Abstract: A system for removing a product-packing film from a product having an axis in a longitudinal direction. The packing film surrounds lateral portions of the product. A first end of the packing film surrounding a first longitudinal end of the product is open. A second end of the packing film surrounding a second end of the product opposite the first end of the product is closed. In the system, a conveyor carries a plurality of products each packed with a packing film in a direction perpendicular to the axes of the products while supporting the products such that the axes of the products are parallel to each other. A suction unit draws the first end of the packing film in an axial direction of each of the products. A clamping unit clamps the first end of the packing film drawn by the suction unit.

Abstract: A measurement assembly for measuring wear of the surface of revolution of rotating members is provided. The assembly comprises a support structure, a rod having a first sliding movement along a direction having a rectilinear component with respect to the support structure, a cam guide having a second relative movement with respect to the sliding rod, and at least one roller rotatably fixed to the sliding rod and in rolling contact with a corresponding track of the cam guide. The second relative movement between the cam guide and the sliding rod causes the first movement of the rod along the sliding direction. The measurement assembly may comprise an indicator of the position of the at least one roller along the rectilinear component such that the indicator is capable of generating an electrical signal indicative of the distance between the indicator and the roller.

Abstract: A method is provided for transporting components using a gripping apparatus. The gripping apparatus includes a body defining a chamber and includes an exhaust at a first end of the body. The gripping apparatus also includes an air conveyor positioned within the chamber. The method includes attaching a gripper head to a second end of the body opposite to the first end. The gripper head defines one or more openings and a nest. The method further includes generating an air flow through an inlet of the air conveyor and out through the exhaust. The method further includes applying suction via the one or more openings in the gripper head to locate and releasably hold one of the components with the gripper head at the first location based on the generating step. The method further includes transporting the component from the first location to a second location.

Abstract: A vibratory conveyor for bulk material is provided having a conveying trough or tube for bulk material and a vibration generator connected thereto for generating a directed vibratory excitation to transport the bulk material longitudinally. The directed vibratory excitation has directional components in the longitudinal direction and in a vertical direction opposite gravity. The conveyor further includes at least one retaining weir arranged in the trough or tube for decelerating the bulk material in the longitudinal direction through the trough or tube. The retaining weir has a rear wall in a transport direction of the bulk material and a front wall opposite the transport direction. The rear wall is at least sectionally inclined in an obliquely descending manner from an apex of the retaining weir toward the bottom of the trough or tube. The length of the front wall is smaller than the length of the rear wall.

Abstract: A conveyor belt cleaning assembly includes a first rail member, a second rail member, and a locking mechanism for removably securing the first rail member to the second rail member. The first rail member includes a first base wall, a first leg extending from a first end of the first base wall, a second leg extending from an opposite second end of the first base wall, a first bottom retaining wall, and a first side retaining wall defining a first inner taper portion extending inwardly toward the second leg. The second rail member includes a second base wall, an inner wall, an opposite outer wall, a second bottom retaining wall, and a second side retaining wall defining a second inner taper portion extending inwardly toward the inner wall. The second inner taper portion is a mirror image of the first inner taper portion.

Abstract: In one aspect, a gap blocker having a body with an upper blocking portion and leg portions of the body connected to the upper blocking portion at longitudinally spaced apart locations. The leg portions of the body have an initial, undeflected configuration with at least one of the leg portions having a first orientation relative to the upper blocking portion. The leg portions of the body have an operating configuration with the body in a gap between rollers wherein the at least one of the leg portions has the first orientation relative to the upper blocking portion. The upper blocking portion has upper contact portions and the leg portions have lower contact portions for contacting the rollers. The body also has outer surface portions intermediate the upper and lower contact portions configured to be in clearance with the rollers.

Abstract: System and method for interfacing between conveyors utilizing at least one detachment system to detach a batch of objects from a respective at least one serial feed conveyor, and at least one loading tray to receive a batch of the objects from a respective at least one detachment system, move towards a movable support assembly and discharge the batch of objects thereby carried onto a respective array of grippers of said movable support assembly.

Abstract: A device for extracting glass containers for pharmaceutical and/or cosmetic use from trays that have recesses or impressions housing glass containers or the like arranged consecutively includes a wheel sector or star segment, which is caused to rotate around a horizontal axis in a circular path and which is brought above a tray moved forward at the same peripheral speed as the wheel sector or star segment. An outer peripheral surface of the wheel sector or star segment is formed as an arc of circumference and carries extraction pincers of the single glass container arranged between each other at a first reciprocal distance equal to that between the recesses or impressions of the tray, each of said extraction pincers having a pair of yielding arms that house a single glass container.

Abstract: An embedded body including, at one end portion of a coaxial cable, one side antenna unit and an IC tag that is passive and connected to the one side antenna unit, and another side antenna unit at the other end portion of the coaxial cable is embedded in a conveyor belt. The one side antenna unit and the IC tag, and the other side antenna unit disposed with an interval in a width direction and the coaxial cable is embedded extending in the width direction. A calculation unit determines whether a detector has received a radio wave emitted from the IC tag through the coaxial cable and the other side antenna unit in response to a radio wave emitted from the detector, and then whether a vertical tear has been generated in the conveyor belt based on the determination result.

Abstract: A container guiding device has a railing with two guide elements that are spaced from one another, that extend in the transport direction of a container transport device, and that guide containers or packages. At least one guide element can be adjusted transversely to the transport direction relative to the other guide element by an adjusting device. The adjusting device has a drive body which can be rotated about a rotational axis and a coupling element which is connected to the at least one guide element and to the drive body such that a rotation of the drive body produces a translation of the coupling element transversely to the transport direction. The drive body has a control element which is in engagement with the coupling element and which runs in a spiral shape about the rotational axis of the drive body, at least along some sections.

Abstract: A shot processing apparatus in which a projection machine projects projection media onto a workpiece. The shot processing apparatus includes plural hanger transport devices and a control unit. The hanger transport devices are each, in a hanging state of a member on which a workpiece is set or a hanging state of a workpiece, capable of moving along a guide path inside the shot processing apparatus and capable of stopping. The hanger transport devices are also capable of providing self-identifying identification information. The control unit controls the hanger transport devices by outputting to each of the plural hanger transport devices a control signal appropriate to each of the hanger transport devices. This control is based on the identification information provided from each of the individual hanger transport devices and based on information related to each of the individual hanger transport devices stored in advance in association with the identification information.

Abstract: A system for monitoring conveyor belts is disclosed. The system includes a generator array, a sensor array and circuitry. The generator array is configured to apply a magnetic field to a plurality of belt subsegments of a segment of a conveyor belt. The sensor array is configured to measure a plurality of magnetic responses for the plurality of belt subsegments. The circuitry is configured to determine whether at least a portion of the segment requires replacement based on the measured plurality of magnetic responses.

Abstract: According to one method, bulk materials are conveyed in a metered quantity on at least one plate element and are lifted up from the plate element in order to organize the bulk materials by a movement oriented approximately perpendicularly to the plate element. The plate element is moved up and down at least transversely to the plate element support surface by at least one pulse, preferably two successive pulses, such that the bulk materials located on the plate element are lifted up from the plate element for a short time during each pulse, thus allowing an efficient and highly productive conveyance of the bulk materials.

Abstract: A tray-type component supply device includes a device main body, a magazine configured to be detachably held by the device main body and to accommodate multiple trays in each of which multiple components are arranged vertically, a shuttle mechanism configured to draw any of the trays from the magazine to enable the components to be supplied, a lifting/lowering mechanism configured to move the magazine or the shuttle mechanism up and down to select a tray to be drawn by the shuttle mechanism, and an automatic exchange section configured to exchange the magazine to be collected from the device main body and the magazine to be provided to the device main body.

Abstract: A conveyor belt sanitizer system includes a free-standing conveyor belt apparatus having a rotating conveyor belt traveling in a looped path, opaque cases are disposed proximate to and facing an outer surface of the conveyor belt along a hidden return section of the looped path, LEDs are situated in the opaque cases, brackets are connected to opposed longitudinal sides of a first one of the plurality of opaque cases and configured to be mounted to a support surface at the hidden return section of the looped path, and a controller is coupled to the LEDs. The controller is configured to automatically actuate the LEDs between an operating mode and a non-operating mode when the conveyor belt is rotated relative to a stationary position of the opaque cases and further configured to selectively sanitize an outer surface of the conveyor belt.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for feeding slurry to a recycling or slurry treatment process at an elevated location. The apparatus includes a reception hopper for receiving the slurry from a transport vehicle, and a bucket elevator for conveying the slurry from a loading zone, in communication with the reception hopper, to a discharge zone at an elevated location. The reception hopper includes a trough having parallel side walls and a bottom wall. The loading zone of the bucket elevator communicates with a first end of the trough, the trough including a movable wall extending perpendicular to the side walls of the reception hopper and being movable towards the first end of the trough to urge slurry towards the loading zone of the bucket elevator.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses are an article sorting and conveying apparatus and an article sorting and conveying system. The article sorting and conveying apparatus comprises a conveying assembly, an article carrying assembly, and a driving assembly. The conveying assembly is configured to move circularly; and the article carrying assembly comprises a conveyor belt, the conveyor belt being arranged on the conveying assembly and configured to be driven by the conveying assembly to move in a first direction. The driving assembly comprises a driving source and a driving member, the driving source being in non-contact driving connection with the driving member, the driving member being mounted to the article carrying assembly; and the driving assembly being configured to drive the conveyor belt to move in a second direction.

Abstract: A conveyor system includes an endless belt conveyor with an endless belt and one or more curve guide elements arranged for guiding at least a part of a stretch of the upper run of the endless conveyor belt to extend laterally from one side of the support structure and the lower run of the endless conveyor belt.

Abstract: A parcel sorting system is disclosed having bags located within rigid containers to form nested containers. The bags are configured to enable the bag to conform to an inner surface area of the rigid container. The resultant nested container can provide more efficient packing of packages and parcels for transportation.

Abstract: Conveyor idler monitoring apparatus, systems and methods are provided. In some embodiments, one or more sensors (e.g., temperature sensors, load sensors, etc.) are supported by the shaft of a conveyor idler. In some embodiments, one or more sensors are in data communication with a wireless transmitter. In some embodiments, a power generator driven by rotation of the idler is in electrical communication with one or more sensors and/or a wireless transmitter. In some embodiments, idler monitoring systems are in data communication with a conveyor monitoring system and/or operational monitoring system.