Patents by Inventor Mel J. Bahr

Mel J. Bahr 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 providing a buffer between article-handling devices
    Patent number: 5960927
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an accumulating device for providing a buffer. The accumulating device includes a frame and a guide structure reciprocally movable in opposite first and second directions with respect to the frame. A continuous chain configured for conveying pieces of product is mounted on the guide structure. The accumulating device also includes a plurality of driven gears constructed and arranged to both rotate the chain about the guide structure and reciprocate the guide structure in the first and second directions relative to the frame. A buffer is generated when the guide structure is moved in the first direction. The buffer is cleared when the guide structure is moved in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: MGS Machine Corporation
    Inventor: Mel J. Bahr
  • Apparatus for handling articles
    Patent number: 5700004
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hold-back device for use with a magazine of an article-handling apparatus. The hold-back device includes a frame defining a feed gap through which articles from the magazine are fed. A plurality of threaded members are threadingly mounted in threaded openings defined by the frame. The threaded members have distal ends adapted to extend into the feed gap to hold back the articles held by the magazine. By threading the threaded members in or out of the frame, the distal ends of the threaded members can be set to desired positions in the feed gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1997
    Assignee: MGS Machine Corporation
    Inventors: Mel J. Bahr, Timothy A. Bahr
  • Feeding apparatus
    Patent number: 5538235
    Abstract: An apparatus which uses vacuum to singly feed pieces from a stack. The feeding apparatus has a plate supporting a bottom of the stack and defining a plurality of plate apertures. The plate is connected to a drive mechanism which moves the plate between rearward and forward positions. The plate apertures are in fluid communication with a first vacuum source which provides a vacuum to the plate apertures. When the drive mechanism moves the plate from the rearward to the forward position, the vacuum source provides a vacuum to the plate apertures for holding a bottom-most piece of the stack against the plate. As the bottom-most piece of the stack is moved forward, a metering member prevents other pieces of the stack from being moved along with the bottom-most piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1996
    Assignee: MGS Machine Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy A. Bahr, Mel J. Bahr