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Conveyors: power-driven January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/11

20110017569 - Conveyor assembly: A conveyer assembly for loading and unloading objects from vehicle, the assembly including a platform having at least one slot extending across at least a portion of the platform, at least one conveyor extending at least partially into the slot, wherein the conveyor linearly translates inside the slot and at... Agent: King & Partners, PLC

20110017570 - Rotating bag feeding device and method for a palletizing system: A bag feeding device for a palletizing system includes a conveyor, bag turning assemblies, and a rotation device. The conveyor moves bags to a staging area. Each of the bags extends between opposite ends along a longitudinal axis. The bag turning assemblies are configured to individually move toward and away... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20110017571 - Method for aligning flat products on a side edge and conveying device for realizing the method: A method is provided for alignment of flat products along a side guide of a conveying device. The products are conveyed successively while resting on their flat base area. Each product is positioned at an angle relative to the conveying direction while in an essentially horizontal plane. Subsequently each product... Agent: Venable LLP

20110017572 - Stackable carrier assembly, system, and method for storing carrier assemblies: A stackable carrier assembly, carrier stacking system, and method of storing carrier assemblies is disclosed. The carrier assembly includes a base member presenting a load surface and opposite facing transfer surface. A plurality of carrier trolleys extend transversely from the load surface to engage conveyor tracks. A plurality of track... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20110017573 - Sanitary conveyor: A conveyor includes a frame and a bracket assembly attached to the frame, the bracket assembly including a series of mounting brackets having a slot for receiving a member. The slot releasably secures the member to the bracket. The member may be a side rail, a table or a support... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20110017574 - Method of lubricating a conveyor belt: The present invention relates to a method of lubricating a conveyor belt wherein a lubricant concentrate containing at least one fatty acid is employed in a dry lubrication process at a pH-value of <4. Afterwards, a liquid composition having a pH-value >5 is applied to the surface of the conveyor... Agent: Diversey, Inc.

20110017575 - Low-pressure accumulation system: A low-pressure accumulation system and a conveyor belt in an accumulation conveyor for the use with the system. The belt, which is flanked on opposite sides by lines of gravity rollers, has a longitudinal lane of article-supporting belt rollers arranged in groups along the length of the conveyor belt. The... Agent: Laitram, L.L.C. Legal Department

20110017576 - Modular belt conveyor, in particular a curving or helical conveyor: A modular belt conveyor (12), in particular curving or helical conveyor, including a number of mutually interconnected modular belt conveyor links (14) that together form a common curving or helical conveyor with an inner and outer belt edge, respectively, of which at least one belt edge, preferably the inner belt... Agent: James C. Wray

20110017577 - Apparatus for laterally transferring bars from a receiving path to a braking path: An apparatus is disclosed for receiving successive bars moving longitudinally along an entry path and for laterally transferring the bars from the entry path to a braking path. The apparatus comprises a run in table having a plurality of rollers arranged to convey the bars along the entry path. A... Agent: Siemens Corporation

20110017578 - Low friction, direct drive conveyor with a raked tooth drive: An endless conveyor belt has teeth with drive faces raked away from the direction of travel. The belt can be driven by a drive pulley having sheaves with drive faces raked toward the direction of travel. The drive faces on the sheaves engage the drive faces on the teeth to... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20110011700 - Device and method for monitoring an escalator or moving walkway: In an escalator or travelator configured to travel in two directions and including a step or pallet belt returned in first and second return portions facing away from each other, a monitoring device and method for detecting steps or pallets of the step or pallet belt is provided. The device... Agent: Venable LLP

20110011701 - Long-material conveying and positioning apparatus: Under a state in which a long material (structural steel (A)) is sandwiched by pinch rollers (drive roller (21) and idle rollers (22)) of a pinch roller apparatus (20), the drive roller (21) is driven to rotate, and the structural steel (A) is conveyed forward. When a rear end portion... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20110011702 - Material sample collector: The material sample collector is adapted to divert a sample of material from a trough conveyor for analysis of the sample. The collector includes at least one, and preferably two or more, laterally offset wheels rotating on axles. The wheels are in a vertical plane forming an acute dihedral angle... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20110011703 - Transfer apparatus: A transfer apparatus which performs long-distance transfer at a high speed, while preventing dimensions of the apparatus from increasing. Specifically, a transfer apparatus transfers a work to a pressing machine The transfer apparatus is provided with a base section, a follower arm, which is connected to the base section on... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20110011704 - Non-contact conveyance system: A non-contact conveyance system of the invention has a static pressure table for levitating a conveyance object upward, a pair of conveying units having vibrating plates and actuators and a moving unit for moving the conveying units in a conveying direction. Then, retaining forces are applied to front and rear... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20110011705 - Belt transport device and belt transport control method: A belt transport device includes: a drive roller which is driven by a power source; a driven roller which is held in a rotatable manner; an endless belt which is wound on the drive roller and the driven roller; a band-like detecting section which is arranged on the endless belt... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20110011706 - Device for testing substrates: A device for testing substrates includes magnetic elements, preferably printed products printed with magnetic printing ink. The device has a powered suction belt travelling around it, which transports the substrates under a measuring device and is assigned to the top of at least one extractable air space. At least one... Agent: Edwin D. Schindler

20110005893 - Method and device for opening printed products: In a method and a device for opening printed products (26), folded printed products (20) are held on a back (28) and transported. Thereby, they are aligned at an edge region (44) lying opposite the back (28), for example by way of co-running lugs (98′). Subsequently, the edge region (44)... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20110005895 - Part aligning apparatus and method: A part aligning apparatus and method are provided. The part aligning apparatus includes a vibrating container unit which transfers parts having a nonsymmetrical structure, an alignment direction setting unit which receives the parts transferred by the vibrating container unit, and passes parts aligned in a first alignment direction and returns... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20110005894 - Screening examination system and method: A screening examination system for screening and examining paper roll is disclosed to include a first conveyor unit, which comprises a first movable wheel set, a first drive wheel, a first fixed wheel and a first conveyor belt, a second conveyor unit, which comprises a second movable wheel set, a... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20110005896 - Article distribution and sorting system: A radial distribution system includes a base member for receiving product for distribution to a plurality of conveyors, a plurality of gate members radially-spaced around the base member and configured to move between an open position and a closed position, and a vibration member configured to vibrate the base member.... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20110005897 - Tilting and rotating station for use in an automated order-picking system: A system (10) and method for packing an article (20) onto a shipping carrier (26), the article (20) having an arbitrary orientation relative to the conveyor (28) and being transported within an order-picking system on a conveyor (28; 28a, 28b) downstream towards a packing station (22), which includes a packing... Agent: Kevin J. Mcneely, Esq.

20110005898 - Flexible retractable transfer device metering apparatus and methods: Product is conveyed as a continuous stream by a meter conveyor (12) unto a transfer plate (32) and a transfer device (42) in the form of a thin piece of flexible material. The transfer device (42) is movable between retracted and extended positions extending over a sweep conveyor (22) by... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20110005899 - Method and conveyor belt system having at least one conveyor belt for transporting flat transport goods: The invention relates to a method for transporting flat transport goods, particularly substrates such as silicon wafers and solar cells, on at least one conveyor belt of a conveyor belt system, wherein the substrates are held on a conveying surface of the conveyor belt at least in some cycles during... Agent: Notaro, Michalos & Zaccaria P.C.

20110005900 - Cap transfer unit having a movable cap pusher: A cap transfer unit (1) comprising a cap transfer line (8) defining a transfer path (5) from a cap loading area (4) to a cap discharge area (6), and a cap pusher (16) slidingly mounted along the cap transfer line (8), the cap pusher (16) having a rest position in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20110005901 - Product accumulation device: An accumulation means of a product accumulation device includes: a rotary member having a product contact surface relative to products supplied from the product supply means, and a guide member that is provided with the rotary member and that shifts the products from the product contact surface to an approximately... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20110005902 - Roller conveyor and a roller path system therefor: The roller conveyor for transporting good carriers, in particular skids used in the automobile industry, comprises a conveyor path consisting of several in series arranged roller path modules. Each roller path modules comprises two roller borders which are parallel to each other and between which at least one transport roller... Agent: Factor & Lake, Ltd

20110005903 - Method and apparatus for the contamination-free treatment of shock-sensitive glass plates in ultra clean rooms: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for the contamination-free, precisely defined, horizontal orientation and subsequent transfer of thin, shock-sensitive crystalline plates, especially glass plates (11), into a defined vertical position. The glass plates (9) are oriented, transferred, and fed in the correct position for further processing without using an... Agent: J. Rodman Steele Novak Druce & Quigg LLP

20110005904 - Automatic belt tracking system: In an aspect of the present invention, a system and method are provided that detect belt mis-tracking and in response, automatically adjusts. In some implementations, the system and method are implemented in conjunction with a weigh feeder or weigh belt. In other implementations, the system and method are implemented in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C. (ny)

20110000761 - Reload conveyor with articulating conveyor frame: A reload conveyor with an articulating conveyor frame 10 comprises a conveyor frame 14 and a material receiving mechanism I H. The conveyor frame 14 is configured to articulate to assume a transport configuration and a material transfer configuration.... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20110000762 - Moving ramp for the transportation of people and/or goods: Moving ramp for the transportation of people and/or goods, comprising a moving belt (1) limited between upper and lower fixed plates (3) for loading and unloading. The moving belt is constituted by a plurality of inclined pallets (4-4′), which are parallel to the noticeably horizontal lower fixed plates (3), having... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20110000763 - Conveyor device for analyzer, analyzer, analyzing system, and connector for conveyor device: A conveyor device 2 for analyzer includes: a conveyance tracks 20A and 20B capable of conveying a specimen rack 3 along a fixed path; and a frame 21 positioned around the conveyance tracks 20A and 20B, the frame 21 being provided with separable and removable portions 24A and 24B which... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20110000764 - Device for diverting products sideways from a conveyor: The invention provides a device for selectively diverting products sideways from a load-bearing conveying surface of a conveyor that is moving in a direction of transport, comprising a frame, an elongated diverter element having an upstream end, a downstream end and a deflecting surface there between, pivoting means for pivoting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20110000765 - Method and transfer assembly for transferring glass articles: An assembly for transferring glass articles, wherein a powered articulated arm is hinged to a fixed support to rotate about a fixed hinge axis, and moves a pusher between an engage position engaging the articles on a supporting surface, and a release position to release the articles onto a linear... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20110000766 - Device for transporting freight: A device for transporting freight, especially freight containers in the cargo compartments of aircraft, especially to a power drive unit (PDU) having a drive roller (3) received in a frame (1) wherein the at least one drive roller (3) carrying the drive roll (4) placed thereon is mounted so as... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20110000767 - Conveyor provided with side guard, and side guard element: A conveyor, comprising a conveying face with a side guard which is formed with a series of wall parts (3A, 3B) extending in conveying direction and upstanding transversely to the conveying direction. In each case, at least two wall parts over-lap in conveying direction at least partly in a fan-like... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C. (bo)