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Conveyors: power-driven January USPTO class patent listing 01/07

20070017777 - Feed table with force reaction system: A feed table with force reaction system for counteracting clamping forces on a shuttle vise used to move a workpiece toward a machine tool. In a first embodiment, lever arms are attached to an upper guide rail between two vertical columns. A reaction actuator interconnects upper ends of the lever... Agent: Mcafee & Taft Tenth Floor, Two Leadership Square

20070017778 - Conveyor system: A conveyor system has a conveyor track with a conveyor means that moves along at least one subsection of the conveyor track in a direction of conveyance, at least one workpiece carrier bringable into driving engagement with the conveying means to move it in the direction of conveyance, and a... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070017779 - Conveyor system: A conveyor system has a conveyor track with conveying means that moves along at least one subsection of the conveyor track, at least one workpiece carrier bringable into driving engagement with the conveying means to be moved along the conveyor track, the at least one workpiece carrier including a first... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070017780 - Transfer and distribution conveyor system: A transfer and distribution conveyor system is described. The transfer conveyor system is provided with a reciprocating discharge support platform for discharging by gravity a group of elongated articles, such as floorboards, conveyed transversely of the support platform. The group of articles fall onto a conveyor belt which is oriented... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070017781 - Conveyor belt cleaning system: An assembly and method for cleaning a conveyor belt system is disclosed. The cleaning assembly is for removing liquids and solids from an endless conveyor belt, the assembly includes a plurality of laterally extending liquid absorbent material sheets disposed adjacent the belt, with the sheets collectively defining a contact face... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070017782 - Conveyor transfer system: A transfer system that laterally grips an open container at a position along a first belt upstream of a conveyor transfer and then transfers the container across the interface between belts before depositing the container on a second belt downstream of the conveyor transfer. The container is protected against lateral... Agent: James M. Robertson

20070017783 - Shaker conveyor assembly having an electronically controllable stroke speed: A shaker conveyor assembly for moving objects includes a conveying element adapted for movement in first and second directions in repeated rectilinear fashion so as to convey items placed on the conveying element in one of the directions. The assembly includes an electric drive assembly having an output, a control... Agent: Bliss Mcglynn, P.C.

20070017784 - Vibratory conveyor with non-biased oscillation: A vibratory conveyor has a bed or trough that carries the workpieces, and supported above a base plate. A vibratory motor employs linear bearing to provide vibratory that is kept in the plane of the conveyor bed. A directional fabric material lying on the trough is smooth or slippery in... Agent: Bernhard P. Molldrem, Jr.

20070017785 - Roller assembly for image forming apparatus: A roller assembly for an image forming apparatus includes a roller, a bearing for rotatably supporting the roller, a roller cover to be assembled at both ends of the roller, a bushing to be introduced between the roller and the bearing, and a support unit disposed at the roller and... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070017786 - Sanitary conveyor transfer tail assembly: A transfer tail assembly for use with a conveyor assembly that creates a reduced radius transition from the upper run to the lower run of a continuous conveyor belt used with the conveyor assembly. The transfer tail assembly includes a stationary nose bar over which the continuous conveyor belt passes... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070012543 - Low profile turntable assembly: A large rectangular rotary table includes a fabricated tubular metal frame having top plates for supporting fixtures and large motor vehicle parts. A center portion of the table frame is supported by an annular turret bearing mounted on a base plate spaced above a floor plate by adjustable leveling screws.... Agent: Alan F. Meckstroth Jacox, Meckstroth & Jenkins

20070012544 - Apparatus and method for the transport of articles forming a mass flow as well as apparatus for filling a subsequent apparatus with rod-shaped articles: The invention concerns an apparatus for transporting articles forming a mass flow from an input device to an output device, including an endless conveying element with a transport run and a return run, the conveying element being guided about at least two rollers designed as a driving and/or deflecting element,... Agent: Venable LLP

20070012545 - Separator and method of use: A system and method designed to separate product. The system comprises a dividing mechanism having a first set of directional rollers and a second set of directional rollers, remaining in a single plane. A first conveyor is positioned on a first side of the dividing mechanism and receives products from... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070012546 - Diverter arm and method: A system for aligning items, such as bottles, includes a rotating plate and a diverter arm that extends outward over a top surface of the plate towards the plate edge. A rotating channel may surround the plate. In operation, bottles are dropped onto the plate and rotated by the plate... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070012547 - Modular-belt conveyors with variable-speed drive motors: A conveyor system in which a modular belt or chain is driven by a drive element rotated at a predetermined variable angular speed to compensate for speed fluctuations due to chordal action. A speed signal generator generates a speed signal generally inverse to the uncompensated linear speed of a belt... Agent: Laitram, L.L.C. Legal Department

20070012548 - Extendable conveyor with boom brake: An extendable conveyor includes a support structure, and at least one extendable unit that is supported in a cantilevered manner and that is movable between an extended position and a retracted position nested within the support structure. The extendable unit has at least one support roller for rollingly engaging at... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070012549 - Method for bonding a coating on a roller: A roller for a conveyor comprising a cylindrical core defining a support surface; a helical groove disposed in said support surface and lagging bonded to said support surface.... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20070007106 - Conveyer apparatus: A mountainous or valley-shaped curved part 13 is provided in a part of a footstep guide rail 3 for guiding a movement of footstep rollers 5 linked by a footstep chain 7, the part being positioned in the vicinity of a drive sprocket 9. Consequently, owing to meshing of the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070007107 - Base for an escalator or moving walkway: An arrangement for a base region of an escalator or moving walkway includes an external covering element for being attached in the base region of the escalator or moving walkway. A substructure includes a profile, a support element extending from the profile and a magnet disposed on the support element.... Agent: Venable LLP

20070007108 - Positive displacement sorter: A positive displacement sorter apparatus includes a plurality of interconnected slats defining an endless web. An upper run of the web defines a conveying surface. Pusher shoes move along at least some of the slats to laterally displace an article on the conveying surface. The pusher shoes have slat engagement... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070007109 - Material supply system and method: A system and a method for feeding a solid into a solid deposition system is described. Solid contained in a hopper is directed into a vibratory bowl. The frequency of the vibrations of the vibratory bowl can be modulated by a feedback system. The solid can then be entrained in... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070007110 - Belt conveyor apparatus: Belt apparatus includes clip assemblies that releasably retain objects to the belt to convey the objects from a point of origination to a destination point. A feed system feeds the objects onto the belt apparatus at the point of origination and a deflector apparatus removes the objects from the belt... Agent: Andrew J. Cornelius, P.C.

20070007111 - Vertical conveyor: A vertical conveyor for conveying a stream of closely spaced articles along a conveyor path includes at least one pair of roller chain assemblies that face the conveyor path. Each chain assembly includes a roller chain carrying grippers that extend into the conveyor path to securely hold articles between them.... Agent: Jeffrey S. Habib, Esq. Hooker & Habib, P.C.