| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6539615 |
In-line lug brushing assembly |
April 1, 2003 |
| A lug brushing assembly (10) that brushes the lugs of battery plates in an in-line manner so as to eliminate extra battery plate handling procedures. The lug brushing assembly (10) more effectively cleans the lugs of battery plates without causing excessive wearing of the brushes or abra |
| 6095316 |
Battery plate feeding and handling apparatus |
August 1, 2000 |
| A plate alignment station (24) for advancing a series of plates and for adjusting the orientation or alignment of the plates as they are advanced. The alignment station includes a conveyor (140) having a pair of side-by-side conveyor chains or belts (142, 144) and a pair of servo ass |
| 6047430 |
Battery plate feeding and handling apparatus |
April 11, 2000 |
| A plate feeding and handling apparatus (10) includes an improved lug brush cleaning mechanism (18) that more effectively holds and cleans the lugs on battery plates. The lug brush cleaning mechanism includes a conveyor assembly (78) that receives and transports plates and a brush mechani |
| 6024533 |
Battery plate feeding and handling apparatus |
February 15, 2000 |
| A plate feeding and handling apparatus (10) that includes an improved plate feeder (32) and pick-up (36) that more effectively feed and remove plates from a stack of plates is disclosed. |
| 6021887 |
Battery plate feeding and handling apparatus |
February 8, 2000 |
| A plate feeding and handling apparatus (10) includes a synchronization assembly (30) for temporarily suspending the transport of plates on a conveyor (224). The synchronization assembly includes mini-stack assembly (268) and a perch assembly (270). |
| 5934866 |
Plate feeder apparatus |
August 10, 1999 |
| A plate handling apparatus (10) including a plate feeder (12) for sequentially advancing a stack of plates (11) and a pick-up assembly (14) for successively removing the forwardmost plate from the stack is disclosed. The plate feeder (12) includes a conveyor (18), a pair of clutches |
| 5775871 |
Rollerless plate-feeding apparatus |
July 7, 1998 |
| Apparatus is provided which does not rearwardly move a stack of plates (e.g., a stack of lead acid battery plates) upon approach of a vacuum pick-up head associated with a rotary carrier assembly. Instead, the apparatus maintains a predefined gap between the forwardmost plate in the |
