An article treating device includes a belt conveyor having a belt that encircles a drive pulley at one end and an idler pulley at another end to support an article. At least one upper sprayer is positioned above the belt and is directed to spray a treatment liquid on an upper surface of the article on the belt. The article treating device sprays a second surface of article using a second sprayer by either: (i) spraying through perforations in a belt of the belt conveyor; and (ii) conveying the article over a flipping wedge to flip over the article before conveying under the second sprayer.

An article treating device includes a belt conveyor having a belt that encircles a drive pulley at one end and an idler pulley at another end to support an article. At least one upper sprayer is positioned above the belt and is directed to spray a treatment liquid on an upper surface of the article on the belt. The article treating device sprays a second surface of article using a second sprayer by either: (i) spraying through perforations in a belt of the belt conveyor; and (ii) conveying the article over a flipping wedge to flip over the article before conveying under the second sprayer.

A method of manufacturing substrates using a transport and handing-over arrangement for disc shaped substrates, including a carrier and a take-over arrangement. A substrate carrier of magnetisable material has a peripheral protruding rim. An untreated substrate lies in the substrate carrier below the rim. The substrate carrier is taken-over from the take-over arrangement by controlling a distance between a permanent magnet and the substrate carrier and transported from to a treatment station. The controlled drive of the permanent magnets in the take-over arrangement is performed by means of pneumatic piston/cylinder arrangements.

A method of manufacturing substrates using a transport and handing-over arrangement for disc shaped substrates, including a carrier and a take-over arrangement. A substrate carrier of magnetisable material has a peripheral protruding rim. An untreated substrate lies in the substrate carrier below the rim. The substrate carrier is taken-over from the take-over arrangement by controlling a distance between a permanent magnet and the substrate carrier and transported from to a treatment station. The controlled drive of the permanent magnets in the take-over arrangement is performed by means of pneumatic piston/cylinder arrangements.

An automated lumber handling system laser-scans the top profile of multiple stacks of lumber, each of which contain boards of a unique size. Based on the scanned profiles, the system determines the order in which individual boards from a chosen stack should be transferred to a numerically controlled saw. The saw cuts the boards to proper size and in the proper sequence to facilitate orderly assembly of a roof truss or prefabricated wall. In some examples, the system lifts individual boards by driving two retractable screws, or some other piercing tool, down into the upward facing surface of the board. A track mounted cantilever, holding the screws and a laser unit, translates over the lumber stacks to retrieve and deliver individual boards and, while doing so, the laser repeatedly scans the stacked lumber profiles on-the-fly to continuously update the profiles. The open cantilever design facilitates replenishing the stacks of lumber.

An automated lumber handling system laser-scans the top profile of multiple stacks of lumber, each of which contain boards of a unique size. Based on the scanned profiles, the system determines the order in which individual boards from a chosen stack should be transferred to a numerically controlled saw. The saw cuts the boards to proper size and in the proper sequence to facilitate orderly assembly of a roof truss or prefabricated wall. In some examples, the system lifts individual boards by driving two retractable screws, or some other piercing tool, down into the upward facing surface of the board. A track mounted cantilever, holding the screws and a laser unit, translates over the lumber stacks to retrieve and deliver individual boards and, while doing so, the laser repeatedly scans the stacked lumber profiles on-the-fly to continuously update the profiles. The open cantilever design facilitates replenishing the stacks of lumber.

The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes providing a first pipe having a first leading end and a first trailing end, providing a second pipe having a second leading end and a second trailing end, abutting at least a portion of the second leading end to at least a portion of the first trailing end to define a pipe abutment zone comprising a portion of the first pipe measured longitudinally from the first trailing end and a portion of the second pipe measured longitudinally from the second leading end, conveying the first and second pipe past an inspection device, inspecting by the inspection device a first portion of the pipe abutment zone and a second portion of the pipe abutment zone, and providing defect data that describes defects detected within the first portion and the second portion.

A system for cooling rolling mill material is provided that includes a conveyor system that receives rolling mill material and passes the rolling mill material through one or more cooling regions. A cooling structure that operates uniformly across the central and edge regions of the conveyor system. The cooling structure uses a first jet of air for cooling the central portion of the rolling mill material. A nozzle deck is positioned on the edge regions of the conveyor system produces a second of jet of air for cooling the edge portions of the rolling mill. The nozzle deck includes one or more adjustable nozzle structures for controlling the air flow produced by the second jet of air by varying the size of their air passage regions.

The sample rack conveyance device includes a pusher member, a driving unit, a control unit, a front rack detection sensor, and a pusher movement amount storage unit. The front rack detection sensor moves together with the pusher member, detects an additional sample rack arranged more frontward in the conveyance direction than the sample rack conveyed by the pusher member. The pusher movement amount storage unit stores the movement amount at the time of movement from a sample rack conveyance start position on the pusher member. Furthermore, the control unit controls driving of the driving unit on the basis of the movement amount stored in the pusher movement amount storage unit.

The sample rack conveyance device includes a conveyance mechanism, a re-inspection waiting tray, a recovery tray, a conveyance lane for re-inspection, a control unit, and a recovery start signal output unit. At reception of the recovery start signal from the recovery start signal output unit, the control unit moves a pusher member of the conveyance mechanism to bring the pusher member of the conveyance mechanism into contact with the last sample rack accommodated on the upstream side in the conveyance direction on the re-inspection waiting tray or the recovery tray.