Load Obstructing Gate And Means For Lifting Load Over The Obstruction Patents (Class 198/463.5)
  • Patent number: 12168579
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a tote stop assembly configured for a conveyor assembly and methods of operating the same. In various embodiments, the tote stop assembly comprises a cam assembly comprising a cam element secured relative to an outer surface of a drive roller, the drive roller being configured to cause motor-driven rotation of the cam element about a central axis of the drive roller; and a tote stop component comprising a cam follower configured for physical engagement with the cam element such that the motor-driven rotation of the cam element causes vertical movement of the tote stop component between raised and lowered positions; the tote stop assembly being configurable in an actuated configuration to selectively obstruct an object from moving along a conveyor path based on an operation of the drive roller, the actuated configuration being defined by the tote stop component being arranged in the raised position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC
    Inventors: Edmundo Cruz-Ruiz, Justen Pahls
  • Patent number: 9988229
    Abstract: Device for controlling the discharge of Logs outgoing from a rewinding machine, comprising a body (6) placed downstream of a surface (5) along which the logs (3) move in a output direction (F), wherein said body (6) rotates with a predetermined angular speed about an axis (a) parallel to the logs (3) and perpendicular to said output direction (F) followed by the Logs (3). The body (6) has at least one pocket (P) adapted to receive and temporarily housing a log (3) that enters in the same pocket (P) while moving along the said output direction (F). The body (6) rotates about said axis (a) in a direction (G) opposite to the output direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: FUTURA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Fabio Perini
  • Patent number: 8387774
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing spaced boards is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a receiving section, a spacing section and a delivery section. The apparatus is characterized by the presence of overlapping providing means and conveying means, releasable stopping means and vertical pushing means which are operatively connected for releasing one board at a time. Repeated stopping and releasing of boards result in a continuous and regular flow of evenly spaced boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Novilco Inc.
    Inventor: Michel St-Pierre
  • Patent number: 8220616
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for transporting elongate food products, comprising: a plurality of elongate product carriers, coupling means for parallel coupling of the product carriers and drive means for displacing the coupled product carriers over a transport path. The invention also relates to a method for displacing elongate food products over a transport path using elongate transport carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: F.R. Drake Company
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Josephus Maria Manders, Patricius Petrus Marinus Johannes Maas, Marcellinus Franciscus Ottow
  • Patent number: 7296674
    Abstract: Conveyor systems for storage and movement of goods on pallets and slip sheets. The transfer structures enable slip sheet mounted loads to be transferred to a roller conveyor by providing structures that cooperate with wide platen forks of a lift truck. The structures provide roller contact between a portion of the underside of the slip sheet at all times. In other areas there is alternatively contact between a lift truck platen or additional rollers that cooperate in a manner making it possible to move the slip sheet mounted load from the lift truck to an adjacent conveyor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Jolex Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Joseph Lawless, Rumen V. Stoyanov
  • Patent number: 7152728
    Abstract: The present invention 10 discloses a device for singulating individual logs from groups of logs for linear or transverse processing. The present invention discloses a log singulator having a fully rotatable lifter arm member, i.e., 360 degrees rotatable, which is used to singulate logs from groups of logs. The rotatable axle of the lifter arm may be located above the upstream “V” of the log cradle member. Furthermore, the lifter arm of the present invention will positively push the logs over the top point of the log cradle because it is rounded at the top point, thereby allowing the tip of lifter arm to remain in contact with the log. Lifter arms with 1 to 4 lifter arm tips are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: PSI Sales, Inc.
    Inventor: Van Woodham
  • Patent number: 7021451
    Abstract: The present invention 10 discloses a device for singulating individual logs from groups of logs for linear or transverse processing. The present invention discloses a log singulator having a fully rotatable lifter arm member, i.e., 360 degrees rotatable, which is used to singulate logs from groups of logs. The rotatable axle of the lifter arm may be located above the upstream “V” of the log cradle member. Furthermore, the lifter arm of the present invention will positively push the logs over the top point of the log cradle because it is rounded at the top point, thereby allowing the tip of lifter arm to remain in contact with the log. Lifter arms with 1 to 4 lifter arm tips are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: PSI Sales, Inc.
    Inventor: Van Woodham
  • Patent number: 7004303
    Abstract: An apparatus for spacing boards of lumber in transverse parallel contacting relation on an infeed conveyor comprising: (i) a rotatable lifting means adapted to receive said boards from said infeed conveyor, said rotatable lifting means including at least one arcuate camming element adapted to individually lift said boards at uniform intervals to a raised position by slidingly rotating beneath said boards; (ii) an outfeed conveyor for receiving said boards from said rotatable lifting system; and (iii) a rotatable advancing means located above said rotatable lifting means adapted to frictionally engage said boards when said boards are in said raised position and advance said boards onto said outfeed conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Rennie Equipment Incorporated
    Inventors: John L. Rennie, Cody A. Wikman
  • Patent number: 6978879
    Abstract: The present invention 10 discloses a device for singulating individual logs from groups of logs for linear or transverse processing. The present invention discloses a log singulator having a fully rotatable lifter arm member, i.e., 360 degrees rotatable, which is used to singulate logs from groups of logs. The rotatable axle of the lifter arm may be located above the upstream “V” of the log cradle member. Furthermore, the lifter arm of the present invention will positively push the logs over the top point of the log cradle because it is rounded at the top point, thereby allowing the tip of lifter arm to remain in contact with the log. Lifter arms with 1 to 4 lifter arm tips are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: PSI Sales, Inc.
    Inventor: Van Woodham
  • Patent number: 6779649
    Abstract: A log singulator and associated method for conveying and controllably discharging logs are provided. The singulator has a plurality of rotatable lifters with outwardly-extending arm members that contact the logs with a leading side to convey the logs to successive positions, for example, along a log cradle structure. The logs are conveyed to a discharge surface, which can be disposed at a declined angle so that the logs thereon tend to roll toward a discharge position. Discharge lifters, which are configured to discharge the logs from the discharge surface, have arm members that define angled cam surfaces on their trailing sides. The cam surfaces contact and retain the logs on the discharge surface until the logs reach the predetermined discharge position. Thus, the logs can be controllably discharged, for example, at a desired time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: PSI Sales, Inc.
    Inventor: Van Woodham
  • Patent number: 6779648
    Abstract: A device for singulating individual logs from groups of logs for linear or transverse processing. The log singulator having a fully rotatable lifter arm member, i.e., 360 degrees rotatable, which is used to singulate logs from groups of logs. The rotatable axle of the lifter arm may be located above the upstream “V” of the log cradle member. Furthermore, the lifter arm will positively push the logs over the top point of the log cradle because it is rounded at the top point, thereby allowing the tip of lifter arm to remain in contact with the log. Lifter arms with 1 to 4 lifter arm tips are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: PSI Sales, Inc.
    Inventor: Van Woodham
  • Patent number: 6637581
    Abstract: This invention provides log singulators which allow for the vertical singulation of piles of logs fed from typical in-feed log decks, so that these logs may be fed individually to typical out-feed conveyors. Devices provided by this invention may be high-speed singulators occupying minimal floor space area. Singulators provided by this invention comprise arcuately oscillating lifting devices (“primary lifting devices”), preferably rotating synchronously in opposite directions. Preferably, these singulators elevate logs against vertically successive barriers. These barriers are shaped so that only one of either a largest log or a smallest log, which it is expected that the singulator should handle, can rest on the primary lifting devices and be carried upward at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Inventor: George H. Goater
  • Patent number: 6564926
    Abstract: An apparatus for singly loading perpendicularly conveyed elongated members from a first conveyor to a second conveyor. The apparatus is positioned downstream of the first conveyor and upstream of the second conveyor. The apparatus comprises plural stopper arms each analogously displaceable between an abutting position, wherein the stopper arms hold elongated members from moving forward on the first conveyor, and a bypassing position, wherein the stopper arms are disposed away from the first conveyor for allowing the elongated members to move forward as displaced by the first conveyor. Plural analogously moving lower loaders wheel each have a generally circular body with a gripping surface on an outer periphery thereof. The gripping surface is adapted for abutting an elongated member. Plural analogously moving upper loader wheels are generally positioned above the lower loader wheels and have a resilient peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Leggett & Platt Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard Dubé, Dany Blanchet
  • Patent number: 6431345
    Abstract: A high speed board feeder for transferring boards from an infeed conveyor onto a secondary conveyor. The boards on the infeed conveyor are transported in an edge to edge configuration against a fixed stop. Hold down mechanism is provided to secure the boards in the desired orientation. A cam member timed to the secondary conveyor has lobes that engage and lift the board that is against the positive stop. The lobes lift the board upward and over the positive stop. The board is forced onto the secondary conveyor by the conveying force of the preceding boards. The board is placed on the secondary conveyor between successive drive lugs. A pivotal stop arm is provided to interrupt the feeding of boards from the infeed conveyor to the secondary conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: U.S. Natural Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry A Burgener, Timothy C. Efird
  • Publication number: 20020098073
    Abstract: A device for transferring bars from a magazine into the guiding channel of a feeder for feeding a machine tool, the magazine comprising an inclined surface for supporting the bars having a side for unloading bars into the channel, adjusters for adjusting inclination of the supporting surface, elements for retaining bars on the surface, and bar pickers which are actuated to disengage the lowermost bar from the retention elements and move it to a level for falling into the channel, and actuators for simultaneously actuating the adjusters and the retention elements for inclination and position adjustments suitable to accommodate variations in the diameter of the bars to be transferred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2002
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: IEMCA GIULIANI MACCHINE ITALIA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Drei, Silvano Ravaioli
  • Publication number: 20020046924
    Abstract: The present invention 10 discloses a device for singulating individual logs from groups of logs for linear or transverse processing. The present invention discloses a log singulator having a fully rotatable lifter arm member, i.e., 360 degrees rotatable, which is used to singulate logs from groups of logs. The rotatable axle of the lifter arm may be located above the upstream “V” of the log cradle member. Furthermore, the lifter arm of the present invention will positively push the logs over the top point of the log cradle because it is rounded at the top point, thereby allowing the tip of lifter arm to remain in contact with the log. Lifter arms with 1 to 4 lifter arm tips are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventor: Van Woodham
  • Patent number: 6357995
    Abstract: A device (20) is adapted to move an elongated object (21), such as rebar, from a first location (22) to a second location (23). The device includes an object-supporting surface (24), such as a conveyor; a plurality of stops (25) extending in a direction away from the surface; at least one hold-down (26) spaced from the surface and the stop. The first (22) location is arranged between the surface, stop and hold-down. A mechanism (28) is adapted to pick up an object positioned at the first location and to move the object along an orbital path (46) to a second location (23). Before arriving at the second location, the object may be counted and/or separated from other objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Columbus McKinnon Corporation
    Inventor: Peter K. O'Hagan
  • Patent number: 6336547
    Abstract: An ending apparatus for a log ladder (2), wherein the log ladder (2) sorts, feeds and sequentially indexes logs (54) along a longitudinal array of laterally extending adjacent log cradles (4, 8, 12), having, in the log cradles (4, 8, 12), exclusive of a downstream—most log cradle (12) in the longitudinal array, log translating means (64) for laterally translating the logs (54), when the logs (54) are in the log cradles (4, 8) exclusive of the downstream—most log cradle (12), so as to abut one end of the logs (54) against an edge (72) of the log ladder (2), wherein the log translating means (64) has selectively actuable rollers (64) mounted within a lower vertice of the log cradles (4, 8), wherein the selectively actuable rollers (64) are mounted in lateral array and the rollers (64) are generally hourglass-shaped so that in longitudinal cross section the rollers (64) have a longitudinal profile generally matching the longitudinal profile of a longitudinal cross section of the log cradles (4, 8), a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Inventor: Stanley W. Redekop
  • Patent number: 6199683
    Abstract: A lug loader includes a first shaft rotatably mounted transversely across a board flow path, wherein a board in the board flow path is aligned transversely across the board flow path. The board translates in a downstream direction on a board infeed transfer from an upstream position. A board supporting structure such as a disc is rigidly mounted to the first shaft so as to rotate with rotation of the first shaft. The board supporting structure has a shoe mounting surface extending generally orthogonally from the first shaft. The board supporting structure also has a radially outer-most rim, radially outer-most relative to the first shaft. The rim is generally circular and generally circumferentially contiguous so as to form a board supporting surface around the rim. An elongate shoe has first and second ends. A board supporting heel is mounted on the shoe. The shoe is pivotally mounted at the first end of the shoe to the shoe mounting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: CAE Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven W. Michell, Emeric Johnson, William R. Newnes, Robert B. van Varseveld