Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
198418100 | Having items discharged from plural distinct outlets into group | 14 |
20100025189 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UNIFYING IMBRICATED FLOWS - A method and a device are provided for combining overlapping flows (S | 02-04-2010 |
20130068589 | METHODS FOR TRANSFERRING ITEMS - A method of transferring items comprises feeding items toward a carrier mechanism from one or more input streams and engaging void areas in the items with one or more rods extending from the carrier mechanism. The method further comprises manipulating the carrier mechanism relative to the one or more input streams into a position substantially aligned with one or more output streams and feeding the items to the one or more output streams. The configuration of items in each input stream is different than the configuration of items in each output stream. | 03-21-2013 |
20130228416 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING PACKAGINGS THAT ARE NOT FREELY STACKABLE, IN PARTICULAR STICKPACKS, TO A TRANSPORT CONTAINER - An apparatus is disclosed for transporting packagings from a packaging apparatus having two dropping channels to a transport container. A first transport element has compartments, the centre-to-centre distance of which corresponds to a centre-to-centre distance of the dropping channels, receives the packagings from the packaging producing apparatus. A second transport element has compartments for transporting the packagings to the transport container, wherein the centre-to-centre distance of the compartments of the second transport element corresponds to half of the centre-to-centre distance of the dropping channels. The apparatus has a transfer unit for transferring the packaging from the first transport element to the second transport element, and to which a positioning device is assigned for positioning the compartments of the first transport element relative to the compartments of the second transport element. | 09-05-2013 |
20140054133 | APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING AND SELECTIVELY DISCHARGING PRODUCTS - The present invention relates to a method of conveying and selectively discharging food products by providing a feeding system. The feeding system ( | 02-27-2014 |
20140216896 | DYNAMIC BUFFER FOR A CONTINUOUS ENVELOPE STUFFING SYSTEM - A dynamic buffer suitable for supplying piles from a cutting station to a continuous stuffing system has two storage levels, upper and lower, each having parking cells arranged in series for receiving, retaining and dispensing the piles. Each cell comprises two consecutive roller-counter-roller pairs, spaced by a distance smaller than a longitudinal extension of the piles, motorized in synchrony, suitable for adheringly gripping and drawing a pile; sensor means designed to detect whether each parking cell is free or occupied by a pile. Electronic managing and command means receives signals provided by the sensor means and pilots the flow of piles in inlet to the storage levels, transfers the piles to successive cells and enables outlet of the piles from the storage level, the electronic means acting in phase relation with the cutting station and the stuffing system, such that the supply of the piles thereto has a cadence proportional to the operating velocity thereof. | 08-07-2014 |
20140231218 | APPARATUS FOR CHANGING AN ADVANCEMENT DIRECTION OF PILES OF INSERTS TO BE STUFFED IN ENVELOPES - An apparatus for changing, in an envelope stuffing machine, an initial advancement direction of piles made up of inserts to be put in envelopes comprises at least a thrust device for pushing a pile in a thrust direction perpendicular or oblique with respect to an initial advancement direction, and at least a connecting device comprising drawing means for transporting piles along a transport pathway at a terminal end of which there is an outlet of the connecting device, the drawing means receiving piles which are supplied in initial advancement direction, the drawing means being curved so that the transport pathway comprises at least an arced tract with a center of curvature on a main axis perpendicular to the initial advancement direction, whereby, upon crossing the arced tract, the piles exhibit an intermediate advancement direction oblique or transverse to the initial advancement direction; the thrust device being downstream of the connecting device so as to receive piles which exit from the connecting device. | 08-21-2014 |
20160145052 | Methods for Transferring Items - A method of transferring items, such as rolled absorbent product. The method includes the steps of feeding one or more input streams of items toward a turret having a longitudinal axis and arms for engaging the items, the arms being rotatable about the longitudinal axis. The arms can engage at least one of the items from at least one of the one or more input streams and rotate away from the input streams and into a position aligned with one or more output streams. The number of input streams can be different than the number of output streams. The items can be fed onto the one or more output streams. | 05-26-2016 |
198418200 | With outlets longitudinally spaced along path of progressively formed group | 5 |
20100200363 | SYSTEM FOR COMBINING GROUPS OF FLAT OBJECTS - A system for combining groups of flat objects includes a matrix-like arrangement of a plurality of group conveyors and a plurality of feed conveyors disposed above the group conveyors, wherein all conveyors are operated continuously and the operation of all group conveyors and all feed conveyors is rigidly coupled. At feed points, which are regions in which a feed conveyor crosses over a group conveyor, group conveyors and feed conveyors are rectified. Both the group conveyors and the feed conveyors can be returned, and the steps for receiving objects by the feed conveyors, for transferring the objects to the group conveyors, and for transferring groups to a removing conveyor or further processing station are strictly synchronized and are selectively performed or suppressed in a controlled manner. | 08-12-2010 |
198418300 | Superposes items within group | 4 |
20100230238 | Machine and method for forming groups of products ordered in superposed layers - There is described a machine for forming groups of ordered products, each group including products disposed according to superposed layers. The machine includes a succession of conveyors aligned according to a principal direction of alignment, with a feed conveyor and a delivery conveyor. The feed conveyor receives single layers of products aligned with and spaced from one another; and the conveyors are disposed and controlled so as to distribute layers of products on a predetermined number of levels at different heights, and to unload onto the delivery conveyor a predetermined number of layers, superposed on one another, equal to the predetermined number of the levels at different heights. | 09-16-2010 |
20120103758 | SYSTEM FOR BATCHING AND EXPELLING STACKS CONSISTING OF A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF CLIPS OF DISPOSABLE WIPES FROM A MAIN PRODUCTION LINE - Improved system for batching and expelling first and second stacks ( | 05-03-2012 |
20130105277 | Drug Sorting Device | 05-02-2013 |
20150114797 | A METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR CREATING A PRODUCT STREAM OF PRODUCT UNITS IN A PREDEFINED SEQUENCE - A method and a device for creating a product stream of product units in a predefined sequence. The device includes a first conveying device with a grouping stretch for creating a cycled product stream of product units from fed products, in a predefined sequence. The device also includes a conveying-away device for conveying away the product units in the predefined sequence in a cycled product stream. The device further includes a bridging device that is designed such that product units amid the bridging of a conveying stretch section of the conveying-away device can be fed to the conveying-away device in a temporally successive manner and thus be sorted into the predefined sequence of product units. | 04-30-2015 |
198418400 | With vertically aligned outlets discharging in the same direction and superposing items | 2 |
20100230239 | MOVEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION ASSEMBLY, PARTICULARLY FOR PRODUCTS TO BE PACKAGED - A movement and distribution assembly, particularly for products to be packaged, comprising elements for moving products to be wrapped by means of a film, along a feed line of an apparatus that is functionally associated with a dispenser of the film for wrapping the products. At least the end portion of the feed line is constituted by at least two end parts that are substantially functionally parallel and lead to respective compartments of the apparatus for providing the final configuration of the wrapping of the products. Each of the end parts comprises at least one launcher for organizing the flow of products according to preset sequences, on each of the end parts. | 09-16-2010 |
20150114798 | ORDER SORTING SYSTEM WITH SELECTIVE DOCUMENT INSERTION - An order sorting system for sorting and assembling a batch of purchaser orders, comprises a plurality of stationary dispensable item dispensers for dispensing dispensable items with on-demand printed literature and a dispensable items conveyor for conveying the dispensable items to a lower level of a sorting station. A tote conveyor conveys a plurality of purchased articles to the upper level of the sorting station. Stationary sorting bins are disposed along an upper level of the sorting station in alignment with the dispensable items conveyor. The purchased articles are moved onto the dispensable items conveyor, either manually or preferably the sorting bins each have a releasable bottom for dropping contents of the sorting bins onto the dispensable items conveyor. | 04-30-2015 |