Patents by Inventor Gregory S. Poole

Gregory S. Poole has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus for handling flexible objects
    Patent number: 5544603
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of removing a small number of flexible objects, such as circular knit hosiery blanks from a mass of randomly arranged flexible objects, depositing the flexible objects on a turntable in spaced apart relation, removing individual flexible objects from the turntable, conveying the individual flexible objects to a sensing location, sensing the orientation thereof, returning to the turntable any flexible objects that are not properly positioned for the sensing of the orientation thereof, conveying the flexible objects which have had the orientation thereof determined along one of two alternate paths of travel determined by the orientation that has been sensed and the orientation desired at the delivery point, delivering the properly oriented blanks to a transfer location, transferring the blanks to a further processing apparatus, and further processing the flexible objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: Monarch Knitting Machinery Corporation
    Inventors: Cecil R. Bell, Charles R. Moyer, Gregory S. Poole, Kenneth B. Silvers
  • Method and apparatus for handling flexible objects
    Patent number: 5511501
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of removing a small number of flexible objects, such as circular knit hosiery blanks from a mass of randomly arranged flexible objects, depositing the flexible objects on a turntable in spaced apart relation, removing individual flexible objects from the turntable, conveying the individual flexible objects to a sensing location, sensing the orientation thereof, returning to the turntable any flexible objects that are not properly positioned for the sensing of the orientation thereof, conveying the flexible objects which have had the orientation thereof determined along one of two alternate paths of travel determined by the orientation that has been sensed and the orientation desired at the delivery point, delivering the properly oriented blanks to a transfer location, transferring the blanks to a further processing apparatus, and further processing the flexible objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Monarch Knitting Machinery Corporation
    Inventors: Cecil R. Bell, Charles R. Moyer, Gregory S. Poole, Kenneth B. Silvers