and apparatus for stacking channel bars A succession of channel bars having widths that lie within a range below a predetermined maximum bar width is fed to a pickup station with the bars generally coplanar, parallel, and in edge contact. In the station a group of the bars is picked up by a pai... | 07/14/1981 |
| 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 |
| 3981406 | Automatic box loader This invention relates to a system for repetitively forming an assembly consisting of a single layer of tubes and a row of ferromagnetic armatures underlying the same, electromagnetically conveying the resulting assembly to a position overlying a storage ... | 09/21/1976 |
| 3957163 | Method and apparatus for stocking stock in layers In order to simplify the apparatus and increase throughputs, sections are stacked by delivering the sections transversely to their length, separating them from one another, turning them over individually if desired and forming them into groups, all the se... | 05/18/1976 |
