Patents Assigned to Ismecam
  • Component advancement and extraction method and apparatus
    Patent number: 6119893
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for advancing and extracting a component from a tube or channel of a magazine by the employment of a vacuum to a port that engages an open proximal end of the tube or channel of the magazine where the vacuum is sufficient to advance and hold the component as the head is moved away from the proximal end in a direction parallel to the long axis of the tube or channel of the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Ismecam
    Inventors: Claude Mueller, Roy Alexander Darling