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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7128520 | Method and a device for transferring articles, in particular blister packs, to the feeding line of a packaging machine According to a method for transferring articles, the articles, in particular blister packs, are transferred to a feeding line of a packaging machine, moving continuously and longitudinally with respect to an outlet line of a machine producing the articles, on which ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 6971833 | Order picking system The invention relates to an order picking system (1) with at least one automatic commissioning machine (2) having article racks (3) in which channels (4) for articles are positioned which are inclined in relation to the horizontal. Said c... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6957944 | Method and apparatus for stacking small sheets of glass A method and apparatus for stacking small sheets of glass or other material, wherein manual stacking is eliminated and robotic/machine cycle times are significantly reduced, and wherein such an apparatus enables the stacking of small sheets of glass or other materia... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6733228 | Apparatus for transporting parts A part transporting apparatus comprises: a guiding groove for lining up parts in one row and guiding the parts; a transporting member which is provided at the base of the guiding groove and transports the parts in a forward direction by itself moving forwards and ba... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6695570 | Automatic carton loader A carton loader for automatically loading stacks of cartons onto a mass feeder for supplying cartons to a packaging machine includes a loader in which stacks of cartons are received and held, and a carriage on which the loader is pivotally mounted. After ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6375406 | Apparatus for transporting parts A part transporting apparatus comprises: a guiding groove for lining up parts in one row and guiding the parts; a transporting member which is provided at the base of the guiding groove and transports the parts in a forward direction by itself moving forw... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6338608 | Apparatus for transporting parts A part transporting apparatus comprises a guiding groove for lining up parts in one row and guiding the parts; a transporting member which is provided at the base of the guiding groove and transports the parts in a forward direction by itself moving forwa... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6322316 | Patty loader and method An apparatus and method for stacking and loading disc-like objects into receptacles is provided. The apparatus includes a lane combining conveyor which receives multiple lanes of product and combines one or more of the outer lanes into the remaining lanes... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6290453 | Unit for feeding flat diecut blanks of wrapping material to a user machine A unit for feeding flat diecut blanks of wrapping material to a user machine is equipped with a conveyor by which blanks disposed on edge transversely to a given feed direction and ordered in a substantially continuous column are caused to advance along a... | 09/18/2001 |
| 5897291 | Apparatus and method for forming arrays of articles for packaging A method of forming arrays of articles, comprising: (a) providing a stacker having a plurality of compartments for receiving the articles, the stacker traveling along a closed loop path; (b) transporting a plurality of the articles along a first path to t... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5630697 | Apparatus and method for producing truss plate bundles An apparatus for forming and transporting a stack of truss plates. The apparatus comprises a receiving unit including an accumulation chamber for receiving a substack of oriented and aligned truss plates, a substack conveying unit operatively connected wi... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5597285 | Apparatus for forming stacks An apparatus for forming stacks of individual articles, particularly diapers, contains a supply mechanism, which transfers the diapers successively and tangentially to a transfer device. The transfer device contains a plurality of revolving, tangentially ... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5551834 | Pressure roller mechanism for stacking apparatus In an envelope stacker, a normal force roller mechanism drives a mail piece vertically then retracts without adding significant torque to the stacker. The normal force roller mechanism is comprised of a frame and a bracket pivotally mounted to the frame, ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5176244 | High speed variable count mechanical stacker A pair of closed loop chains running in parallelism have uniformly spaced apart paddles on them for transporting an article such as a pad between each paddle to a pad ejection station. A shaft orbits about an axis which is parallel to the direction in whi... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5131645 | Sweeper assembly for document conveyor system A sweeper assembly for use in a document conveyor system having belt conveyor means operative to convey generally flat documents in upstanding on-edge relation to a stacker station. The sweeper assembly includes feed augers adapted to receive the lower ed... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5104283 | Orbital stacker This invention relates to a container stacker having at least one moving member attached to an endless flexible element. The moving member delivers containers from a delivery device to a container receiving surface and moves the containers across the cont... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5002457 | Apparatus for storing stacks of articles and subsequently unstacking the articles and feeding the articles to working equipment An apparatus for stacking and storing articles and subsequently unstacking the articles. The apparatus includes a first conveyor to convey a plurality of articles, and a plurality of secondary conveyors are disposed normal to a side edge of the first conv... | 03/26/1991 |
| 5000656 | Method and apparatus for storing stacks of articles and subsequently unstacking the articles and feeding the articles to working equipment An apparatus for stacking and storing articles and subsequently unstacking the articles. The apparatus includes a first conveyor to convey a plurality of articles, and a plurality of secondary conveyors are disposed normal to a side edge of the first conv... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4835947 | Load accumulator for carton loading machine A load accumulator for accumulating a load which consists of a plurality of items and transferring the accumulated load into a receptacle of a carton loading machine. The accumulator has a load accumulator spool which has a plurality of pockets formed the... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4755093 | Device for dividing flat products, such as cookies and the like, into groups for packaging A device which is effective to divide flat cookies into groups of cookies for packaging at a high rate of speed without damaging the cookies which comprises a vertical receiving magazine and a substantially vertical collecting magazine the former being op... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4349304 | Automatic glass plate piling apparatus An automatic glass plate piling apparatus includes a feeding conveyor for conveying a glass plate in the horizontal direction; a turning frame pivoted at an end of the conveyor so as to receive the glass plate transferred from the conveyor and to turn it ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4176993 | Apparatus for forming stacks of flat objects Apparatus for forming stacks of flat objects, such as chocolate bars, which includes a toothed wheel to which juxtaposed objects are fed while traveling on an at least horizontal input path, and between the teeth of which the objects are accommodated and ... | 12/04/1979 |
