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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6089819 | Method and apparatus for palletizing and depalletizing layers of articles on stackable pallets A palletizer/depalletizer system includes a palletizer assembly and depalletizer assembly stacked one beneath the other on a common frame assembly. Both assemblies are adapted to handle layers of articles and stacks of pallets. The palletizer loads articl... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5971700 | Fixed path pick and place device A top-picking palletizer and de-palletizer moves pallet layers along a fixed path by use of a single-dimension actuation system and top-picking lift head. The illustrated system includes an actuation assembly operated by a single reversible motor moving d... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5941681 | Apparatus for processing flat, flexible objects, for example plastic or paper cards The apparatus has, along with a magazine in which flat, flexible objects such as cords are stored in a stack, a retaining device for holding the stack in the magazine. Symmetrically disposed retaining elements aligned parallel to the surface of the object... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5738485 | Pallet handling apparatus There is provided a pallet dispensing apparatus wherein the carriage assembly is reciprocably movable in a vertical direction and has first and second transversely extending rails with pallet supporting members secured thereto. Each of the rails has a cam... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5607280 | Apparatus for loading pipe onto a machine An underground boring machine including an automatic pipe loading apparatus. A plurality of pipes are gravity fed through a discharge opening at a lower end of a magazine combining several columns of pipe. A selection member has a plurality of pipe receiv... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5575613 | Pallet dispenser A sensing arrangement is disclosed for use in a pallet dispenser or the like, to determine whether a pallet is present or not. A body, having a shaped engagement surface, displaces in the plane of the pallets upon sliding engagement by a pallet, and suita... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5442897 | Method of and apparatus for making tubular envelopes A continuous web of wrapping material for catamenial tampons or other commodities is advanced lengthwise first through a station where it is acted upon by a perforating knife to weaken longitudinally spaced-apart portions of the web transversely of the di... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5433583 | Card loading device A card loading device includes an elevator, a roller, a card loading port, and two sensors for detecting the feeding of cards, exhausting the feeding of cards and the reloading of cards. The elevator raises/lowers a plurality of accumulated cards. The rol... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5336041 | Storage and retrieval device and method for imbricated planar articles A device for stacking and destacking a stream of imbricated, substantially planar, flexible units to form or destack a layered stack. The device is a stacker, adapted to receive a stream of units from a source thereof, and a plurality of transfer sheets. ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5190434 | Article supplier An article supplier is provided with a first elevator for supplying articles contained in a pallet to a robot, a second elevator for discharging an empty pallet, and a driving mechanism for seesaw-moving the first and second elevators with the pallet bein... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5120178 | Workpiece loading and unloading method and device for a plate processing machine A workpiece loading and unloading method and apparatus are disclosed especially for plate processing machines, such as a punch press. The apparatus includes a workpiece storage device positioned on one side of the plate processing machine and having a plu... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5020966 | Pallet dispenser/accumulator A simplified and improved apparatus for handling pallets. The apparatus includes a self aligning storage magazine, a three pneumatic cylinder stack/destack device and a standard live roller conveyor as a pallet transport device. The purpose for this appar... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4971514 | Stacking device for plate-like objects, in particular titer plates or the like Disclosed is a stacking device for stacking and unstacking plate-shaped objects such as titer plates. A magazine is provided to hold the titer plates and a support plate is provided beneath the titer plates. A clamping device is provided to hold the botto... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4865515 | Apparatus for unstacking and stacking containers An apparatus for unstacking and stacking containers. The apparatus includes a frame defining a compartment to receive a stack of containers, and a guide mechanism mounted within the frame to guide the stack in vertical movement. Located beneath the compar... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4772168 | Device for rearranging a pile of sheets The invention relates to a device for the cyclic rearrangement of a pile of rectangular or square pictures, with a first and a second frame part (12, 14) which can be moved back and forth relative to one another and parallel to the principal plane of the ... | 09/20/1988 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4565478 | Materials handling device A sheet handling device for a printer, such as a silkscreen printed circuit card printer, includes a pick-up and hold device that translates between a register position on the printer and one or more stacks of cards. Adjustable limit switches on a transpo... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4561817 | Retort crate loader and unloader A retort crate is positioned adjacent the outer edge of a dead plate at one end of a conveyor by a horizontal positioning assembly (HPA). A floor cylinder raises and lowers the retort crate bottom and the containers therein. Jar load and unload sensors co... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4560157 | Transport device for individual sheets to be combined into a stack A device for transporting individual sheets to or from a magazine housing containing the sheets in a stack, particularly useful in x-ray installations, includes a threaded rotary screw member disposed within the magazine containing the stack of sheets for... | 12/24/1985 |
| 4557656 | Top feeding and ejecting materials handling apparatus A materials handling device, such as a palletizer and/or depalletizer, which may be adapted to operate in either mode, has a mechanism, for feeding pallets to be loaded and ejecting pallets which have been unloaded, at the top of the device. The pallets a... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4362452 | Process and apparatus for loading and emptying a store for press supports Temporary storage for flexible underlayments or press supports being transported in the manufacture of chipboard is provided by dragging the underlayments over a storage pit into which their rear ends are allowed to drop. Protruding ends of head leaders b... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4359305 | Method and apparatus for accumulating and dispensing tray-like objects This invention is an apparatus and method for accumulating or dispensing planar tray-like objects which are being received from or supplied to a conveyor system. It consists of a supporting frame on which there is an elevator. The elevator has a table on ... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4343583 | 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... | 08/10/1982 |
| 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 |
| 4273488 | Bale stacking wagon A multilayer, free-standing stack of bales is built from the bottom up in a machine that forms each successive layer and then raises the layer directly overhead to retaining structure that supports the layer, as well as any others above it, at a high enou... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4231697 | Bottle packaging and unpackaging machine An apparatus for removing a plurality of aligned containers from a conveyor and positioning them in spaced rows upon a supporting platform in a tiered arrangement. The containers are removed from the platform in the tiered arrangement and enveloped within... | 11/04/1980 |
| 4205934 | Stacking apparatus Apparatus for stacking layers of loads, e.g. on a pallet, comprises a stacking carriage and a transfer carriage each independently movable vertically on a main frame, so that the transfer carriage can receive each layer of loads at a low level and raise t... | 06/03/1980 |
| 4043460 | Tray stacking and unstacking apparatus An apparatus for stacking or unstacking trays comprising a tray holding mechanism and a drive member for moving the tray holding mechanism from an initial position along a prescribed closed path. In the stacking mode of operation, upon movement along the ... | 08/23/1977 |
| 4036375 | Bin destacker and restacker Means for destacking or restacking sequences of bins wherein the bins are transferred serially from their initial position to their final desired position by clamping assemblies located at the outer end of pivot arms, the pivot arms being capable both of ... | 07/19/1977 |
| 3987911 | Self-aligning apparatus for stacker-unstacker elevator A stacking-unstacking machine for bread pans and the like includes an elevator having pan support means thereon for carrying stacked pans to or away from a stacking-unstacking station, guide means being provided properly to align the pans for the stacking... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3937336 | Palletizing and depalletizing apparatus for supplemental feed A conveying system for conveying cans from a can-making machine to a can-filling machine includes a first conveyor to supply cans from the can-making machine to the filling machine and a second conveyor or supplemental feed conveyor at right angles with a... | 02/10/1976 |
| 3934734 | Bale wagon A bale wagon adapted to pick up bales and form them into a composite stack and further adapted to unload individual bales from the formed stack in single bale fashion. The bale wagon basically comprises a load rack, a slightly forwardly inclined transfer ... | 01/27/1976 |
| 3933254 | Stacker-unstacker A machine for feeding into a stack and removing from a stack baking pans and the like wherein there is provided a transfer conveyor, a pan carrier, a pan dropping mechanism for sequentially separating baking pans from the transfer conveyor and depositing ... | 01/20/1976 |
