| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 053235000 | DEPOSITING ARTICLES AND ARRANGING MATERIAL IN PREFORMED RECEPTACLES | 82 |
| 20090056274 | RESEALABLE DISPLAY PACKAGE - An apparatus | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090266029 | AUTOMATIC TABLET PACKING APPARATUS HAVING SLIDING RACK - Disclosed is an automatic tablet packing apparatus having sliding racks, wherein tablets received in a plurality of tablet cassettes are successively packed on a per dose basis based on a medical prescription. Each of the sliding racks includes a pair of left and right partition walls, a tablet discharge passage to guide the tablets discharged from the tablet cassettes being defined by facing inner surfaces of the left and right partition walls. Cassette pedestals are attached to outer surfaces of the left and right partition walls and in turn, the tablet cassettes are detachably arranged on the cassette pedestals. The left and right partition walls are able to be individually pulled out from a body of the apparatus. As the left or right partition wall is pulled out, the tablet discharge passage is revealed to the outside thus enabling easy cleaning thereof. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090308024 | TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND BOXING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A transport apparatus for transporting an article, which is a bag formed from a flexible packaging material, includes a first transport part and a second transport part. The first transport part is configured and arranged to transport the article in a predetermined transport direction with the article being supported from below by a transport surface of the first transport part. The second transport part is configured and arranged to transport the article in the predetermined transport direction while exerting a downward force on a portion of an upper surface of the article being transported by the first transport part. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100058712 | FEEDER DEVICE STAND, IN PARTICULAR FOR PACKAGING LINES - A feeder device stand ( | 03-11-2010 |
| 20110113726 | PADDING MACHINE FOR PACKAGING SUBSTANTIAL PRODUCTS, PARTICULARLY CUCUMBERS AND THE LIKE - A padding machine ( | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110203224 | INSERTER CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS - An inserter apparatus for inserting an item into a holder. The inserter apparatus includes a deck, a mover, an opening system, and a controller. The deck can slidably support the holder from a first location to an item loading location. The mover can move the holder along the deck, wherein the mover includes a drive motor, a conveyor connected to the drive motor, and a gripper connected to the conveyor. The drive motor is a servo motor. The opening system is at the item loading location for opening the holder and inserting the item into the holder. The controller is connected to the servo motor. The controller is adapted to vary speed of the servo motor to thereby vary speed of the conveyor and the holder along the deck. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110209440 | BAG PACKAGING CAROUSEL HAVING INTERMITTENT VERTICAL SPINDLES - Bag packaging machine comprising an intermittent carousel having vertical spindles (M) fastened to the horizontal carousel (G) and facing upwards allowing the realization of bags (S) with the opening facing downwards and the bottom facing upwards and collecting means adapted to collect the bags (S) from the spindles (M) and to reverse them so as to place them with the opening facing upwards and the bottom facing downwards so as to be able to fill them. For example, the collecting means may comprise a belt (N) in continuous transit, to which holding means (V), such as for instance suction cups, are connected. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110239589 | THE PACKING INSTRUMENT FOR A BOOKBINDING SPRING - A packing device of a bookbingind spring is disclosed, which comprises a supply frame on which a spring supplied in series from a spring producing device is provided and supplied in series as well; a cover member supply part which is formed of a supply roll on which a cover member having a certain with and made of a synthetic resin material is wound and rotates, and a direction change roll for allowing a cover member supplied from the supply roll to be supplied on an upper side of the spring, with the spring being placed on an upper side of the supply frame and being supplied; a forming guide of which one end is extended at a tapered angle in a conical shape, while surrounding an upper surface of the cover member, as being closer to an end of the supply frame, and the other end surrounds the spring excluding the portion in which both sides of the cover member are overlapped in the lower side of the same; a pair of pressing rollers for pressing and bonding the portions in which both sides of the cover member are overlapped by means of the forming guide; and at least one driving roller for transferring the spring packed by means of the bonding part with the helps of the pressing roller. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110302882 | SYSTEM FOR PACKING PRODUCTS - A system for vertically packing of products into a container, with a predetermined number of products which are fed singly to the system. Said system includes: a shingling unit ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120011808 | ITEM LOADING APPARATUS - A system is disclosed for loading at least one item into each of a plurality of containers. The system includes a plurality of buckets, each configured for supporting at least one container. The system also has a conveyor interconnected to each of the buckets. The conveyor has a conveyor axis of rotation that is oriented at an acute conveyor angle to a horizontal plane. The buckets are oriented relative to the conveyor axis of rotation by a wedge angle. The buckets move in series around the axis of rotation from a first path portion to a second path portion. An inner surface of the container is oriented generally in or parallel to the horizontal plane when the buckets are moved along the first path portion and the inner surface is oriented at an angle to the horizontal plane that is of an amount that is twice the wedge angle when the buckets are moved along the second path portion. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120023866 | PACKAGING INSTALLATION FOR BATCHES OF PRODUCTS - The installation comprises an infeed conveyor ( | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120023867 | MACHINE FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES INSIDE CONTAINERS | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120096808 | MACHINE FOR PACKAGING ARTICLES INTO CARTONS - A packaging machine ( | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120102878 | MOSAIC TESSERAE OR TILES FEEDING DEVICE AND MACHINE USING SAID DEVICE - The orienting device ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120159900 | APPARATUS FOR LAYING SLICED FOODS INTO CONTAINERS - An apparatus for laying sliced foods ( | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120186192 | MULTILEVEL VERTICAL CONVEYOR PLATFORM GUIDES - A multilevel vertical conveyor system for transporting uncontained case units to and from a multilevel storage structure having an array of vertically stacked storage levels is provided and includes a frame having platform guide members, a drive member connected to the frame, and support platforms coupled to the drive member. The drive member is configured to move the support platforms relative to the frame in a substantially continuous vertical loop, each of the support platforms being configured to support multiple uncontained case units where each of the multiple uncontained case units is disposed at a respective predetermined area of a respective support platform, the support platforms have support members that are guided by guide members substantially throughout a path of the substantially continuous vertical loop, where the support members are guided in three point contact by the guide members substantially throughout the path. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120204514 | PACKAGING MACHINE - A packaging machine includes a pair of brushes that hold a tubular film (Fm) therebetween while rotating and impeding the advancement of packaged articles. Consequently, an elongated stream of packaged articles aggregate at the leading end of the pair of brushes. When the pair of brushes release the tubular film, the packaged articles are again conveyed in a more closely aggregated state than the aggregated state thereof when the advancement of the packaged articles was temporarily impeded. The rotational axis of each brush is also biased a predetermined distance from the central axis of a core thereof. Since the brushes swing in conjunction with the rotation thereof, small vibrations and large swings cause the gaps between packaged articles to be readily filled and reduce the space occupied by the packaged articles. As a result, the bag size can be reduced. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20130180207 | Apparatus For Inserting Articles Internally Of Boxes - An apparatus for inserting articles into boxes has a frame positionable by a side of a first conveyor, a first thrust plat, a first abutting blade, and a first hinged member. The apparatus has second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth hinged members. First and second linear motors are borne by the fifth hinged member. A first rod fixed to the first thrust plate is moved by the first linear motor a horizontal and perpendicular direction. A second rod fixed to the first abutting blade is moved by the second linear motor in a horizontal and perpendicular direction. The first hinged member and the third hinged member are rotated to move the fifth hinged member in synchrony with the first conveyor and with a second conveyor ( | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130186042 | Apparatus For Inserting Articles Internally Of Boxes - An article inserting apparatus has a first thrust plate and a first abutting blade. A first straight guide is fixed to the frame. A first member has a second straight guide. A first linear motor moves a first rod bearing the first thrust plate in an alternating motion, with a second member slidable along the second straight guide. A second linear motor moves a second rod with the first abutting blade in an alternating motion. The apparatus has a third hinged member, a fourth hinged member, a fifth hinged member, and a sixth hinged member. The third and fifth hinged members rotate to move the first member and the second member in synchrony with the first conveyor and the second conveyor, the first thrust plate and the first abutting blade driven by the first and second linear motors to insert an article into a box. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130239517 | ARRANGEMENT FOR MANUFACTURING OF PORTION PACKETS - An arrangement for manufacturing of portion packets of a product for oral use, includes a forming arrangement configured to form portion packets of a bulk material. The arrangement includes a device for placing the portion packets into a container, wherein the device includes a portion packet transporting unit and a portion packet positioning unit. The transporting unit is configured to transport individual portion packets to the positioning unit, and the positioning unit is configured to position the portion packets in a certain pattern during operation of the device. The transporting unit includes a product channel for transporting the portion packets, the product channel having an inlet and an outlet, the transporting unit further including a gas channel for connection to a source of pressurized gas, the gas channel arranged to, when connected to the source, guide pressurized gas into the product channel in a direction towards the product channel outlet. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130247511 | AUTOMATED LOADER - A ramming mechanism to move material from one location to another is described. The ramming mechanism comprises a belt assembly comprising a belt driven over a plurality of pulleys, a ram carriage connected to the belt, and a ram cylinder mounted on the ram carriage. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130247512 | AUTOMATED LOADER WITH CONE HORN - An improved automated loader has a cone horn to prevent or minimize contact between the chicken and the bag. The loader has a loading tube and the tube has a cone horn comprising a plurality of plates configured to form a cone, each one of the plurality of plates attached to the proximal end of the loading tube by a spring-loaded hinge, each hinge biased radially inward. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130283730 | BAGGING ASSEMBLY - A bagging assembly for bagging bales of fibrous material is disclosed. The bagging assembly incorporates a chute defining a channel for receiving a bale, which is pushed there between by a stuffing assembly. Aspects of the bagging assembly include raising a bale using a bale elevator to a higher elevation position so that the bale could be stuffed by the stuffing assembly and using a bag retrieving mechanism for retrieving a bag from a bag location for use in bagging the bale. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20140075883 | TROLLEY APPARATUS FOR UNLOADING AND SUPPORTING HEAVY COILS OF WOUND FILAMENT MATERIAL FROM A WINDING MACHINE TO A PACKAGING TABLE - A trolley for moving heavy objects such as wire coils from a machine to a container at a packaging table is provided. The trolley includes spring-loaded spaced arms movably mounted for vertical height adjustment so that the arms are just below the coil when it is on the machine and rotational movement to separate the spaced arms with the spaced arms retaining the heavy object during movement of the trolley apparatus, and locking arms engaging the spaced arms during movement of the trolley apparatus to prevent separation thereof. The spring-loaded arms permit the heavy object to be manually pushed downward therebetween, thereby forcing the arms apart enabling the object to fall from the trolley into a container on a packaging table. The table includes a platform for supporting the container, a motor for raising/lowering the platform, and a mechanism for retaining the container and aiding its alignment with the coil. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140150376 | Method and Apparatus for Sorting, Counting and Packaging Pharmaceutical Drugs and Other Objects - A method and apparatus is provided for handling loose objects having different physical characteristics, such as pharmaceutical drugs including, without limitation, oral solids in the form of pills, tablets, capsules and the like. Loose objects are loaded into individual canisters. A tooling assembly, comprising at least one canister drive mechanism, imaging sensor and package handler is mounted to a gantry assembly, can be translated through the cabinet via the gantry assembly to engage with particular canisters in accordance with unique and dynamic control parameters. Objects are dispensed from a canister directly to the desired packaging, such as a vial or “blister pack.” Additionally, a beneficially stronger blister pack container is provided. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140182242 | RETAIL SUPPLY SYSTEM - An automatic system for replenishing display shelves in retail businesses. The display shelves each including a shelf board having a conveyor belt circulating around the respective shelf board. Each of the display shelves further including a stop bar and a removable fall-off guard at respective front and rear sides of the display shelves to prevent goods from falling off the display shelves and, wherein, the display shelf is designed to cooperate with a shelf-stocking vehicle such that the fall-off guard is automatically opened when the display shelves are refilled by the shelf-stocking vehicle. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140182243 | MAIL PIECE INSERTION MECHANISMS AND METHODS OF USE - A mail piece insertion mechanism is provided and, more particularly, mail piece insertion mechanisms and methods used for inserting mail pieces such as, for example, residual mail, into individual mail piece folders or containers is provided. The method of inserting mail pieces into folders includes opening the folders and aligning a mechanism with the opened folders and inserting the mail pieces therein. The insertion mechanism includes a mechanism configured open folders and a mechanism configured to insert mail pieces into the open folders | 07-03-2014 |
| 20150047295 | PUSHING DEVICE, TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENT AND PACKAGING ARRANGEMENT - The present invention relates to a pushing device ( | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150082745 | CAROUSEL LOADING APPARATUS - An embodiment includes a carousel machine designed to slowly deliver a premeasured weighment of product to a receptacle (e.g., bag, box, sack, container, bin). The receptacle, such as a bag or a box, may be manually hung on pneumatic clamps as the carousel rotates. This may help eliminate the jamming of product that normally occurs on existing carousel baggers. Other embodiments are described herein. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150336687 | Machine for Packing Sand, Gravel, Clay, Earth and Humid Granulated Material Such as Mortar and Organic Fertilizer in Bags - The invention relates to a machine for bagging sand, grit, mud, earth and wet granulates such as mortar and organic compost, using a single structure comprising a storage silo, a vibrator assembly, a metering device, a weighing device and a support structure. Space and time are optimized, ergonomics and ease of use are improved, and the final product is standardized. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20160058536 | IMPLANT LOADING DEVICE AND SYSTEM - Devices, methods, and systems are provided for loading an implantable device into a container. One aspect of the loading system contains a loader element with a loading tunnel that is configured to gradually contract an implantable device into a compressed state of reduced size relative to an expanded state as the implantable device travels through the loading tunnel. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160098880 | DEVICE FOR OPTIMISING THE FILLING OF BAGS FOR CONTAINING BANKNOTES - A device for filling and closing disposable bags for containing banknotes, comprises a container for the temporary housing of one or more banknotes, having side walls and a bottom with an opening for the exit of said one or more banknotes from the container, a pushing piston for pushing said one or more banknotes towards the bottom of the container, a bag made of flexible material intended to be filled with the banknotes temporarily housed in the container, which is anchored, at the edges of its mouth, to fixing pins placed in proximity of the opening in the bottom of the container, a plate which is vertically movable through controlled lowering means and placed below the container, the plate having a central slot, which is open at the top towards the container and extending vertically through the body of the plate for the insertion of a bottom portion of the bag anchored to the fixing pins, and first sealing elements placed between the container and the plate. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160165858 | DESTACKING AND RESTACKING OF CONTAINERS USING A ROBOT IN POULTRY HATCHERY OPERATIONS | 06-16-2016 |
| 053236000 | Long slender articles (e.g., matches) | 3 |
| 20110173927 | BLOOD COLLECTION TUBE STORAGE BOX AND BLOOD COLLECTION TUBE PREPARING APPARATUS - Provided is a blood collection tube preparing apparatus which is simple, downsized, portable, capable of being easily placed on a desk or the like, excellent in responding to an emergency such as a disaster, and capable of preparing various kinds of blood collection tubes depending on a blood collection instruction from a doctor. A blood collection tube holding member is arranged along one transferring belt and between a forward-side transferring belt and a backward-side transferring belt of the one transferring belt, and lower end surfaces of a cap of a blood collection tube is supported on upper end surfaces of the blood collection tube holding member and the forward-side transferring belt. The forward-side transferring belt applies a transferring force to the blood collection tube through the cap. Further, the members constituting a storage box are accommodated in one module, and the storage box is detachably mounted onto a mounting portion of an apparatus main body. Further, the storage box is in the form of module, and hence an operation in the case of failure or during maintenance is significantly facilitated. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20130160399 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PACKAGING OF THIN BODY CONTAINERS, AND LOADING GROUP OF SAID CONTAINERS - A device for packaging thin body containers comprises transport means, a tip-up unit ( | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130269291 | MULTI-LAYER FRANKFURTER LOADING METHOD - A method of loading a plurality of food items in multiple layers comprises collecting food items in a staging area in a first plurality of groups, each group having a plurality of food items. The first plurality of groups is displaced substantially simultaneously downwardly into an accumulating and storage area and thereby forming a plurality of first layer group. A second plurality of groups of food items is collected, each of the second plurality of groups having a plurality of food items. The second plurality of groups is displaced substantially simultaneously downwardly into the accumulating and storage area such that the second plurality of groups forms a plurality of second layer groups of food items superposed to the first layer groups, and thereby forming a plurality of two layer-groups. The plurality of two-layer groups of food items are displaced downwardly into a receptacle in a packing area. | 10-17-2013 |
| 053237000 | Plural filling stations and/or contents sources for single receptacle | 4 |
| 20100043351 | AUTOMATIC MEDICINE PACKING MACHINE WITH CLEANING DEVICE - Disclosed is an automatic medicine packing machine having a cleaning device for automatically cleaning dust generated in the packing machine while packing successively various medicines dose by dose. An automatic medicine packing machine includes a plurality of cassettes arranged in an upper portion of a body to receive medicines of various sizes and shapes, a hopper assembly arranged in a lower portion of the body to collect medicines discharged from the cassettes, a hopper mounting unit for mounting the hopper assembly to a lower portion of a frame of the body to be openable, a packing device for packing the medicines collected by the hopper assembly, and a hopper cleaning device for sucking dust generated from the hopper assembly during a medicine packing process to clean an interior of the hopper assembly. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20140245697 | MEDICINE DISPENSING APPARATUS - Provided is a medicine dispensing apparatus in which a medicine guide assembly | 09-04-2014 |
| 20160253474 | Medicine Filling Apparatus | 09-01-2016 |
| 053240000 | Successive filling stations | 1 |
| 20120017538 | MODULAR UNIT FOR AUTOMATIC PACKAGING OF FOOD PRODUCTS TO BE PACKAGED IN TRAYS - A modular unit ( | 01-26-2012 |
| 053244000 | Successive deposits of articles | 13 |
| 20080222999 | Device For Picking Up Articles From A Supply Station And For Inserting The Articles Into A Container - A device for picking up articles from a supply station and inserting the articles into a container, comprising: at least an operating head, provided with a group of depression-activated gripping units, each of which is shaped in a special format to pick up and retain a corresponding article; control means, which verify a presence of an article at each of the gripping units; movement organs which cause the operating head to perform outward and return runs, respectively from a picking up station of the articles to a release station of the articles, situated nearby the container, and vice versa; conveyor means, provided at the release station, above the opening of the container, and destined to be interposed between the opening and the operating head to guide insertion of the articles into the container; enabling organs, activated in a phase relation with the movement organs, for activating the gripping units at the supply station in order for a corresponding number of articles to be picked up by means of the gripping units, and for deactivating the gripping units at the release station, thus disengaging the articles from the gripping units and causing the articles to fall into the conveyor means located there below. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080223000 | PACKING APPARATUS - A packing assembly which includes at least one flexible sheet defining a side curtain wall, at least one transfer element associated with the packing assembly over which the flexible sheet is run, and at least one drive mechanism configured to move the flexible sheet, wherein the drive mechanism controls the amount of flexible sheet extended to control the height of the side curtain wall. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080282646 | Method and Device For Transferring Products From a Supply Vessel Into the Blisters of a Foil - The invention relates to a method for transferring products from a supply vessel ( | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090277133 | CONVEYING DEVICE, AND BOXING DEVICE AND BOXING SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - A conveying device is adapted to receive a plurality of articles, to accumulate the articles so as to form a batch of the articles, and to convey the batch of the articles. The conveying device includes a delivery unit, a placing unit and a control unit. The delivery unit is configured and arranged to turn the articles to orient the articles in a standing position after receiving the articles while delivering the articles to a downstream side at a delivery position. The placing unit is configured and arranged to accumulate the articles sequentially delivered from the delivery unit to form the batch of the articles in a prescribed accumulation form. The control unit is configured to change a delivery interval in which each of the articles is sequentially delivered to the placing unit according to the prescribed accumulation form. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20110131922 | DEVICE FOR SEPARATING AND PACKING ELASTIC PRODUCTS - The present invention relates to a device for separating and packing gloves in a particular order from a collection area wherein the gloves are provided unordered and unsorted, a device for separating and packing gloves not in a particular order from a collection area wherein the gloves are provided unordered and unsorted and also to a device for separating and packing gloves in a predetermined order directly from dipping line. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20130167478 | Device and a Method for Packaging Substantially Flat Products in a Box - A device for packaging products in a box, including a frame having a moving conveyor, a guide for supporting the products from an entry end to an exit end of said guide, which guide extends parallel to said conveyor, means for holding a box at the exit end of said guide such that the opening of the box extends parallel to said guide at the other side thereof, said conveyor having support members extending perpendicular to the conveyor and towards said guide when they move along said guide, a feeder for feeding said products at the entry end of said guide between two support members, wherein said products are stacked in parallel means for moving said stack of products at the exit end past the edge of said exit end into said box, and means for transporting the box in a direction parallel to said guide. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130239518 | DEVICE FOR PACKAGING FRUIT OR VEGETABLES - A device for packaging fruit or vegetables, comprising: a first conveyor device ( | 09-19-2013 |
| 20140059976 | Coordinated Soft-Touch Case Packer - Disclosed is a product case packing system with a gripping head assembly and a packaging grid assembly linked by a coordination arm that synchronizes the delivery of the product to be packaged and with the positioning of the grid assembly into the packaging container. The system includes a gripper head assembly extension control module, capable of controlling multiple travel distances of the gripper head assembly in a single packing cycle, a product assembly detection module, and a packaging release control element for subtle separation of individual packed containers. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140096480 | PACKAGING DEVICE - A packaging device comprises a frame, a conveying mechanism mounted on the frame, and two loading mechanisms mounted on opposite sides of the frame. The conveying mechanism holds a workpiece. The loading mechanism includes a feeding assembly and a pushing assembly. The feeding assembly includes a first driver mounted on the frame, and a bearing member movably mounted on the guiding base and connected to the first driver, for holding a number of protection members. The pushing assembly includes a second driver fixed on a top surface of the frame, and a pushing member connected to the second driver. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20150059286 | RETAIL-READY PACKAGING OF POUCHED PRODUCT - An apparatus for placing pouches in retail-ready cartons includes pouch placer having an elevator assembly having paddles for receiving pouches provided by a first conveyor, and lifting the pouches, and a first robot arm for retrieving a pouch from a paddle of the elevator assembly and placing it in a retail-ready carton. | 03-05-2015 |
| 053246000 | Compartmented receptacle | 3 |
| 20080223001 | Device For Picking Up Articles From A Supply Station And Depositing The Articles In Corresponding Blisters Of A Blister Strip - A device for picking up articles from a supply station and depositing the articles in corresponding blisters of a blister strip, comprising: at least a group of depression-activated gripping units, each of which units is shaped to a specific format for receiving and retaining a corresponding article having predetermined lie and orientation; connecting organs of the gripping units to an operating head whereby the gripping units are positioned in relation a positioning of the corresponding blisters afforded in the blister strip; organs for moving the operating head in outward and return runs, respectively between the supply station of the articles and a release station of the articles in the corresponding blisters of the blister strip; enabling organs being activated in phase-relation with the movement organs, for activating the gripping units in the supply station, which gripping units collect a number of articles equal to a number of the gripping units, and for deactivating the gripping units in the release station with a disengagement of the articles from the gripping units and a falling of the articles into the corresponding blisters of the blister strip. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080236100 | SMALL-OBJECT FEEDER FOR BLISTER-PACKAGING MACHINE - An apparatus for filling small objects into upwardly open blisters of a strip moving in a transport direction and formed with an array of the blisters has a feeder formed by a carrier or base plate juxtaposed with the strip and formed with an array of throughgoing holes aligned with the pockets of the strip and respective tubes joined seamlessly to the plate at the holes and extending upward from the plate. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20130042574 | BLISTER SHEET LOADING APPARATUS WITH BOUNCE PREVENTION MEANS - Apparatus for loading medication doses ( | 02-21-2013 |
| 053247000 | Simultaneous deposit of plural articles | 6 |
| 20090044489 | HIGH SPEED AUTOMATED FILLING OF SOLID PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT PACKAGING VIA A CONVEYOR SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing individualized solid pharmaceutical product packaging solutions preferably utilize a plurality of filling stations preferably arranged proximate to a conveyor system. Each of the filling stations may be embodied as a version of a conventional flood fill type mechanism wherein a hopper is used to store a large number of a single type of solid pharmaceutical products. The filling stations preferably incorporate transition blocks and/or row or column transfer gates | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090183466 | ARTICLE SUPPLY SYSTEM - An apparatus for supplying donor articles ( | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090260323 | Device For Receiving And Transporting Articles - A device for receiving and transporting articles, in particular syringes and the like, of a type comprising a transfer carousel destined to be rotated about a substantially vertical axis peripherally bearing a series of seatings for receiving single articles from a supply station and for transferring the articles to a receiving station. The seatings are fashioned from respective shaped and recessed surfaces realized on respective appendages peripherally associated to the carousel and elastically deformable such as to absorb any variations in size of the articles. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100275552 | HIGH SPEED AUTOMATED FILLING OF SOLID PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCT PACKAGING VIA A CONVEYOR SYSTEM - Systems and methods for providing individualized solid pharmaceutical product packaging solutions preferably utilize a plurality of filling stations preferably arranged proximate to a conveyor system. Each of the filling stations may be embodied as a version of a conventional flood fill type mechanism wherein a hopper is used to store a large number of a single type of solid pharmaceutical products. The filling stations preferably incorporate transition blocks and/or row or column transfer gates | 11-04-2010 |
| 20140325939 | ENVELOPE-STUFFING MACHINE FOR STUFFING PILES OF ARTICLES IN SHEET FORM - A stuffing machine ( | 11-06-2014 |
| 20160374259 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PICKING UP AND RELEASING OBJECTS IN BULK - A seed handling tool includes a handle connected to a working body. The working body includes a working surface, which further includes a plurality of seed retention points. A seed retention source is provided to allow the seed handling tool to pick up and retain seeds at the seed retention points. In some embodiments, the seeds may also be released from the seed retention points. A method for retaining a plurality of seeds by the seed handling tool includes moving the seed handling tool to a position where the working surface is adjacent to a plurality of seeds, and picking up and retaining seeds at a plurality of seed retention points fixed at the working surface. In some embodiments, the method may also include releasing the plurality of seeds from the seed retention points. | 12-29-2016 |
| 053248000 | With means to retard free fall of articles into receptacle | 2 |
| 20100223886 | ARTICLE TRANSFER DEVICE, AND PACKAGING DEVICE AND WEIGHING DEVICE EQUIPPED THEREWITH - When the articles dropping from above are received inside a hopper, at least a bottom portion of the hopper is allowed to move downwardly with the bottom portion of the hopper being closed. Therefore, the collision speed between the articles and the bottom portion of the hopper is reduced. In addition, by opening the bottom portion of the hopper while moving the bottom portion downwardly, the downward initial speed is added to the articles to be discharged. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20160107777 | IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR FILLING CONTAINERS WITH HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND RELATIVE METHOD - Apparatus for filling containers with horticultural products, built and operating in such a manner as to utilize at least one horizontal transporting conveyor, a moving structure arranged at the output edge of said conveyor and provided with displacement and engagement means to incline said containers, through a partial rotation, from a first inclined position with respect to the horizontal plane, in which the mouth of the container remains contiguous with the output edge of the conveyor, and subsequent working positions in which the same container moves progressively through less inclined positions until it returns to the normal horizontal position. Said mobile structure includes a U-shaped oscillating frame whose open side is designed to position itself in front of said output edge of the transporting conveyor, and blocking means, typically shaped jaws, supported by said oscillating frame and suitable to selectively engage and disengage the outer perimeter of the container, so as to initially cause the container to rotate to a predetermined inclination, and subsequently return in reverse rotation to the normal position, in which the container is released and removed. | 04-21-2016 |
| 053249000 | With movement of receptacle to or from filling station | 15 |
| 20080196360 | Machine For Packaging Articles into Boxes - In a machine for packaging articles into boxes, a magazine of flat folded tubular blanks is shifted with respect to a conveying line of boxes obtained in an inlet station, by a roto-translating arm for withdrawing blanks and introducing the withdrawn blanks into holding modules, associated to the conveying line. The initial part of the conveying line is situated at an inlet station, while the terminal part of the conveying line corresponds to a discharge station of the boxes already filled with articles. Along the conveying line, a pick-and-place system picks up articles from a feeding line and introduces the articles into the boxes, which are closed before reaching a discharge station. The feeding line and the articles outlet line are arranged, during the machine construction, according to a position of the same machine with respect to the production line, that is in order to allow coupling of the machine with working units, arranged aligned or perpendicular with respect to the machine. The described arrangement of the magazine and of the conveying line allows reducing machine height and improving the accessibility to parts of the machine, as well as improving ergonomic characteristics. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20120110948 | Method and apparatus for a product dispenser - A product dispenser includes an outer housing and a shell disposed within the outer housing. The shell defines a product dispensing chamber, wherein the product dispensing chamber is climate controlled, for receiving a product, portioning the product, storing the portioned product, and dispensing the portioned product upon a dispense command. The product receptacles are stored in a dispense buffer disposed within the product dispensing chamber, and then are dispensed into an airlock for retrieval by a customer. The product dispenser further recognizes demands to keep the dispense buffer slots filled, and demands to dispense a filled product receptacle. The product dispenser may seal the product receptacles to ensure a sanitary product. The product dispenser may further include a vend interface unit to interact with a controller and consumers, whereby the consumer are able to place a demand on the vend interface unit, and await a dispensed filled product receptacle. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20130174514 | PACKAGING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a packing system for collecting together multiple articles and delivering them to a receptacle ( | 07-11-2013 |
| 20140096481 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING A COVER - An apparatus for transporting a cover includes an inlet transport, a turning unit for redirecting and turning the cover and an outlet transport, wherein the turning unit, the inlet transport and the outlet transport are arranged such that at least the inlet transport or the outlet transport transports the cover moving through the turning unit. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20150113917 | APPARATUS FOR FEEDING CAPSULES - An apparatus for feeding capsules to a transferring wheel of a filling machine includes a store for containing the capsules. First feeding conduits are spaced apart along a first direction for drawing the capsules from the store and conveying the capsules from the store to first seats of the transferring wheel. Second feeding conduits are spaced apart along the first direction and spaced apart from the first feeding conduits along a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction for drawing the capsules from the store and conveying the capsules from the store to second seats of the transferring wheel. A first horizontal pushing arrangement and a first vertical pushing arrangement for receive and orient the capsules coming from the first feeding conduits. A second horizontal pushing arrangement and a second vertical pushing arrangement receive and orient the capsules coming from the second feeding conduits. | 04-30-2015 |
| 053250000 | With means to supply successive receptacles | 10 |
| 20080223002 | Process and Automatic System For Orderly Packaging of Plastic Preforms in Carton Boxes - The invention finds application in the field of systems for orderly packaging of plastic preforms in carton boxes. The system comprises a manipulator unit ( | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090173040 | PACKAGING SYSTEM WITH VOLUME MEASUREMENT - A system, and associated components and methodology, that automatically acquires data representative of the space left in each of a series of containers ( | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100107556 | Device For Inserting Articles In Blisters Of A Blister Band - A device for inserting articles in blisters of a blister strip in a blister packing machine is described, the device being associated to a supply station which terminates with a supply channel and comprising an obstructing strip located in contact on an upper surface of the blister strip and affording at least a through-hole and an obstruction carriage interposed between the channel and the obstructing strip and affording at least a through-seating of such dimensions as to contain at least one of the articles. The obstruction carriage is moved in alternating motion along an advancement direction of the blister strip between a first position in which the through-seating is coaxial to the channel and is inferiorly closed by the obstructing strip in order to receive at least an article from the channel, and a second position in which the through-seating is coaxial with the through-hole afforded in the obstructing strip in order to enable a release of the article contained internally of the through-seating into an underlying blister to be filled. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20130008131 | REFINED DISTRIBUTOR UNIT - Refinements made to distributor units which serve to continuously transfer and position tablets or pills in organized alveoli in an advancing strip, the advancing strip presenting its alveoli on each occasion in correspondence with holes normally organized positioned radially in a distributor disk. The distributor disk has zero setting means, and is associated with means which supply the rotation motion by means of intermediate means. The intermediate connection means arc connected stably to the distributor disk and detachably to the means which supply the motion. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130180208 | APPARATUS FOR LOADING CONTAINERS WITH OBJECTS - An apparatus is described that is used to load containers with small objects similar to Flash memory SD or micro SD cards. The apparatus can be made in three configurations; a fully manual operated configuration, a manual configuration in combination with one or more automated machines, and finally as a fully automated handling apparatus. In its simplest form, the apparatus consists of a base plate with an attached bar containing a grooved bar member such that the jewel cases are restrained in the grooved bar member in such a way as to allow the jewel cases to be moved in a linear or circular direction and provide means such that the cases can be easily loaded with the objects and then removed from the base plate. | 07-18-2013 |
| 053251000 | Contents or receptacle transfer between conveyers | 4 |
| 20090133363 | Continuous loading system - A system is disclosed for loading a plurality of items into a plurality of containers. The system may include a plurality of pucks, each puck adapted to retain an item. A puck delivery sub-system may include a puck-infeed conveyor to move each of the pucks along an in-feed conveyor path, and a transition apparatus operable to facilitate the transition of the pucks to a continuous puck unloading conveyor. The puck un-loading conveyor may have a releasable engagement mechanism such that when each of the pucks is engaged with said puck unloading conveyor, each of said pucks is fixed in a relative longitudinal position relative to the puck unloading conveyor. An item transfer apparatus may transfer an item from each puck when engaged with the puck un-loading conveyor, to a corresponding container. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090139185 | Method and Machine for Packing Groups of Products Arranged in One or More Layers - Method for packing groups of products or products of prismatic shape with rectangular or square base, which from a feed or grouping unit are then moved towards a first folding spindle so as to be delivered therefrom wrapped in the shape of a “U” rotated through 90° and open at the back, by a packing sheet which is previously placed in front of the spindle with vertical positioning, characterized in that the product with the packing sheet delivered from the spindle are picked up directly and fed in phase between the parallel and horizontal motorized conveyors of a tilting drum positioned inside which longitudinally, edgewise and parallel with each other, are folding devices which guide the product with the packing laterally and fold on the lateral faces of the product the first flaps with vertical folding, projecting laterally and anterior in the feed direction of the packing. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20100180544 | INSTALLATION FOR FILLING CASES WITH CROSS-PARTITIONS - The installation comprises, combined on one and the same rack ( | 07-22-2010 |
| 20150027084 | CONTAINER FILLING APPARATUS - A container filling apparatus of the present invention includes: a first supply apparatus configured to supply a content; a rotational body having a placement portion configured to carry the contents supplied by the first supply apparatus, the rotational body being configured to rotate with respect to an axis thereof to turn the placement portion; a second supply apparatus configured to place a container from above on the content placed in an upward-facing state on the placement portion; and an engagement portion provided on the rotational body and configured to engage with the container that is placed over the content by the second supply apparatus, wherein the container is disengageable from the engagement portion by the container being rotated by the rotational body at an angle. | 01-29-2015 |
| 053253000 | Rotary | 1 |
| 20100018156 | Packaging System Having Loading Carousel - A packaging system utilizes two sides of a loading carousel, which reduces both the height and footprint of the packaging system. Mass and inertia are also reduced, allowing higher operational speeds. The loading carousel receives opened cartons on a first side and lowers them over product groups on a second side. | 01-28-2010 |
| 053254000 | Disc packers | 2 |
| 20110030314 | Unit For Supplying Products - The unit for supplying and inserting products ( | 02-10-2011 |
| 20150121804 | SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING ONE OR MORE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF GLASS SCORING WHEELS - According to an aspect of the present invention, a packaging system for glass scoring wheels having different physical attribute configurations is provided that includes a plurality of containers and a plurality of caddies. Each caddy includes a wheel mount shaft extending from a base. The wheel mount shaft has an axial length that permits a plurality of glass scoring wheels to be mounted on the mount shaft. The base is adapted to mate with an open end of the container. The caddies include “n” number of different color configuration caddies. The color configuration of each of the “n” different color configuration caddies is different than the color configuration of the other of the “n” different color configuration caddies. Each of the “n” color configurations identifies a particular physical attribute of the glass scoring wheels, which attribute is operable to distinguish glass scoring wheels having different physical attributes. | 05-07-2015 |
| 053255000 | Guide or inserted form or support for article contents | 4 |
| 20120260606 | ALIGNING APPARATUS AND ENCLOSING AND SEALING APPARATUS - When the width of an envelope has sufficient margin for the width of a paper sheet, the aligning operation is skipped to improve productivity. As shown in FIG. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20130081356 | Combination of closing and suspension device for sausage-type packaging units - The invention relates to a combination consisting of a closing device ( | 04-04-2013 |
| 20140109512 | DYNAMIC BUFFER FOR INSERTER SYSTEM - An inserter system including a first station operative to output personal inserts for inserting in envelopes, an inserter operative to insert the personal inserts in the envelopes, and a dynamic buffer operative to convey the personal inserts from the first station to the inserter, the dynamic buffer including a partition-less adjustable length conveyor and an inserter-interface conveyor, wherein the adjustable length conveyor conveys the personal inserts from the first station to the inserter-interface conveyor and the inserter grabs the personal inserts from the inserter-interface conveyor, and wherein the inserter grabbing the personal inserts determines a speed of operation of the inserter-interface conveyor, including a timing at which the inserter-interface conveyor grabs the personal inserts from the adjustable length conveyor. | 04-24-2014 |
| 053263000 | Receptacle divider | 1 |
| 20080229710 | Packaging assistance system - A system grid-like guidance device for packing goods in a case for shipping purposes is mounted to the open-topped case, providing cells to guide the emptied ‘return’ containers to the case floor. The case being filled, the device is removed, and the case can be inventoried and shipped. The several embodiments are fully or partially inserted into the case, forming a set of guidance cells to receive empty containers, such as bottles. One embodiment has a series of thin guidance elements extending within the box between the inserted containers. A third embodiment, has the grid of guidance members extending upwardly above the box top, to facilitate filling. Handle means are provided. | 09-25-2008 |
