261 |
Conveyor with integrated dust collector system |
US15497253 |
2017-04-26 |
US09932183B2 |
2018-04-03 |
Joshua Oren; Marty Boros; Pete Berveiler; Dave Hansen; Colin Campbell; Mike Edwards; Thomas Massalone |
Embodiments of the present disclosure a system for capturing proppant dust particles when positioned at a fracking operation site including a proppant delivery assembly to receive one or more containers having proppant stored therein. The system dispenses the proppant from the one or more containers and delivers the proppant to other fracking operation equipment. Moreover, the system includes a dust collection assembly positioned proximate and associated with the proppant delivery assembly to capture dust particles released by movement and settling of the proppant when being dispensed and delivered by the proppant delivery assembly. The dust collection assembly is positioned to direct an air flow in a flow path overlying the dust particles to capture the dust particles and move the dust particles away from the proppant thereby reducing risk of dust exposure to fracking operation site personnel. |
262 |
Conveyor with integrated dust collector system |
US15398950 |
2017-01-05 |
US09919882B2 |
2018-03-20 |
Joshua Oren; Marty Boros; Pete Berveiler; Dave Hansen; Colin Campbell; Mike Edwards; Thomas Massalone |
Embodiments of the present disclosure a system for capturing proppant dust particles when positioned at a fracking operation site including a proppant delivery assembly to receive one or more containers having proppant stored therein. The system dispenses the proppant from the one or more containers and delivers the proppant to other fracking operation equipment. Moreover, the system includes a dust collection assembly positioned proximate and associated with the proppant delivery assembly to capture dust particles released by movement and settling of the proppant when being dispensed and delivered by the proppant delivery assembly. The dust collection assembly is positioned to direct an air flow in a flow path overlying the dust particles to capture the dust particles and move the dust particles away from the proppant thereby reducing risk of dust exposure to fracking operation site personnel. |
263 |
TRANSPORTER AND TRANSPORT METHOD |
US15425271 |
2017-02-06 |
US20180072512A1 |
2018-03-15 |
Takafumi SONOURA; Akihito OGAWA; Hideichi NAKAMOTO; Haruna ETO; Junya TANAKA; Atsushi SUGAHARA |
According to one embodiment, a transporter includes a conveyor, a restrainer, and a restrainer moving unit. The conveyor conveys an object in a first direction. The conveyor is movable in a second direction. The restrainer is disposed corresponding to a downstream end of the conveyor in the first direction. The restrainer moving unit keeps, in a case where a position of the conveyor relative to an object-transporting destination is out of a preset range, the restrainer at a restraining position at which the restrainer restrains a movement of the object. The restrainer moving unit starts to move, in a case where the position of the conveyor relative to the object-transporting destination is in the preset range, the restrainer toward a releasing position at which the restrainer allows the movement of the object. |
264 |
STORAGE WAGON FOR BULK MATERIAL |
US15551089 |
2016-03-15 |
US20180029615A1 |
2018-02-01 |
Manfred BRUNNINGER |
A storage wagon (1) for bulk material (2) has, above the transfer end (9) of a bottom conveyor belt (4) and underneath a discharge end (15) of an auxiliary conveyor belt (14), a deflector plate (17) extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction (3) of the wagon. The deflector plate (17) is designed to be pivotable about a pivot axis (18) relative to the loading container (5) for changing a deflection angle α enclosed with a conveying plane (19) of the bottom conveyor belt (4). |
265 |
Container inspection device |
US15315373 |
2015-06-04 |
US09823262B2 |
2017-11-21 |
Osamu Yoshida; Chizuka Kai; Kunimitsu Toyoshima |
A container inspection device includes an inlet conveyor, an outlet conveyor, a mounting table having a mounting surface, a chamber portion having an opening in a section of the chamber portion, in which a receiving space is formed when the mounting surface contacts the chamber portion to close the opening, and a transfer. The transfer is movable in the certain direction at a speed greater than the conveying speed of the cartons by the inlet conveyor. The transfer holds multiple ones of the cartons that have been conveyed by the inlet conveyor collectively and conveys the cartons to the mounting surface of the mounting table, and holds the multiple ones of the cartons mounted on the mounting surface collectively and conveys the cartons to the outlet conveyor. |
266 |
CHAMBER CONVEYOR BELT MACHINE |
US15583858 |
2017-05-01 |
US20170320714A1 |
2017-11-09 |
Maximilian Brunner; Rainer Häring; Konrad Mössnang |
A chamber conveyor belt machine having a machine frame, a chamber cover with two or more columns and a lifting device for lifting the chamber cover. The lifting device may include a safety system that includes a latching rail that cooperates with a latching hook disposed on at least one of the two columns. The safety system may include one or more sensors for determining whether the lifting device is working correctly or is in a failure condition. The safety system may prevent the chamber conveyor belt machine from operating if a failure condition is sensed. |
267 |
BELT CONVEYOR WITH A DEVICE FOR ASSESSING THE TENSION OF THE BELT |
US15582696 |
2017-04-30 |
US20170320675A1 |
2017-11-09 |
René Brunone |
The belt conveyor comprises: a conveyance belt (3) having at least one longitudinal segment (17) tensioned between first and second tension members; a device (21) for assessing the tension of said segment (17), laid out for assessing, in a determined measurement point located longitudinally between the first and second tension members, a deviation of the segment (17) relatively to a reference value, the deviation being taken along a determined measurement direction forming a non-zero angle with the longitudinal direction. |
268 |
Conveying money items |
US15326640 |
2015-06-29 |
US09811963B2 |
2017-11-07 |
Stephen L. Hough; Michael J. Rigby; Robert James Blythin |
A money item conveyor comprising a plurality of money item conveying members configured to convey money items around a looped path, wherein the plurality of conveying members each comprise first and second money item support surfaces configured to simultaneously support a main face of a money item on the conveying member, the support faces being separated by an articulation region to allow relative movement of the support surfaces. |
269 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FILLING BOXES |
US15393415 |
2016-12-29 |
US20170313451A1 |
2017-11-02 |
Jovan J. Sutton; Robert S. Heath, III; Jason S. Mitchell; Michael Brian Roy Williams; Carl J. Maxfield |
A device, system, and method for loading empty and formed six-pack bottle carriers into a larger case (i.e. a multi-pack) is provided. The packaging device includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The six-pack carriers are formed by unfolding them in the upper portion. Various components are associated with the upper portion of the packaging device. The case receives a plurality of six-pack carriers therein. The larger cases is formed by unfolding them in the lower portion of the packaging device. Various components are associated with the lower portion of the packaging device. The upper portion and lower portion operate simultaneously to efficiently produce a case have empty six-pack carriers placed therein for later filling with bottles at a downstream destination. The system includes the machine, the cases, the six-pack carriers, and the bottles, operating collectively. |
270 |
Drive device for belt conveyor device |
US15117394 |
2014-07-14 |
US09776802B2 |
2017-10-03 |
Yoshiteru Yamaji |
A drive device for a belt conveyor device includes a drive pulley, a first pulley, a second pulley, a support frame, and a drive motor. The drive pulley has a drive shaft direction length less than a plurality of previously set belt widths of the endless belt and has the driving shaft direction length being set to a same length regardless of the plurality of previously set belt widths of the endless belt. Axial lengths of the first pulley and the second pulley are set to the same length as the axial lengths of the head pulley and the tail pulley. The support frame is rotatably attached to the first pulley and the second pulley. The drive motor hung from a lower surface of the support frame in order for the drive pulley to be positioned at an approximately center portion in a width direction of the endless belt. |
271 |
AUTOMATED STORING AND COMMISSIONING SYSTEM FOR SMALL-PIECE GOODS |
US15613873 |
2017-06-05 |
US20170267453A1 |
2017-09-21 |
Christoph Hellenbrand |
An automated storing and picking system for packaged goods is provided. The system includes storage shelves with storage areas, at least one storage and retrieval apparatus, and at least one conveyor belt. At least one blocking device having a barrier is arranged downstream of a receiving section of the conveyor belt. A control device controls the storage and retrieval apparatus and the conveyor belt such that the packaged goods belonging to a first pack are transported to a first dispensing location and the packaged goods belonging to a subsequent pack are transported to a second dispensing location and/or are subsequently transported to the first dispensing location, such that the first pack lies downstream of the subsequent pack on the conveyor belt. The control device controls the blocking device to accumulate the first pack behind the barrier, release the first pack for transport, and to then accumulate the subsequent pack behind the barrier. |
272 |
Facility wide mixed mail sorting and/or sequencing system and components and methods thereof |
US14642826 |
2015-03-10 |
US09758315B2 |
2017-09-12 |
David Bailey; Wayne Blackwell; Matthew Bossard; Michael Finney; Mark Gaug; John Hartman; Jamie Micha; William Olver; Michael Riess; Gerald Sensenig; Clifford Solowiej; Bruce Williams |
The invention generally relates to a facility wide sorting and/or sequencing system for improving product processing operations and, more particularly, to a facility wide system and related functionality for simultaneously sorting and sequencing mixed mail pieces such as, for example, flats and letter mail pieces. The flats and letter mail pieces are placed in frames so that all types of mail pieces can be sorted and/or sequenced simultaneously through merging and diverting a stream of filled trays into and out of different streams at a full or substantially full transport speed. |
273 |
Facility wide mixed mail sorting and/or sequencing system and components and methods thereof |
US14643705 |
2015-03-10 |
US09751111B2 |
2017-09-05 |
Wayne Blackwell; David Brown; Bryan Dalton; Thomas Erb; Mark Gaug; John Nasakaitis; Michael Riess; Jonathan Wee; Bruce Williams |
The invention generally relates to a facility wide sorting and/or sequencing system for improving product processing operations and, more particularly, to a facility wide system and related functionality for simultaneously sorting and sequencing mixed mail pieces such as, for example, flats and letter mail pieces. The flats and letter mail pieces are placed in frames so that all types of mail pieces can be sorted and/or sequenced simultaneously through merging and diverting a stream of filled trays into and out of different streams at a full or substantially full transport speed. |
274 |
LOADING DEVICE FOR LOADING AND/OR UNLOADING TRANSPORT CONTAINERS FOR PIECE GOODS AND METHOD FOR LOADING AND/OR UNLOADING TRANSPORT CONTAINERS FOR PIECE GOODS |
US15301515 |
2015-03-23 |
US20170247203A1 |
2017-08-31 |
PETER BERDELLE-HILGE |
A loading device for loading and/or unloading transport containers for piece goods includes a plurality of loading places at which the transport containers can be disposed and loaded or unloaded. At least one loading apparatus can be used for loading and/or unloading the transport containers at least at one loading place. In order to reduce the costs for the device, the device includes at least one positioning apparatus for moving at least one transport container or the loading apparatus from a first loading place to at least one second loading place. A method for loading and/or unloading transport containers for piece goods is also provided. |
275 |
Device for conveying a fiber web or a web of nonwoven |
US15272508 |
2016-09-22 |
US09725830B2 |
2017-08-08 |
Johann Philipp Dilo |
The device for conveying a fiber web comprises a transport device, which serves as a support for the fiber web, and which is driven by a drive in a transport direction at a speed of at least 50 m/min. The transport device has a rough surface and carries along the fiber web resting on the transport device by force of friction. An array of linear elements arranged above the transport device serves to cover the fiber web resting on the transport device. The linear elements have a smooth surface, and the fiber web is carried along the bottom surface of the linear elements. The linear elements are arranged next to each other but spaced apart in a direction transverse to the transport direction. |
276 |
Automated storing and commissioning system for small-piece goods |
US14434600 |
2013-10-01 |
US09701474B2 |
2017-07-11 |
Christoph Hellenbrand |
An automated storing and picking system for packaged goods is provided. The system includes storage shelves with storage areas, at least one storage and retrieval apparatus, and at least one conveyor belt. At least one blocking device having a barrier is arranged downstream of a receiving section of the conveyor belt. A control device controls the storage and retrieval apparatus and the conveyor belt such that the packaged goods belonging to a first pack are transported to a first dispensing location and the packaged goods belonging to a subsequent pack are transported to a second dispensing location and/or are subsequently transported to the first dispensing location, such that the first pack lies downstream of the subsequent pack on the conveyor belt. The control device controls the blocking device to accumulate the first pack behind the barrier, release the first pack for transport, and to then accumulate the subsequent pack behind the barrier. |
277 |
Conveyance system and system for inspecting article to be conveyed |
US15126531 |
2015-03-13 |
US09676564B2 |
2017-06-13 |
Taiko Kawahara; Katsumi Shimizu |
A conveyance system (1) and a system for inspecting an article to be conveyed by using the conveyance system (1) are provided with a purpose of preventing contact of an article to be conveyed with a guide with a simple structure, the conveyance system (1) including: a rotor section (2); a rotation mechanism (3); a pack (5); and a lift mechanism (4). |
278 |
Transport Conveyor and Transport Unit |
US15129994 |
2014-03-28 |
US20170144840A1 |
2017-05-25 |
Yoshihiko Fujio |
A transport conveyor and a transport unit including such a transport conveyor are provided in which the transport conveyor can be made compact in the lateral direction while being compatible with a downstream conveyor whose transport direction is different from that of the transport conveyor. A second transport winding member (9), a first relaying winding member (10), and a second relaying winding member are supported to be swingable about a vertical axis (X1) extending along the vertical direction and located on the other side end portion, along a transport direction, of the transport conveyor (5). An operatively connecting mechanism is provided for causing the second transport winding member (9), the first relaying winding member (10), and the second relaying winding member to swing in an operatively connected manner, to cause the second transport winding member (9) and the second relaying winding member to swing integrally about a vertical axis (X1) and to cause the first relaying winding member (10) to swing about the vertical axis (X1) in the direction in which the second transport winding member (9) and the second relaying winding member swing and by an amount of swing that is greater than the amount of swing of the second transport winding member (9) and the second relaying winding member. |
279 |
TRANSPORTER AND TRANSPORT METHOD |
US15262128 |
2016-09-12 |
US20170129707A1 |
2017-05-11 |
Hideichi NAKAMOTO; Akihito Ogawa; Takafumi Sonoura; Haruna Eto; Junya Tanaka; Atsushi Sugahara |
According to one embodiment, a transporter includes a first conveyor and a second conveyor. The first conveyor receives an object that is carried by an arm device and conveys the object in a first direction. The second conveyor is configured to receive and convey the object from the first conveyor and is movable in a second direction that crosses the first direction. |
280 |
Shift and hold conveyor assembly for removal of oversize parcels |
US15330185 |
2016-08-20 |
US20170120300A1 |
2017-05-04 |
Steven Vann Schroader |
A conveyor assembly insertable within a conveying system including a low friction conveying surface having both forward and lateral conveying forces for moving articles toward a parallel lateral sidewall and a downstream conveyor. A first diverging sidewall gradually converges parcels toward the center of the conveyor. An inwardly directed offset extends from a first diverging sidewall to a second lateral sidewall for shifting parcels inwardly toward a second lateral sidewall. A raised high friction conveying surface or rail belt extends along an outer edge of the low friction conveyor. At least a portion of the high friction belt is raised above the surface of the adjacent conveying surface in flow communication with the low friction conveying surface. Parcels contacting the high friction belt are prevented from shifting over toward the sidewall and parcels having a center of gravity outside the tipover point fall over the belt onto a recirculation conveyor. |