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"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
Lee deForest, American radio pioneer ; 1957
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166729 | Light source device and projector A light source device includes: a light source lamp; and a housing, wherein the housing includes: a pair of openings formed, along a top and bottom with direction of a luminous flux emission of the light source device; a duct member provided so as to cover the pair ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7272916 | Method and device for inspecting and monitoring the seal integrity of sterile packages A system for inspecting seal integrity of a sealed package including a visual inspection system and a medical packaging system having an integral peel testing device. ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7146777 | Packaging machine for cigarettes For the production of (cigarette) packs of different configurations, for example standard pack (13), round-edged pack (14) or octagonal pack (15), subassemblies and elements of the packaging machine are exchanged and/or uncoupled from the drive.... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7131249 | Product overwrap machine A typical product overwrap machine includes a crossfeed conveyor, a pusher bar for transferring bread products to a lifting table which moves upwardly to wrap the bread product with a sealing wrap, and the wrapped bread product is sealed by heated rollers. The prese... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7040070 | Tablet packing apparatus A tablet packing apparatus in which there is no risk that next tablets will be mixed into tablets previously discharged. The packing apparatus includes a plurality of feeder vessels (36) containing the tablets, a plurality of mounting bases (32) on whi... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6971217 | Method and device for controlling a wrapping machine for printed products A method for controlling a wrapping machine for printed products that includes determining the size of an incoming gap in a printed product stream and controlling a speed of the wrapping machine as a function of the size of the incoming gap. The controlling step inc... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6929111 | Apparatus and a method for collating and cartonning product units Apparatus for collating and cartonning product units comprising: product infeed means adapted to dispense a succession of discrete product units; one or more servo-trains, the or each servo-train comprising a plurality of buckets in which each bucket is adapted to r... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6072172 | Method and apparatus for detecting packages in carton A method and apparatus for confirming the presence of contact lens packages in a secondary carton is disclosed, where a sensor that detects the presence or absence of metallic lidstock of the packages through the secondary carton.... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5101612 | Capsule filling apparatus A capsule filling apparatus which fills capsules with tablets having the same cylindrical shape as the capsules, wherein each tablet is fed from a hopper in an upright posture and wherein the filling of tablets into the capsules is secured by detecting a ... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4932190 | Method of and apparatus for assembling and wrapping arrays of cigarette packets and the like Discrete cigarette packets which are supplied by a packing machine are assembled into arrays in successive compartments of a first endless conveyor at a first station, and the pockets of a second conveyor accept arrays from successive filled compartments ... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4680464 | Optical detecting system for article counting machine An optical detecting system for a machine for counting individual articles and delivering a preselected quantity of articles into receptacles. The system optically illuminates individual article receiving locations on an endless conveyor made up of elonga... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4597240 | Electric eye for bagging machine Apparatus for forming, filling and sealing bags with a product wherein sheet material is formed into a tube on a hollow mandrel, feed belts are employed to move the tube downwardly on the mandrel and the product is delivered through the mandrel into the t... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4561234 | Product tying machine The present invention is an apparatus and method for bundling and tying a product. A plurality of spaced product carriers are sequentially moved along a conveyor flight. At a first station along said flight, a product tie is inserted into each spaced carr... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4541221 | Method of automatically changing reels of strip material in packaging machines Method of automatically changing reels (17,20) of strip material (15-21) in packaging machines, especially packaging machines (1) for cigarettes, equipped, along a feed line (2), with an ejection device (9) adapted for ejecting from said line (2) those ob... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4112651 | Method and machine for the production of hinged-lid packs for groups of cigarettes or the like Hinged-lid packs are assembled on a turret-shaped conveyor with equidistant hollow mandrels which receive relatively soft first blanks at a first transfer station, blocks of cigarettes at a second transfer station, relatively stiff U-shaped second blanks ... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4005562 | Container packer Disclosed herein is a bottle packer apparatus for encasing bottles in a continuous operation, comprising a downwardly inclined case conveyor on which inverted cases are moved to a loading area, means at each side of the case conveyor contacting sides of t... | 02/01/1977 |
