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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7287952 | Feeder load automation system and method of use A feeder load automation system and method of use including a lifting device capable of lifting a pallet of bundled product from a lowered positioned to a raised position and a platform positioned on the lifting device which holds the pallet of bundled product. A he... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7144009 | Apparatus for transmitting a workpiece The apparatus for transmitting a workpiece along a press line includes a support frame; a support frame driving unit; a plurality of air pipes; an air flow forming unit; a plurality of rollers; and a roller driving unit. The plurality of suction cups are provided at... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7021887 | Singulator for stacked work pieces An apparatus and associated method for singulating a first work piece from a plurality of stacked work pieces, the plurality of stacked work pieces comprising a second work piece adjacent the first work piece. A stripping member is engageable against the second work... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6748294 | Flats bundle collator The present invention relates to an apparatus for collating a plurality of separate groups or bundles of similar flats mailpieces arranged in a predetermined delivery point sequence, each mailpiece imprinted with a distinct delivery point or address indicia, to prod... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6736589 | Method and device for transferring compact discs to a packaging line According to the method, single compact discs (1) are removed from a magazine (10) by a pick up group (14) which is carried by a drum (13). The drum (13) rotates continuously on a vertical axis. The pick up group (14)... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6729837 | Sheet feeder and sheet feeding method A sheet feeder for use with a stack having plates and sheets alternating. Sheets are removed by being reliably suction adhered with a sucker. The sheet feeder includes a suction device, and the sucker and device are mounted at a supporting portion. In order to allow... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6665588 | Workpiece unloading apparatus A workpiece is gripped and unloaded by moving workpiece unloading means based on the results of measuring the workpiece position and orientation with a visual sensor. When a plurality of loaded workpieces are unloaded in a regular order one by one, or in ... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6648587 | Material delivery system for clean room-like environments A material delivery system is disclosed which is particularly useful for filtered environments, such as clean rooms, minienvironments, or the like. One aspect of this particular material delivery system is that movement of an elevator is automatically con... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6609875 | Plate material carrying apparatus A material table 39 supporting materials W is provided so as to be able to move between a plate material taking-in/out area 11 and material wait area 13, and when the material table 39 is positioned in the plate material taking-in/out area 11, the materia... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6468025 | Blank separation method and apparatus It is known to utilize magnets to assist in separating individual blanks from a stack of blanks. The invention utilizes a pressurized fluid, for example pressurized air, to separate one blank from another. The pressurized air system is utilized in a combi... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6461102 | Charging apparatus A charging apparatus for handling stations for sheet-like, flexible articles, in particular envelopes, particularly for mail-processing machines, the drive in a feed-channel for stacks of articles standing on edge being controlled in dependence on a detec... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6338607 | Pallet and top frame handler for a palletizer A palletizer (10) for stacking a series of items on a pallet (P), the palletizer (10) including a pallet hoist (34) for supporting a stuck of pallets therein; a pallet lift mechanism (82) mounted for vertical movement within the pallet hoist (34) adjacent... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6318714 | Document unstack system for currency recycling automated banking machine An automated banking machine (10) identifies and stores documents such as currency bills deposited by a user. The machine then selectively recovers such documents from storage and dispenses them to other users. The machine includes a central transport (70... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6163145 | Transporting apparatus for semiconductor device A transporting apparatus used in testing a plurality of semiconductor devices includes a magazine in which a plurality of pallets are stacked in plural stages, each pallet with a plurality of semiconductor device placed thereon; a distributing stocker mec... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6152682 | Plate material carrying apparatus A material table 39 supporting materials W is provided so as to be able to move between a plate material taking-in/out area 11 and material wait area 13, and when the material table 39 is positioned in the plate material taking-in/out area 11, the materia... | 11/28/2000 |
| 5836737 | Stacked-container separating apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for separating and reversing a stack of containers includes a supply conveyer that supplies the stack of containers, a lifting device that lifts the stack of containers upwards into a separating and reversing device that separate... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5538391 | Method and apparatus for mechanized loading and unloading An apparatus for mechanized loading and unloading, having an insertable pallet that may be tilted around its longitudinal axis and that can be moved horizontally and vertically. The pallet has a live conveyor for advancing a package along the pallet. Also... | 07/23/1996 |
| 5462400 | Method and apparatus for mechanical loading and unloading An insertable pallet for unloading or acquiring objects or for loading or piling objects, particularly in a stacked position, comprising at least one live roller for moving an object being unloaded or loaded along the insertable pallet. In the unloading m... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5451136 | Automatic depalletizer A material handling system includes a depalletizer comprising a tower frame and a tilt bed which extends into the tower frame and is tilted to a predetermined angle. A lift bed raises a loaded pallet to the level of an exit conveyor. A back dam is dispose... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5314297 | Method and apparatus for stack separator and restacker A stack separator and restacker comprises a conveyor, a splitting bar, a multiplicity of lifting bars and hydraulic controls to operate them. The stack separator and restacker splits a stack or package of rigid elongated members, such as lumber, into smal... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5224827 | Bale encasing and de-casing system An apparatus for encasing a bale of compressed, expandable material, including a compliant sleeve, surrounding the bale of material; first and second sideframes arranged at opposing sides of the bale; and first and second slats, arranged at opposing sides... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5183380 | Apparatus including an endless pocket conveyor for automatically transferring stacks of packaging blanks to a blank magazine of a packaging machine In the production of (cigarette) packs made of blanks of thin cardboard, the latter are delivered as blank stacks, normally stacked on pallets. The blank stacks delivered in this or other ways have to be continuously filled into supply magazines of high p... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5174712 | Apparatus for holding stationary a stack of articles while lifting a sheet by suction from the top of the stack On pallets loaded with several layers (tiers 11), relatively thin intermediate layers 13 made of cardboard or the like are usually located between the tiers 11. These intermediate layers have to be removed after a tier 11 has been unloaded. For this purpo... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5101546 | Apparatus for removing printed board An apparatus for taking out printed circuit boards, comprises a pin extracting device for extracting a plurality of pins erectly provided on a workpiece including printed circuit boards and a lower plate both of which are laminated, a reversing device for... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5018939 | Apparatus for separating iron sheets An apparatus for separating piled iron sheets one by one has a plurality of magnets arranged vertically with the same magnetic poles thereof facing each other. Magnetic fluxes generated from the magnets react with each other at a position between the magn... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4968018 | Device for separating, delivering and depositing blanks The invention relates to a device for separating, delivering, and depositing material blanks, for use in the textile industry or the like which improves heat transfer to the gripping surface in a device in which the heating device is arranged in such a wa... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4815916 | Apparatus for raising a magnetizable object from a stack and for moving it away for further processing A plurality of magnetic elevator devices disposed along the sides of a vertical stack of magnetizable steel objects, such as sheets or rods, separates them and raises the uppermost one vertically. Sensing devices in a control system sense when the object ... | 03/28/1989 |
| 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 |
| 4726724 | Panel feed device for feeding panel-type workpieces deposited on a lift table to panel splitting apparatus A panel feed device arranged on a horizontally displaceable feed carriage for feeding panel-type workpieces deposited on a lift table to panel splitting apparatus which is provided with a feed member which is arranged in a vertically displaceable manner o... | 02/23/1988 |
| 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 |
| 4671723 | Apparatus for pushing stacks or packs from a support Apparatus for pushing stacks or packs, particularly packs of tubular film sections, from a support, preferably from a pallet, on which stacks of packs have been deposited in a plurality of layers, include a pusher, which is movably mounted in a frame and ... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4634328 | Mail singulation system A singulation system for receiving unsingulated mail at a singulation station and for passing to an output station singulated mail. The singulation system includes a camera for viewing the unsingulated mail at the output edge of the singulation station fo... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4453874 | Article-handling apparatus An apparatus for removing articles such as boxes from pallets and for placing articles on pallets too, comprising a frame, a mainly horizontal supporting surface, a plurality of parallel supporting fingers which are longitudinally slidably supported in sa... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4441844 | Portable panel separation device A portable separating device which can be taken from stack to stack. At a desired stack, it is placed onto and supported by the top of the stack. It has opposed, vertically staggered, stack-engaging pads so located that one engages an edges of the top pan... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4423687 | Safe deposit box anchoring system A system that prevents stacked safe deposit box nests from shifting horizontally relative to one another utilizes registered pluralities of retainer brackets mounted along the upper and lower edges of the rear wall of the nest. The retainer brackets are c... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4299524 | Devices for automatically supplying tubular workpieces In a device for picking up tubular workpieces sequentially from a stack, and supplying the same to a subsequent stage, at least one truck is provided so as to be reciprocable between a loading position and an unloading position. In the loading position, t... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4194269 | Apparatus for removing cotton or the like from a bale Apparatus for removing a layer of predetermined thickness from a bale of fiber material including an array of rigidly secured, juxtaposed, vertically oriented tines and carriers for moving the tines downwardly to a selected depth in the bale and then hori... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4179236 | Board separator A board separator apparatus for separating boards from groups of boards is described. The separator apparatus includes an input conveyor for feeding the groups of boards in a vertical position longitudinally into a transfer box, which is pivoted to transf... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4162869 | Unmanned conveying control system An unmanned conveying control system capable of conveying a load between a base position such as a gateway of a warehouse or a predetermined position in a manufacture line in a factory and a storage place in the warehouse or factory as well as loading and... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4109802 | Depalletizing apparatus The invention relates to depalletizing apparatus of the kind which comprises a transfer head which is reciprocable in a vertical path and includes a transfer table to receive layers of articles one at a time from the top of a pile of layers which are supe... | 08/29/1978 |
