| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 198803300 | Holder grips load | 30 |
| 20090084660 | GRASPING DEVICE - A grasping device can be provided on a conveyor which conveys works produced by a production facility or a work subjected to in-mold forming from a work-grasping position to a work-releasing position. The example of a grasping device can include a base at the side of the conveyors and a grasping part which is extended from the base and provided with a plurality of grasping heads. The example of a grasping part can include a group of braches having a plurality of diverged and extended branches, specific branches most apart from the base each being small in weight (being light) at utmost end side. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090127076 | Apparatuses and Methods - An apparatus comprises a carousel arrangement, operating devices associated with said carousel arrangement and arranged for interacting with objects and conveying units supported by said carousel arrangement and movable in relation to said carousel arrangement to transfer said objects, each of said conveying units supporting a plurality of said operating devices. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090272630 | GRIPPER FOR HOLDING AND CONVEYING FLAT OBJECTS - A gripper for holding and conveying flat objects (P) in a firmly held manner, in particular printed material such as newspapers, magazines or brochures, includes two clamping tongues ( | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100108473 | CONTAINER TRANSFER DEVICE HAVING A TRANSFER GUIDING MEMBER | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100282574 | GRIPPER DEVICE FOR CONVEYING A CYLINDRICAL BODY - By providing a compression spring which energizes a pair of fork-members in closing direction, a cylindrical body such as a neck portion of a bottle can be gripped firmly. A guide member is provided at least in a passing section of a conveying chain which guide member contacts a side surface of a fixed frame extending in the conveying direction of the fixed frame in sliding contact. The posture of the fork-members in passing of a cylindrical body such as a bottle can be stabilized whereby passing can be made by gripping and accurately positioning a predetermined position of the neck portion. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100300847 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONVEYING AND SIMULTANEOUSLY STABILISING FLEXIBLE, TWO-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS - The invention relates to a device ( | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110056809 | SYSTEM FOR BLOWING PLASTIC CONTAINERS, SPECIFICALLY BOTTLES - A plant for blow-moulding plastic containers ( | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110272255 | STAR WHEEL HAVING A DRIVE FOR INSTALLATION IN BOTTLE HANDLING SYSTEMS - The invention relates to a star wheel having a drive, for installation in bottle filling system or the like, in particularin the wet area for empty PET bottles, having as hygienic a design as possible and having the corresponding machine components being used here. The aim is achieved in that the star ( | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110315522 | CENTERING ELEMENT FOR CONTAINER HOLDERS ON CONTAINER PROCESSING MACHINES, CONTAINER HOLDER, AND CONTAINER PROCESSING MACHINES COMPRISING SUCH CONTAINER HOLDERS - Disclosed is a centering element for use with container holders or turntables on container processing machines, comprising a centering cone that has a cone-type or taper-type centering surface for receiving and centering each container on the bottom of the container. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120118706 | Gripper Device for a Star Conveyor and Star Conveyor - The present invention relates to a star conveyor ( | 05-17-2012 |
| 20130313081 | CONTAINER HANDLING MACHINE HAVING MOVABLE TRANSPORT STARS - A container handling machine includes transport stars and a container transfer station between adjacent stars. The container transfer station has a drive element arranged between two adjacent stars for moving them relative to each other in a way that results in centers of the adjacent stars being moved relative to each other according to an ascertainable and operationally-induced deviation during operation of the container handling machine. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140190795 | GUIDE DEVICE FOR HARD WORKPIECE TRANSFER - A guide device for hard workpiece transfer is provided, comprising a buffer belt for carrying the hard workpiece, a pilot wheel for driving the buffer belt to move, and a drive device for controlling the pilot wheel to rotate, with the buffer belt being made of elastic materials. With the buffer belt made of elastic materials carrying such hard workpieces as glass to be transferred, when the guide device is in contact with the hard workpiece to be transferred, the buffer belt is pressed to deform, which can reduce the pressure produced during the contact of the guide device with the hard workpiece, and prevent the contact portion from being broken or worn because of the pressure, not only preventing loss of the hard workpiece to be transferred, but also reducing use consumption of the guide device, thereby reducing the material cost. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140251766 | TRANSFER STAR-WHEEL - A transfer star-wheel includes a takeover point, a handover point, transmission elements, and a transport path. The star-wheel receives containers from a first container treatment device at the takeover point transfers them to the handover point, and passes them to the second container treatment device. The transport path has inner and outer guide rails between which containers are guided and transported in a suspended and sliding manner. A first linear transport path section is provided at the takeover point. Each transmission element is associated with a corresponding container. Each of the containers is radially displaceable relative to a transmission element to which it corresponds as it is transported on the transport path. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20150060240 | CLAMPING UNIT FOR CONTAINERS AT CONTAINER HANDLING MACHINES - A clamping unit for containers at container treatment machines where, apart from a vertically movable lifting arm with a centering support for clamping a container from above, a motor for driving the lifting arm and a pneumatic spring against the resistance of which the centering support is mounted at the lifting arm so as to be movable to the top are provided. The lifting arms may be set to a desired vertical position independently of the movement or the rotational position of an associated rotary machine, and a clamping force of the centering supports may be easily and flexibly adjusted by applying a suited pressure to the pneumatic spring. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20160068355 | TRANSPORT DEVICE FOR CONTAINERS - A container transport device includes a drive driving a star wheel mounted on bearings within a hollow column that is part of the machine frame. The star wheel comprises two star wheel elements, one forming the leading flanks and the other forming trailing flanks. The two elements adjust to define an angular offset between them. During transport, the elements rotate synchronously while maintaining the angular offset. The hollow column encloses all function elements for setting or maintaining an angular offset, thus protecting them from exterior influence. | 03-10-2016 |
| 198803500 | Suction gripper | 5 |
| 20090090601 | WORKPIECE TRANSFER APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT TRANSFER APPARATUS - An electronic-component conveying apparatus that conveys an electronic component by holding the electronic component in a through hole provided in a conveying table of the apparatus, in which the electronic component can be quickly and reliably dismounted from the through hole by using compressed gas, and undesired popout of the electronic component due to a residual pressure infrequently occurs, whereby the efficiency in the conveying process can be increased. A workpiece conveying apparatus includes a blowhole opening in a conveying surface of a conveying stage and configured such that an electronic component held in a through hole is dismounted by using compressed gas at a position where the through hole overlaps the blowhole while a conveying table is driven, a vacuum groove communicating with the blowhole and provided in a first surface of the conveying table, and an auxiliary blowhole connected to a compressed-gas supply device and opening in the conveying surface such as to be accessible to the vacuum groove. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090090602 | WORKPIECE TRANSFER APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT TRANSFER APPARATUS - A workpiece conveying apparatus for conveying a workpiece disposed in a through hole in a conveying table. The workpiece conveying apparatus allows the workpiece to be promptly and reliably dismounted from the through hole using compressed gas, suppresses the workpiece from unintentionally jumping out because of residual pressure of the compressed air, and increases the conveying efficiency. In an electronic-component conveying apparatus, a conveying table is arranged to face a conveying surface of a conveying stage. An electronic component as a workpiece is disposed in a through hole in the conveying table. When the conveying table is rotated, the electronic component is conveyed. In the workpiece conveying apparatus, the conveying surface has an exhaust hole at a position where the electronic component is to be dismounted. The total area of the opening of the exhaust hole in the conveying table is set to be larger than the area of the surface of the electronic component facing the conveying surface of the conveying stage. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20100276257 | CONVEYOR BELT, AND POWER SUPPLY LINE, DEFLECTION ROLL, PNEUMATIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONVEYOR BELT, AND WORKPIECE RECEPTACLE THEREFOR - A belt conveyor comprising a continuous conveyor belt running between deflection rolls, to which a workpiece receptacle is attached. A synchronously revolving continuous power supply line is provided for the belt conveyor. The power supply line is formed separately from the conveyor belt. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20120024672 | PATH CHANGING ROTATIONAL CONVEYOR FOR LIGHTWEIGHT ARTICLES - The path changing rotational conveyor for lightweight articles includes a rotor with receiving configurations distributed along its periphery to be coupled with the lightweight articles and a perimetric wall with a plurality of suction openings in correspondence with the receiving configurations and a stationary negative pressure chamber defining a laterally open channel facing the perimetric wall of the rotor along a predetermined circumferential arc. The negative pressure chamber is partly delimited by the perimetric wall of the rotor and, when the rotor rotates, the suction openings are communicated directly with the negative pressure chamber along the predetermined circumferential arc. The rotor is connected to a rotation, device and the chamber is communicated with a suction source. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20140158501 | COMPLIANT VACUUM TRANSFER STARWHEEL - A transfer assembly includes a transfer starwheel having recesses to receive an article. Each recess includes a vacuum port and at least one insert formed from a compliant material. The at least one insert at least partially defines a shape of the recess, which corresponds to an aspect of the article. The transfer assembly includes a mounting hub including a plurality of circumferential sets of vacuum openings extending axially along the mounting hub and coupled to a vacuum source. A vacuum is delivered to the vacuum openings. The transfer starwheel is mounted on a mounting hub to align the vacuum ports of the transfer starwheel with a selected set of vacuum openings on the mounting hub. The mounting hub rotates so that the transfer starwheel receives the article into one of the recesses at a first position and rotates to a second position while holding the article with the vacuum. | 06-12-2014 |
| 198803600 | Magnetic or electrostatic gripper | 3 |
| 20090145728 | Object to be inspected including small diameter bottle - A machine for inspecting a container having a vertical axis has an inspection station including an inspection device for carrying out an inspection on a transparent container relative to a vertical inspection axis. The bottle is delivered to the inspection station by a conveyor, which includes structure for engaging the sidewall of the bottle. The invention is an object to be inspected by such an inspection machine, which includes a container like adaptor having a vertical axis, and configured for handling by the conveyor structure so that when the container like adaptor engages the structure, the conveyor will deliver the container like adaptor to the inspection station. The container like adaptor has a horizontal top surface and a vertical axis, and a magnet is mounted in the top surface having a centering axis coincident with the vertical axis of the container like adaptor. The object to be inspected additionally includes a transparent bottle located on top of the magnet having metallic material in the bottom portion thereof so that the magnet will operate on the metallic material to locate the axis of the transparent bottle coincident with the centering axis of the magnet. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100230246 | DEVICE SUITABLE FOR PROCESSING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS SUCH AS BULBOUS PLANTS, AS WELL AS SUCH A METHOD - A device which is suitable for processing agricultural products such as bulbous plants, is provided at least with at least a magnetic track comprising a number of magnet segments of alternating polarity. The device is further provided with at least one magnet which is movable with respect to the magnetic track. A function element connected to the magnet is movable in dependence on the position of the magnet relative to the magnet segments of the magnetic track. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20110198198 | OBJECT TRANSFER DEVICE AND CORRESPONDING GRIPPER - Object transfer device comprising a frame ( | 08-18-2011 |
| 198803700 | Gripper portion biased to load engaging position | 2 |
| 20140332352 | Grip Width Adjusting Mechanism - Disclosed is a grip width adjusting mechanism incorporated in a packaging machine having a grip unit. The grip width adjusting mechanism includes a plurality of grip width adjusting plates disposed at the steps and set with distances between the guide rail and the grip width adjusting plates according to the work content of the steps, respectively and a grip width adjusting lever having a distal end having a grip width adjusting roller abutting against each grip width adjusting plate by a biasing force of the spring, respectively. The grip width adjusting lever is located on either one of the arms so as to be rotated with the arm. A rotational movement angle of the grip width adjusting lever is set according to the distance between the guide rail and the grip width adjusting plate, with the result that the grip width is adjusted. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20160120079 | Conveyor Device for Printed Circuit Boards - The invention relates to a conveyor device for printed circuit boards ( | 04-28-2016 |
| 198803800 | Gripper portion made of resilient material which is self biased into engaging position | 1 |
| 20090277756 | TRANSPORTING AND PACKAGING DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE - A system and method designed to transport and package sequenced product. The system includes a first transport system for receiving and transporting, in a closed position, holders each of which contain product. A second transport system transports, in the closed position, the holders until each of the holders are aligned within a respective release position, at which operational stage the second transport system is capable of opening the holders to discharge the product in a sequenced order. A packager receives the discharged product and packages the product in the sequenced order. | 11-12-2009 |
| 198803900 | Cam means moves at least one portion of the gripper to a load engaging position | 2 |
| 20090014284 | CONTAINER SWITCHING DEVICE | 01-15-2009 |
| 20110114454 | APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING CONTAINERS - Apparatus for transferring containers, comprising a first turntable ( | 05-19-2011 |
| 198803100 | Gripping portions self-open as they pass through a curved path | 2 |
| 20110089003 | PET BOTTLE GRIPPER - The invention relates to a device for gripping PET bottles in bottle filling installations, in particular for transferring bottles from the spider element to the spider element/filling element/rinsing element or similar. The aim of the invention is to provide a gripper device that allows different gripping strengths to be achieved without complex equipment, as is specifically required in the case of PET bottles when said bottles are e.g. filled with hot liquids and are therefore easily deformable. To achieve this, a thrust body ( | 04-21-2011 |
| 20120273329 | TRACTION UNIT PARTICULARLY FOR PACKAGING MACHINES - A traction unit ( | 11-01-2012 |
