Abstract: The invention relates to a poultry transfer mechanism for transferring poultry bodies from a first poultry transport line to a second poultry transport line. Further, the invention relates to a poultry transport system comprising a poultry transfer mechanism, a first poultry transport line and a second poultry transport line. In addition, the invention also relates to a method for automatically transferring at least one poultry body from a first poultry transport line to a second poultry transport line.

Abstract: A wire harness manufacturing system includes a display unit, a wire cutting machine that draws an electric wire from a wire feed reel and cuts the electric wire to a predetermined length, a control unit that directs the display unit to display a wire laying image and wire work identification information for identifying a work regarding each electric wire, the wire laying image including a plurality of wire images showing the plurality of electric wire in the laid state and the wire work identification information being displayed in the vicinity of the corresponding wire image, and a memory unit that stores the wire laying image and work instruction information so as to correspond to the wire work identification information, the work instruction information including cut length of the electric wire. The control unit sends the cut length information to the wire cutting machine.

Abstract: Suspension devices for suspending strings of sausages in loops. The suspension device may include hooks configured for carrying a loop of the string of sausages and a guide and drive device coupled with the hooks. The guide and drive device is configured for guiding and driving the hooks along a path of movement. The guide and drive device has a drivable circulating drive element for spaced receiving of the hooks and for driving the hooks. The suspension device may include a height-altering device that alters the height of the hooks during the movement of the hooks along the path of movement.

Abstract: A System for storing products, in particular sausages, each having a sausage-shaped body and a loop (22), which is fixed to the sausage-shaped body and being used for a pendulously storage of the products (20) on rod-shaped storage devices (50). The System comprises at least one rod-shaped storage device (50) for storing several products (20) by their loops (22) one after another. The system also comprises at least one conveyor device (30) with at least one conveyor element (40) for conveying the products (20) by means of their loops (22) to storage places on the rod-shaped storage device (50). Furthermore, the system comprises at least one damping unit (70, 170) for reducing a swinging motion of the products (20) is positioned at least partially along the rod-shaped storage device (50) such that it abuts on the products (20).

Abstract: Installed in a rotary press which is provided with an upper work floor T and a lower work floor U to accommodate multi-layered printing sections, there are included upper turning bodies B installed at a high level on an upper story W, opposing each other at an interval larger than the width of a press plate P; lower turning bodies C installed at a low level on a lower story X, opposing the upper turning bodies B vertically and opposing each other at the same interval as the upper turning bodies B; endless flexible bodies D looped over the upper and lower turning bodies B and C; a drive unit E for rotating the turning bodies so as to run the endless flexible bodies D all at once; and a press plate holding F unit which has a plurality of press plate holders and which is disposed between the left and right endless flexible bodies D with its left and right sides connected to the rear or front segments of the respective endless flexible bodies D stretched between the upper turning bodies B and the lower turning bo

Abstract: A food processing system for an elongated strand of food product, such as hot dogs or sausage links, provides aligned orientation of conveyor hooks and identical arrival time spacing between adjacent hooks at a reference loading point at a strand producing machine discharge station.

Abstract: A sausage transfer station is disclosed for transferring sausages from a rack where they are hung by respective string loops in a plurality of rows to a main conveyor. The transfer station includes an unload conveyor for advancing the rack forward, a selectively pivotable unloader shaft oriented transversely to the unload conveyor, and a transfer conveyor having a leg parallel to the unloader shaft and an apex proximate the main conveyor. The unloader shaft has a plurality of unloader fingers extending transversely outward therefrom. The unloader fingers engage the string loops of a row of sausages to push them off of the rack and then drop them onto respective fingers of the transfer conveyor. The sausages are carried by the transfer conveyor to the apex proximate the main conveyor where they are transferred to hooks on the main conveyor.

Abstract: Apparatus of the tributary garment hangers on to the moving carrier include a conveyor for transporting the garment hangers, a drive for moving the carrier, and a coordinating mechanism cable controlling the relative movements of the conveyor and the drive such that a carrier being moved by the drive and a garment hanger being transported by the conveyor can be separately moved to a contact location in which the carrier will contact the garment hanger although the carrier and garment hanger are moving. The conveyor and the carrier configured such that the garment hanger is caused to be transferred onto the carrier following the carrier's initial contact with the garment hanger. The garment hangers are suspended from a rotatable shaft having an external helical thread to convey the articles.

Abstract: An apparatus (1) for loading articles (2) onto a moving conveyor, the apparatus including (a) transport means (3a, 3 b, 3c) on the conveyor which includes holding means (5) adapted to engage at least a portion of an article (2) so as to hold the article (2) in connected relation with the conveyor, and (b) locating means (6) operable to cause an article (2) positioned thereon to move into a position in which it cant thereafter be engaged by the holding means (5); wherein the transport means (3a, 3b, 3c) and the locating means (6) are co-operable such that the article (2) can be caused to be moved on the locating means (6) with the transport means (3a, 3b, 3c to being engaged by the holding means (5).