Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
198606000 | Plural sections each formed of or including a closed flexible loop | 20 |
20090266678 | CLEAN, HIGH DENSITY, SOFT-ACCUMULATING CONVEYOR - A conveyor for clean manufacturing applications. The conveyor comprises interconnected conveyor modules, each of which includes a conveyor belt segment (s). Each conveyor belt segment includes a pair of side rails that are in parallel or substantially in parallel to each other; a pair of autonomous, belt-drives for transporting work pieces or objects carrying work pieces from a proximal end of the belt segment to a distal end of the belt segment; a pair of driving wheels for turning the belt-drives, and a motor for directly or indirectly driving each of the pair of driving wheels. One of the driving wheels is mechanically or magnetically coupled to a magnetic hysteresis clutch that allows the driving wheels to disengage from the drive shaft of the motor if the inertia of the work piece does not permit synchronization of work piece with the drive speed of the motor during acceleration or deceleration. | 10-29-2009 |
20100147654 | PRODUCTION LINE - A production line used to assemble, test and pack some electronic components comprises an assembly line including a first side board and a first conveyor belt adjacent to the first side board, a testing line including a second side board and a second conveyor belt spaced away from the second side board, and a packing line including a third side board and a third conveyor belt adjacent to the third side board. The assembly line, the testing line, and the packing line are connected together. | 06-17-2010 |
20110100783 | Pallet Conveying Apparatus and Pallet Conveyance Method - Conveyance pitch is modified without modifying a pallet. A pallet conveying apparatus has: one, two or more pallets onto which a work can be loaded; a first and a second pallet rails on which the pallet can be movably loaded; first and second pallet feeding mechanisms that convey the pallet; and a pallet transfer mechanism that causes the pallet loaded on the first or second pallet rail to be transferred to the second or first pallet rail. The pallet transfer mechanism has a first movable portion that forms one part of the first pallet rail and that can be made continuous with the second pallet rail by being separated from another part; and a second movable portion that forms one part of the second pallet rail and that can be made continuous with the first pallet rail by being separated from another part. The first and second pallet feeding mechanisms have circulating endless first and second belts capable of engaging with the pallet that is loaded on each of the pallet rails. | 05-05-2011 |
20110174596 | SPIRAL BELT CONVEYOR - The spiral belt conveyor is a conveyor belt system for trans-porting articles vertically along a helical path. The spiral belt conveyor includes a platform and a central frame structure extending upwardly from the platform. Two idler rollers are mounted on the platform. A helical track having an inner portion and an outer portion is concentrically disposed around the shaft. The inner portion of the helical track has a first radius, and the outer portion thereof has a second radius greater than the first radius. An upper end of the inner portion of the helical track meets an upper end of the outer portion of the helical track adjacent an upper end of the central frame structure. A conveyor belt is mounted on the helical track and the pair of idler rollers. | 07-21-2011 |
20110303510 | CLEAN, HIGH DENSITY, SOFT-ACCUMULATING CONVEYOR - A conveyor segment for clean manufacturing applications. Each conveyor belt segment includes a pair of side rails parallel to each other; a pair of belt-drives for transporting work pieces from a first end to a second end of the belt segment; a pair of driving wheels for turning the belt-drives. The belt of each of the belt-drives is disposed in a serpentine path about plural, load-bearing upper idler wheels, around either a lower loop-back idler wheel or a driving wheel, and back up and around another pair of upper idler wheels. This sequence is repeated a selected number of times about additional pairs of upper idler wheels and lower loop-back idler wheels or a driving wheel before the belt is disposed beneath plural return idler wheels and back up to the starting point. Slipping between the belt and wheels is thus minimized, even in the absence of a work piece on the belt segment. | 12-15-2011 |
20110315516 | Belt For Transferring Plies Containing Metal Reinforcements - Device for transferring a reinforcing ply having the overall shape of a parallelogram and containing reinforcing threads with ferromagnetic properties and making a given angle b, smaller than 90°, with the longitudinal direction of the said reinforcing ply, comprising at least two transfer belts which overlap over a given length l and are separated by a given and small-sized distance, each of the belts comprising a magnetized region of trapezoidal shape, the bases of which are parallel to the longitudinal direction of the belts and are intended to hold the reinforcing ply firmly against the moving surface of the said transfer belts, characterized in that, in the region of overlap of the belts, the side of the trapezium connecting the two bases of the magnetized region of the first belt forms an angle a | 12-29-2011 |
20120247924 | DEVICE FOR DETECTING ITEMS - The invention relates to a device for detecting items with a transport device having two belt conveyors arranged one behind the other for transporting items in a transport direction, wherein a slot is configured between the belt conveyors perpendicular to the transport direction, and with a scanning unit for the contactless optical scanning through the slot of a contact surface of the items being transported on the transport device, where the slot is covered at least partially by a protective rail and is arranged spaced apart from the belt conveyors. | 10-04-2012 |
20130001048 | X-Ray Security Inspection Machine - The present specification discloses an X-ray security inspection machine that has a machine housing defining an X-ray tunnel for receiving an article to be inspected, a conveyor belt for conveying the article, two rollers for receiving and moving the conveyor belt, and a conveyor belt tracking device positioned along the path between the two rollers. The conveyor belt tracking device has a mounting bracket for mounting the conveyor belt tracking device to the inspection machine and a guide frame with an upper portion and a lower portion, where the upper portion and lower portion are spaced apart from each other and the conveyor belt passes through the space between the upper portion and lower portion. | 01-03-2013 |
20130062165 | APPARATUS FOR HANDLING AND ACCUMULATING ARTICLES IN A BUFFER AREA - Apparatus ( | 03-14-2013 |
20130168207 | DEVICE FOR CONVEYING BUNDLES FOR A STRAPPING MACHINE - A conveyance device | 07-04-2013 |
20130228418 | CONVEYING DEVICE FOR CONVEYING CONTAINERS - A conveying device for conveying containers in a conveying direction, the containers having bottoms, each of which has a cross-section characterized by a standing-bottom diameter or a smaller and larger standing-bottom diameter. The device has conveyor belts extending along a conveying direction forming a closed loop. The conveyor belts form, with upper-loop lengths thereof, a sub-region of a conveying surface, the upper-loop lengths being disposed adjacent to each other in a rows offset in an axial direction. The containers stand on the upper-loop lengths on their bottoms. The conveyor belts have a width that, for containers having a circular cross-section, is smaller than half the standing-bottom diameter of the smallest container diameter to be conveyed, and, for containers having a non-circular cross-section, is smaller than half a smaller standing-bottom diameter of a smallest container diameter to be conveyed. | 09-05-2013 |
20140048388 | CONVEYOR SYSTEM, CONVEYOR APPARATUS AND TROUGHED PULLEY - In one example embodiment, a conveyor apparatus includes a belt, a drive pulley, a troughed pulley, and a motor configured to operate with the belt, the drive pulley and the troughed pulley to drive the belt. | 02-20-2014 |
20140069776 | BELT CONVEYOR SYSTEM, ROLLER-ENGAGEMENT MECHANISM, AND RELATED METHOD - A conveyor system having a roller-engagement mechanism and a method for conveying articles. The conveyor system includes an infeed conveyor feeding articles to a conveyor belt advancing in a direction of belt travel. The conveyor belt comprises obliquely rotatable rollers—single rollers or stacked sets of rollers—selectively activated by the roller-engagement mechanism. The roller-engagement mechanism has a rack supporting a plurality of flat belts. The flat belts advance in the direction of travel of the conveyor belt. The rack is movable between a first position in which the flat belts advancing with the conveyor belt contact the belt rollers to inhibit their rotation and carry articles atop the belt in the direction of belt travel and a second position in which the flat belts are out of contact with the belt rollers. In the second position, the roller-engagement mechanism can allow the belt rollers to rotate freely or can include a parallel set of elongated rollers between the flat belts put into rolling contact with the belt rollers to rotate them as the conveyor belt advances in the direction of belt travel. | 03-13-2014 |
20140076692 | TRANSFER ARRANGEMENT FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES - The invention relates to a transfer arrangement ( | 03-20-2014 |
20160114979 | DEFLECTION DEVICE FOR A BELT CONVEYOR COMPRISING AN ENDLESS CONVEYOR BELT - A deflection device for a belt conveyor includes an endless conveyor belt for the deflection of the conveyor belt between a first stretch section and a second stretch section running transversely thereto. The deflection device includes at least one turning device and a second turning device for the conveyor belt. The first and second turning devices are arranged in a region of a bottom strand of the conveyor belt and wherein each turning device includes at least one vertical deflection roller for the conveyor belt, in order to turn the conveyor belt from a horizontal plane into a vertical plane. | 04-28-2016 |
198607000 | With elevating or lowering section | 5 |
20090288931 | VERTICAL CARRYING APPARATUS - An elevation conveyor | 11-26-2009 |
20100140054 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BUFFERING PRODUCTS - An apparatus for buffering products comprises at least three buffer conveyors ( | 06-10-2010 |
20110114449 | CONVEYOR-TO-CONVEYOR TRANSFER MECHANISM - A conveyor-to-convey transfer mechanism is provided, and in some embodiments comprises a transfer conveyor extending between first and second conveyors for receiving items from the first conveyor and for dispatching the items to the second conveyor. In some embodiments, movement of items to the transfer conveyor comprises a convergence of a portion of the first conveyor with respect to the transfer conveyor and/or movement of items from the transfer conveyor comprises a divergence of a portion of the second conveyor with respect to the transfer conveyor. The convergence and/or divergence can include vertical change in the first, second and/or transfer conveyors, and can occur by supporting one portion of a bracket carrying an item upon at least one of the first and second conveyors, and supporting another portion of the bracket carrying the item upon the transfer conveyor. | 05-19-2011 |
20110180373 | BUFFER CONVEYOR FOR CONVEYING AND BUFFERING PRODUCTS - A buffer conveyor for conveying and buffering products comprises a first and a second conveyor, which move at least substantially parallel to each other in helical paths about a common vertical axis, albeit in opposite directions. | 07-28-2011 |
20140311866 | SLAT CONVEYOR APPARATUS - To provide a slat conveyor apparatus in which course change path parts are moved without inverting the upper and lower sides of slats to eliminate the need for an expensive pitting work, wherein the slats can be held horizontally by a simplified configuration on the course change path parts at front and back ends in the direction of conveyance, whereby the length of the working process does not become shorter, and a required inverting action can be made by a simplified configuration. | 10-23-2014 |