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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8015781 | Box loader A loader includes a sling for supporting a one or more items. The sling is secured on opposite sides of a loading chamber. The loader also includes a lowering mechanism. The lowering mechanism can lower the sling. The loader includes a release mechanism that secures... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7328542 | Loading apparatus for food stacks An apparatus is provided for loading stacked food product into packages. Open top containers are arranged in rows and movable into a loading station. A shuttle conveyor has a retractable and extendable conveying surface, the conveying surface having an end region ex... | 02/12/2008 |
| 6792741 | Container packing system Container packing system for use with conveyed articles. The system includes a carton having four sidewalls with four carton upper edges and four carton lower edges. Four upper flaps are connected to the respective upper edges and four lower flaps are connected to t... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6397565 | Apparatus for dispensing change The apparatus for dispensing change of the present invention comprises: a data input device for inputting change data; a base sheet supplier for supplying a base sheet; a top sheet supplier for supplying a top sheet; a cash deliverer for delivering cash b... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6182425 | Process and apparatus for filling cans with fiber band Upon filling cans with fiber band, the movable bottom of the cans, as the filling process proceeds, moves downwardly from an initial upper to a lower final position. As this happens, between two elements, one inside, one outside the circumferential shell ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6058684 | Apparatus for packaging paper goods forming a stack The present invention provides a method and apparatus for packaging goods from a continuous stack. A conveyor is arranged on a base to move the continuous stack in a conveying direction. A separator means separates a stack portion of a predetermined size ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5833431 | Warehouse truck attachment and method for the transportation and storage of compressible items An apparatus and method for the transportation and storage of compressible items in a compressed state, the apparatus comprising a lower member featuring a horizontal floor; an upper member featuring a horizontal roof, the upper member being slideably con... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5743067 | Device for loading storage containers for elongated articles A device for loading storage containers for elongated articles, particularly tobacco products, wherein a feedbox for the articles presents an output window facing a horizontal plate for supporting an orderly mass of articles; the output window is defined by th... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5673540 | Method and apparatus for putting cells into a box A method and apparatus for putting small, slender, cylindrical cells in a box in an aligned row. By using the force of a magnet, multiple cells are suspended from the lower side of a conveyor belt, and are aligned and held in this position. By releasing t... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5551214 | Ligaclip loading machine and process An apparatus and process for loading ligating clips into ligating clip cartridges. Ligating clips are fed to an inversion wheel having cavities for receiving the clips. The clips are inverted by rotating the wheel. The clips are pushed into ligating clip ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5542238 | Apparatus and method for loading horizontal stacks of containers into a carton An apparatus for filling cartons with horizontal stacks of containers includes a chute assembly and a carton indexing table positioned thereunder. The chute assembly holds a single horizontal stack of containers to be placed in a plastic-lined carton prev... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5242250 | Underwater bin-filling plant The plant, which is used in the working of fruits such as applies and similar, collects the fruits (9) from water conveyor channels (6), and inserts them below a bell (3), from which the fruit will successively be transferred, by force of gravity, inside ... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5239807 | Flex-pack case packer A pneumatically operated flex-pack case packer for servicing a form-fill-seal machine. The flex-pack case packer employs a two-stage displacement cylinder to move an interchangeable head assembly having grippers that, when moved into position to receive s... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5233814 | Box filling device, especially at the output of a postal sorting machine A device for filling boxes, especially at the output of a machine sorting flat objects, particularly postal items, has at least one inclined support plate for diverted letters, a jogging member and a sliding plate subject to a restoring force. The device ... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5134832 | Method and apparatus for compiling deformable, substantially cylindrical bodies, particularly tampons and for packing them Method and apparatus for compiling deformable, substantially cylindrical bodies and for packing them, comprising vibrating said bodies being positioned at pile delivery substantially parallel adjacent and superposed to each other and being aligned in at l... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5105602 | Automatic wrapping method of cylindrical articles, particularly plastic bobbins and apparatus therefor An automatic wrapping apparatus of cylindrical articles, particularly plastic bobbins. The apparatus includes feed rollers for feeding two wrapping sheets therebetween in opposed manner to form a bottom portion for a wrapping bag. A loading device is prov... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5044143 | Method and apparatus for packing flexible packages A method and apparatus for packing flexible packages, comprises separating and aligning the packages (5) transversely from a single feeding line (11) into plural lines (12), centralizing the packages so as to overlap each other partially (13), subsequentl... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4955794 | Apparatus for forming and conveying groups of flat stacked items A stacking apparatus for forming groups of face-to-face contacting flat items comprises a supply conveyor for advancing a column of serially arranged, flat-lying items; a stack-forming unit situated in a charging station and arranged for sequentially rece... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4805379 | Process and apparatus for packaging stacks which consist of nested cuplike objects and have the basic shape of elongate cylinders Stacks which consist of nested cuplike objects and have the basic shape of elongate cylinders are inserted in the form of a plurality of layers consisting each of a plurality of stacks into containers. The stacks are first moved in their longitudinal dire... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4796407 | Method and fittings enabling articles to be rapidly taken into and out of a case A method and apparatus are disclosed enabling articles to be rapidly packed into and unpacked from a case. The apparatus has a floating top such that the contents of the case will remain motionless, while the case is lowered or raised by a lifting device ... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4785611 | Carton Packaging Apparatus, particularly, for packing egg cartons into wire baskets includes a movable tray for delivering cartons to a basket filling station where the cartons are lowered into the basket. Tines support the cartons after the movable tray is withdrawn and ... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4686816 | Dip tube loader and handler apparatus A DIP tube loader and handler including magazine for containing a quantity of empty DIP packaging tubes, a tube singulating mechanism for positioning the tubes one at a time into a position to be loaded with DIPs, a DIP singulating mechanism for loading a... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4642014 | Framing system Framing system in which plant pot sets (12) are shifted onto a pallet (5) provided with a bottom with holes by means of a roll conveyor (4) extending through the holes in the bottom of the pallet, and in which the pallets filled in this way are stacked.... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4599849 | Method and a machine for packing sliced products in a container to be vacuum sealed Method and machine for packing bacon bundles in blister packages. Bacon bundles (2) are placed in the blister package (15) by a lifting arm (17) having rotatable rods (21) and transversally extending tines (22). The rods (21) are rotatable over 90°. The ... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4586315 | Apparatus for introducing stacks of paper layers into cartons Apparatus for accumulating stacks of superimposed layers or piles of paper sheets has a horizontal platform which receives successive layers from a feeding unit and can open up to permit the properly oriented layer thereon to descend by gravity onto an el... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4439099 | Apparatus for stacking elongated materials An apparatus for sequentially feeding and stacking elongated or lengthy material in a receptacle channel of a load-carrying bed or stand. The apparatus is constructed to transfer the elongated material to the receptacle channel by a reduced number of supp... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4389832 | Method and apparatus for loading bottles into open top bottle carriers Set-up open top bottle carriers having apertured bottom walls are continuously supplied in abutting relationship by conveyor means to a loading station while bottles are moved continuously along a dead plate having its outfeed end at said loading station,... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4382741 | Storage plant for objects, in particular for track links A plant for storing single articles or objects, such as track links, designed to be introduced into a production line turning out the said links, at a point between two consecutive processing center, or units, forming part of the line. A number of special... | 05/10/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4250690 | Container loading systems A method and apparatus for loading containers with articles, such as post parcels, includes the use of a carrier device which is lowered into a container by suitable hoisting means at a rate dependent upon the number of articles deposited on the carrier d... | 02/17/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4162722 | Apparatus for collating cans and other articles A collating apparatus for cans or other articles of circular cross-section comprises a plurality of conveyor belts running parallel to one another and a constraining wall inverted just above the belts serving to collate the cans into a nested configuratio... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4154043 | Container loading system A loading system for loading articles into containers includes a container handling assembly and an article handling assemby, the paths of which intersect at a loading station. The container handling assembly carries a series of empty containers which it ... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4138835 | Method and apparatus for preparing a casing loaded with a plurality of articles A method and apparatus for preparing a casing loaded with a plurality of articles such as small-sized electronic parts for use in the electronic industries, which ensures that the stored parts will be positively and stably aligned in the casing without th... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4104846 | Container loading machine and process A container loading machine which includes a frame through which a cross feed conveyor feeds successive open crates, containers or receptacles so as to position the open containers successively in the machine for receiving a plurality of layers of article... | 08/08/1978 |
| 3960280 | Storage system A storage systems for storing and retrieving rod-shaped material, includes a plurality of pallets for accommodating the material, each pallet has a material-supporting bottom inclined transversely to the length dimension of the pallet; a device for storin... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3955336 | Cartridge loading apparatus A cartridge loading apparatus including a guide arrangement for directing articles in a desired orientation from a receptacle in which the articles are randomly deposited to a cartridge and means for loading the articles in a trough formed in the cartridg... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3930351 | Method and apparatus for transferring yarn packages doffed from a textile machine to a container The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transferring yarn packages doffed from a textile machine provided with a conveyer belt disposed along the longitudinal direction thereof, to a container. The yarn packages are carried to one end ... | 01/06/1976 |
