| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6578344 |
Apparatus for charging tubular canisters with a stack of flat, disk-shaped items, particularly p |
June 17, 2003 |
| An apparatus for charging tubular canisters in a charging direction with a stack of face-to-face oriented flat items, includes a conveyor for supporting and positioning an item stack thereon; a canister holder for supporting and positioning a canister; an arrangement for advancing the |
| 6286290 |
Conveyor apparatus for depositing products in groups into containers |
September 11, 2001 |
| A conveyor apparatus includes first and second conveyors for moving products from a receiving station to a first transfer station and a plurality of product-carrying elements mounted on the conveyors. The product-carrying elements of the first and second conveyors form respective fir |
| 6220424 |
Method and apparatus for transferring items from a conveyor |
April 24, 2001 |
| A transporting apparatus includes a conveyor for advancing items and a transfer apparatus for lifting the items off the conveyor and for depositing the items at a location externally of the conveyor. The transfer apparatus has hoisting devices spaced from one another in the conveying |
| 6024207 |
Feed device for a packaging machine |
February 15, 2000 |
| A feed device for a packaging machine having two conveying elements that circulate adjacent to one another at least along an operating path between a loading station and an unloading station. The conveying elements are driven by separate drive motors each connected to a respective rotati |
| 5383761 |
Apparatus for selectively separating articles from a stack using wheel mounted pushers |
January 24, 1995 |
| An apparatus for separating and sequentially conveying articles from an article stack includes an article accumulator in which the article stack is formed, a wheel, and a plurality of article pushers mounted on the wheel. Each article pusher has an article pushing face for pushing the |
| 5256029 |
Method and apparatus for forming article groups |
October 26, 1993 |
| An apparatus for forming article groups from flat articles includes a belt conveyor for advancing thereon an article column formed of individual, flat-lying articles; a sensor supported above the conveyor surface for sensing the presence of articles on the conveyor surface; a series of |
| 5186599 |
Method and apparatus for forming groups of flat items |
February 16, 1993 |
| An apparatus for forming groups of flat, face-to-face stacked items includes a conveyor belt for receiving the items in a flat-lying orientation; a motor for driving the conveyor belt to advance the items disposed thereon in a conveying direction; a sensor disposed above the conveyor |
| 5010715 |
Method and apparatus for conveying articles, particularly wafer-shaped food products |
April 30, 1991 |
| A method of supplying stacks of flat articles to a packing machine comprises the following steps: charging receptacles in a dosing device with articles to obtain in each receptacle an article stack shorter and lighter than a predetermined weight and length; advancing some of the char |
| 4955794 |
Apparatus for forming and conveying groups of flat stacked items |
September 11, 1990 |
| 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 receiving the items from the supply |
| 4921398 |
Apparatus for stacking and conveying wafer-like articles |
May 1, 1990 |
| An apparatus for forming consecutive groups of face-to-face stacked, flat articles includes an input conveyor for advancing the articles arranged in a flat-lying orientation and in a column of indeterminate length; a downwardly curving track arranged for receiving the articles from the |
| 4895487 |
Conveyor apparatus for advancing groups of flat articles, particularly baked confectionery items |
January 23, 1990 |
| A conveying system having an input end receiving flat, generally disc-shaped articles in a flat-lying orientation and arranged in at least one column of indefinite length and an output end discharging the articles in consecutive article groups wherein each group being formed of a number |
| 4832167 |
Method and apparatus for grouping articles |
May 23, 1989 |
| An apparatus for separating article groups from a stream of flat articles, comprises an inclined chute on which a stream of flat articles arranged in an edgewise standing, face-to-face oriented, stacked relationship are advanced, an article group receiving arrangement situated downstream |
| 4828101 |
Apparatus for separating article groups of variable length from a stacked article series |
May 9, 1989 |
| An apparatus for cyclically separating articles in groups, includes a guide floor on which the articles are forwarded in a direction of advance in an edgewise standing orientation to form an article stack of undetermined length thereon; a pickup gate arranged for geing abutted by a leadi |
| 4744458 |
Conveyor for advancing wafer-like articles |
May 17, 1988 |
| A vibratory conveyor for advancing stacked wafer-like articles in an edgewise upstanding orientation includes a vibratory trough having a vibratory base portion of a width which is less than the width of the entire vibratory trough. The conveyor further has a non-vibratory, elongated |
| 4669600 |
Apparatus for forming groups of edgewise upright oriented articles and method of operating the a |
June 2, 1987 |
| An apparatus for forming article groups each consisting of a plurality of edgewise upright oriented, generally flat stacked articles, includes a first conveyor for individually advancing the articles in a lying orientation; a second conveyor for receiving the articles from the first |
| 4611705 |
Apparatus for separating article groups of predetermined length from a continuously advanced art |
September 16, 1986 |
| An apparatus for separating article groups of predetermined length from an article stack of indefinite length, comprises a conveyor for advancing the article stack in a conveying direction; a pickup element arranged for a back-and-forth displacement parallel to the conveying direction an |
| 4462522 |
Vibratory conveyor |
July 31, 1984 |
| A vibratory conveyor composed of a plurality of parallel vibratory conveying troughs for transporting fragile articles, the troughs being driven by a conveyor drive composed of a rotatable drive shaft and at least one group of at least four drive elements each connected to undergo os |
| 4457665 |
Method for removing individual articles from a stack |
July 3, 1984 |
| A method for removing at least one flat article at a time from an at least approximately vertical stack of articles supported on a support surface, by the steps of pushing at least the lowermost article in the stack sideways away from the stack by moving an ejector member transversely to |
| 4394899 |
Article grouping apparatus |
July 26, 1983 |
| An apparatus for forming groups of upright-oriented, stacked articles includes a supply conveyor for advancing the articles in a flat-lying, spaced relationship, a conveyor wheel and transfer pushers pivotally secured to the conveyor wheel in a circular array. The transfer pushers ex |
| 4354589 |
Method and apparatus for grouping flat items in stacks |
October 19, 1982 |
| A method and an apparatus for grouping flat items in stacks, particularly cookies which are advanced to a grouping device in at least three mutually parallel channels. The grouping device forms mixed groups of the items such that each group contains at least one item taken from each chan |
| 4209960 |
Apparatus for maintaining constant the weight of article stacks |
July 1, 1980 |
| An article packing system includes a first conveyor for advancing a series of flat articles; at least two stack-forming devices for consecutively forming stacks of variable length from the articles received from the first conveyor; a second conveyor extending from the stack-forming devic |
| 4164277 |
System for charging a plurality of processing machines |
August 14, 1979 |
| A conveyor system for charging at least two processing machines with flat items includes a trunk conveyor belt; at least eight parallel, spaced channels oriented in the conveying direction of the trunk conveyor belt for guiding the items on the trunk conveyor belt in at least eight rows; |
| 4024381 |
Article counting and grouping apparatus |
May 17, 1977 |
| An apparatus for counting and grouping articles has a discharge end through which the articles are discharged in consecutive groups, each having a predetermined number of articles; a first conveyor carrying the articles in random distribution; a second conveyor having a plurality of |
| 4013179 |
Apparatus for grouping cookies prior to packaging |
March 22, 1977 |
| In apparatus for forming a succession of cookies into groups as the cookies leave the vertical output portion of a supply shaft in which they are grouped, there being a clamping device movable between a position in which it holds the cookies in the shaft and a release position in which i |
| 4006813 |
Article separating and conveying system |
February 8, 1977 |
| A device for conveying and separating articles which are moved, while in engagement with each other, by an input conveyor and are transferred by a periodically operating transfer member onto an output conveyor which operates in synchronism with the transfer member and which engages the |
| 3930572 |
Apparatus for separating a series of objects |
January 6, 1976 |
| Apparatus for conveying a continuous series of flat items along a path while in an upright position and in contact with one another and for dividing the series of items into successive separate groups at the end of the conveying path by insertion of a separator member behind the last ite |
