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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7730697 | Automatic machine for making filter bags for infusion products A machine (100) for making filter bags (1) for infusion products, the machine (100) being of the type comprising, one after the other along a production line (P), a plurality of operating stations designed to form the filter bags (1) and ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7334379 | Automated solid pharmaceutical product packaging machine An automated pharmaceutical product packaging machine simultaneously fills a plurality of product package templates in parallel with desired pharmaceutical dosing requirements. The templates are subsequently positioned over a temporary storage template having caviti... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7320573 | Method for packaging articles having varying thicknesses A system for continuously packaging or sorting fragile articles having varying thicknesses in a stack includes a plurality of proportional shifters coupled to each of a plurality of stripping devices in an article infeed assembly. Each proportional shifter has an ar... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7290380 | Packaging machine and method for closing containers A packaging machine for closing containers (5) is provided having a supply device (1, 2) for supplying containers (5) to be closed; a removal device (11) for removing closed containers (5″); and a closing device (25) betwe... | 11/06/2007 |
| 6925774 | Compact structure for automatically filling solid pharmaceutical product packages An automated solid pharmaceutical product packaging machine includes a plurality of temporary storage members for receiving a plurality of solid pharmaceutical products in a plurality of cavities. The use of the temporary storage cavities enables the machine to proc... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6805230 | Palletizer for articles manipulated by suspension A palletizer for bottles having loader carriage with a plurality of horizontal corridors (11) formed by pairs of laterally adjustable guides (21), which suspend the collars (92) of the bottles, and pairs of laterally adjustable side walls (31... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6684601 | Jig loading system The jig loading system comprises an assembly of straps 10 for attachment to a support member 14 so as to hang downwardly in spaced apart positions. Each strap 10 has a releasable holder 16 thereon for supporting aircraft stringers 18 at spaced apart posit... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6640523 | Article gauge and proportional shifter system A system for continuously packaging or sorting fragile articles having varying thicknesses in a stack includes a plurality of proportional shifters coupled to each of a plurality of stripping devices in an article infeed assembly. Each proportional shifte... | 11/04/2003 |
| 5916107 | Multicomponent filling apparatus A multicomponent filling apparatus for filling a first kind and a second kind of lumped products such as salad leaves into a container comprises a collecting container having a first portion receiving the first salad type and a second portion separated fr... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5771658 | Article packaging apparatus An apparatus and method of forming stacked article groups by supplying at least two streams of articles; forming a stream of first article groups having at least one article; placing a support base on a top surface of each first article group; and forming... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5768856 | Loading a plurality of packages into a box Packages arriving continuously one after the other at an input station are loaded into boxes by continuously displacing an endless pocket belt through the input station and loading the packages at the input station into respective pockets of the belt. At ... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5465824 | Stacking device Stacking device for stacking groups of articles on top of each other, the articles being supplied to that stacking device in a single stream and at a common first level, the device comprising moveable elements which are substantially parallel to the artic... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5092448 | Equipment for stacking layers of cylindrical commodities such as rolls of paper in readiness for transfer to a wrapping machine Rolls of paper are stacked in layers without any relative movement occurring between the surfaces brought into contact, using a transfer table which pivots about a horizontal axis, such that the end directed toward the wrapping machine can be swung vertic... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5018334 | Carton loading machine having load accumulator In a carton loading machine which receives load items from an infeed conveyor and which has a carton loading station in which a plurality of load items are loaded simultaneously into a carton, improvement of a load accumulator. The load accumulator is loc... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4929140 | Rack loader The invention is a loader for loading containers such as large, heavy bottles of bottled-water from a conveyor, into a rack. It comprises a transfer table spaced from the conveyor and generally coplanar therewith. The table includes pairs of upstanding su... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4927322 | Stack stripper for a stacking machine A vertically extending stripper bar is manipulated to strip a stack of articles from a conveyor while the conveyor is carrying the articles downwardly at high speed. A carriage is mounted for being vertically movable. A pneumatic cylinder is coupled to th... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4911602 | Container supply system A container supply system supplies a plurality of containers such bottles encased in a box to a container processing machine such as a bottle washing machine. The container supply system includes a box reverser for reversing the box with the bottles encas... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4776747 | High speed integrated circuit handler An integrated circuit handler provides very high throughput rates and very low manual labor requirements. A sleeve handler portion provides nearly all of the sleeve handling needs of the handler, receiving periodic inputs of a plurality of sleeves, orient... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4694637 | Method and apparatus for grouping, orienting, and packing articles In a method of grouping, orienting, and packing articles such as ice-cream cones, the cones are advanced in rows on conveyors while being grouped and oriented, and are subsequently gripped in groups by a gripping device. Through suction heads gripping the... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4633652 | Method and apparatus for automatically packing sausage links Method and apparatus for automatically packing sausage links in containers. A high speed feed conveyor feeds a plurality of spaced apart sausage links, in a lengthwise orientation, to a further conveyor having a plurality of transverse compartments. A sau... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4507903 | Packing cigarettes There is provided a method of and apparatus for packing rod-shaped articles, especially cigarettes. A rotatable turret is used, into which blanks are introduced into pockets of the turret, with partial folding of the blanks, whereafter groups of articles ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4294061 | Comestible packaging apparatus Apparatus is disclosed for automatically stacking a plurality of trays containing comestibles such as fruit or the like into packages such as boxes of the like. Trays are synchronously supplied via an incremental belt to a tray stacking portion, where the... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4073118 | Method and apparatus for assembling and pocketing sections of photographic films An elongated web of exposed and developed photographic film is moved lengthwise and is severed at regular intervals to yield a succession of discrete sections. Related sections (e.g., those belonging to a customer) are assembled into groups of overlapping... | 02/14/1978 |
| 3964233 | Egg packing method and apparatus An egg packer with the eggs picked up from a slotted conveyor by a conveyor of rollers having pockets formed between each of the rollers and an adjacent parallel rod, carried up an incline while being rolled and travelling toward its small end, and contac... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3954165 | Automatic collating machine An automatic collating machine for organizing into groups a flow of articles, such as ice cream sandwiches, fed to the machine to be packaged into containers includes a carrier feed station and a container loading station, both of which are located along ... | 05/04/1976 |
