With Solenoid Control Means Patents (Class 53/70)
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Patent number: 8245484Abstract: A bag opening method and apparatus for use in bag filling and packaging in which a bag B is gripped at its laterally opposite side edges with a pair of gripping members and moved along a predetermined path. A pair of suction cups 23 disposed facing each other at respective mutually spaced standby positions are moved to respective closest positions at which a vacuum is applied to the suction cups to cause them to adhere to the outer surfaces of the opposite side walls of the bag. The suction cups are retracted away from each other to respective intermediate positions between the closest and standby positions. The suction cups having reached the intermediate positions are stopped there for a predetermined period of time. Thereafter, the suction cups are retracted from the intermediate positions to the standby positions, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Toyo Jidoki Co., LtdInventors: Kazunori Yamamoto, Masanori Yasuhira
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Patent number: 8066186Abstract: A packaging system uses marked, specially designed packaging to enable confidential purchasing of consumer goods. Products having a first configuration normally labeled for sale are convertible into a second configuration which conceals the identity of the goods, other than perhaps having a confidentiality brand. The confidentiality package is bar-coded for price and purchase scanning but does not identify the type of good(s) being purchased either at the cash register or on the customer's receipt. The confidentially packaged items, which could be marketed under a YOURS CONFIDENTIALLY brand name, for instance, are primarily sold at a retail location immediately next to a normally marked, identical (except for the outer packaging shell) item, and have a brief description of what the item is directly under it (Tampons for example) located in the shelf strip next to the re-order shelf tag.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Inventor: John P. Kidwell
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Patent number: 6666937Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically labeling and stacking a plurality of flower pot covers. The apparatus has a first conveyor and a second conveyor. The first conveyor has a plurality of spatially disposed support assemblies connected thereto, each of the support assemblies selectively movable between a retracted position and an extended position and the second conveyor has a plurality of spatially disposed chutes supported thereon, each of the chutes having an object receiving space formed therein adapted to receive a plurality of flower pot covers, at least a portion of the second conveyor spatially disposed above the first conveyor such that a portion of the travel path of the second conveyor overlaps a portion of the travel path of the first conveyor so that the support assemblies on the first conveyor are aligned with the chutes on the second conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: December 23, 2003Assignee: Southpac Trust International, Inc.Inventors: Donald E. Weder, Frank Craig
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Patent number: 6396860Abstract: An optically-pumped laser having a small-molecule thin organic film of DCM doped Alq3. Carrier transport properties of the small-molecule organic materials, combined with a low lasing threshold provide a new generation of diode lasers employing organic thin films. An electrically-pumped variant is also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2000Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton UniversityInventors: Vladimir Kozlov, Stephen R. Forrest, Paul Burrows, Vladimir Bulovic
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Patent number: 5402619Abstract: A tin-tie bending device for bending the ends of a tin-tie about the edges of a bag wherein the tin-tie is secured to across the width of the bag and the ends of the tin-tie extend beyond the edges of the bag prior to bending. The device includes means for moving the bag along a travel path past a detecting means and a bending means of the device. The detecting means detects the bag as it travels past the detecting means. The bending means bends the end of the tin-tie about the edge of the bag and is actuated upon the detecting means sensing the passing of the bag along the bag travel path.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1993Date of Patent: April 4, 1995Assignee: Bedford Industries, Inc.Inventors: Scott L. Nelson, Stan W. Drietz
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Patent number: 4494355Abstract: A case feeding apparatus moves open cases onto a lift table where each case is moved upwardly onto the funnel portion of a shifting grid structure so that a slug of articles can be deposited therein. Line pressure advances the cases toward a retractable stop and side belts move the cases individually into an intermittently operated pair of case conveyors capable of handling cases of different size. Arrival of a case at the lift table triggers both the raising and lowering of the lift table and an indexing device controls the case conveyor cycle. The cases have their side flaps folded down by side guides to maintain the case in laterally centered positioned on the lift table and each case conveyor has either pusher lugs or leading lugs to control case position longitudinally.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1982Date of Patent: January 22, 1985Assignee: Standard-Knapp, Inc.Inventors: Lloyd D. Johnson, Jack H. Lewis
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Patent number: 4184305Abstract: A machine for automatically applying transfers such as tax stamps to multiple packages contained in a carton is disclosed. The transfer applying machine comprises a conveyor for intermittently and sequentially advancing cartons through an opening station, where the carton is opened to expose the packages therein, through a stamping station, where tax stamps in the form of heat or water transfers or ink printing are applied to each of the packages, and through a closing station where the carton is closed and resealed. The machine is adjustable to accommodate a variety of carton and package sizes and to apply the transfers to each package in the carton accurately while using stock rolls of transfers on which the transfers are mounted with a predetermined spacing that does not necessarily correspond to the spacing of packages within the carton.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1978Date of Patent: January 22, 1980Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CompanyInventors: Max N. Baker, Julian R. Martin
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Patent number: D890000Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: FLIR SYSTEMS ABInventors: Xuan Song, Zhenmei Mao, John Huang, Victor Ku
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Patent number: D891946Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: FLIR Systems ABInventors: Xuan Song, Zhenmei Mao, Yuan Lung Li, Victor Ku
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Patent number: D891947Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: FLIR Systems ABInventors: Xuan Song, Zhenmei Mao, Yuan Lung Li, Victor Ku