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5028174 |
Apparatus for transporting bottles
An apparatus for transporting plastic bottles which have a support collar near the opening. The bottles are suspended by the support collars on a guide track. Compressed air nozzle ducts are...
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5017052 |
Cup conveyor
A device for conveying cup-shaped objects, such as the bodies of two piece cans located between the bed of a mechanical press and a lower die shoe. A plenum is provided with a perforated upper deck...
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5009550 |
Article handling device with low profile side guides
An air conveyor system is provided for transporting a stream of articles en masse along a channel from a generally upstream position in a generally downstream direction towards a generally...
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4993881 |
Arrangement for the transport of goods in bulk
An arrangement for the transport of goods in bulk, such as cereal grain, by air flowing through a perforated base plate. The arrangements are provided in areas of the base plate (1) adjacent to the...
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4990034 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating formation of moving cylindrical articles into single file
Method and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating formation of moving cylindrical articles, such as thin walled cans, into single file. The apparatus includes a plurality of diverting arms within...
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4978253 |
Air cushion conveying device with magnetic guidance
Device for conveying on an air cushion with magnetic guidance having a track (12) provided with air jet pipes issuing obliquely in one longitudinal direction onto its upper face, permitting the...
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4955762 |
Plenum fan assembly
An air conveyor assembly whereby objects are transported on the top deck of an elongated plenum. The plenum is pressurized by a high-performance wheel fan member contained entirely within the...
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4934569 |
Pressurized fluid injection method and means
A pressurized fluid is injected into a mass of material through at least one length of hose or other tubing of inherently resilient, elastomer material having one end closed and provided with at...
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4917545 |
Apparatus for controlling material flow
An apparatus for guiding the movement of flowing materials, particularly in the operation of emptying grain from a silo. The apparatus of the invention is provided with a path for guiding the flow...
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4915547 |
Article transport system
A transport system particularly for flat articles, e.g. cards, includes guides which allow alternate articles to be conveyed in different orientations through the same duct (122) so that the risk...
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4890960 |
Vacuum metering drum assembly
A metering drum assembly for the rotation of can-shaped objects over a surface from a first to second location. The drum device employs an inner, hollow, non-rotating, cylindrical member and an...
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4881397 |
Air conveyor for removing parts from a high speed forming press
Successively formed cans or cups are quickly and smoothly removed from beneath the lower die shoe of a high speed forming press by an elongated dual lane stainless steel air conveyor having closely...
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4874273 |
Apparatus for holding and/or conveying articles by fluid
An apparatus for holding or conveying an article to be held or conveyed by a fluid film having, in a holding surface or a delivery surface, fluid injection portions for supplying fluid at a low...
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4865491 |
Apparatus for positioning a semiconductor wafer
An improved semiconductor wafer positioning apparatus which can achieve preliminary positioning of a semiconductor wafer with accuracy. The apparatus includes a positioning stage for receiving a...
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4860687 |
Device comprising a flat susceptor rotating parallel to a reference surface about a shift perpendicular to this surface
A device comprising a flat susceptor rotating parallel to a reference surface about a rotary shaft perpendicular to this surface and comprising means for obtaining the stability of the susceptor...
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4848974 |
Apparatus and method for fluidized conveying flat articles
This invention permits flat articles to be fluid conveyed from one operation to a point where another operation occurs such as curling, stacking or feeding to a capping machine. The flat articles...
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4838169 |
Minimum filler 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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4828434 |
Device, apparatus and method for distribution of fluid and selective movement of articles thereby
A device, apparatus and method for distribution at a utilization area of fluid maintained adjacent thereto under pressure to thereby effect movement of articles at the utilization area are...
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4822214 |
Air conveyor
A machine for manufacturing bottles including pneumatic conveying apparatus for container bodies and pneumatic conveying apparatus for base cups and a base cupping assembly and for joining the...
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4818152 |
Apparatus for conveying hot finely divided material
A fluidizing gravity conveyor for hot particulate material which includes a heat resistant plate having a plurality of holes for receiving bubble caps or nozzles to disperse air flow from a lower...
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4816682 |
Detection of nuclear radiation
A method of determining the nuclear radiation dosage to which a thermoluminescent crystal, such as a diamond or cubic boron nitride crystal, has previously been subjected, involves the steps of...
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4812085 |
Conduit for transporting finely-divided or fine-granular, dry bulk materials and a process for operation of same
A conduit for transporting finely-divided or fine-granular, dry bulk materials comprises a material conveyance zone and a zone for introducing the fluidizing medium separated from the first...
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4781494 |
Air-assist accumulating and transfer unit for an electronic device test handler
An accumulating and transfer unit for handling electronic devices such as integrated circuits (ICs), especially surface mounted devices (SMDs). The unit includes guideways mounted circumferentially...
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4770566 |
Slide fastener overturning conveyer
A slide fastener overturning conveyer includes an elongate hollow rectangular guide member having a guide channel for the passage of a slide fastener, and air nozzles disposed adjacent to an inlet...
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RE32684 |
Air table system
An air table system which utilizes air jet openings in the table surface of a pattern configuration to lift, support and direct movement of objects, such as containers, to feed same from a...
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4744702 |
Modular air conveyor construction
An easily assembled and disassembled modular construction for an air conveyor comprises standardized side, bottom and top walls adapted to be assembled together, at the point of use if so desired,...
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4741196 |
Air conveyor and method for removing parts from a high speed forming press
Successively formed cans or cups are quickly and smoothly removed from beneath the lower die shoe of a high speed forming press by an elongated dual lane stainless steel air conveyor having closely...
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4738748 |
Plasma processor and method for IC fabrication
A plasma processor, for dry etching during a fabricating process for an integrated circuit semiconductor device, including a plasma generating region formed in a waveguide into which microwave...
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4738287 |
Tubular bag filling machine
To fill low-weight, high-volume goods, such as potato chips, popcorn and the like into bags as the bags are being made, the fill goods are introduced into a hopper and a filling funnel which is...
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4732513 |
Controlled speed coverless air conveyor
A coverless air conveyor is provided for use with containers of varying heights. The conveyor has a jet board whose jets are substantially vertical with a slight downstream tilt and has sidewalls...
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4730955 |
Divergent single filer
A single file apparatus is provided for highly etched containers wherein a mass of containers is separated into two single file rows, the single file rows are merged into nesting relationship and...
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4730956 |
Shock absorbant single filer
The multiple rows of containers are brought into an alignment zone, arranged in nested relationship, merged into an equilateral triangular configuration with mutually touching side edges in a...
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4722276 |
Air blast for preventing contact of wet ink sheets with printing press delivery mechanisms
A printing press has an apparatus for preventing contact of wet ink sheets with the chain delivery mechanism. The printing press has an impression cylinder and a blanket cylinder through which...
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4722641 |
Method and means for effecting discharge of dry bulk material from hopper-type vessel
Describes a device for facilitating the removal of pulverulent material from a hopper-type vessel and a method utilizing the device. The device comprises an elongated hollow member closed at one...
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4721419 |
Container nesting apparatus
A nesting table is provided which receives containers en masse from a mass air conveyor at an upstream end and discharges the containers onto a deadplate in three rows in contiguous equilateral...
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4710068 |
Air conveyor
An air conveying mechanism for transporting articles along a conveying surface is disclosed. The conveying surface includes a plurality of air jets in fluid flow relation with a plenum. An air...
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4702664 |
Air-equipped table
An air-equipped table is disclosed which includes a frame mounted table top of sturdy, planar construction. The table top is formed with a laminate of a thin top hardboard layer, a thin bottom...
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4690591 |
Method and apparatus for transporting an article in vacuum
A method for transporting an article disposed on an upper surface of a stage in a vacuum. Gas is ejected through a plurality of inclined nozzles formed in the stage so that the article is...
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4687079 |
Deformable load support member having a transversely stiff core
A fluid levitated generally convex support member particularly useful in supporting a pallet, plate or belt such that the pallet, plate or belt load may be moved in an air powered track system, the...
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4676742 |
Preheater for reverberatory melting furnaces
An improved preheater is provided suitable for use with gas or oil fired reverberatory melting furnaces for recycling aluminum scrap and other scrap metals. The improved preheater comprises a...
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4666726 |
Dough moulding and apparatus for dough moulding with air cushion chute
The invention relates to the moulding of dough pieces, for instance in the production of bread. In a dough moulding machine, there are pairs of sheeting rollers, which roll out the piece of dough...
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4660959 |
Device for the electrophotographic manufacture of printing forms
Disclosed is a device for the electrophotographic manufacture of printing forms, comprising a loading table, an exposure table and a developing table arranged in the device one after the other in...
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4655677 |
Method for handling container ends en masse
A method is provided for conveying container ends en masse wherein the container ends are first placed in stacks of substantially equal height. These stacks are conveyed by conventional air...
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4648779 |
Air table with selective air distribution
An air distribution system for air tables of the type in which modular table sections each have a plurality of holes in the surface thereof leading to or from a plenum underneath. A plurality of...
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4630975 |
Air encasement system for transportation of particulates
A method for transporting particulates wherein the particulates are entrained in a transport air stream. An energizing air stream is introduced into the pipeline to form an air encasement stream...
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4624369 |
Method of and apparatus for sorting slide fasteners
Slide fasteners are fed longitudinally one at a time along a path by at least one stream of air flowing along the path, and are then introduced into a clearance or gate which is narrow enough to...
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4622918 |
Module for high vacuum processing
Module for processing advancing substrates including an elongated housing enclosing pairs of superposed transporters defining a longitudinal passage; a source of pressurized gaseous transport...
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4616960 |
Air conveyor components
Improvements to the various components of hydrostatic bearing levitation systems, systems wherein fluid pressure between a load and the rails of a track system supports and guides the load, are...
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4587002 |
Apparatus for floating transport and processing of substrate or tape
Improved apparatus (10), including passage (22) for inter-cushion processing and transport of substrates (12) towards and from process modules (14) and (16) for main processing of said substrates...
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4579320 |
Load supporting member
Improvements to the various components of hydrostatic bearing levitation systems, systems wherein fluid pressure between a load and the rails of a track system supports and guides the load, are...
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