Material Or Article Handling Patents (Class 414)
- Motion of hand, finger, or arm member multiplied or reduced in its transmission to article manipulator means (Class 414/2)
- Having means to transmit motion through an imperforate barrier (Class 414/3)
- Electric or fluid motor drive for manipulator (Class 414/4)
- Having flexible motion transmission means (Class 414/7)
- Having sealing or radiation shielding means (Class 414/8)
- Loading or unloading aircraft under marine conditions (Class 414/137.2)
- With weather cover (Class 414/137.4)
- Marine vessel to/from well (Class 414/137.5)
- Marine vessel to/from air vessel (Class 414/137.6)
- Marine vessel to/from water (Class 414/137.7)
- Marine vessel to marine vessel (Class 414/137.9)
- Marine vessel to/from shore (Class 414/139.4)
- By use of screw conveyor on marine vessel (Class 414/141.9)
- By use of endless belt conveyor on marine vessel (Class 414/142.1)
- By use of laterally moving crane on marine vessel (Class 414/142.6)
- By use of swinging crane on marine vessel (Class 414/142.7)
- By use of hoist line (Class 414/142.8)
- By use of conveyor chute (Class 414/143.1)
- Stowage arrangement on marine vessel (Class 414/143.2)
- With alarm, indicator, or signal (Class 414/148)
- Driven, rotatable chamber (Class 414/149)
- Including driven device and/or inclined flow path to carry or convey material into, within, and out of chamber (Class 414/150)
- Charging of chamber (Class 414/160)
- Discharging of chamber by driven device (Class 414/209)
- Discharging of chamber by gravity, and means beyond exit thereof to guide, move, or stop material (Class 414/216)
- For carrying Standarized Mechanical Interface (SMIF) type (Class 414/217.1)
- Including screw conveyor (Class 414/218)
- Including trap chamber having horizontal axis of rotation (Class 414/219)
- Including serially arranged valves in path having a vertical component (e.g., airlocks, etc.) (Class 414/221)
- Condition responsive control of transporting means (Class 414/222.02)
- Portion of transporting means is retarded or stopped with load at station without being disconnected from remainder of transporting means (Class 414/222.03)
- Device engages load handling or supporting element or load on element to align load at station (Class 414/222.04)
- Means to convey load back and forth between initial location and station (Class 414/222.07)
- Charging transporting means with load at station (Class 414/222.08)
- With simultaneous charging and discharging of plural load holding or supporting elements (Class 414/222.09)
- Transporting means carries load to at least one of a plurality of fixed stations (Class 414/222.13)
- Supply source capable of 360 degrees revolution (Class 414/223.01)
- Supply source capable of reversible 180 degrees revolution (Class 414/223.02)
- Supply source includes chute (Class 414/224.01)
- Load holding or supporting element including gripping means (Class 414/225.01)
- Including plurality of supply sources for single element (Class 414/226.03)
- Device engaging transporting means or source to align element relative to source (Class 414/226.04)
- Transporting means is a horizontally rotated arm (Class 414/226.05)
- Facility includes structure (e.g., ramp, angularly related successive locations for a vehicle, etc.) necessitating self-propellability or steerability of vehicle (Class 414/228)
- With control system responsive to changeable operating instructions (Class 414/231)
- With means to sense condition of site (Class 414/232)
- Including one or more movable sites (Class 414/233)
- With vehicle storage or retrieval system responsive to manual designation of destination (Class 414/252)
- With means to transfer, or facilitate transfer of, vehicle from carrier to site or vice versa (Class 414/253)
- Carrier-facility-site relationship (Class 414/261)
- With alarm, indicator, or signal (Class 414/289)
- Receptacle contains liquid in which charge is submergibly sealed (Class 414/290)
- With means to handle (e.g., recirculate, remove, etc.) dust (Class 414/291)
- With means to seal receptacle in vicinity of entrance for charging or discharging means (Class 414/292)
- Charging or charge-distributing means (Class 414/293)
- Nongravity discharging means (Class 414/304)
- Gravity discharge of a gated, static receptacle to one or more vehicle-mounted receivers (Class 414/328)
- By additional load-supporting vehicle for moving with load from one load-transporting type vehicle to the other (Class 414/341)
- With means on each vehicle cooperating to effect, or facilitate, transfer of load (Class 414/343)
- With driven load engaging device, supported at least in part externally of the vehicles, for moving load therebetween (Class 414/344)
- Means is confined to one of the vehicles (Class 414/345)
- With driven carrier for receiving released load (Class 414/355)
- Vehicle of rail-guided type and track section having rails configured to tilt or invert vehicle as result of moving thereonto or progressing therealong (Class 414/357)
- Vehicle-holding member rollable along underlying support (i.e., axis of pivot of vehicle travels laterally) (Class 414/358)
- Vehicle-holding framework rotatable about fixed axis passing through framework and parallel to longitudinal axis of vehicle (Class 414/359)
- Pivotably movable structure, at least initially in underlying relation to vehicle (Class 414/362)
- Means decelerates moving, wheeled vehicle, load continues to move and leaves vehicle (Class 414/374)
- Means agitates, shakes, or vibrates wheeled vehicle or load therein to loosen load for departure from vehicle (Class 414/375)
- Involving movement of load by gravity from wheeled vehicle (Class 414/376)
- Means comprises structure for cooperating with a maneuvering, wheeled vehicle to engage and acquire a load therefrom or to give up a load thereto (Class 414/389)
- Of driven type, for unloading a wheeled vehicle (Class 414/390)
- Means comprises repositionable supporting and/or guiding structure (e.g., chute, etc.) for conducting load moving by gravity to a wheeled vehicle (Class 414/397)
- Power-driven conveyor for loading a wheeled vehicle (Class 414/398)
- Raising or lowering device of driven type for loading a wheeled vehicle (Class 414/399)
- Pushing or pulling device for loading a wheeled vehicle by exerting a generally horizontal force on load (Class 414/400)
- Means serves to align wheeled vehicle and load receiving or relinquishing structure (Class 414/401)
- Means comprises stationary guide or fixed anchor for cooperating with loading or unloading means located, at least in part, on wheeled vehicle (Class 414/402)
- For emptying contents thereof into portable receiving means (Class 414/404)
- With container opening means (Class 414/411)
- Successive dumping from conveyed stack (Class 414/413)
- With gate or closure-type discharge control means (Class 414/414)
- With jarring means (Class 414/415)
- Nongravity type (Class 414/416.01)
- Orienting endless, roller, or gravity conveyor (Class 414/418)
- Rotary cradle (Class 414/419)
- Elevator type (Class 414/422)
- Upending (e.g., rocking or tilting about end, etc.) (Class 414/425)
- Article actuated engaging means (Class 414/445)
- Separable load rack (Class 414/446)
- Successive engaging means (Class 414/447)
- With band-type engager (Class 414/448)
- Flexible strand attached load gripper (Class 414/449)
- Opposed movable jaw grippers (Class 414/450)
- Single movable jaw gripper (Class 414/453)
- Rigid-type grapple engaging means (e.g., hooks, etc.) (Class 414/457)
- With load-receiving portion comprising horizontally disposed, rotatable cylinder (Class 414/468)
- With load-receiving portion, or significant section thereof, pivotable relative to horizontal (Class 414/469)
- Having elevating load body (Class 414/495)
- Separable load rack (Class 414/498)
- Successive handling means (Class 414/501)
- Winch and idler-pulley-traversing haulage cable for ejecting load from vehicle (Class 414/506)
- Conveyor (Class 414/507)
- Loading or unloading by other carrier or mover means, and the load movement thereof (Class 414/539)
- Means includes driven carrier for receiving a load from a vehicle at an unloading station (Class 414/573)
- Means comprises device for changing the attitude of a vehicle, or its load body, relative to the horizontal for unloading by gravity (Class 414/575)
- Means comprises device or member for moving or causing movement of either a vehicle or a load receiving or relinquishing structure for an alignment purpose (Class 414/584)
- Means includes a load-engaging surface or element for pushing load from vehicle (Class 414/585)
- Mail (Class 414/593)
- Load lowering, automatic return (Class 414/594)
- Inclined track (Class 414/595)
- Magnet and grab (Class 414/606)
- Convertible attachment (Class 414/607)
- Separable rack (Class 414/608)
- With external cooperating movable feeding or discharging means (Class 414/609)
- Grab (Class 414/618)
- Elevator wherein means comprises guide mounted for relative movement, and tiltable carrier thereon (Class 414/628)
- Elevator wherein means comprises guide mounted for relative movement (Class 414/630)
- Tilting carrier (Class 414/639)
- Valved (Class 414/657)
- Comprising device on carrier to move or carry load laterally thereto or therefrom (Class 414/659)
- Comprising means enabling additional movement of carrier or portion thereof relative to its support (Class 414/662)
- Return, buffer, or counterweight feature (Class 414/673)
- Automatic stop (Class 414/674)
- Vertical cylindrical bar (Class 414/745.2)
- Heat exchanger tube bundle handling device (Class 414/745.3)
- Pipe laying (Class 414/745.4)
- Sequentially acting, diverse handling devices (Class 414/745.7)
- Including ramp and retractable stop or ejector (Class 414/746.4)
- Engaging interior surface of pipe (Class 414/746.5)
- Comprising walking beam (Class 414/746.6)
- Comprising roller or endless belt (Class 414/746.7)
- Comprising carriage (Class 414/746.8)
- Carried via magnetic floating (Class 414/749.2)
- Including a detector for altering load path (e.g., stop, redirect) (Class 414/749.3)
- Multiple loads, rotatable into various positions (e.g., indexing) (Class 414/749.4)
- Multiple loads, having means spacing one load from another load (Class 414/749.5)
- Having gripper means (Class 414/751.1)
- Including aligning structure (e.g., rollers and rails, dovetail joint, rod and channel) (Class 414/749.6)
- Article reoriented by contact with fluid means (Class 414/755)
- Article reoriented by flexible sling means (Class 414/756)
- Article frictionally engaged and rotated by relatively movable means (e.g., disc, endless belt, etc.) (Class 414/757)
- Article inverting means (i.e., 180 degree turnover) (Class 414/758)
- Plural article turning members coact sequentially to reorient single article (Class 414/774)
- Arm for orienting article is swingable about its transverse axis and is rotatable about its longitudinal axis (Class 414/776)
- Roller means circumferentially engages and supports orienter for rotation thereon (Class 414/777)
- Article support means rockable on fixed surface (Class 414/778)
- Article support means rotates about a shiftable pivot point (Class 414/779)
- Fixed member provides support for article reoriented while in contact therewith (Class 414/780)
- Article reoriented while fully supported by stationary supporting surface (Class 414/781)
- Article supporting carriage moved over fixed guideway to reorient article (Class 414/782)
- Orienter has article gripping means (Class 414/783)
- Orienter having article-supporting surface movable relative to article (Class 414/784)
- Of moving intersupporting articles into, within, or from freestanding, orderly layered, or mutually stabilizing orderly group (Class 414/801)
- Of loading or unloading marine system (Class 414/803)
- Of material charging or discharging of a chamber of a type utilized for a heating function (Class 414/804)
- Of moving material between zones having different pressures and inhibiting change in pressure gradient therebetween (Class 414/805)
- Of charging load-holding or -supporting element from source and transporting element to working, treating, or inspecting station (Class 414/806)
- Of charging or discharging plural static structures for supporting discrete loads and utilizing charging or discharging means therefor (Class 414/807)
- Of charging or discharging, or facilitating charging or discharging of static receptacle (Class 414/808)
- Of loading or unloading load-transporting type vehicle and external means cooperating in loading or unloading thereof (Class 414/809)
- Of emptying portable receptacle (Class 414/810)
- Of charging or discharging self-loading or unloading vehicle (Class 414/812)
- Of loading or unloading elevator or hoist and including loading or unloading means therefor (Class 414/814)
- Including vertically swinging load support (Class 414/815)
- Of reorienting article (Class 414/816)
Cross-Reference Art Collections
- With article-supporting fluid cushion (Class 414/903)
- Including support for group (Class 414/923)
- Including means for supplying pallet or separator to group (Class 414/927)
- Including means for collecting emptied pallet or separator (Class 414/929)
- Manual step utilized (Class 414/930)
- Bricks (Class 414/931)
- Audio or video cassettes (Class 414/932)
- Group formed or dispensed by reversible apparatus (Class 414/933)
- Nonconforming article diverted (Class 414/934)
- Adjust to handle articles or groups of different sizes (Class 414/900)
- Including article counter (Class 414/901)
- Including control for pattern of group (Class 414/902)
- With means to apply adhesive to article (Class 414/904)
- Having geneva drive for apparatus (Class 414/905)
- With article flap deflector (Class 414/906)
- Including means pressing against top or end of group (Class 414/907)
