Patents Examined by Gene O. Crawford
  • Patent number: 11904361
    Abstract: A screen plate for a separating device for classifying bulk material along with separating device having at least one screen plate therein classifying bulk material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Wacker Chemie AG
    Inventors: Thomas Aigner, Franz Bergmann, Andreas Schneider, Jonas Killermann
  • Patent number: 11896982
    Abstract: A material processing device includes a conveyor belt for transporting material from or to a material processing unit. The conveyor belt is swivel connected to a machine body by an articulated link, wherein the conveyor belt can be moved from a folded-down working position into a folded-up transport position by an actuating unit and the articulated link. The articulated link is part of an actuating mechanism which guides a proximal free end of the of the conveyor belt during the swiveling motion from the folded-down working position to the folded-up transport position in such a way that the proximal end of the conveyor belt is swiveled and raised against the direction of gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Monika Wagner, Christian Knoblich, Benjamin Kazmaier
  • Patent number: 11896146
    Abstract: A product dispensing system includes a housing having lockable access, a forward viewing window and a lower output tray. Two or more trays are positioned within the housing, each tray of the trays accommodating a plurality of products, wherein each tray includes a self-contained motor and track configured to move the products responsive to a user action. The system additionally includes a selector for moving an indicator laterally between the two or more trays and a knob spaced apart from the selector for activating the motor to move the products forward and drop a single product into the output tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SENNCO SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Sherretts, Daniel L. Horvath, Ryan R. G'Fellers
  • Patent number: 11898636
    Abstract: Fixed belt tensioners for a belt system, such as for an exercise bicycle or other belted exercise equipment. The tensioners have the pulley-bearing assembly fixedly attached to the tensioning arm, which is attached to the equipment frame or to a bracket via the same aperture that forms the axis by which the pulley-bearing assembly is attached to the tensioning arm. The arm includes a protrusion or other feature that provides a pivot point for use during the belt installation process. The tensioning arm also incorporates a tensioning adjustment, such as a hex or square hole or protrusion for engagement with a torque wrench or a simple wrench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Gates Corporation
    Inventors: Andrzej Dec, Min Chun Hao, David P. Rieland
  • Patent number: 11897692
    Abstract: The apparatus comprises a rotary put wall having a plurality of totes. The apparatus further comprises a vertical reciprocating conveyor (VRC) placed within the rotary put wall. The internal vertical reciprocating conveyor (VRC) comprises a plurality of chutes to receive one or more items from a robotic device. The internal vertical reciprocating conveyor (VRC) is further configured to be rotatable with respect to the rotary put wall and to convey the one or more items into one tote of the plurality of totes of the rotary put wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: INTELLIGRATED HEADQUARTERS, LLC
    Inventors: Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy, Matthew R. Wicks, Darius M. Scott
  • Patent number: 11897685
    Abstract: A dispensing product for storing a plurality of cleaning product tablets and individually dispensing them on demand that has a carousel assembly, a base, a lid, and an advancement mechanism. The carousel assembly has a plurality of depressions sized and configured to receive tablets. The base is underneath the carousel assembly. The lid is on top of the carousel and contains an aperture sized and configured such that a tablet can be withdrawn through the aperture. The advancement mechanism is connected to the carousel assembly and advances the carousel assembly rotationally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SCRUB DADDY, INC.
    Inventors: John Edward Lee O'Brien, Aaron C. Krause, Aleksandrs Titovs, Joe M. Vaccaro, Sheila Vaccaro
  • Patent number: 11900759
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing unit includes at least one ticket compartment and a separation module that has a drive roller and an opposed idler roller. A motor is geared to the drive roller and is switchable between a convey mode wherein the drive roller engages and conveys a leading ticket to a separation position and a brake mode wherein the motor provides a reverse retarding force to the drive roller to brake the drive roller against an attempted reeling of the lottery tickets. from the dispensing unit. A controller switches the motor between the convey and brakes modes such that in the brake mode, power to the motor is interrupted and windings in the motor are short-circuited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Scientific Games, LLC
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, James Jonathan Holbrook, Ian Robert Scott
  • Patent number: 11897697
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and systems comprising integrated motorized conveyor rollers are provided. The example integrated motorized conveyor roller comprises: a housing; a motor assembly and a drive assembly at least partially disposed within the housing that are configured to cause rotation of at least a portion of the integrated motorized conveyor roller; at least one sensing element operatively coupled to the integrated motorized conveyor roller; and a controller component in electronic communication with the at least one sensing element, the motor assembly and the drive assembly, wherein the controller component is configured to obtain operational data via the at least one sensing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: INTELLIGRATED HEADQUARTERS, LLC
    Inventors: Saravanan Sadasivan, Jeyaprakash Kandasamy, Rajesh Kaliyaperumal, Ravi Kumar Avupati
  • Patent number: 11897000
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (1) for sorting powder particles into ranges of particles according to one or more of a density, size and/or shape of the particles, wherein the device (1) comprises a particle sorting chamber (2) with at least one sloping side wall (3), which side wall (3) slopes from a lower part (4) of the sorting chamber (2) towards an upper part (5) thereof, wherein the lower part (4) of the sorting chamber (2) is larger dimensioned than the upper part (5), wherein at the upper part (5) of the particle sorting chamber (2) an inlet (6) is provided for supplying a flow of the powder particles to be sorted to the sorting chamber (2), wherein a particle outlet (7) is provided in the upper part (5) of the sorting chamber (2) for conducting sorted particles from the sorting chamber (2) through a duct (8) to at least one particle sedimentation classifier (9), wherein in the lower part (4) of the sorting chamber (2) means (11) are provided for generating an upward rotating gas flow in th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Value Ash Technologies NV, Vito NV
    Inventors: Roeland Geurts, Ruben Snellings, Michel Loots, Vladimir Zyryanov
  • Patent number: 11897686
    Abstract: A cartridge system comprising a carrier reel, distal and proximal take-up reels, a main guide post adapted to engage the main guide support, a first strip guide post, a second strip guide post, and a packaging strip. The packaging strip comprises first and second strip portions detachably secured to define a plurality of item chambers. At least one item is enclosed within each of the item chambers. The carrier reel is adapted to store the packaging strip. The distal take-up reel is operatively connected to the first strip portion. The proximal take-up reel is operatively connected to the second strip portion. Rotation of the distal and proximal take-up reels unwinds the packaging strip from the carrier reel such that the first strip portion is wound onto the distal take-up reel, and the second strip portion is wound onto the proximal take-up reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Stefan Richard Schacht
  • Patent number: 11900756
    Abstract: A vending machine includes a housing defining a product compartment and a front wall having a transparent portion. A platform is arranged within the product compartment of the vending machine for storing a product thereon, and the platform includes a first end opposite a second end. The vending machine further includes a product release mechanism that includes a gate arranged on the platform and movable from a closed position to an open position to release the product from the platform. A delivery bin having an open front end is arranged below the platform such that when the first gate is moved to the open position, the product falls under a force of gravity from the platform into the delivery bin for access by a consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Gurmeet Singh Bhutani, Sandeep Jain
  • Patent number: 11897710
    Abstract: A decorator assembly includes a cup holder assembly, a cup transfer assembly, and a decorator mandrel turret assembly. The cup holder assembly is structured to hold a number of cups in a nested, bottom leading configuration. The cup transfer assembly is structured to move cups from said cup holder assembly to a decorator mandrel turret assembly. The decorator mandrel turret assembly is structured to rotatably support a number of cups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: James W. Dominico, Weniek (Rex) E. Jablonski, Russell DiDonato, Leonard A VerHoven
  • Patent number: 11892244
    Abstract: In order to improve the efficiency of solidification and melting of a heat storage material in a heat storage material unit, a heat storage material covered with a coating material is accommodated in a metal accommodating container having a high thermal conductivity, and the heat storage material unit is embedded in a thermal insulation panel in such a way that the accommodating container is exposed inside a merchandise accommodating compartment, thereby enabling a surface of the heat storage material that is embedded in the thermal insulation panel also to exhibit an action equivalent to that if the accommodating container is exposed in the merchandise accommodating compartment as a heat transfer element, thereby improving the efficiency of solidification (heat storage) and melting (heat dissipation) of the heat storage material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Yuji Ishino, Yiguang Zhang, Yasuo Nakazato, Yasuhiro Yamazaki, Takashi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11891230
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispensing device for metering and dispensing a predetermined number of multiparticulates from a container. The dispensing device comprises a chamber which includes an inlet through which multiparticulates can enter the chamber and an overflow through which multiparticulates can leave the chamber. There is also an outlet through which multiparticulates can be dispensed from the chamber. The chamber comprises a metering surface which includes at least one retaining portion. The, or each, of the retaining portions is configured to be able to releasably retain a single multiparticulate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Phillips-Medisize A/S
    Inventors: Sabine Desset-Brethes, Regis Frelon, Stefan Hirsch, Hans Jensen, Esben Johansen, Peter Mathiasen, Jan Olesen
  • Patent number: 11885415
    Abstract: A CVT variator transmission box for using on a bicycle is provided. The CVT variator transmission box increases or decreases a speed of a rotation of pedals or hands when a form of a motion transmission is provided; and the CVT variator transmission box introduces a new variator gearbox with a CVT variator transmission mechanism capable of transmitting to a front wheel or a rear wheel by increasing or decreasing the speed from the pedals or the hands when the form of the motion transmission is provided. The CVT variator transmission box is positioned on any part of the front wheel, the rear wheel or on a frame of the bicycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: YESIL KOMPRESOR KLIMA TASARIM IMALAT SANAYI VE TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI
    Inventor: Peyman Asadi
  • Patent number: 11884474
    Abstract: A product dispensing clock includes a housing and a reservoir arranged in the housing. The reservoir holds a number of dispensable products. A dispenser is arranged in the housing adjacent the reservoir. The dispenser receives at least one of the dispensable products from the reservoir. A collection chamber is defined in the housing. The dispenser dispenses the dispensable products received from the reservoir to the collection chamber for a user to collect the dispensable products. A controller activates the dispenser at a predetermined time interval to dispense the dispensable products to the collection chamber for collection by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: David Davidson
  • Patent number: 11887714
    Abstract: A method of dispensing medication from a plurality of medication containers, using a dispensing system for collecting a medication dosage from a medication container including: receiving a medication selection; selecting a medication container, from the plurality of medication containers, based on the medication selection; matching a collection protocol to be applied to the medication container including one or more parameter for control of the dispensing system; and dispensing the medication selection from the medication container according to the collection protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Tech Pharmacy Services, LLC
    Inventors: Omer Einav, Doron Shabanov, Tamir Ben David, Eyal Livschitz, Thomas A. McKinney, Moshe Liberman
  • Patent number: 11883854
    Abstract: An optical sorter includes a light source, a color sensor, a determination part configured to determine a foreign object and/or a defective product, a color shift amount calculation part configured to calculate, based on a color image acquired by the color sensor, an amount of a color shift that occurs due to the fact that at least two element groups out of an R element group, a G element group, and a B element group are spaced apart from each other in a transit direction of a sorting target, a speed calculation part configured to calculate a transit speed of the sorting target based on a separation distance between the at least two element groups in the transit direction, the color shift amount, and a scan time, which is a time required for the color sensor to scan the sorting target once, and a sorting device configured to perform a trajectory change operation for changing a trajectory of a specific sorting target determined based on a result of the determination by the determination part at a timing determ
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SATAKE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Doi
  • Patent number: 11885075
    Abstract: Present embodiments relate to a tie plate orientation device. More specifically, but without limitation present embodiments relate to a tie plate orientation device that orients tie plates in a desired orientation for subsequent feeding, including an optional handheld magnetic device for manual assisted manipulation of the tie plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: B & B Metals, Inc.
    Inventor: Coty T. Coots
  • Patent number: 11883830
    Abstract: A waste sorting system (1) comprising a tank (S) for collecting recyclable material (RM) and a sorting unit (U) comprising a first sorting station (10) connected to the tank (S) through a transport device (12) of the recyclable material and a first sorting basin (14) containing a first liquid solution (L1) of given density to separate, according to Archimedes' principle, the recyclable material (RM) into a first material phase (F1) of first selection and a second material phase (F2) of first submersion; the first sorting basin (14) is delimited at the bottom by a first lower collection portion (140), the sorting unit (U) comprising first scraper means (16) associated with the first sorting basin (14) for collecting the first phase (F1) from a free surface of the first liquid solution (L1) and first wash means (18) of this first phase (F1); the first lower collection portion (140) being passed through by a first conveyor (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: WEBSPHERE IT & SOFT SOLUTIONS SRL
    Inventors: Maria Giovanna Gamberini, Giovanni Rolfini