Abstract: An insert dispenser includes a frame partly defining an interior volume for supporting a stack of sheets products, the frame having a frame panel portion extending in a transverse direction and provided with first and second opposite transverse edge surfaces, the dispenser further comprises a dispensing opening. Moreover, the dispenser further includes an abutment panel extending in the transverse direction and having an abutment surface for abutting a cabinet front door surface and a frame facing surface connected to the first transverse edge surface of the frame panel portion. The cabinet includes a cabinet front door, a housing defining an inner depth in a transverse direction, a dispensing outlet for sheet products and an insert dispenser includes a dispensing opening.

Abstract: A system is disclosed for conveying proppant from a container to fracking operation equipment. The system includes a proppant delivery assembly having a frame supporting the container adjacent a proppant mover having a conveyor, a shroud enclosing a portion of the conveyor, a proppant chamber coupled to the shroud and a chute coupled to the proppant chamber. The system also includes a dust collection assembly fluidly coupled to the proppant mover to collect the dust particles contained therein. The dust collection assembly includes an air mover, a hood with a dust receptacle, and ductwork coupling the air mover to the dust receptacle. An air flow is generated along a flow path through the dust receptacle and the ductwork to the air mover such that a suction pressure generated by the air mover is sufficient to only capture and remove the dust particles, thus reducing a risk of capturing the proppant.

Abstract: A multi-function card dispenser and related apparatuses, systems, and methods for processing credit cards, phone cards, in-store gift cards, and the like at customer-operated kiosks and other machines. In one embodiment, a card apparatus can include a card hopper having a card eject surface and a card track having a card transport surface positioned below the card eject surface. A first roller is configured to rotate to draw a first card from a card port and onto the card track. A second roller is configured to rotate to dispense a second (ejected) card from the card hopper and onto the card track and further toward the card port. In one embodiment, the second roller is further configured to rotate to deposit cards below the card hopper.

Abstract: An inclined type kicker for pushing out a lowermost-layer corrugated cardboard sheet in a plurality of corrugated cardboard sheets stacked in a hopper toward a front gate disposed on the downstream side of a sheet transferring direction in the hopper includes: a push-out face for pushing out the lowermost-layer corrugated cardboard sheet toward a lower end opening side of the front gate in abutment against a rear end of the lowermost-layer corrugated cardboard sheet on the upstream side of the sheet transferring direction; and a rear end lift-up face which is obliquely formed such that the height is gradually increased toward the upstream side of the sheet transferring direction and adapted to lift upward the rear end side of the corrugated cardboard sheet located on the upper layer side of the lowermost-layer corrugated cardboard sheet with an operation of pushing out the lowermost-layer corrugated cardboard sheet.

Abstract: A device for generating a controllable reciprocal movement of a moveable mechanical element between a first stop point and a second stop point. At least one drive element is moved continuously with reciprocal movement between two turning points. A coupling device with a controllable coupling serves for the selective coupling of the mechanical element to the drive element. The coupling device further features a freewheel and is arranged such that in the active state of the coupling the mechanical element is coupled to the at least one drive element during a first half-cycle of the movement of the drive element and is moved from the first stop point to the second stop point, and during a second half-cycle of the movement of the drive element is substantially uninfluenced by the drive element due to the action of the freewheel.

Abstract: A card dispensing apparatus having a compact configuration has a housing to support a stack of cards on a fixed base. Openings in the base member can permit surfaces from a conveying member to extend into the housing and contact a surface of the lowest card. The conveyer member can move horizontal to a release point and retract beneath the base member to return to an initial position. A movement unit provides a cyclic looping movement of the conveyer member into and out of the housing for transporting cards. A feed unit positioned at the dispensing point of the cards can grasp and release the cards from the card dispensing apparatus.

Abstract: A card dispensing device has a mechanism for preventing double feeding of cards. The double feed preventing mechanism can be card attitude correction rollers, which adjoin the leading edges of the cards within the card dispensing unit and thickness screws to regulate the vertical dimension of the card feed route. The double feed preventing mechanism can be a plate having a leading edge extending into the card feed route to regulate the vertical dimension of the card feed route.

Abstract: A tagging machine acts to automatically insert label tags into selected compartments of a seed tray as the tray passes under the machine.A cartridge loaded with tags feeds the tags one by one to a breach channel. A pair of extractor fingers lift the tag in the breach channel, onto a deflector which deflects the emerging end of the tag between a pair of displacement fingers. Once the displacment fingers have received the tag they drive the tag back along the channel in the opposite direction to discharge the tag into the seed tray.As the tag is moved in a direction to be discharged from the channel it displaces the extractor fingers out of the channel. The fingers are only brought back into the channel to lift the next tag, when the displacement fingers return to their tag receiving position.

Abstract: A swingable dust hood is provided for use in the dust removal system of an endless belt type working machine. The dust hood has a jet air cleaner positioned on an inner wall which blows dust and other particles off the workpiece for exhaust via an outlet connected to the dust hood. A pivot rod is fixed to the outer shell of the dust hood and is rotatably journalled in a pivot receptacle bracketed to the machine support table. The hood can accordingly be positioned in three primary positions; namely, a first position wherein the hood completely encases a roll when the workpiece does not extend past the form platen; a second position wherein the hood partially encloses the piece when the workpiece is extended past the platen; and a third position wherein the hood is swung back to completely expose the drive roll to permit changing or repair of the endless belt and/or the roll.

Abstract: A rotary feeder feeds sheets or board-like articles to nip rolls in a box-making machine. The boards are successively and individually fed from the bottom of a stack whose forward edge engages a gate below which the boards are fed by driven feed members such as wheels, rolls or endless belts which engage the underside of the lowermost board. To raise and lower the boards relative to the surface of the feed members, a vertically reciprocable grate is provided between the drive members. The grate and drive members are mounted in a vacuum box in which a vacuum is established to hold the boards in proper position on the feed members when the grate is lowered. The vacuum is also utilized to hold the boards with sufficient force to produce necessary friction between the boards and the feed members for feeding.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for separating a single sheet from a stack of several sheets having the same non-round shape and the same size. The apparatus comprises a container with a recess for holding the stack, a base located underneath the container having a dispensing opening, a separating element with an aperture for receiving the bottom sheet which is to be separated from the stack. The separating element is located between the container and the base and is essentially a flat disc, the thickness of which is smaller than the thickness of a single sheet of the stack. Structure is provided for the container relative to the separating element on an imaginary axis passing through the recess of the container. The dispensing opening of the base and the aperture of the separating element are capable of separating each bottom sheet from the stack and conveying the separated sheet into the dispensing opening of the base.

Abstract: A dispenser for a stack of horizontally disposed, rectangular cards or the like and a product vending machine incorporating the dispenser. The dispenser features a magazine for the stack of cards and a dispensing chute beneath the magazine. Between the magazine and the chute, on one lateral side thereof, is a slider with a pair of laterally extending front and rear fingers that can be moved frontally and rearwardly against the front and rear edges, repectively, of the bottommost card of the stack. When the dispenser is actuated, the slider moves rearwardly so that its front finger urges the bottommost card to move rearwardly to an intermediate position in which the rear portions of the card are restrained from moving downwardly while the front portions of the card are free to move downwardly into the dispensing chute.

Abstract: Apparatus for feeding tags from a tag hopper to a tag attaching station includes a spring biased push member having a notched front end for cooperation with a downwardly inclined shutter at the entry of the tag hopper for engaging the lowermost tag and pushing the same to the tag attaching station. A second shutter at the exit of the tag hopper contains a resilient finger for exerting a drag force against any tags above the lowermost tag so as to retain all but the lowermost tag in the hopper during a feed stroke.

Abstract: A device for separating an end blank from a stack of blanks comprises a stacking rack and an arrangement including at least one drivable feeder tooth, at least two supports lying against the outer side of an end blank and at least one abutment. In said arrangement which can be coupled together with the rack, a support and a feeder tooth are located in close proximity, and at least one such set is located at opposite sides of an end blank in the stack. A fixed and a movable abutment is arranged at one side of the end blank in connection with the support and the feeder tooth. The support(s) opposite the abutments can be displaced perpendicularly to the plane of the blanks. The feeder teeth are arranged to move an end blank laterally in the stack.

Abstract: Apparatus for supplying preselected numbers of superimposed prefabricated cardboard blanks of the type having alternating larger and smaller marginal flaps from an auxiliary magazine into the main magazine of a packing machine has a frame which carries the auxiliary magazine above the main magazine and is provided with several lugs which support the larger flaps of the lowermost blank in the auxiliary magazine. A photoelectronic detector monitors the height of the supply of blanks in the main magazine and transmits a signal when the height of the supply drops below a preselected value. This initiates pivotal movement of a pusher which is adjacent to one side of the pile of blanks in the auxiliary magazine whereby the pusher shifts a number of lowermost blanks relative to the lugs so that the lugs register with and can be bypassed by the shorter flaps of the thus released blanks which descend into the main magazine by gravity.

Abstract: A device for feeding plate materials wherein plate materials in a magazine are guided toward its outlet and urged in the direction perpendicular to their surfaces by a reciprocating member disposed at the outlet of the magazine in such a manner that it can be moved back and forth to receive the plate members from the outlet of the magazine and carry them one by one on its support surface to a predetermined position. A kicker is retractably fitted to the reciprocating member through a spring so that, when projected from the support surface of the reciprocating member, the kicker engages with the rear edge of the plate material on the support surface as it advances. A rear engagement projection protrudes inwardly from the rear wall of the magazine outlet so that it opposes and engages the outer rear surface of the outermost one of the plate materials contained in the magazine.

Abstract: Apparatus for feeding data processing record cards seriatim from the bottom of a stack to a data sensing station or the like including a pair of oscillating picker members for displacing a record card from the bottom of the stack, and a pair of sector rollers for intermittently gripping the displaced card and moving it at right angles to the direction of displacement to the nip of a set of feed rollers. Both the picker members and sector rollers are driven from a common source, the picker members being harmonically driven through a unique coupling device including a pair of flexural elements mounted at right angles to each other to give a universal action.