Patents by Inventor Halvard H. Solberg

Halvard H. Solberg 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).

  • Patent number: 5451795
    Abstract: A system for registering boxes carried on one conveyor line with wraps carried on another conveyor line, in which the boxes and wraps are viewed by electronic cameras that provide respective digitized images of the boxes and wraps, and a computer determines from those images sufficient information to effect such registration by a mechanical arm that spots the boxes on the wraps regardless of their original orientation, responsively to commands from the computer. A vacuum plenum is disposed beneath the wrap conveyor for maintaining a negative pressure that releasably retains the wraps on a surface of the wrap conveyor. The wrap conveyor comprises a flexible, pneumatically porous, light-transmissive conveyor belt for moving the wraps for viewing by a camera against the upper surface of the belt, the belt being supported over the vacuum plenum on an apertured, light-transmissive frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Assignee: Crathern & Smith, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Carbrey, Halvard H. Solberg, John DiValerio