Patents by Inventor Felice Compagnoni

Felice Compagnoni has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5242250
    Abstract: The plant, which is used in the working of fruits such as applies and similar, collects the fruits (9) from water conveyor channels (6), and inserts them below a bell (3), from which the fruit will successively be transferred, by force of gravity, inside container bins (1); the bell (3), apart from being capable of axial movement, is capable also of translation movement which allows it to be positioned over various transport channels, with which a plant is usually equipped; the bell (3) further comprises an aspiration pump (10) which creates a vacuum inside it, so as to favor the accumulation of fruit inside the bell (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1993
    Inventor: Felice Compagnoni
  • Patent number: 4446670
    Abstract: The invention concerns a system to fill the cases in a uniform manner with fruit and vegetables, that is to say a mechanical device, which sees to the levelled filling of cases by means of, for instance, apples, citrus fruits, artichokes and other similar products in the course of the working of same in the fruit and vegetable factories; the system consists of an entrance conveyor (5) of the cases (2) co-ordinated with the rotating platform (1) of the filling station and with the exit conveyor (8) arranged on frames based on the floor; of a feeding conveyor (11') equipped with a belt (13) with a diaphragm angularly movable (25) in order to have the product (12) flow into the circuit (C) involving the belt itself and the near parallel one (13), when the feeding has to be interrupted: the feeding conveyor (11') is mounted on a frame (14) with an elevated level and in perpendicular direction compared with that of the entrance and exit conveyors (5, 8) in correspondence of the rotating platform (1); above the lat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Inventor: Felice Compagnoni