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5634636 |
Flexible object handling system using feedback controlled air jets
A fluid transport system for moving flexible objects includes a conveyor configured to direct fluid flow against opposite sides of flexible objects. A sensor unit senses motion state of flexible...
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5630679 |
Height adjustable conveyor system
A height adjustable conveyor system conveys articles between different heights as needed. The conveyor system includes guides that support the neck rings of articles to be conveyed, and the guides...
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5628588 |
Air conveyor having an elongated channel and a plurality of air ducts
An air conveyor conveys bottle containers, the conveyor being constructed as a channel having a general, inverted-U-shaped configuration. The channel has a plurality of air ducts extending through...
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5611648 |
Air conveying support structure for conveying articles along an air conveyor
A deck plate support structure for an air conveyor includes two major structural members; namely, an upper support member and a lower support member. The upper and lower support members are...
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5611647 |
Diverter for bottle air conveyor
An air conveyor conveys a stream of bottle containers along an input path and then selectively diverts bottles from the input stream into one of a plurality of output paths. The invention includes...
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5584614 |
Air handling system for a pneumatic conveyor
An air handling system comprising a track having a lower extent for supporting an object to be conveyed by the flow of pressurized air and an upper extent having a plenum chamber for receiving...
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5570977 |
Fluid conveyor for articles
A fluid conveyor effects movement of articles, such as cans, along a predetermined path adjacent to a thin deck plate. The thin deck plate has fluid distribution areas formed therein with each...
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5567091 |
Swing-arm air conveyor and flexible guide joint for conveying bottles with neck flanges
A method and apparatus for the feeding and accumulation of bottles in an air conveyance system, which has a swing-arm air conveyor with a flexible guide joint which allows the efficient conveyance...
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5564441 |
Pneumatic web feeding
Apparatus for conveying a paper web or other sheet material pneumatically along a predetermined path comprises two guide plates 20, 22 having outer surfaces defining successive parts of the path...
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5562368 |
Air tunnel track interface
An air tunnel track interface attaches to a can testing apparatus for receiving cans from the output of the can testing apparatus and transferring them to a conveyor system. The air tunnel track...
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5542789 |
Multi position bottle guide assembly
A new and improved multi position bottle guide assembly for bottles suspended by a neck ring and conveyed by pneumatic power. The bottle guide assembly includes a pair of elongated guide rails...
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5516239 |
Bottle conveyor
A bottle conveyor has a neck guide formed from opposed lips which are sufficiently thin to be used with bottles having extremely small neck rings and/or extremely short necks and which permit air...
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5503505 |
Air conveyor with floating covers
An improved air conveyor for conveying a plurality of articles such as cans in an upright orientation between stations in a multi-step process includes an elongate deck having a plurality of...
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5501552 |
Conveying system for unstable articles having a neck ring
A conveying system is disclosed for conveying unstable articles having a neck ring. Unstable articles, such as plastic bottles having a neck ring, or flange, are conveyed in single file along...
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5501553 |
Device utilizing fluid for effecting nested alignment of articles and particularly undecorated cans
A device is disclosed that utilizes a fluid (normally air) to effect nested alignment of articles such as cans to be used to package beverages and the like. A conveying section provides articles in...
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5497987 |
Sheet-guiding device
Device for guiding a sheet having a leading edge which follows an imaginary conducting surface along a sheet-transport direction perpendicular to the leading edge, the sheet-guiding device being...
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5484237 |
Pneumatic conveyor apparatus having air deflectors
A pneumatic conveyor apparatus for conveying articles, such as empty aluminum cans and plastic bottles, includes first and second air ducts for supplying pneumatic pressure to move the articles...
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5478174 |
Controlled speed single file conveyor
A controlled speed single file conveyor conveys upright cylindrical articles in single file along a deck plate-from an upstream location to a downstream location. A plurality of rows of louvers...
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5468299 |
Device comprising a flat susceptor rotating parallel to a reference surface about a shaft perpendicular to this surface
A device comprising a flat susceptor (14) rotating parallel to a reference surface (30) about a rotary shaft (20) perpendicular to this surface and comprising means for obtaining the stability of...
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5466096 |
Pressurized air conveyor
An air conveyor is provided with a plenum chamber with a perforated deck plate, side walls, and a holddown with holes of an area density sufficiently low to pressurize an enclosed article transport...
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5456556 |
Device for transfer of articles by air-flow
A device air-flow transfers objects each having at least one substantially flat surface. The device consists of a plurality of modules. Each module includes a chamber receiving a tray assembly. The...
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5443333 |
Pressurized air conveyor curve and method
An air conveyor is provided with a plenum chamber with a perforated deck plate, side walls, and a holddown with holes of an area density sufficiently low to pressurize an enclosed article transport...
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5437521 |
Air conveyor for bottles
An air conveyor for plastic bottles conveys the bottles at generally constant speed. The bottles are of the type having annular rims around their necks and shoulders below the rims. The air...
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5421678 |
Method and apparatus for conveying bottles
Apparatus for conveying articles along a path of travel, the articles being of the type having an upper portion for being supported by the apparatus, a lower portion for being suspended from the...
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5417524 |
Tunnel track-pneumatic conduit system
A conveyor system for feeding containers along a path includes a pair of plenums located on opposite sides of the path. Each plenum has an inner wall which has apertures along the center thereof,...
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5388704 |
Relating to conveying and separation apparatus
An air distribution plate for incorporation into a material conveyor or a material separator has a plurality of apertured zones alternately arranged along the length of the plate. The apertures in...
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5320457 |
Device utilizing fluid for effecting nested alignment of articles having a circular cross-section
A device is disclosed that utilizes a fluid (normally air) to effect nested alignment of articles having a circular cross-section (such as cans used to package beverages and the like). A conveying...
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5299890 |
Unit for supplying products to a manufacturing machine
A pneumatic unit for supplying products, such as chocolates or similar, in a single line to a manufacturing machine along a route defined laterally by two walls and at the bottom by a plate through...
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5299889 |
Pneumatic conveyor apparatus
A pneumatic conveyor apparatus for conveying articles, such as empty aluminum cans and plastic bottles, includes first and second air ducts for supplying pneumatic pressure to move the articles...
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5246314 |
Bottle air conveyor with adjustable guides
An air conveyor for articles having outwardly extending flanges. The air conveyor includes a plenum chamber having a base portion, walls extending from said base portion to form a conveying...
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5226758 |
Method and an apparatus for handling wafers
A semiconductor wafer handling apparatus and method for transferring a wafer, one of whose faces has been already polished, from a wafer holder, which holds the wafer with the wafer's polished face...
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5222840 |
Double plenum air conveyor/accumulator
An air conveyor moves light objects from one location to another and may also act as an accumulator for storing objects transported thereon. The conveyor has an elongated primary plenum and one or...
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5213451 |
Apparatus and method of automatically separating stacked wafers
The separation of thin disk-type workpieces from a stack has, as a rule, hitherto been carried out by hand. An apparatus and a corresponding method are now provided which make it possible to lift...
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5212891 |
Soft excavator
A soft excavator (10, 90, 110, 130) is disclosed which utilizes a jet of high velocity fluid flow such as air or water flow, preferably supersonic, through a nozzle (48, 92, 112) to excavate a...
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5209387 |
Gas film conveyor for elongated strips of web material
Non-contact air film conveyors are suited for conveying elongated strips (46) of web material such as photographic film and include a track plate (12) having gas flow apertures (20,24; 72,74)...
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5205991 |
Manufacture of extruded ceramics
The present invention features a process and apparatus for fabricating ceramic substrates. The apparatus comprises an extruder of the ram or screw type for forcing the ceramic materials through a...
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5203485 |
Pneumatic web feeding
An air mover (14) for producing a stream of air along a guide surface (28,30) for conveying web or other sheet material along a path adjacent the surface is constructed in two parts (16,18) having...
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5163667 |
Sheet transfer device with suction table on a machine producing package
A suction table which, in a machine converting sheets into package, transfers the last, lowermost sheet of a batch to a subsequent processing station. The table is provided with numerous blowing...
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5161919 |
Bottle air conveyor
An air conveyor is provided for articles having outwardly extending flanges comprising a plenum chamber having a base portion, walls extending from said base portion to form a conveying channel,...
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5145292 |
Air conveying system
A conveyor assembly includes a conveying surface and at least one air manifold for directing air against the sidewall of the articles to be conveyed. The conveying surface includes longitudinally...
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5129765 |
Air conveyor deck having protuberances
An air conveyor is provided comprising a plenum chamber including a deck plate, a plurality of first apertures in the deck plate for directing air from the plenum chamber to convey articles, and a...
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5122016 |
High speed vertical single filer
In accordance with this invention, a method of transporting upright cylindrical articles is provided wherein the articles are fed from a mass at an upstream location into single file at a...
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5108513 |
Device for transporting and positioning semiconductor wafer-type workpieces
A device in which the wafers are moved with the aid of aqueous media, is posed for the transportation of semiconductor wafers and also for use in processes for the cleaning thereof, the device...
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5102118 |
Device for floatably guiding webs or sheets of material to be conveyed
A device for floatably guiding webs or sheets of material to be conveyed by means of nozzles supplying blown air comprises a nozzle body having at least one nozzle aperture on which a jet of...
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5090330 |
Runner for air conveyor system
An improved runner for use with a SAILRAIL hydrostatic bearing levitation system is disclosed. The runner uses a substantially solid core having a degree of flexibility in a vertical plane, a thin...
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5090900 |
Workpiece support for vacuum chamber
A workpiece support for supporting a disc-shaped workpiece in a vacuum chamber, comprises a support member with a support surface for carrying the workpiece. A plurality of bores extend from the...
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5078776 |
Air bed conveying system
An air bed conveying system conveys a workpiece while the workpiece is being floated by air under pressure which is ejected from a plurality of air ejection holes defined in air bed blocks that are...
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5065858 |
Gas-fed transfer track
A gas feed apparatus is described for the transport of articles between assembly line stations. A turbulent gas flow is generated which provides a balanced driving force for, in particular,...
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5037245 |
Article transfer device and method for air conveyors
A device and method are provided for transferring articles to and from an air conveyor. The device comprises a first plenum chamber, a second plenum chamber, and an air supply. The first plenum...
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5037244 |
Air powered can conveyance system
The disclosure relates to a conveyor system wherein an article being transported on the conveyor system has its orientation changed from a vertical position at its point of entry to a horizontal...
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