Fmc Corporation

Evergreen Packaging, Inc.

Gerald P Berger

Frank S Foster

Lyle B Jensen

Leroy L Wittman

Cletus Emerich Kreher

David L Willard

Yasushi Sasaki

Toshiyuki Kanemaru

Rickie A Young

A container filling apparatus includes a fill nozzle for directing a liquid product into a container and an adaptor including a nozzle interface to engage the fill nozzle for a cleaning operation. An expandable member is configured to expand into a gap between the adaptor and the fill nozzle to form a seal between the nozzle interface and the fill nozzle.

Container filling apparatus including cleaning system

A system, method, and process of for packaging liquid product into cartons using an automated packaging system and more specifically methods of enclosing the packaging system and routing conditioned air over the cartons is presented. More specifically, a carton magazine assembly for collecting plastic coated paper carton blanks prior to sanitization, assembly, filling, and sealing includes a magazine cover that can be opened to insert additional carton blanks into the packaging system as necessary. The magazine cover has an integrated air manifold that directs pressurized conditioned air over the carton blanks towards suction ports. The suction ports collect the air with potential contaminants and the filters the air prior to ejecting it away from the vicinity of the packaging system.

Enclosed carton magazine assembly

A compact pedestal crane having a boom pivoted at a front edge of a main frame with a winch frame aligned with the boom and a plurality of winches mounted on the winch frame. An A-frame gantry is mounted on and extends above the winch frame and an engine drawingly connected to a plurality of hydraulic pump is mounted on the frame underneath the winch frame to conserve space. A cab is supported from the main frame to one side of the boom and forward of the front edge.

Compact pedestal-mount crane

A hydraulic circuit for a crane having both lift and boom hoist pumps driven by the same engine with appropriate control valves to independently control the lift hooks and the boom angle. An unloading valve is interposed in the boom hoise circuit and dumps the boom hoise pump directly to reservoir when the pressure in the left pump circuit becomes excessive. A boom limit valve, actuated as the boom reaches both upper and lower limits, also causes the unloading valve to dump the boom hoise pump to reservoir.

Hydraulic circuit for crane

A modularized pedestal mount crane having a base frame with a pair of fore and aft extending flanges with a boom pinned to the forward end of the flanges and an engine is mounted on the rearward portion of the flanges. A winch frame, carrying a plurality of winches, is pinned to the flanges and extends over the engine with vertical links connected between the rearward end of the winch frame and the flanges. A gantry is pinned to the winch frame, and cat walks are cantilever from three sides of the base frame, a cab included on one cat walk.

Modularized pedestal-mount crane and method of disassembly

A breakaway bail for a pedestal mount crane pivotally attached to the gantry by a pin extending through bushings secured to a pair of parallel plates with a spacer between the plates aligned with the bushings. A beam having an upright flange is secured between the plates and a multiple sheave pulley is attached to beam by brackets. Each of the plates has a necked down section between the flange and the spacer to create a high stress area, which area will separate under overload conditions without affecting the connection of the crane to its pedestal.

Breakaway bail

A crane has a rotatable body with a vertically pivotal boom connected thereto. An energy absorbing stop unit is mounted in a fixed position on the body, and a guide sleeve is pivotally mounted on the body adjacent the stop unit. A stop rod is pivotally connected to the boom at a point between the ends of the boom for vertical swinging movement, and the rod is maintained in the guide sleeve in every position of the boom. The guide sleeve is pivoted by the stop rod into alignment with the stop unit at the extreme upper position of the boom, and, at that position of the boom, the stop rod extends through the guide sleeve into engagement with the stop unit.

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Cedar Rapids, IA, United States of America

Gerald P Berger