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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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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