2374 results about "Material transport" patented technology

A material transportation system includes one or more material transportation vehicles, each having magnetic wheels coupled to a magnetically attractive surface that can include a ceiling, a wall, a floor, and/or a transition region. The material transportation vehicles are adapted to carry material from place to place. Each material transportation vehicle has sensors and motor controls that reduce swing motion of the material transportation vehicle and the material coupled thereto. A collision avoidance and traffic control system prevents collisions between the one or more material transportation vehicles.

To provide a paper recycling device capable of recycling paper of increased whiteness level that can be widely used for applications other than paper for newspapers, the paper recycling device of the present invention has a dry type defibrator for crushing and defibrating paper, a first transport pipe for transporting defibrated material that was defibrated by the dry type defibrator, a cyclone for air classifying and deinking the defibrated material transported by the first transport pipe, a second transport pipe for transporting the defibrated material that was deinked by the cyclone, and a paper forming machine for forming paper with the defibrated material transported by the second transport pipe.

Systems and methods for providing multimedia content from one process or component to another process or component over an unsecured connection are provided. One embodiment includes obtaining the cryptographic information, extracting the at least partially encrypted video data from the container file to create an elementary bitstream, enciphering the cryptographic information, inserting the cryptographic information in the elementary bitstream, providing the elementary bitstream to a video decoder, extracting the cryptographic information from the elementary bitstream at the video decoder, deciphering the cryptographic information, decrypting the elementary bitstream with the cryptographic information and decoding the elementary bitstream for rendering on a display device using the video decoder.

Nanostructured material transport devices and their method of fabrication, which involves applying molecular coatings to nano-openings in the devices to reduce the lateral dimensions and modify liquid solid interface characteristics of the nano-openings. Material transport devices having nano-openings with lateral dimensions confined to approximately 1 nm are obtainable.

The useful life of an abrasive material transport hose (10) can be maximized if the hose is repositioned at the first signs of internal wear. This is accomplished by disposing at least two wear sensing elements (17, 21), each at a specified distance from the inwardmost surface of the inner tube (12), and each monitoring a condition indicative of wear of the hose (10) at its specified distance from the inwardmost surface of the inner tube. When the innermost wear sensing element (17) implies wear, the hose can be repositioned to extend the useful life until the outermost wear sensing element (21) indicates wear requiring replacement of the hose.

Methods, systems, and devices to obtain dimensions of an article or product in association with material handling vehicles are disclosed. A dimension detection device is installed in an enclosure and is used to acquire geometrical dimensions of the object in association with the vehicle. A predetermined dimension of the vehicle is subtracted from the overall detected dimension to determine the dimensions, including weight, of the product alone. One or more dimension detection devices may also be positioned on a mast or other portion of the material handling vehicle allowing the material handling vehicle to act as a mobile product dimensioning system.

A system for moving a pallet is provided. The system provides for a pair of pallets each having means for inducing movement in relation to an other pallet. Further, logic is provided for calculating a movement instruction to move the pallets relative to each other. Additionally, the present invention provides for means for communicating the movement instruction to the movement means on the pallets to prompt movement of one of said pair of pallets relative to the other pallet. As no special floor surface or configuration is necessary, the present invention described herein may be readily adaptable for utilization within existing storage and inventory facilities.

A method and device for regulating the transport of material in a sewing or embroidery machine (1) that uses information from a position or movement sensor (33) located underneath the throat plate (21). The controls for the sewing machine (1) calculate deviations of the actual feeding increments of the article to be sewn from the corresponding target values from the periodically read sensor signals. With this information, the feeding increments are regulated in such a way that the deviations are cancelled out by averaging.

The invention discloses a bulk production line for reconstituted tobacco thin sheets by a dry papermaking method. The whole production line mainly comprises a raw material treatment part, a tobacco forming part and a thin sheet forming part, wherein material transportation is mainly executed through a carrying roller and a mesh belt, and is assisted through air flow of a fan; a conveying component of the whole production line is provided with a cleaning device, a tensioning device and a deviation correction device. According to the production line, wood pulp or tobaccos are smashed into fibers, then reconstituted tobaccos are produced through dry forming; finished products, namely the tobacco thin sheets, are produced through reconstituted tobacco treatment; the production requirements on the reconstituted tobacco thin sheet low sewage emission, low energy consumption and high quality are met.

A sublimating card printing apparatus, the size of which is reduced with a simple construction while providing multiple functions. A sublimating card printing apparatus for recording predetermined information in a magnetic recording medium and/or semiconductor memory provided on a card material and printing an image based on a supplied printing signal on the card material. The apparatus comprises a rotary transporting device for switching a transporting direction of the card material, provided along a linear transport path of the card material, a card tray for containing the card material transported by the rotary transporting device where errors occur in recording onto the magnetic recording medium or memory recording medium, and both a memory recording/reproducing device and a magnetic recording/reproducing device provided on the rotary transport path through the rotary transporting device, the length of the transport path thereby being reduced and the card tray being contained in the apparatus, the whole apparatus thereby being minimized in size and complexity while retaining multiple functions.

At a milling machine to work ground surfaces, with a machine frame, a milling drum supported at the machine frame, at least one transport device arranged at the machine frame which accepts the milled material from the milling drum, as well as with a suction device for the air polluted with dusts and vapors, whereby the milled material on the at least one transport device is enclosed by a channel, the suction device is connected to a rear channel section of the channel in the direction of the material transport and sucks off the air polluted during milling at the milling drum and in the rear channel section essentially in the direction of the material transport, it is provided that the suction device consists of a suction ventilator, a separator device for solids and a suction channel which is connected to the rear channel section, that the suction ventilator is arranged downstream of the separator device, and that the suction device disposes of the separated solids onto the transport device in a forward channel section in the direction of the material transport or into a collecting device, and the suction ventilator blows off the cleaned air into the environment.

Method and apparatus for installing a liner material into a host conduit such as, e.g., a sewer pipe, hydrocarbon pipeline, gas line, water line, industrial chemical pipe, or a saltwater line. The liner material may include a compression liner and/or a preliner that is attached to the inner wall of the host conduit to repair or reinforce the host conduit or separate the host conduit from materials transported within the new liner formed from the liner material. Curable resin, slurry, or cement can be placed between the liner material and the host conduit to affix the liner material into place. Before and during curing, a fluid such as air or water can be used to inflate the compression liner outwardly toward the host conduit. Spacers positioned between at least a portion of the liner material and the host conduit may be used to (i) calibrate the thickness of the liner material and curable material that is cured to form the new liner, and (ii) form communication channels adapted to house devices such as wire, cable, fiber optic cable, telephone lines, power lines, etc. The spacers and channels can be selectively inflatable to various sizes to allow calibration of the liner thickness and to form communication channels having a selected width or height. Additionally, the liner material may be formed into a one-piece, tubular lining member having an inflatable enclosure defined between an inner and an outer layer of the lining member. The enclosure can be selectively inflated to (i) calibrate the resulting thickness of the cured liner material, and (ii) form communication channels running along the length of the host conduit.

Utilisation of geothermal energy in depths above 5 km could contribute considerably to resolving the global problems related to a lack of energy and to glasshouse gases from fossil fuels. The invention describes innovative equipment which makes deep holes in geological formations (rock) by disintegrating the soil into blocks carried to the land surface through the excavated hole filled with liquid, using transport modules yielded up by gas buoyancy interaction in the transport module utilising supercavitation. In an opposite direction—by help of negative buoyancy—the necessary energy carriers, materials and components, or entire devices required for rock excavation, are carried to the bottom. The opportunity to transport rock in entire blocks reduces energy consumption considerably, because the rock is disintegrated in the section volumes only. Some of the extracted rock and material carried from the surface is used to make a casing of the hole using a part of the equipment. The equipment also allows the generation of the necessary high pressure of liquid at the bottom of the hole, to increase permeability of adjacent rock. The equipment as a whole allows by its function that there is almost linear dependence between the price and depth (length) of the produced hole (borehole).

The invention relates to a detection sorting device for steel balls The detection sorting device comprises a rack, a feed mechanism, an unfolding mechanism, a stock stop, a detecting mechanism, a sorting mechanism and a material collecting mechanism, wherein the feed mechanism comprises a material storing box, a material discharging hopper and a material discharging pipe; the unfolding mechanism comprises a material transporting guide rail, the material transporting guide rail is a V-shaped linear guide rail, the material discharging hopper is connected with an initiating end of the material transporting guide rail through the material discharging pipe, and the detecting mechanism comprises a light source assembly and a camera assembly; the light source assembly is arranged on the material transporting guide rail in a sleeved mode, the sorting mechanism and the material collecting mechanism are arranged on the tail end of the material transporting guide rail, and the separate collection of defect steel balls and qualified steel balls are realized through the sorting mechanism and the material collecting mechanism. The detection sorting device provided by the invention has the advantages that the automatic feed, detection and sorting of the steel balls are realized, a detection process is that two-dimensional motion of a traditional unfolding disc is changed into single one-dimensional rolling of one-sided steel balls, the detection efficiency is high, a false drop ratio and an omission ratio are low, and the steel balls are not magnetized or the surfaces of the steel balls are not damaged in a detection process.

The invention relates to a fixed type automatic volume measurement system and a measuring method of the fixed type automatic volume measurement system. The fixed type automatic volume measurement system is an automated measurement and calculation system based on multi-sensor integration. According to the system, multiple sensors are mainly used for synchronous control of a collector, a control tag reader and a high-speed laser scanner, and are in synchronous communication with an industrial personal computer to achieve data collection. Collected data are processed primarily by a controller to filter invalid data and transmitted to the industrial personal computer rapidly after being marked in a real-time mode with timing marks. A three-dimensional coordinate is computed through calculation processing software running in the industrial personal computer and by aid of the three-dimensional coordinate computational algorithm, vehicle-mounted material stack body modeling is carried out by combining the three-dimensional modeling algorithm, and then the volume of vehicle-mounted materials to be measured is calculated. Therefore, the fixed type automatic volume measurement system and the measuring method of the fixed type automatic volume measurement system have the advantages that a traditional method that a material transport vehicle is guarded all day long and recorded manually is replaced by a method that the material transport vehicle can be identified quickly and automatically, the volume of the vehicle-mounted materials can be measured quickly and accurately, and the material transport vehicle and the materials can be managed effectively.

The invention provides a fully automatic pipe material saw cutting machine. The fully automatic pipe material saw cutting machine comprises automatic feeding devices, a cutting device and a discharging device, wherein each of the automatic feeding devices comprises material storing mechanisms, pre-feeding mechanisms, a pipe material tail leveling mechanism, a movable pincers assembly and a sliding mechanism; the cutting device comprises a main pincers seat assembly, tailing pincers seat movable assemblies and a saw cutting mechanism, the main pincers seat assembly is fixedly mounted on a machine frame, and the tailing pincers seat movable assemblies are arranged behind the main pincers seat assembly in parallel and can move back and forth along the pipe material transporting direction relative to the main pincers seat assembly. According to the fully automatic pipe material saw cutting machine disclosed by the invention, the automatic feeding devices are arranged, the tail leveling mechanism is used for performing tail alignment, the movable pincers assembly is used for performing clamping, and then pipe materials are transported through the sliding mechanism, so that the efficiency is high; besides, the tailing pincers seat movable assemblies are arranged in the cutting device, if cut pipe material tailings can also be cut into a finished product, the tailing pincers seat movable assemblies are used for clamping the tails of the pipe material tailings to move forwards, then the saw cutting mechanism is used for cutting, and waste is reduced to the maximum extent.

A controlled material transport method for carrying materials to and from workstations, test equipment, and processing and assembly tools in a common facility. The present invention includes a rigid “robot vehicle” mountable to a passive track system, which can be routed to service all processing tools on the factory floor. The robot vehicle includes a hoist assembly and gripper assembly, which together perform such functions as picking up magazines, placing magazines, and loading magazines into the processing tools. The hoist assembly is capable of functioning in an operational envelope, which includes any target location within a 3-axis Cartesian coordinate system, to the extent of the range of motion of the hoist assembly. The hoist assembly also provides rigid and controlled z-axis travel, while being compact when retracted. The gripper assembly facilitates loading of the magazines, especially chute style magazines, which are commonly found on many existing processing tools.