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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7621712 | Apparatus and method for stacking layers of items by separate rotary supporting conveyor A stacking apparatus includes a feed device that feeds a succession of elongated items to a pick-up station, and a rotating structure having first and second arms at different angles about a rotation axis of the rotating structure. The arms have receiving surfaces m... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7585146 | Stacking device having a system of circulating supports A device for forming stacks of sheet products, in particular of paper products, may include the paper products being supplied in an input stream by a feed conveyor to a transfer section. The device may also include at least two set-down tables each including a set-d... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7191892 | Apparatus for transferring products from a first conveying line to a second conveying line, in particular for feeding a boxing machine In an apparatus for transferring products from a first conveying line to a second line conveying line operated stepwise in a feeding direction and particularly for feeding a boxing machine a plurality of compartments are aligned along the feeding direction. Each com... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7153089 | Storage device A storage device for storing trays, the device including a first movable member and a second movable member positioned opposite the first movable member. The first and second movable members are adapted to selectively vertically move and support at least one tray th... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7017900 | Transporting an essentially sheet-shaped element, particularly a print material sheet Transporting an essentially sheet-shaped element, particularly for transporting a print material sheet in a printing press in which the sheet-shaped element is taken hold of by at least one rotating transport having at least one mouth-like receptacle for introducing... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6960058 | Device for stacking and unstacking A device for handling stacking or removing articles from a stack, has a stacking wheel located between the lifting elements for stacks and a conveyor. When the stacking wheel turns, depending on the direction of its rotation, an article is moved from the conveyor on... | 11/01/2005 |
| 5803705 | Disk type inverter-stacker with improved sheet handling slots for different paper weights In a disk type sheet inverting and stacking system with rotatable disk units with sheet transporting slots, in which printed sheets outputted by a reproduction system are sequentially fed into those slots to be inverted by rotation of the disk units and t... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5772391 | Stacker for counting and stacking signatures delivered by a gripper conveyor Signatures are delivered to a stacker by a gripper conveyor, each gripper delivering a signature thereto. The grippers follow a curved path adjacent to the stacker, substantially aligning the signatures with the stacking platform receiving signatures as t... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5435541 | Frame arranged in a machine for temporarily supporting a plate-like workpiece in a horizontal plane A frame is designed for temporarily supporting a horizontal plate-like workpiece until it undergoes a vertical translation between guiding and squaring stops, which frame is located in a machine. The frame comprises lateral retractable supporting surfaces... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5328032 | Flexible sheet storage device A flexible sheet storage device includes a releasable holder located within a container to receive the leading edge of each sheet as it is inserted via a slot into the container, and an angularly displaceable mounting for a releasable holder effective to ... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5040663 | Apparatus and method for stacking Apparatus and method for stacking product such as flexible paper towels including a slotted wheel in combination with at least two endless chain conveyors equipped with finger assemblies which are orbitally offset so that while one finger assembly of one ... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5040783 | Rotary stacker A stacking device for forming stacks of articles of predetermined count, using a stacking wheel having a multiplicty of uniformly spaced peripheral slots. The slots are adapted to receive articles sequentially at a loading station and carry them to an unl... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4955794 | Apparatus for forming and conveying groups of flat stacked items A stacking apparatus for forming groups of face-to-face contacting flat items comprises a supply conveyor for advancing a column of serially arranged, flat-lying items; a stack-forming unit situated in a charging station and arranged for sequentially rece... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4938657 | Shingle stacking machine A shingle stacking machine including a shingle stacking station, a shingle bundling station, and a conveyor for removing bundled shingles from the machine. The shingle stacking station includes a pair of parallel and elongated wheel assemblies rotatably m... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4660352 | Apparatus and method for packaging compressible pouches Elongated rectangular pouches are longitudinally compressed for packing in a conventional packing case by a pair of counter-rotating paddle assemblies. Each paddle assembly has four paddles arranged in staggered relationship around an associated shaft, th... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4629382 | Sheet collecting apparatus A sheet collecting apparatus for collecting paper sheets, comprises a plurality of collecting chambers which are arranged to receive sorted bills through an insertion port, a shutter unit which is disposed to cover dispensing ports of all of the collectin... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4606537 | Apparatus for stacking flat articles In stacking apparatus for flat articles such as flattened bags, radial arms mounted on each of two spaced hubs and having suction nozzles at their leading sides place the articles onto needles. The arms are rotatable about their longitudinal axes. They ca... | 08/19/1986 |
| 4551052 | Device for forming, from the top downwards, articles into a stack of orderly layers A stacking device for articles to be contained that comprises a first station placed downstream of a longitudinal article infeed line, and a second station, downstream with respect to the former, connected to a horizontal plate. The second station compris... | 11/05/1985 |
| 4547114 | Positive control stacker A stacker for rigid and semi-rigid sheet or pad-like products forming individual stacks thereof of specific count and with the edges of the product in each stack aligned. The stacker comprises at least one pair of multi-thread screws, being mirror images ... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4439083 | Automatic sheet dispensing apparatus Automatic banknote dispensing apparatus is disclosed which comprises a stacker wheel (5) for feeding banknotes to form a stack (4), and a dispensing module for conveying the stack to a selected one of two presentation positions (not shown). The dispensing... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4431177 | Sheet offsetting and registering apparatus Sheet offsetting and registering apparatus including a sheet transport to transport a sheet to a receiving station; sheet restrainer to restrain the sheet during a portion of the transport path adjacent the receiving station, an offset registration member... | 02/14/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4357126 | Infeed counting conveyor Apparatus for automatically forming hands or stacks of generally flat material such as bags or sacks of a desired count in synchronization with a high production bag manufacturing machine. The apparatus comprises an infeed counting conveyor which automati... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4183704 | Compensating stacker for printed signatures There is provided an improved compensating stacker for stitched, folded, stapled, or the like signatures which is characterized by a temporary platform including a pair of counter-rotatable shafts having tines extending therefrom and toward the opposite s... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4167364 | Cheese wrapping and stacking machine An improved and modified cheese stacking machine for forming stacks of individually wrapped slices of cheese. Individual cheese slices are wrapped, cut and delivered in the machine to a discharge assembly where the individually wrapped slices are stacked ... | 09/11/1979 |
| 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 |
| 4027580 | Pad stacker A method and apparatus for stacking in precise alignment relatively large, flat, lightweight and flexible objects such as low density felted, fiber pads are disclosed. The disclosed method comprises the steps of feeding the pads towards the stack, rotatin... | 06/07/1977 |
| 3971481 | Materials handling apparatus This invention relates to food processing apparatus, and in one embodiment includes collating apparatus for synchronizing the position of the leading edge of irregularly shaped, supple objects, such as tortillas, and apparatus for removing such objects in... | 07/27/1976 |
