Material or article handling inventions 04/08

20080095597 - Bale handling and accumulation system: A bale accumulation system for receiving, moving, and accumulating bales (3) on a bale support surface. The system may involve moving such bales (3) in linear path specific motions and transversely with respect to a bale accumulation surface (1). The system may further involve receiving such bales (3) onto a... Agent: Santangelo Law Offices, P.C.

20080095598 - Vehicle restraint with bi-directional sensor: A vehicle restraint restricts the movement of a vehicle at a loading dock by engaging the vehicle's RIG (rear impact guard). The vehicle restraint includes a barrier carried by a vertically translatable track follower, the barrier being driven by a motor or some other type of power unit. A RIG... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080095599 - Transfer vehicle: A transfer vehicle is pulled by a towing vehicle. The transfer vehicle comprises a container and an unloading conveyor. The container serves to receive bulk goods. The unloading conveyor serves to unload the bulk goods located in the container. In order to allow a simple technical construction and a variable... Agent: Deere & Company

20080095600 - Aligner, wafer transferring device, and semiconductor production device: In a preferred embodiment, an aligner includes a grip mechanism provided with a plurality of damp arms for holding an external periphery of a wafer; a rotary mechanism for rotating the grip mechanism to rotate the wafer in a prescribed rotational direction, and a lifter mechanism provided with a plurality... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080095602 - Suspended receptacle for at least one piece of dough and set consisting of a plurality of suspended receptacles of this type: A suspended receptacle for at least one piece of dough has a base comprising two lateral retaining pins with which the base can be connected, so as to pivot about a pivot axis, to a conveyor element conveying a plurality of suspended receptacles of this type. A dough support element... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080095601 - System and method for palletizing articles: A system is provided for palletizing articles including a stacking area for stacking palletized article layers. Each palletized article layer is constructed from a plurality of arranged articles. The stacking area includes a structural member for structurally carrying a stabilizer over the stacking area. The stabilizer provides substantially continuous lateral... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20080095603 - Media processor: A media stacker is adapted to accommodate plate-shaped media in a stacked manner. A sensor with which the media stacker is provided is operable to detect a height of the stacked media accommodated in the media stacker.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080095604 - Automatic storage and discharge apparatus for sheet: Provided is an apparatus for automatically supplying and discharging a sheet material. The apparatus includes: a moving frame including a plurality of legs facing one another and traveling along an x-axis guide line and a y-axis guide line; a lifting bar installed at each of the legs for being risen... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080095605 - Dispenser and components thereof: An adapter for a cup dispenser that can be used to replace flexible diaphragms so as to improve wear characteristics. Each adapter is preferably interchangeable with other adapters sized to accommodate other different cup sizes and shapes. The adapter includes two or more rows of preferably offset restrictions to stage... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20080095606 - Lifting device: A lifting device includes a lifting element with at least one holding element supported thereon. The holding element is adapted for holding a section of a human arm to provide support when the hand grips an object which is to be displaced. An operator of the lifting device may place... Agent: The Culbertson Group, P.C.

20080095607 - Method and system for supplying portable gas cylinders: A method of supplying a portable medical gas system is provided. The disclosed method includes preparing a portable medical gas system, the portable medical gas system including a cylinder adapted to be filled with medical gas and a gas dispensing valve. The portable medical gas system is place in a... Agent: Praxair, Inc. Law Department - M1 557

20080089762 - Wafer table preparing electrical components and device for equipping substrates with the components: A wafer table for providing electrical components of a wafer includes a rotary disk to receive a wafer. The rotary disk is configured to be displaced parallel to a wafer plane in discrete steps such that the components arrive at a stationary pick-up position. A stationary auxiliary facility is assigned... Agent: Siemens Schweiz Ag I-47, Intellectual Property

20080089763 - Device for assembling composite structure incorporating flopper assemblies: A device for assembling a composite structure is disclosed. An illustrative embodiment of the device includes at least one carriage track, a linear rail carriage carried by the at least one carriage track, a yoke assembly carried by the linear rail carriage, a linear actuator assembly engaging the linear rail... Agent: Tung & Associates / Randy W. Tung, Esq.

20080089764 - Combined truck and garbage container sanitizing system and associated method: A combined truck and garbage container sanitizing system includes a truck with a rearwardly positioned collection bin provided with a support platform nested therein. Such a collection bin has an open top end. The system further includes a controller seated within a driver compartment of the truck, and a mechanism... Agent: Ashkan Najafi, P.A.

20080089765 - Method for processing substrates: The method for processing substrates for substrate processing facility includes the steps of performing ventilation a the fan filter unit while putting a lid of a container in a closed state, when the container is stored in a storage shelf, and is transferred with a substrate transfer device, and ventilating... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080089766 - Omni-directional towbarless aircraft transporter and method for moving aircraft: In a preferred embodiment, a method and apparatus for moving parked aircraft including an omni-directional tractor and an aircraft lift dolly that is removably and revolvably coupled thereto. The aircraft lift dolly includes a lift mechanism having a lift carriage which is selectively elevated. The lift carriage includes a fixed... Agent: Andrews & Kurth, L.L.P.

20080089767 - Quick attach off-road recovery device for skid steer loader or similar machine: A quick attach stabilizing device for skid steer loaders and similar machines for performing off-road recovery, winching, and loading operations. Primarily used by wrecker service and other service companies when 4 wheel drive winch vehicles cannot drive to the off-road location due to the extremely bad ground surface conditions caused... Agent: Carnel C. Duvall

20080089768 - Transfer unit: A transfer unit 10 is structured including a supporting plate 11 having a supporting face 20A for a semiconductor wafer W, an arm plate 30 for supporting the supporting plate 11 and a parallelism adjuster 14 provided between the supporting plate and the arm plate 13. The supporting plate is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080089769 - Transport trailer and method: A trailer 10 includes a frame (12) having a central axis (14) spaced between rear wheels. A plurality of storage supports (20) are supported on the trailer frame, with each storage support supporting a plurality of objects thereon. A carriage assembly (24) rotates the plurality of storage supports. A powered... Agent: Loren G. Helmreich Browning Bushman P.C.

20080089770 - Piler and grab arrangement for sugar cane loader: A wholestalk sugar cane loader includes a piler for accumulating wholestalk sugar cane into piles, and a grab assembly mounted to the end of a boom assembly carried by the loader frame and having opposed tines operable for encircling a mass of piled wholestale sugar cane, with the boom assembly... Agent: Deere & Company

20080089771 - Log skidding implement for a three-point tractor hitch: A log skidding implement consisting of a four foot horizontal boom and a set of modified skidding tongs hanging vertically from the end of the boom, attaches to the lift arms and top link of a three point tractor hitch. In-tractor controls lower the implement onto a log, causing the... Agent: Donald W. Meeker Patent Agent

20080089772 - Suction gripper for handling workpieces: Apparatus and method for handling workpieces using a suction gripper having a suction plate including a plurality of suction openings connected to a vacuum source. The apparatus includes at least one vacuum source, a suction plate having a plurality of openings, at least one movable template, which defines an active... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080089773 - In-line furnace conveyors with integrated wafer retainers: In one embodiment, an in-line furnace includes a continuous conveyor configured to hold wafers at an angle relative to ground. The conveyor may have fixedly integrated wafer retainers configured to hold the wafers in slots. The conveyor may be formed by several segments that are joined together. Each of the... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto LLP

20080089774 - A method and apparatus for semconductor processing: A method and apparatus for semiconductor processing is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of transporting a wafer within a cluster tool, comprises placing the wafer into a first segment of a vacuum enclosure, the vacuum enclosure being attached to a processing chamber and a factory interface. The wafer is... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080085172 - Feed system for solid particulate fuel burning stove: A fuel feed system for conveying particulate fuel from a hopper to a firebox in a stove is provided. The fuel feed system includes an inlet opening to receive particulate fuel and a fuel collection plate located below the inlet opening. A fuel passageway is located below the plate. The... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick Llc

20080085173 - Linear semiconductor processing facilities: Methods and systems are provided for handling materials, including materials used in semiconductor manufacturing systems. The methods and systems include linear semiconductor processing facilities for vacuum-based semiconductor processing and handling, as well as linkable or extensible semiconductor processing facilities that can be flexibly configured to meet a variety of constraints.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080085174 - Redundantable robot assembly for workpiece transfer: A redundantable robotic mechanism is disclosed for improving reliability of tranport equipment. The redundantable robot assembly typically comprises independent robots with separate controls, motors, linkage arms, or power, thus providing the capability of operation even if parts of the assembly are not operational or when parts of the assembly are... Agent: Tue Nguyen

20080085175 - Car dumper dust collection method and apparatus: An apparatus for controlling dust generated by the rotary dumping of rail cars may include one or more baffles of a rotary dump frame to seal a portion of the material receiving pit during a portion of the rotary motion. The dust cloud generated by this dumping is retained in... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.a.

20080085176 - Vehicle accessory hoist: This invention relates to the field of devices used at the rear of a vehicle to carry accessories, such as bicycles, motorcycles, wheelchairs, electric carts, lawn care and construction equipment and a wide variety of other items that will not fit within the confines of the vehicle. It is directed... Agent: Richard D. Clarke Law Office Of Richard D. Clarke

20080085177 - Bottom block assembly with pivoting trunnion paddles: A bottom block assembly for an overhead crane includes a main bottom block, an outer frame carried by the main bottom block and rotatable relative to the main bottom block about a vertical axis of rotation, and a pair of paddles carried by the outer frame and downwardly extending from... Agent: Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080085178 - Cable holding device: A cable holding device for a work transfer device that transfers a work between mutually adjacent press machines. The cable holding device is used for the work transfer device that is provided with a supporting portion (3) disposed on a support member (2) placed between press machines (P1, P2) and... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080080960 - Container rigid adaptor pole: An adaptor pole for use with an ISO marine container. The marine container is characterized as having a top, bottom and connecting sidewalls and further having at least one corner casting characterized as having openings in its top and at least one side thereof. The adaptor pole is made up... Agent: Michael E. Dergosits Suite 1450

20080080961 - Cassette insertion control method: A cassette insertion control method, wherein when a cassette (1) is sent to the storage part (41) of a garage (8a), the cassette (1) is tilted without positioning the garage (8a) and the cassette (1) to oppose to each other, and sent to the front opening part (40) of the... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080080962 - Method and transport device for transporting objects: In a method and a transport device for transporting objects, limp objects in particular, such as carbon fiber mats or the like, a holding surface of a holding unit for holding the objects includes several holding elements, and the disadvantages of the related art are avoided or at least greatly... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080080963 - Reduced capacity carrier, transport, load port, buffer system: A semiconductor workpiece processing system having at least one processing apparatus for processing workpieces, a primary transport system, a secondary transport system and one or more interfaces between first transport system and second transport system. The primary and secondary transport systems each have one or more sections of substantially constant... Agent: Perman & Green