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7419047 Board lumber position fence  
Discloses a positioning fence for use in lumber saw mills that facilitates automated positioning of lumber for cutting. A continuous moving track loop has a plurality of paddles laterally...
7404482 Lateral guiding device for a handling system, and handling system using one such device  
A lateral guidance device including a hollow guide located along the conveyor track of a goods handling system on which products are guided laterally, composed of profiles that fit together with...
7377375 Continuous motion product transfer system with conveyors  
A product transfer system preferably includes a first conveyor for conveying a series of product in a first direction. This system also includes a cross conveyor vertically spaced from the first...
7341141 Method and unit for grouping products  
Groups containing a given number of products are produced using a transfer assembly, wherein a first, pocket-type output, conveyor of a production machine, and a second, pocket-type input, conveyor...
7331441 Apparatus for pushing packaging containers  
The disclosure relates to an apparatus ( 10 ) for pushing a number of packaging containers ( 12 ) which are supported in cassettes ( 18 ) in motion in a first direction in a packaging machine. The...
7284655 Method and arrangement as well as apparatus for transverse conveyance of reams  
The invention relates to a method, an arrangement and an apparatus for conveying objects transversely to their incoming transport direction. In known apparatuses there is a possibility of either...
7240787 Finger sweep  
A finger sweep for use with mail parcel handling systems includes an elongate mounting member for coupling the finger sweep to a drive shaft, and a parcel engaging member disposed on a distal end...
7101138 Extractor/buffer  
An automated material handling system that includes an extractor/buffer apparatus capable of simultaneously accessing multiple Work-In-Process (WIP) parts, thereby providing a highly efficient...
6952628 Center of gravity and dimension measuring device and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for measuring and sorting parcels, including the concept of determining at least one component of the gravity center of said parcels. Determination of the gravity center...
6851250 Package wrapping machine with automatic package positioning prior to wrapping  
A method for conveying a package to a wrap station of a package wrapping machine involves the steps of providing a conveying system for moving the package to the wrap station, the conveying system...
6843361 Method and device to regulating spacing and speed of objects travelling randomly  
Method and device to regulate the spacing and speed of objects being conveyed randomly. Objects such as nuclear fuel pellets (P) are stopped by a stop ( 12 ) placed in the extension of a conveyor...
6690995 Method and apparatus for measuring and diverting an object from a high-speed conveyor  
A method and apparatus for measuring and sorting parcels, including the concept of determining at least one component of the gravity center of said parcels. Determination of the gravity center...
6662926 Transfer apparatus  
A transfer apparatus is provided for transferring articles laterally off of a conveyor. One embodiment of the apparatus is designed for use with a belt driven live roller conveyor, and has a...
6612420 Device for transferring articles between oppositely running conveyors  
An apparatus is provided for controlling the flow of articles. The apparatus includes a first conveyor driven in a first direction and a second conveyor driven in a second opposite direction. The...
6595349 Article transferring device  
A mechanism for diverting articles from a first conveying path to a second conveying path comprises a drive chain arrangement comprising chain loops having projecting members over part of their...
6585477 Counter-stacker for flat food products  
A counter-stacker includes an infeed conveyor having a plurality of lanes for containing planar food articles. A vacuum conveyor system is located adjacent to the infeed conveyor and includes a...
6581749 Transfer apparatus  
A transfer apparatus is provided for transferring articles laterally off of a conveyor. One embodiment of the apparatus is designed for use with a belt driven live roller conveyor, and has a...
6578614 Conveyor for combining two-component items  
An apparatus for advancing and uniting first and second components into respective single items, includes a first conveyor for supplying the first components in a series; a feeding device for...
6516937 Under roller conveyor pusher assembly  
An article pusher assembly for use with a roller conveyor having a plurality of parallel rollers that define a conveying surface having opposed sides at a given distance. The pusher assembly...
6505733 Right angle power transfer  
A transfer assembly for a conveyor system includes a frame, a plurality of rollers mounted to the frame, a plurality of grooved transfer sheaves supported by the frame, and an actuator which...
6343685 Apparatus for conveying sheet-like articles  
A first conveying device has first bearing elements which are arranged parallel to one another and define a planar first bearing surface. The first bearing elements are driven such that they can be...
6296102 Container rejecting apparatus  
A container rejecting apparatus is used for rejecting a container filled with a liquid such as beverage from a feed conveyor to a discharge conveyor adjacent thereto. The container rejecting...
6264042 Bilateral sorter  
A system for sorting objects includes an upstream and a downstream conveyor positioned to sequentially receive and convey an object along a first path, and a sorting conveyor belt positioned...
6230874 Apparatus for controlling the flow of articles  
An apparatus for controlling the flow of articles between a first conveyor driven in a first direction and a second conveyor driven in a second direction includes a movable transport member...
6189677 Apparatus for conveying articles in selected directions  
An apparatus for advancing articles in a selected, approximately horizontal conveying direction, includes a plurality of side-by-side disposed table elements each having an upper, approximately...
6182812 Device for transferring articles between oppositely running conveyors  
An apparatus is provided for controlling the flow of articles. The apparatus includes a first conveyor driven in a first direction and a second conveyor driven in a second opposite direction. The...
6131723 Methods and apparatus for conveying packages in manner minimizing jams  
Packages are conveyed in a direction of travel by transferring the packages from an upstream conveying surface to an intermediate conveying surface, conveying the packages along the intermediate...
6098791 Shifting device for rolling stock placed on a roller conveyor  
A shifting device for rolling stock placed on a roller conveyor includes a pair of linear shifting members which can be moved toward each other and away from each other transversely of the...
6044962 Lehr loader pusher bar assembly  
A pusher bar assembly (20) having a flexible, horizontally extending pocket bar (22) of sufficient longitudinal extent to push a linear array of glass containers on a cross-conveyer transversely of...
6026947 Apparatus for transferring objects from a first to a second conveyor  
An apparatus and a method for transferring an irregular stream of objects from a first conveyor to a second conveyor in such a way that the objects form a regular stream of objects on the second...
5967292 Bundle positioning device  
A device and process is described for positioning a bundle having a top surface and a bottom surface. The device includes a low friction surface positioned to support the bundle fed along an infeed...
5787941 Device for feeding a mixture of friction materials  
A feed device which can feed a friction material mixture into a mold so that its thickness will be uniform in the mold to improve the quality and stability of the friction member obtained by...
5735389 Conveying system  
A conveying unit (1) capable of stopping at precise points in an assembly line or the like comprises a conveyor (10), a lift (20) and a support (30) as main components. The conveyor (10) is a...
5483877 Cassette stacker/stamper  
The described machine comprises a cassette infeed conveyor; stamper means for stamping incoming cassettes with an identifying code; first collection means for receiving cassettes as they are...
5462153 Container handling system  
In a system comprising a reverse vending machine for empty liquid containers, such as e.g. empty beverage bottles, and a container collection table operatively connected with an outlet from the...
5409098 Apparatus for the transport of cigarette packs  
In the region of a packaging installation for cigarettes or the like, partially finished cigarette packs (10) have to be transported over relatively long paths and, at the same time, brought into a...
5332079 Apparatus for conveying plate-form articles  
A conveyor apparatus for a plate form article such as a lead frame including: a main conveyor line and a working conveyor line, which convey the lead frame in a direction parallel to the...
5201401 Discharge conveying apparatus for an extrusion press  
In a horizontal extrusion press, a longitudinal discharge conveyor (2) comprises a plurality of short tandemly arranged longitudinal conveyor units (12), each comprising chains (18) and workpiece...
4860973 Cargo conveying system  
A cargo conveyor system (10) having a receiving platform (20) for receiving cargo containers (138) conveyed through a loading door (16) in an aircraft fuselage (14), and movable between a lower...
4730718 Bi-directional transfer mechanism  
The present invention relates to a bi-directional transfer mechanism which is driven by the drive shaft of a conveyor system. The transfer mechanism includes a pair of vertically displaceable lift...
4508484 Installation for the automatic removal and reception of loads through the intermediary of transport vehicles  
The transport installation comprises a reception station and a transport vehicle between which a load can be displaced in a horizontal plane by movement of the vehicle. To avoid the necessity of...
4427020 Apparatus for the overhead handling of bottles and the like  
Upwardly open vessels are supplied horizontally to an intake location and are taken horizontally from an output location. Between these locations they are inverted and passed past a treatment...
4266655 Apparatus for phasing and transferring rod-shaped articles  
A transfer and phasing device having a transfer drum for receiving rod-shaped articles from an output drum rotating at the same peripheral speed, a phasing drum rotating at a different peripheral...
4256222 Transfer conveyor for the transfer of piece goods from a first roller track conveyor to a second roller track conveyor  
A transfer conveyor, for the transfer of piece goods from a first roller track conveyor to a second roller track conveyor, is disclosed which comprises a fixed base and a first frame carrying...
4252232 Conveyor system  
An article handling system for cans and the like, wherein improved means are employed for selectively isolating individual cans from a substantially continuously recirculating mass or plurality of...
4213525 Feed delivery apparatus  
Apparatus is provided for delivering animal feed to animals and especially to feedbunks for cattle. The apparatus includes a carriage which travels back and forth over a conveyor belt which carries...
4200178 Transfer conveyor for piece goods conveyors  
A transfer conveyor for transferring goods from one conveyor to another comprises two pairs of similar conveyor chains each chain being guided around a closed path, including a top run extending...
4194614 Conveyor-belt system  
A conveyor system formed by a main steel belt conveyor which carries items from a receiving station to any one of a number of discharge conveyors which extend to different destinations. A mechanism...
4181214 Wafer transfer apparatus  
An apparatus is provided for transferring semiconductor wafers from one conveying or transport mechanism to another in a manner that substantially reduces wafer damage. The apparatus comprises...
4139108 Magazine assembly for coil cores or tubes  
Coil core magazine assembly for conical or cylindrical coil cores disposed mutually adjacent one another includes a coil core magazine, means for loading the magazine with coil cores, and means for...