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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350780 | Apparatus for assembly of document sets into a single collated packet A collating apparatus and method to merge different types of document sets into a single collated packet prior to a mail processing insertion operation. The collating device utilizes a synchronous conveyor pathway for conveying different types of document sets seria... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7191893 | Unit for transferring and spacing articles A unit (1) for transferring articles (1a) from a machine (MI) for producing the articles to a packaging machine (MA) includes a plurality of hoppers (4a) for receiving the articles (1a). The hoppers (4a)... | 03/20/2007 |
| 6985975 | Packet lockstep system and method A device for ensuring reliable data packet throughput in a redundant system includes a splitter that creates copies of a data packet and sends each copy to a separate intermediate source for processing, parallel buffers for receiving the processed packets from the i... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6964149 | Method for automatically packaging products An automatic packaging system has a first feed mechanism for feeding a light-shielded photosensitive roll in the direction indicated by the arrow A, an inspection mechanism for reading bar-code information from the light-shielded photosensitive roll, measuring and c... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6612093 | Method of and apparatus for making packets for arrays of discrete commodities A cigarette packing machine has a first drive normally transmitting motion to packing units which are employed to advance a series of arrays of cigarettes or other rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry and to confine each array in a discr... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6073426 | Monitoring and controlling system to regulate functions of big square balers A system is provided to monitor and control operational functions in a baler such as a big square baler. Clutches and drive components associated with the system are switchable via a speed regulator. Depending on the switch position of the clutches, addit... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5595044 | Method and device for detecting shortage/excess of article enclosed in automatic mail enclosing and sealing machine A method and device for detecting a shortage or excess of an article enclosed in respective envelopes in an automatic mail enclosing and sealing machine. The method comprises the steps of receiving information relative to the number of sheets enclosed in ... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5406771 | Apparatus for inserting material into envelopes An apparatus for inserting material into an envelope in which a first conveyor supplies insert material and a second conveyor supplies envelopes to an insert station. The flap of the envelope is opened while being carried by the second conveyor to the ins... | 04/18/1995 |
| 4875323 | Packaging machine jamming detector Plates mounted on support structure of a machine for packaging articles in sleeve-type carriers act as guides for the moving articles and as detectors of article jams which occur inside open sleeves prior to the closing of the end panel flaps of the sleev... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4869029 | Coin stacking and wrapping apparatus Each unit number of coins to be stacked and wrapped are centrifugally aligned on a rimmed turntable and fed in a row along a horizontal coin guideway to a stacking position, where the successive coins are stacked by a toothed stacking wheel capable of pla... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4787192 | Mechanism for folding an envelope around an insert A mechanism for automatically feeding individual pre-cut sheets and stuffing a personalized letter or some other pre-cut insert into a personalized envelope. The mechanism has means to permit additional inserts to be automatically added to the envelope an... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4593515 | Dropped-article sensor and wrapping machine interrupt A dropped-article sensor is positioned beneath the platform conveyor of a wrapping machine wherein articles are received at a feed-in station and conveyed to a wrapping station along a conveyor path extending between and including the feed-in station and ... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4457121 | Continuous motion bottle packer A plurality of grids are mounted individually on spokes of a wheel so that each grid moves through an article infeed station where groups of articles are fed into the grids without interrupting their forward speed. The orbit of the grids is such that each... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4399845 | Dispensing method and apparatus A method and apparatus for dispensing plastic material from an extruder into a container; "plastic material" being a material sufficiently viscous to enable dispensation by severing, for example ice-cream, grease, margine or the like. The plastic material... | 08/23/1983 |
