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A microwave oven adapted for use within a motor vehicle dashboard area. The microwave oven has a removable storage cassette, and slidable platforms for securing and serving containers of beverages and foods.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6923486 | Gripper for lifting a stack A gripper for lifting a stack (30) of boxes, trays or such substantially rectangular articles, the gripper being provided with a gripper frame (11, 12; 51, 52) and two flat gripper leaves (21) which are movably connected to the gripper frame ( | 08/02/2005 |
| 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 |
| 5676517 | Method and apparatus for stacking thin sheets carrying product Thin sheets on which a product is held by limited adhesion are transferred from a first conveyor onto a speedup conveyor which slides the sheets, one by one, onto a pair of intermittently rotatable paddles. The paddles comprise a lattice of low-friction m... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5671916 | Automatic sheet loader An automatic sheet loader for automatically transferring sheets to a cardboard packer. The sheet loader includes at least a pair of chains disposed between upper sprockets and lower sprockets so that the pair of chains face each other to form a sheet tran... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5580599 | Process and devices for mechanically producing pretzels An improved method and device for mechanically producing pretzels. The method and device produces strings of dough having precisely predetermined cross-sectional and longitudinal dimensions. The invention provides a high throughput rate of pretzels and lo... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5501562 | Hay bale stacker A machine for stacking hay bales emerging from a hay baler in pyramidal stacks of six bales, has a supporting bed for receiving bales from a drop table. The bed is provided with a side panel and a pair of separator panels for separating rows of bales in t... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5492444 | Method and apparatus for storing imbricated sheets upon a pallet Imbricated or overlapped copies of printed material are formed within a plurality of rows to form a single layer of a multi-layered and cubic-shaped stack. The stack allows for more efficient use of space for the storage of printed materials, and allows f... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5207331 | Automatic system and method for sorting and stacking reusable cartons A system and method for automatically processing a supply of cartons, in flattened form and of different types, in accordance with a selectable number of plural, different and separately identifiable carton types. Unsorted cartons are removed in successiv... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5081818 | Method to package sections and rotary packaging machine that employs the method Method to package sections either in normal layers or in alternate right-side-up/overturned layers, the layers being fed from determined layers, whereby two already butted layers, one having a number N of sections and the other having a number N-1 of sect... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5046918 | Device for grouping bales of fodder A device for grouping parallelepipedic bales of fodder produced by a bale press, comprising a chassis having a forward and rear end, adapted to be drawn by the bale press, supported on at least two wheels and provided with a drawbar on the forward end the... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5019204 | Method of producing mat packets from sheets of adhesive material and apparatus for implementing the method The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing mat packets from panels of an adhesive material which adhesive material is covered with release layers. The panel of adhesive material is advanced sequentially through a feed device,... | 05/28/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4984677 | Device for transferring objects from a conveyor to a collection device A device for transferring objects, such as filled bags, from a conveyor to a collection device, such as a box, placed below the conveyor comprises two conveyor belts (1, 2) placed adjacent to each other. In the conveying position, the top parts of said co... | 01/15/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4801233 | Sticker placer apparatus Improved sticker placer apparatus is described. The apparatus includes plural, inclined sticker feed pockets for holding stickers simultaneously to be placed and vertically reciprocable placement arms, each being capable of displacing one sticker at a tim... | 01/31/1989 |
| 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 |
| 4720229 | Stack pusher A pusher assembly for use with a signature stacker pushes a stack of signatures from the stacker. The pusher assembly includes a pusher bar, a linkage for moving the pusher bar, and a controller for adjusting the length of travel of the pusher bar. The pu... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4708561 | Apparatus for accumulating and transporting stacks of paper sheets and the like Successive stacks of signatures which are accumulated on a turntable are transferred onto a first or onto a second removing conveyor by a pusher which is reciprocable by a carriage along a straight guide rail and is pivotable relative to the carriage so t... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4674238 | Lead frame handling apparatus for blasting machine A guiding and transporting arrangement employs opposed guide rails which have longitudinally extending guide structure associated therewith for slidably accommodating a lead frame between the guide rails, which guide rails are slidably supported on transv... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4668149 | Article depositing apparatus Apparatus for automatically depositing parallelepipedic articles into an upwardly open collecting hopper, carton or the like, including a pair of article support members pivoted in spaced opposed facing relation, the support members respectively having sp... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4649840 | Automatic removal and stacking of sewn garments Efficient stacking of sheets, such as garments, is practiced utilizing a stacker which includes a number of rods slidably received in parallel through-extending openings in an elongated support, the openings being generally perpendicular to the dimension ... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4630987 | Peripheral auxiliary system for the automatic feeding and unloading of a stamping/nibbling machine The invention concerns a peripheral auxiliary system for the automatic feeding and unloading of a stamping/nibbling machine. In machines of this kind, the blanks have previously beed fed in by automatic devices. Other transport or depositing devices have ... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4613267 | Device for the intermediate stacking of material that is to be cut The invention concerns a device for the intermediate stacking of material that is to be cut, wherein the material is supplied from the work table of one work station, especially a jolting table, to a fork lift, on which the material is made into component... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4610592 | Robotic downender apparatus An improved downender assembly and method for using the assembly is disclosed. The improved downender apparatus has a load receiving member which is rotatable from a horizontal orientation for receiving unit loads from a conveyor assembly to a vertical or... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4592692 | Pallet loading apparatus A pallet loading apparatus wherein an article is held by a holding device that can move freely vertically and horizontally at the article line-up position. The article is then moved and lowered onto articles on a pallet at the pallet loading position. The... | 06/03/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4403900 | Pallet storing and distributing apparatus An apparatus for storing a plurality of pallets and for distributing pallets one at a time to a work station includes a vertically oriented magazine with an open top end for storing a plurality of pallets one above the other and a pallet unloading device ... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4396332 | Stacking device for wire grids A stacking device for wire grids such as those welded grids used for reinforcing concrete, has vertical guides into which the free ends of a selected longitudinal wire of the grid slide so as to form a stack, one grid on top of another. One of the vertica... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4344727 | Method and apparatus for stacking and collating articles A conveyor accumulates collapsed, flexible flat tubes into roughly aligned stacks which are transferred to a collator comprising an inclined tray-like receptacle mounted for multidirectional movement. The receptacle is simultaneously rotated and pivoted f... | 08/17/1982 |
| 4338088 | Folding machine A folding machine for flat material such as bed sheets or blankets which folds the material into thirty-seconds, conveys the material to an integral stacker and stacks the same. The machine includes a positive drive to each of a pair of relatively movable... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4314786 | Method and apparatus for handling cathode plate support rods Method and apparatus for handling cathode plate support rods include detaching the support rods from the cathode plate and transporting the same in a longitudinal direction over a transfer track to a support rod grouping station wherein the same are moved... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4314403 | Machine for automatically stacking plate groups for storage batteries The invention relates to a machine for automatically stacking plate groups for storage batteries. It comprises a plate separating means of separating plates one by one from a hopper and delivering them to the next step, a separator supplying means of supp... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4278379 | Bale wagon A bale wagon for picking up bales of crop material from the field and forming them into a generally symmetrical pyramidal stack for deposit at a selected location is provided. The bale wagon includes a mobile frame pivotally supporting a stack forming loa... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4261158 | Receiving device for bruisable objects A receiving device for bruisable objects having obliquely and downwardly extending receiving members, which can yield downwardly and outwardly and a pivot mechanism for pivoting at least one receiving member downwardly and outwardly, a restriction member ... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4259826 | Case packing machine A machine for placing groups of containers, preferably bottles, into cases. Successive groups of bottles are moved horizontally to a first station where they are releasably suspended on escapement bars. The bottles are suspended at enlarged neck flanges a... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4256427 | Automatic wire stacker apparatus Apparatus for successively receiving and transporting long cut lengths of wire from a wire cutting mechanism and stacking the cut lengths in a receiver, a pair of long looped belts being supported with confronting surface faces coacting to form a longitud... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4250690 | Container loading systems A method and apparatus for loading containers with articles, such as post parcels, includes the use of a carrier device which is lowered into a container by suitable hoisting means at a rate dependent upon the number of articles deposited on the carrier d... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4169586 | Automatic device for stacking circular workpieces Apparatus for stacking stackable workpieces in a plurality of side-by-side vertical columns. The apparatus includes a stacking head transversely movable on a frame, and a conveyor attached to the head for directing individual workpieces to the head. The h... | 10/02/1979 |
| 4140234 | Turning mechanism There is provided a turning mechanism for article orientation, as in a compensating stacker of printed signatures, which is characterized by a three link system including a stationary mounting block having mounted therein for rotation a turnable shaft, a ... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4132320 | Pan stacking system Articles which nest, such as baking pans, are assembled into a stack by a two-stage lift mechanism in which the assembly of a second stack is commenced while a previously assembled first stack is being discharged from the stack forming apparatus, so that ... | 01/02/1979 |
