Patents Assigned to Agri-tech, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 6257294
    Abstract: A labeler for objects, such as fruit or vegetables, has a pickup head that includes a firing piston, and a larger piston that is coupled to the firing piston. The pickup head, along with other pickup heads, are provided on an assembly that rotates the heads in a circular manner. When each pickup head is at the 6 o'clock position, a burst of air pressure is provided to the firing piston, thereby causing it to fire and to cause the larger piston to move in an outward direction. This causes the pickup head to extend fully, to thereby cause a label positioned on an applicator at a distal end of the pickup head to contact an object and thereby apply the label to the object. At other positions besides the 6 o'clock position, a vacuum source provides a vacuum to the pickup heads, thereby maintaining the pickup heads in a fully retracted position, as well as providing a way for keeping the label on the applicator of the pickup head while the pickup head is rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Agri-tech, Ltd.
    Inventor: Richard Wayne Joseph Weisbeck
  • Patent number: 4435996
    Abstract: A differential for vehicles comprising a differential carrier directly supported within a housing on the inner ends of a pair of axle shafts. A ring gear is mounted on the carrier; and one of the axle tubes in which the axle shafts are rotatably supported positions the carrier within the housing and takes the ring gear thrust load imparted thereto by a pinion gear on a drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: Agri-Tech Ltd., Inc.
    Inventor: Oliver L. Gorby