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Article: Michigan Inventors Develop Automatic Trays Handling Method for Sorter
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 4, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 4 -- Douglas E. Olson and Ricardo N. Schiesser, both of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Gary P.Burns of Rockford, Mich., have developed a method for handling trays for use with an article sorter.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling trays for use with an article sorter includes providing a conveying surface along a plurality of sorter units and conveying empty trays along the conveying surface. The empty trays that are being conveyed along the conveying surface are stopped with a tray stopping device that is positioned at least partially below the conveying surface and operable to project a portion of the tray stopping device above the ...
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Article: Illinois, Georgia Inventors Develop Food Stacks Loading Apparatus
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
February 19, 2008 ;
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... ... conveyor has a retractable and extendable conveying surface, the conveying surface having an end region extendable to a position ... capture a row of stacked food products on the conveying surface, and plungers within the guides that lower ...
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