161 |
Icing prevention system for a conveyor belt |
US019669 |
1979-03-12 |
US4243136A |
1981-01-06 |
Michael J. Kaufman |
A pump for spraying an anti-freezing liquid on a conveyor belt exposed to freezing temperatures is controlled by an electric circuit containing a timer, a relay provided with a normally open switch, and a normally open thermostat that closes to start the timer when the ambient temperature falls below a given low temperature. The relay is connected in series with the timer switch and the thermostat to close the relay switch when both the timer switch and the thermostat are closed, whereby the pump will be operated until the timer times out or the thermostat reopens. If desired, the relay can be omitted. |
162 |
Method and apparatus for extending conveyor belts |
US43640 |
1979-05-30 |
US4227660A |
1980-10-14 |
John L. Denny; Robert H. Alley |
A carrier vehicle supports plural drums of belting material for deployment in the lengthening of conveyor belts in mines with the belting material being in a double thickness having its midpoint over a removable winding rod extending eccentric and parallel to the axis of each drum so that the belting material can be unwound from the drum after its ends are connected to the old belt. A chain extends between the vehicle and the tailpiece of an existing conveyor system so that forward movement of the vehicle unwinds the new belting and moves the tailpiece to a forward extended position simultaneously with a minimum of labor. In a second embodiment, plural rolls of new belting material are supported on a movable vehicle with the belting material being in a single ply but with adjacent rolls being reversely wound so that the belting can be deployed from the upper portion of one roll and the lower portion of an adjacent roll while the vehicle moves the tailpiece to its new location. In both embodiments, the vehicles include wire rope cable dispensing reels which also dispense cable for supporting the new conveyor belt portion at the same time that the new conveyor belt is being unrolled. |
163 |
Method and apparatus for extending conveyor belts |
US934598 |
1978-08-17 |
US4195726A |
1980-04-01 |
John L. Denny; Robert H. Alley |
A carrier vehicle supports plural drums of belting material for deployment in the lengthening of conveyor belts in mines with the belting material being in a double thickness having its midpoint over a removable winding rod extending eccentric and parallel to the axis of each drum so that the belting material can be unwound from the drum after its ends are connected to the old belt. A chain extends between the vehicle and the tailpiece of an existing conveyor system so that forward movement of the vehicle unwinds the new belting and moves the tailpiece to a forward extended position simultaneously with a minimum of labor. In a second embodiment, plural rolls of new belting material are supported on a movable vehicle with the belting material being in a single ply but with adjacent rolls being reversely wound so that the belting can be deployed from the upper portion of one roll and the lower portion of an adjacent roll while the vehicle moves the tailpiece to its new location. In both embodiments, the vehicles include wire rope cable dispensing reels which also dispense cable for supporting the new conveyor belt portion at the same time that the new conveyor belt is being unrolled. |
164 |
Wheel conveyor system |
US30960872 |
1972-11-24 |
US3845854A |
1974-11-05 |
BROWN C |
A system for conveying automobiles in automatic car washers is illustrated, described and claimed in the patent to Ced F. Brown, U.S. Pat. No. 3,687,083, issued Aug. 29, 1972. The front and rear wheels on one side of the vehicle are driven in a trough by hydraulic units effective on one or the other or both of the wheels. Difficulty was experienced in tracking the wheels within the trough and this was overcome by sloping the trough bottom or by permitting the trough bottom to tilt laterally in either direction. The wheel will climb up from the slope and assume a horizontal position to track on the center line thereof and to come back to the center line each time it moves therefrom.
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165 |
Process of precoating and filtering using a rotary drum vacuum filter |
US3635341D |
1969-07-22 |
US3635341A |
1972-01-18 |
DAVIS STEVEN S |
A rotary drum vacuum precoat filter equipped so that the liquid level therein may be controllably varied to completely submerge the drum for precoating, followed by exposure of only a small part of the drum (not more than 30 percent) for cake drying and removal during filtration. There is also disclosed a scraper assembly for cake removal from the exposed drum just prior to resubmergence.
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166 |
Conveyor belt |
US39319064 |
1964-08-31 |
US3291288A |
1966-12-13 |
HAUSTOVICH PAUL F |
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167 |
Draper apron |
US60375532 |
1932-04-07 |
US1951041A |
1934-03-13 |
TWOMBLY EARLE K |
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168 |
Endless-belt conveyer |
US6082325 |
1925-10-06 |
US1620168A |
1927-03-08 |
SILVER JAMES W |
|
169 |
Device especially applicable to agricultural machinery |
US60161022 |
1922-11-17 |
US1557469A |
1925-10-13 |
LEONARD MURRAY |
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170 |
Belt conveyer. |
US1912703434 |
1912-06-13 |
US1226730A |
1917-05-22 |
WESTON MILTON T |
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171 |
Method of identification of a tag on a moving item |
US15542780 |
2015-01-14 |
US10121035B2 |
2018-11-06 |
Klaus Holst Jacobsen |
A method and system for identification of an item is provided, wherein the system includes a conveyor belt, a positioning device and a reader operable to receive at least one reading at at least one first antenna from at least one tag attached to the item, the first antenna being adapted to be arranged at a read point along the conveyor belt, wherein the positioning device is configured to retrieve a first position of the item at a first time instant before the first antenna and a second position of the item at a second time instant after the first antenna, the first and second time instants defining a time window, wherein the reader is configured to extract from each reading retrieved by the first antenna a measurement (6) of the phase of the signal transmitted by the tag (5) and perform a data processing of the phase measurements whereby the identification of the item (2) is accomplished. |
172 |
Method and apparatus for palletizing loads |
US14764870 |
2014-01-16 |
US10106341B2 |
2018-10-23 |
Roberto Arriaran Ugarte; Iker Ballarin Zufiaurre; Eneko Ugalde Iriondo |
Multi-reference palletizing device comprising first displacement means (11) for moving a load (2) in a direction transverse to a pallet (6) and second displacement means (12) for moving the load (2) in a direction longitudinal to the depth of the pallet (6), comprising a surface (50) on which the load (2) rests, the surface (50) being movable in the longitudinal direction (6). The first displacement means (11) comprise a surface (40) on which the load (2) rests, movable in the transverse direction and suitable for positioning the load (2) in a final transverse position. It further comprises fastening means (20, 21) for fastening the load (2) to stabilize the load (2) during the movement thereof from the final transverse position to the final position in the longitudinal direction. The fastening means (20, 21) comprise members configured to laterally fasten the load (2). |
173 |
Method and device for synchronized channeling of piece goods on a sorting conveyor |
US15490373 |
2017-04-18 |
US10087022B2 |
2018-10-02 |
Markus Vogelsang; Thomas Feldmann |
Method for synchronized channelling of piece goods onto a respective receptacle of a sorting conveyor, wherein the sorting conveyor has conveying units with in each case at least one receptacle for piece goods, which at a pre-determined conveying speed run past a synchronization conveyor system, and wherein the synchronization conveyor system has a synchronization conveyor and a channelling conveyor adjoining the synchronization conveyor, whereby, whenever a fault condition of a piece good on the synchronization conveyor system is recognized, the conveyor, synchronization or channelling conveyor, on which the piece good is located, is stopped and then the conveyor transporting the piece good is reversed, until the piece good is located in a pre-determined start position, and the synchronization conveyor and the channelling conveyor are moved forward, and sorting device to carry out the method. |
174 |
Apparatus and method for separating food product from conveyor belt |
US15691270 |
2017-08-30 |
US10046919B1 |
2018-08-14 |
Ralph A Stenvik; Bryan M Dade; Molly Moen |
A food production apparatus includes a conveyor belt and a wire scraper. The conveyor belt supports and transports a food product. The wire scraper includes a wire and a motor. The wire is located above and extends across the conveyor belt to temporarily separate the food product from the conveyor belt. Operation of the motor causes the wire to continuously cycle back and forth between 1) movement in a first direction above and across the conveyor belt and 2) movement in a second opposite direction above and across the conveyor belt. |
175 |
MULTI-DRIVE CONVEYOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING SAME |
US15890543 |
2018-02-07 |
US20180222682A1 |
2018-08-09 |
RANDY DIXON; C. TODD McDANIEL |
Disclosed is a conveyor system and method for advancing an item relative to a transport axis. The conveyor system includes a conveyor belt and a modular drive assembly having at least one drive module and at least one take-up module. Each drive module and each take-up module has a housing and a pulley assembly positioned within the housing. The respective positions of the housings of the at least one drive module and the at least one take-up module relative to the transport axis are selectively adjustable to modify the conveyor movement pathway. Moreover, the drive module can also include a drive pulley removal apparatus that is detachably secured within the housing for selective removal and replacement of a drive pulley. |
176 |
MOBILE CONFIGURABLE CONVEYOR COMPONENT |
US15463375 |
2017-03-20 |
US20180186577A1 |
2018-07-05 |
Mark Anthony Messina |
An inventory management system includes a first robotic device and a second robotic device. The first robotic device includes a first conveyor removably docked with a first head of the first robotic device. The second robotic device includes a second conveyor removably docked with a second head of the second robotic device. The first robotic device includes a first conveyor controller that communicates conveyor control signals to a second conveyor controller of the second robotic device. The conveyor control signals specify operations to activate the second motor of the second conveyor. |
177 |
BELT CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS |
US15901179 |
2018-02-21 |
US20180181032A1 |
2018-06-28 |
Hisashi Tsukijima |
A belt conveyance device has a configuration where one end of a rotation shaft of an inclinable steering roller that can move an endless belt in the width direction is supported by a first support member that is pivotable on a first pivot axis extending in a first axial line direction intersecting the rotation axis of the steering roller, and the other end of the rotation shaft of the steering roller is supported by a second support member that is pivotable on a second pivot axis that is generally parallel with the rotation axis of another suspending roller and also extends in a direction generally orthogonal to the first axial line. |
178 |
WEIGHING AND LABELING CONVEYOR HAVING ALTERNATING PRINTER USE |
US15728514 |
2017-10-10 |
US20180141696A1 |
2018-05-24 |
Helmut Pfau |
In an embodiment, the present invention provides a weighing and labeling conveyor for labeling articles, the articles including a first application point at a same point on the article, the conveyor including: a weighing conveyor for determining the weight of the articles; a transport apparatus for transporting the articles; and a labeling system for labeling the articles, the labeling system including three labelers, each labeler including an applicator, each applicator being suitable for applying a label to the first application point on an article while the article is being transported on the transport apparatus. Of the three labelers, during normal operation two labelers are in an active operating state and one labeler is in a passive operating state. During normal operation, the two labelers that are in the active operating state alternately label the first application point of successive articles. |
179 |
CONVEYING APPARATUS |
US15666615 |
2017-08-02 |
US20180038679A1 |
2018-02-08 |
Ralf PASKE; Klemens WEHRLE |
A conveying apparatus for transporting and for measuring an object includes a sensor having a light transmitter arranged at a conveyor belt and transmits first light beams in the direction of the conveyor belt. The sensor also has a light receiver that is arranged at the conveyor belt and that receives second light beams. The sensor further has an evaluation device for determining a dimension of the object by evaluating the received second light beams. The conveyor belt is an endless conveyor belt that is driven by at least one drive unit and that moves in a main conveying direction. At least one gap is provided in the endless conveyor belt free of interruption, through which gap the first light beams pass, and the first light beams form a scan plane in the at least one gap transversely to the main conveying direction of the conveyor belt. |
180 |
A METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION OF A TAG ON A MOVING ITEM |
US15542780 |
2015-01-14 |
US20180004992A1 |
2018-01-04 |
KLAUS HOLST JACOBSEN |
A method and system for identification of an item is provided, wherein the system includes a conveyor belt, a positioning device and a reader operable to receive at least one reading at at least one first antenna from at least one tag attached to the item, the first antenna being adapted to be arranged at a read point along the conveyor belt, wherein the positioning device is configured to retrieve a first position of the item at a first time instant before the first antenna and a second position of the item at a second time instant after the first antenna, the first and second time instants defining a time window, wherein the reader is configured to extract from each reading retrieved by the first antenna a measurement (6) of the phase of the signal transmitted by the tag (5) and perform a data processing of the phase measurements whereby the identification of the item (2) is accomplished. |