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6820561 Sorting system for transferring items from a trolley to an unloading station in response to the detection of a magnetic field generated at the unloading station  
A sorting system includes trolleys traveling along a path between respective stations for loading and unloading items in a direction transversely of the direction of travel of the trolleys. Each...
6745102 Automatic transporting system and method for operating the same  
An automatic transporting system and a method for operating the same. The automatic transporting system includes a main track, a plurality of transport vehicles, a loading and unloading track, a...
6721627 Track conveyance system  
A conveyance system which performs conveying action operating carrier vehicles, including a loop track, carrier vehicles which run on the track, a station where each carrier vehicle performs...
6679459 Electric overhead conveyer  
The invention relates to an electric overhead conveyer comprising a large number of carriages (8), which circulate on a running rail system (1). Each carriage (8) has an autonomous carriage control...
6659014 Point—to—point transportation system  
There is provided a transportation system for transporting content from a first specified address to a second specified address. The transportation system comprises a transport channel, a plurality...
6446560 Single carriage robotic monorail material transfer system  
A system to automate distribution of materials and tooling to production machines, where a very simple cross-section track, such as a circle or an X, is anchored to the equipment and to load/unload...
6225919 Method of identifying and locating trainline power supplies  
A method of identifying and locating the trainline power supplies wherein the power supplies each are a node on a network. The locations of the power supply is determined by causing the power...
6172619 Automatic train serialization with car orientation  
A method of serialization including establishing a parameter along a length of the train between a node on one of the cars and one end of the train. The presence or absence of the parameter at each...
6114974 Method and apparatus for determining railcar order in a train  
A method and apparatus for determining railcar order in an ECP equipped train involving the inherent propagation delay of a pneumatic signal propagation in a brake air line as measured by each car...
6109568 Control system and method for moving multiple automated vehicles along a monorail  
The monorail system of the present invention contains a monorail and a system controller that has a first radio frequency ethernet communications device. Location markers are attached to the...
6089512 Track-guided transport system with power and data transmission  
A track-guided transport system with power and data transmission and used for conveying goods. The transport system is provided with a transport element having drive and track-guide elements;...
6082268 System for automated transport of automobile platforms passenger cabins and other loads  
A system is provided that uses small carrier vehicles that operate along electrified guideways and use standardized connections to automatically carry passenger cabins, freight loads and automobile...
6005475 Communication method and apparatus for conveyor carriages  
A communication system for a plurality of carriages that travel along a rail. A power cable extends along the rail. The cable is used to convey electric current that drives the movable bodies and...
5986577 Method of determining car position  
A system and method for determining the position of each railroad vehicle within a train consist. The train consist includes a locomotive, at least one trainline and at least one railroad vehicle....
5953995 System for transport by passive vehicles  
A transport system for passive vehicles which move by way of wheels on treadways of a track includes guide surfaces for guiding the vehicles along the track. Each vehicle includes at least one...
5927657 Antenna mounting structure for movable member conveying system  
A carriage conveying system having a conveyance control device, which outputs communication signals for supplying a carriage with electric power by a feeder cable arranged along a guide rail to...
5857413 Method and apparatus for automated powered pallet  
A powered pallet assembly (10) for use on two intersecting trackways (11 and 13). The pallet assembly (10) includes: a pallet frame (23) having an upwardly facing surface (12) formed for support of...
5813349 Transport system comprising a dual-mode vehicle and platform layout for said system  
A transport system comprises a number of dual-mode vehicles (11) and a number of station systems (31). Each of the dual-mode vehicles (11) accommodates a number of passengers, such as, for example...
5806434 Installation for the sorting of individually conveyed objects  
A suspension conveyor and sorting installation for the sequential sorting of individually conveyed objects. The installation includes two parallel conveyor paths arranged side by side and driven in...
5743962 Product conveying system for coating and treating surfaces  
A work is applied with a solvent-containing thermosetting coating composition to a thickness larger than a limit thickness over which the coating composition on a surface of the work extending in a...
5592883 Monorail transportation system and vehicle for traveling thereon  
A monorail transportation system has an elongated, overhead monorail (12) with a vehicle (14) having a coupler (16) that movably travels along the upper surface of monorail (12) and a drive wheel...
5551350 Transporting system driven by linear motor having inductive power supply  
An automated warehouse system a plurality of car passages, and a plurality of transport units, each disposed in a car passage containing parallel rails with vertical webbings, each of the transport...
5402355 Process and device to convey bobbins or bobbin-like goods of the textile industry  
The instant invention relates to a process and to devices to convey textile goods from a receiving point to a point of deposit as well as for reception and deposit of the goods by means of a...
5288040 Device for exchanging data between movable units and a central unit  
A device for exchanging data between a plurality of rail-supported movable automatic manipulating units for operating a plurality of textile machines with multiple workstations and a common central...
5267173 Carriage running control system  
A carriage running control system includes a plurality of readable and writable memory media installed along a running track of carriages. Each carriage is capable of communicating information with...
5236156 Monitoring of track-type conveyor system  
A conveyor system has a track network including a main track, a plurality of branch tracks, and respective intersections at which the main track joins the branch tracks. Respective stations at the...
5111750 Conveyor system  
In a conveyor system for conveying a carrier member supporting a workpiece among working stations, provided are course changing units for changing the course through which the carrier member is...
5103737 Garment transfer apparatus  
The present invention is an apparatus for transferring items such as garments. Each item has associated with it an information code describing the location to which the item is to be sent, as well...
5080019 Transferring system for transferring delivery members to their destinations through computed transfer route  
Transferring system for transferring delivery members to their destinations through a computed transfer route when any trouble exists in a usual transfer route. The delivery members carrying a...
5056437 Device for initializing an automated warehousing system  
A new and useful device for initializing an automated warehouse system when the system is in its "power-up" mode. The device of the invention initializes the system at "power-up" by sensing the...
4991515 Double acting switch and method of use  
A switch is employed in a conveyorized transport system which has a first actuator capable of imparting a first linear movement and a second actuator capable of imparting a second linear movement,...
4953469 Selectively positionable variable height workstation and method of use  
A variable height workstation includes a trolley delivery apparatus for controllably moving a rail section from a gap formed in a subsidiary loop rail to a workstation located remotely from the...
4950119 Storage and retrieval system  
A system for transporting, storing and retrieving goods (11) in a warehouse (10) is disclosed. A vehicle (16) moves the goods (11) upon a track system (18) into a storage area (22). The storage...
4926753 Flexible material transport system  
A computer controlled transport system for carrying materials, such as semiconductors, to various work stations at spaced apart locations within a common facility. The system comprises a routing...
4917228 Method of sorting vehicle bodies by the colors of coating expected thereon in a vehicle body coating line  
An arrangement for sorting vehicle bodies by the colors of coating expected on the vehicle bodies in a vehicle body coating line, comprises vehicle body conveying equipment including a plurality of...
4807536 Microprocessor-controlled system of aerial transport for industrial installations  
A microprocessor-controlled system of aerial transport for industrial installations. This system is characterized by the combination of the following parts: (a) a main circuit, (b) a group of...
4770122 Arrangements for sorting vehicle bodies by the colors of coating expected thereon in a vehicle body coating line  
An arrangement for sorting vehicle bodies by the colors of coating expected thereon in a vehicle body coating line, comprises vehicle body conveying equipment including a plurality of branch...
4613804 Floor position sensing apparatus and method  
Apparatus and method by which an unmanned, trackless, work-producing vehicle is able to follow a path defined by a passive metallic marker or markers or by which the vehicle can receive information...
4610206 Micro controlled classification yard  
A modular control system for a railroad classification yard is described. The control system can automatically perform those functions necessary to control the various elements of a railroad...
4597495 Livestock identification system  
An apparatus for identification of animals passing through a packing plant including an elevated track extending through the packing plant for guiding carcasses through various processes and...
4349196 Computer control toy track system  
A toy track system having an electro-optical sensing device in the roadway senses the passage and identity of a plurality of individual cars on that roadway and provides the sensed information to a...
4326624 Pallet feeder  
A pallet feeder for a manufacturing plant or fabrication system wherein pallets are fed along a substantially circular-shaped track or path of travel. A number of transfer stations or locations are...
4306503 Procedure for automatically disposing and fetching carts and a device for carrying out said procedure  
Procedure for automatically disposing and fetching transport carts and a device for carrying out the procedure is disclosed. The carts preferably are non-driven and are intended to be moved by an...
4291797 Pallet changer for a manufacture plant  
A pallet changer having additional distribution and storage functions for a manufacturing plant having a central control station, transfer stations at the conveying and storage part of the...
4239435 Apparatus and method for assemblying randomly arranged articles  
Apparatus and methods for selectively distributing a plurality of unordered articles at a plurality of receiving stations in predetermined orders are provided in accordance with the teachings of...
4219111 Power and free conveyor control system  
A control system for a conveyor having a plurality of trolley carriers movable along a path of travel and having at least one latching type reed switch whose open or closed condition is sensed in a...
4106636 Recirculation buffer subsystem for use in sorting and processing articles including mail flats  
The present disclosure involves a system for storing and processing articles such as mail flats which cannot be processed on standard letter mail equipment. The system includes mechanical carriers...
4018410 Method for the optimized transportation of passengers or objects  
The vehicles are moved in continuous manner in the same direction, on orders of a computer given only before their departure, fixing an itinerary optimized as a function of the congestion...
4015536 Transfer system  
A system for transfer between work stations comprising a guided truck having guide wire sensors for detecting an electric current in a guide wire extending between the work stations. The truck is...
4008668 Electric circuit for self-propelling trolleys in storage installations  
The circuits comprise a first part located at a control station where the trolley lies when not operated, and a second part located on the trolley. The first part comprises a three phase power...
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