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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7284359 | Breech loader An apparatus for automatically delivering placed and oriented pieces of meat to a netter for wrapping and netting is described, in which the placement and orientation of the meat pieces remains unchanged from initial placement until final wrapping and netting. The a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7178310 | Poly-stretch bagger system with hocking pusher A bagger system for enclosing poultry very tightly in a plastic bag, to reduce material costs, present a pleasing appearance, decrease leaks, and minimize distortion of the printed information on the bag. A grabber assembly is described, to grasp the legs of the pou... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7137234 | Vertical flat stacking apparatus and method of use A device and method for stacking product into a container in a vertical orientation. The device includes at least one pivoting mechanism pivotable between a loading position and an initial/final position. The at least one pivoting mechanism retains a container there... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7047711 | Device for the automatic inserting of products into envelopes Device (11) for the automatic inserting of printed products or sheets (12) in individual envelopes (13), where the individual printed products or sheets (12) are fed by one or more feeders and the envelopes (13) are arranged piled ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6971222 | Device for packing flat articles in transport containers, in particular folded-flat folding boxes in casing cartons A device for packing flat articles in transport containers includes a feeder for feeding the flat articles in imbricated form. A conveyor disposed downstream of the feeder, in transport direction of the articles, has an at least approximately vertically extending en... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6732486 | Machine for conveying and moving into position tubes, in particular straws A machine for conveying and moving into position tubes (124), the machine including a chute (42) with a vertical feed station for said tubes, conveyor belts (12) and a motor (31) for moving said conveyor belts, characterized in that said ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6691490 | Injection drug packaging device A drug packaging system including a bag supply unit (A) for printing injection drug information on bags and feeding the bags, a drug feed unit (B) for putting drugs specified the doctors' orders into each of the bags (206) received from the bag supply uni... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6494019 | High speed envelope inserter A system for the automated insertion of documents into envelopes. The system includes a plurality of individual document feeding devices that feed individual documents from an assembled stack onto a moving document conveyor. Each of the document feeding d... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6430895 | Packing system article distributive directing mechanism A directing unit 2, which directs bags P arranged in one line of feed rollers 23 to two lines in a packing system for packing the bags P conveyed in one line from a previous process, includes eccentric pulleys 25, a belt 26, and a bag holding plate 28d. T... | 08/13/2002 |
| 5794415 | Apparatus for packing layered fruit into bins An apparatus is disclosed for loading items, such as fruit, into a container such as a fruit bin with an open top face. The bin is transported on rollers to a tiltable cradle that grasps the cradle and tilts it to a loading orientation in which the bin fa... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5724785 | Article packaging machine with improved overhead flight assembly An article packaging machine for packaging articles such as beverage cans into open-ended containers and sealing the containers comprises a carton conveyor that defines a carton path. Open cartons are moved along the path and articles are directed in grou... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5692362 | Packaging machine A machine and method for loading a product (5), particularly a food product, to a packaging position (6), for example a receiving pouch. A pair of end-to-end conveyors (1,2) overlie the packaging position (6). The end-to-end conveyors (1,2) are driven in ... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5638663 | Overhead can guide Guide blocks (20) having guide ribs (22) are moved by an endless chain (30) above and in synchronization with conveyor systems (11, 13) carrying groups (1) of containers. The guide blocks (20) and guide ribs (22) form channels for engaging the tops of con... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5598771 | Dry fruit bin filling apparatus An apparatus is disclosed for a high speed non-bruising dry bin loader for apples and other produce. A transfer belt receives fruit from an transfer source and transfers fruit to a distribution belt once the transfer belt has accumulated a predetermined, ... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5588276 | Sleeving machine A sleeving machine and a method for automatically inserting a tray of postal mail into a sleeve. The tray is disposed on a transport station and advanced by a transport belt. A pusher on the transport belt engages the tray for advancement through the mach... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5414973 | Apparatus for conveying a textile product An apparatus for conveying a textile product from an upstream to a downstream station, especially for delivery into a package, has an endless conveyor belt driven by a drive and a pressure unit, the textile product being conveyed while held in a gripped m... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5379570 | Sleeving machine A sleeving machine and a method for automatically inserting a tray of postal mail into a sleeve. The tray is disposed on a transport station and advanced by a first belt. A second belt having a pusher thereon engages the tray for advancement through the m... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5331792 | Packaging unit A packaging assembly for packaging a pre-measured quantity of products particularly irregular-shaped products such as potatoes into a bag or other container. The assembly includes a plurality of transfer conveyors mounted upon a turntable for transferring... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5313768 | Agricultural bagging machine Agricultural Bagging Machine including a vertically disposed chain feeder positioned above the rotor thereof to move silage downwardly into contact with the rotor. The chain feeder comprises a pair of chain feeder conveyors positioned in a side-by-side re... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5022216 | Method and apparatus for making easy open flexible bag filled with compressed flexible articles Method and apparatus for making an easy open substantially rectangular bag of compressed flexible articles in which the flexible articles are arranged in a stack and held in compression in a direction substantially parallel to their thickness. The preferr... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4967541 | Horizontal wrapping machine with improved article infeed system An inverted horizontal wrapping machine is provided with an article infeed system which includes a horizontal feed trough with an open exit end positioned closely adjacent the inlet end of the wrapping material tube being continuously formed by the machin... | 11/06/1990 |
| 4955929 | Device for introducing material into containers A device for introducing material into containers with a material-release mechanism and with a structure that supports a container below the material-release mechanism and that can advance the container past the material-release mechanism. The supporting ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4896475 | Rocker frame A rocker frame cooperating with a belt conveyor carrying on one end of said rocker frame a pair of cooperating rollers, one of which is powered, is useful to package thin webs or strips of material in partitioned packages. The frame sweeps out a repeating... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4875327 | Container filling apparatus and method A container filling apparatus and method that includes a container support movable on a frame so as to raise and lower a container mounted thereon. A conveyor discharge section is also movably mounted on the frame so as to raise and lower the conveyor dis... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4476664 | Apparatus for introducing stacks of paper sheets or the like into cartons or analogous receptacles Apparatus for filling cartons having three upstanding side walls and a horizontal side wall with stacks of paper sheets has a horizontal conveyor reciprocable into and from a carton while the carton is held at a filling station, a system for delivering st... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4464880 | Method and apparatus for introducing stacks of sheets into prefabricated cartons or the like Stacks of paper sheets are delivered onto the upper reach of an endless conveyor or onto the upper side of a platform which is movable through an open side and into the interior of a carton at a carton filling station. The open side of the carton is close... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4338762 | Photographic film insertion apparatus A photographic film insertion apparatus inserts photographic film segments into an insertion opening of a multi-layer package strip. A film conveyor conveys cut photographic film segments along a path and discharges the photographic film segments from a d... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4330978 | Photographic film packing apparatus A photographic film packing apparatus cuts film segments from a web of photographic film, partially overlaps the segments in a shingled manner, and conveys the segments in partially overlapping relationship into an insertion opening of a package, such as ... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4299074 | Method and apparatus for compressing voluminous material easy to compress The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for compressing voluminous material easy to compress and for storing and transporting the material in said compressed state. According to the invention, thus, there are provided a bottom and two opposed v... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4261159 | Apparatus for transporting and inserting bags into boxes An apparatus for transporting bags from a first station to a second station and for inserting the bags into boxes at the second station comprises a reciprocating frame, a first conveyor belt movable towards the second station, a gripper for picking up a b... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4258532 | Arrangement for the feeding of objects to and grouping them on a base An arrangement for the feeding of objects to and grouping them on a base. In order to simplify handling and transport of milk packages it is frequent to use transport packages in the form of trays or the like, onto which a number of milk packages are placed in... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4249360 | Transport apparatus for a carton filling machine The invention relates to transport apparatus for transport containers in the area where blanks are loaded into a transport container of a carton filling machine. A plurality of first free-wheeling transport rollers are provided in the loading area and a p... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4104847 | Method and apparatus for loading articles into containers Disclosed is a method and apparatus for loading articles, particularly meat articles, into containers. The apparatus comprises a carriage moveably mounted on a platform. The carriage supports conveying means for moving articles relative to the carriage. T... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4081096 | Cantilevered belted bag loading method A multiplicity of relatively narrow spaced apart parallel arrayed endless conveyor belts cantilevered from a support frame in the direction of product movement at a bagging station moves individual product articles, one at a time, towards the cantilevered... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4023329 | Poultry packaging apparatus Poultry articles are advanced on an upwardly inclined conveyor one at a time through a wing and neck training jig mechanism which forms each such article into a packaging configuration, and, at the top of the upwardly inclined conveyor, tilted downwardly ... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4010060 | Method and apparatus for making a coaxial electric cable In the manufacturing of a coaxial cable wherein conductors are continuously wound about support sleeves introduced in succession to a winding station, there is provided a slotted guide tube accommodating the support sleeves in an end-to-end axial series a... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3932982 | Apparatus for placing folded boxes or the like in shipping cartons A method for filling a shipping carton with flat-folded boxes supplied in substantially horizontal shingled array from a processing machine, comprising positioning an empty carton in displaceable manner on a support below the supply from said processing m... | 01/20/1976 |
