61 |
Horizontal flat destacker |
US517122 |
1983-07-25 |
US4537208A |
1985-08-27 |
Henry Y. Kuhl |
A device is disclosed for destacking individual flats from a horizontally extending stack thereof for processing as well as a device for restacking of the processed flats. Biasing devices are disclosed for maintaining the integrity of the horizontally extending stacks of flats prior to processing such as washing and subsequent to such processing. A vacuum pick-up device is movable from the supply stack to a conveyor traveling through the processing station. A flat removal device which is cam operated is cyclically movable from a removal position to a restacking position and vice versa. Resilient retaining members such as spring biased doors and flexible plastic and steel members are included for retaining the uppermost flats of the horizontally extending supply stack and the lowermost flats of the horizontally extending restacked flats. |
62 |
Transfer system |
US278254 |
1981-06-29 |
US4406572A |
1983-09-27 |
DeWayne E. Karcher |
A system for transferring substantially identical fixtures, on each of which is mounted a workpiece, from a stack of said fixtures in a transferor magazine to a transferee magazine. Each of the magazines has substantially planar walls defining a prismatic interior space having a substantially rectangular cross-section and open top and bottom, or end, faces. The walls of the magazine are provided with spring catches for retaining in the storage space fixtures placed therein, with the catches defining that portion of the interior of the magazine constituting a fixture storage space. The transferor magazine is mounted on a transferor base, which is provided with a transferor station and apparatus for placing the catches of the transferor base in a condition so that fixtures in the storage space can descend into the transferor station. The transferee magazine is mounted on a transferee base which is provided with a transferee station. The transferee base is provided with a fixture loader for inserting a fixture positioned in the transferee station into the storage space of the transferee magazine. Apparatus is provided for moving fixtures in sequence from the transferor station to the transferee station. Work stations can be provided between the transferor base and the transferee base where manufacturing and testing operations can be conducted on the workpiece carried by each fixture. |
63 |
Apparatus for exposing a series of plates to radiation |
US119281 |
1980-02-07 |
US4300052A |
1981-11-10 |
Clive S. Thawley; Kenneth Graham; Austin Brittain |
Apparatus for exposing a series of plates to radiation. A stack of plates 53 to be processed are placed on the surface of a first table 7 located adjacent to a second table 8. Radiation exposure means 31 above both tables are switched on and after a time equal to half the required exposure time for a single plate a carriage 45 moves to slide the top plate of the stack from the first table 7 to the second table 8, deflecting a switch operating member 52 against a biasing force. This member operates a switch causing a motor 27 through suitable transmission systems to raise the first table 7 and lower the second table 8 by equal distances until the switch operating member 52 returns to its original position under the biasing force. After a further period equal to half the required exposure time for a single plate the next plate is transferred from the first table 7 to the second table 8 and the process is continued automatically until all plates have been exposed, half the exposure having occurred while supported on the first table and half while on the second table. |
64 |
Cooling or freezing apparatus |
US821345 |
1977-08-03 |
US4143758A |
1979-03-13 |
Hans Gram |
A cooling or freezing apparatus comprising a housing containing a transport for moving, in a vertical direction, carriers for the goods to be cooled or frozen in the apparatus the carriers arranged one above the other, wherein the transport being arranged at the bottom of the housing and comprising two transport devices, each of which consists of a plurality of mutually parallel support rails arranged as generatrices of an imaginary cylinder and being rotatable about the axis of the cylinder, the two transport devices being arranged along the sides of the housing opposite each other and being connected to a drive for rotating the oppositely arranged transport devices about the axis thereof in mutually opposite directions, each of the carriers for the goods being provided with a support along the sides of the carriers, the height of the support being less than the spacing between two adjacent support rails of a transport device. |
65 |
Storage system |
US559022 |
1975-03-17 |
US3960280A |
1976-06-01 |
Paul Stolzer |
A storage systems for storing and retrieving rod-shaped material, includes a plurality of pallets for accommodating the material, each pallet has a material-supporting bottom inclined transversely to the length dimension of the pallet; a device for storing the pallets; a withdrawal apparatus for retrieving a selected one of the pallets from the storing device; a positioning device in the withdrawal apparatus for adjusting the longitudinal and transverse position of the pallet and for lifting the pallet against stops in the withdrawal apparatus; an apparatus for lifting the material out of, and lowering it into a pallet disposed in the withdrawal apparatus. The apparatus has at least two lifters arranged serially with respect to the length of the pallet disposed in the withdrawal apparatus. The lifters are moved in unison vertically through apertures provided in the bottom of the pallet for engaging and moving the material with respect to the pallet. There are further provided abutments projecting from a side of the pallet inwardly thereof for cooperating with the lifters to arrest their upward motion when the lifted material has reached, above the pallet, a predetermined position from which it is displaceable transversely to the length of the pallet onto a conveyor leading to a cutting machine. At the upper end of each lifter there is attached a rocker cooperating with an associated abutment and arranged for a swinging motion about an axis extending parallel to the length of the pallet disposed in the withdrawal apparatus. The axis is situated eccentrically with respect to the width of the pallet, in the direction of the higher-lying side of the pallet bottom. |
66 |
Sample cup holder |
US40667573 |
1973-10-15 |
US3897216A |
1975-07-29 |
JONES ALAN RICHARDSON |
The sample cup holder is formed from a generally rectangular block of non-metallic material and has sample cup receiving pockets therein. Each of the pockets has a generally rectangular cross-section with the long sides of each pocket extending generally transversely of the block. An opaque strip of magnetizable metal extends along one side of the block so that the holder can be magnetically held in a desired position. The metal strip also has machine readable indicia in the form of holes therethrough, there being a different indicia for each sample-cup receiving pocket. A plurality of slots extend through the block transversely of the block, each slot being located between two pockets and extending to a portion of the metal strip having indicia therethrough so that the slots provide light passageways permitting the indicia easily to be read when the holder is passed between a source of illumination and a photoresponsive device. The slots are sized and arranged so that selected ones of the slots define recesses for receiving holder engaging means on a transporting conveyor.
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67 |
Conveying and stacking system for articles |
US33897173 |
1973-03-07 |
US3865258A |
1975-02-11 |
MULLER FRIEDHELM |
A conveying system has a conveyor which conveys articles in a predetermined path, and laterally of this conveyor there is arranged a platform which can be raised to and lowered from the level of the conveyor. Extending between the platform and the conveyor is an assembly station where articles being conveyed are assembled during transfer between the conveyor and the platform, or vice versa, and an arrangement is provided which engages the articles and pushes them off and on the assembly station, as the case may be.
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68 |
Changer apparatus |
US1338570 |
1970-02-24 |
US3805970A |
1974-04-23 |
EASH G |
An improved apparatus for selectively moving an object (e.g., a photographic slide or a magnetic tape cartridge) from one end of a stack of such objects in a storage chamber to a using station (e.g., viewing or playback station), and thereafter replacing the object at the opposite end of the stack in the storage chamber. The apparatus includes a housing having an object storage chamber, an object using chamber, a pair of inclined ramps extending between the storage chamber and the using chamber, and an object changer mechanism slideably mounted in the housing. The changer mechanism includes a slide plate having a pair of fingers on the forward end thereof for engaging the forward edge of an object at one end of the stack in the storage chamber and moving that object past the ramps to the object using station. A pusher member is mounted on the slide plate for pushing the object in the using chamber along the ramps to the opposite end of the stack after the object has been used (e.g., viewed or played). The ramps are pivotably mounted in the housing to permit the ends thereof to swing out of the way of an object being moved from the storage chamber to the using station. In the preferred embodiments, wherein the objects are stored in vertical stacks, lifter arms, slideably mounted in the pusher members, are provided for engaging the rear edges of the objects being pushed up the ramps to maintain the objects in generally horizontal attitudes.
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69 |
Differential encoding with lookahead feature |
US3720875D |
1971-11-03 |
US3720875A |
1973-03-13 |
WILL P; FRANASZEK P; GROSSMAN D |
Analog input information is compacted by a differential encoding process that anticipates abrupt transitions in signal levels and initiates compensatory action in time to prevent the encoded representations of such transitions from being shifted out of phase due to slope overload. Digitized analog signal representations which are to be encoded are first passed through a shift register having L stages, the number L signifying the amount of ''''lookahead'''', i.e., the number of sampled analog elements that are to be analyzed as a group prior to encoding. The contents of the shift register at any instant will furnish the ''''history'''' of variations in the respective levels of the first L signal elements which currently await encoding. By a judicious interpretation of this history, the system is able to select an optimal encoded bit pattern which would most nearly represent in compact digital code form the apparent trend of these variations, and the leading bit or bits of this pattern will be fed out by the encoder. The optimal bit pattern is continually updated as the makeup of the lookahead code group changes. By anticipating rapid changes of level, the phase shift of elements having highly contrasting levels is avoided.
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70 |
Method of stacking and destacking barrels |
US3705657D |
1971-03-25 |
US3705657A |
1972-12-12 |
ARNEMANN GERHARD |
A method and an apparatus for stacking and destacking cylindrical as well as bulgy barrels which allow barrels to be stacked in several rows one on top of the other and to remove the rows of barrels one row after the other again. The apparatus includes a support frame with a storage bay for receiving the barrels. The storage bay includes a bottom feed and discharge opening through which several barrels which have been aligned in a row on a conveyor may be introduced into the bay. Means are provided for feeding the barrels to the feed and discharge opening, for aligning the barrels in a predetermined position, for lifting the barrels into the storage bay and for retaining the barrels within the bay.
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71 |
Apparatus for stacking and/or destacking articles |
US3583579D |
1969-01-07 |
US3583579A |
1971-06-08 |
TRIGGS HENRY FRANCIS; LAWTON FRANK BERT |
Apparatus for stacking and/or destacking articles of the type indicated, which includes means for lifting an article, and any articles supported upon it, to a height greater than that of the article, and means, operative upon subsequent lowering of the lifting means, for supporting all the lifted articles, or all of them except the lowermost one, at a height above the lowered position of the lifting means which is greater than the height of one article.
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72 |
Material handling system |
US3523617D |
1969-01-02 |
US3523617A |
1970-08-11 |
RAYNOR WARREN S; BURGESS KEITH A |
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73 |
Material handling system |
US3502231D |
1969-01-02 |
US3502231A |
1970-03-24 |
RAYNOR WARREN S; BURGESS KEITH A |
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74 |
Material handling system |
US3448867D |
1964-12-11 |
US3448867A |
1969-06-10 |
RAYNOR WARREN S; BURGESS KEITH A |
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75 |
Pallet transfer mechanisms |
US42146864 |
1964-12-28 |
US3338430A |
1967-08-29 |
SAMUEL ROBERTS BARRY; DUNCAN SHELDON FRANCIS |
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76 |
Article handling device |
US52584755 |
1955-08-02 |
US2744372A |
1956-05-08 |
CLEAVELAND BURTON L; ENGLERT RALPH A; LARSON GILBERT A |
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77 |
APPARATUS TO OVERTURN SHEETS AND/OR PANELS |
US15745888 |
2016-07-19 |
US20180208422A1 |
2018-07-26 |
GIUSEPPE GALLUCCI |
In an apparatus for overturning sheets and/or panels, a bearing structure carries a loading plane, and roto-translation means vertically translate the loading plane and rotate the same with respect to an axis. A grab device carried by the loading plane serves to transfer a sheet and/or panel from a supply station, when stopped upstream of the apparatus, on an operating surface. A command and control unit in alternatively activating and de-activating the roto-translation means, the stabilization and transfer and the grab device, defines for the loading plane a collection position, an overturning position and an unloading position of a sheet and/or panel to be overturned by the supply station placed upstream of the apparatus, over an unloading station downstream of the apparatus. |
78 |
Storage device for stackable containers |
US14913738 |
2014-08-19 |
US09751701B2 |
2017-09-05 |
Roland Fritzsche; Maik Wesemeier |
A storage device for stackable containers for conveying items, in particular items of luggage in a sorting conveyor system in an airport, includes a lifting conveyor with a container receiving device which can be guided between upper and lower conveying planes for storing at least one container. A conveyor is disposed in the upper conveyor plane for guiding storage containers to a transfer position and a discharge conveyor is disposed in the upper conveyor plane for discharging stored containers from a transfer position. A moving device moves a container from the transfer position to the empty container receiving device or to a container placed on the uppermost part of the container receiving device and moves the most upper container placed on the container receiving device to the transfer position. As a result, empty containers can be received, housed and guided back in a simple and cost effective manner. |
79 |
APPARATUS INCLUDING CLAMP ASSEMBLY AND PALLET-RECEIVING ASSEMBLY |
US15421728 |
2017-02-01 |
US20170166410A1 |
2017-06-15 |
Paul REDMAN |
An apparatus includes a clamp assembly having a clamping zone configured to circumscribe, at least in part, a pallet load received, at least in part, in the clamping zone. The apparatus also includes a pallet receiving assembly having a pallet-receiving zone configured to receive, at least in part, a pallet supporting the pallet load, and, the pallet-receiving zone having a vertical height dimensioned marginally higher than the vertical height of the pallet. |
80 |
Vehicle and Method for Carrying Out Storage Actions with Storage Units |
US15038279 |
2014-11-20 |
US20170121109A1 |
2017-05-04 |
Jan BEHLING |
A stack operating vehicle for storage and retrieval storage units. One embodiment of the stack operating vehicle comprises a first bearing device with a first bearing base and a first holding device for handling at least one storage unit; a second bearing device with a second bearing base and a second holding device for handling at least one storage unit. The second holding device is movably supported by a guiding device along a horizontal direction; a vertical guide arrangement at which the first bearing base and the second bearing base are respectively guided on an adjustment path along the vertical direction which are formed such that the first bearing base and the second bearing base overlap one another over their entire adjustment paths in the vertical direction. The disclosure also relates to a method for execution of storage orders with storage units with such a stack operating vehicle. |