| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 209643000 | Suction | 11 |
| 20080308472 | APPARATUS FOR TEXTILE COUNTING, SORTING AND CLASSIFYING SYSTEM - An apparatus is provided for transporting textile items into sorting bins with reduced energy consumption and improved load measuring accuracy and which provides textile item counting and sorting for a commercial laundry using vacuum air systems to move textiles into sorting bins and using a variable frequency drive to increase on/off response time of vacuum in the system. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090084715 | PAPER SHEET SEPARATING APPARATUS - An apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a suction pump which produces a negative pressure on a curved surface of a conveyor curved along a suction roller by drawing air from within the suction roller. Paper sheets which are conveyed by the conveyor are separated based on whether or not the paper sheets are stuck to the curved surface by suction. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090114576 | SHEET MATERIAL SORTER AND PNEUMATIC CONVEYANCE/DIVERTING SYSTEM THEREFOR - A sortation bin module having a conveyor and diverter module for pneumatically securing, releasing and diverting selected mailpieces to a bank of sortation bins. The conveyor module includes a conveyor surface for transporting sheet material along the feed path and a pneumatic system for developing a pressure differential across the conveyor surface to hold the sheet material on the conveyor surface during transport. The diverter module includes a diverter surface for sorting sheet material from the conveyor surface, i.e., diverting sheet material from the feed path. The diverter module, furthermore, includes a pneumatic system for developing a pressure differential across the diverter surface to hold the sheet material on the diverter surface during sortation. The conveyor and diverter surfaces are also arranged such that the surfaces oppose each other to define a transfer interface. Moreover, the bin module includes a processor operative to independently control the pressure differential of the conveyor and diverter modules such that sheet material is held against the respective conveyor and diverter surfaces by a negative pressure differential and transferred from the conveyor to the diverter surface by controlling the pressure differential of the modules when the sheet material is interposed at the transfer interface. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100059420 | MATERIAL SORTING APPARATUS - A material sorting apparatus includes a perforated screen adapted to be moved around an endless track. Devices suck air through the screen inwardly of the track in a predetermined area thereof. A material to be sorted is supplied to the apparatus such that it falls under gravity so that laminar material is selectively sucked towards the surface of the screen. This material is transported in contact with the screen while the screen is moving through and out of the predetermined area but is released from the suction forces when the screen moves out of the predetermined area. A first collection region is located beneath a region adjacent the predetermined region of the track. A second collection region is located adjacent an area of the track to receive material which has been transported in contact with the screen out of the predetermined area of the track. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100163467 | Laser system for pellet-shaped articles - A pellet-shaped article inspection unit is structured for use with a conveyer mechanism having a plurality of carrier bars, each carrier bar being structured to convey a plurality of pellet-shaped articles along a predetermined path. The article inspection unit includes a first camera unit positioned adjacent a first side of the conveyer mechanism. The first camera unit is configured to sense a first predetermined characteristic, e.g., laser holes, of the plurality of pellet-shaped articles. A removal mechanism, downstream from the first camera unit, is structured to remove or maintain at least a selected one of the plurality of pellet-shaped articles from at least a selected one of the plurality of carrier bars depending on whether the first predetermined characteristic is sensed by the first camera unit. A laser unit may be provided to create unique holes in the pellet-shaped articles, e.g., those by a larger exposed surface to improve time-release characteristics of the pellet-shaped articles. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110284432 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REMOVING IMPURITIES FROM AN AGRICULTURAL FIBROUS MATERIAL - The present invention is related to a device for removing impurities from an agricultural fibrous material. In addition, the invention is related to a method for obtaining the same. The device according to the invention comprises: a processing unit ( | 11-24-2011 |
| 20130068669 | VERTICAL DROP PRODUCT CLEANER WITH PERFORATED INTAKE MANIFOLD - A vertical grain cleaner having an intake manifold modified to reduce the formation of vortexes and pressure imbalances based on the flow of aspiration air through the cleaner. An intake manifold with a louver defining one or more apertures that allows air to pass through the louver. Methods of operating vertical grain cleaners. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130334110 | Trash Separator - An apparatus for processing a sample including fibers and trash, having a cylinder rotating in a first direction for receiving the sample. The cylinder has a surface with rigid pins. The pins engage and retain the fibers of the sample. A collection surface receives the trash that falls from the cylinder. A counter-flow of air moves in a separation region between the cylinder and the collection surface in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to and towards the underside of the cylinder. The counter-flow of air has at each position within the separation region an air-flow velocity that is sufficient for the counter-flow of air to blow the fibers that are not originally retained by the pins up toward the cylinder and thereby engaging the fibers with the cylinder, and yet insufficient to prevent gravity from pulling the trash downward through the counter-flow of air. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140238908 | POWDER AND GRANULAR MATERIAL SEPARATION PROCESSING DEVICE, POWDER AND GRANULAR MATERIAL SEPARATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND POWDER AND GRANULAR MATERIAL SEPARATION AND COLLECTION PROCESSING SYSTEM - To introduce a mixture to be processed, in which powder and granular material with relatively large specific gravity and hardness and accompanying lightweight foreign substances are mixed together, inside a system and separate the same by a dry method. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140262981 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING DUST IN GRANULAR MATERIAL - A method of removing dust from granular polysilicon includes introducing a stream of granular polysilicon, dispersing the longitudinal stream of granular polysilicon by redirecting the stream into a radially outward flow having a circular pattern, and introducing a counter flow of gas in an opposite direction to that of the longitudinal stream of granular polysilicon to contact the radially outward flow to separate the dust from the granular polysilicon. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20160158966 | Plant And Method For Separating Labels And Other Materials From Plastic Bottles - A plant and a method for separating labels, caps and other contaminating materials from containers and bottles made of plastics, in particular bottles made of PET, in the field of treating and recycling plastics. | 06-09-2016 |
