Material or article handling – Load-transporting type vehicle and external means... – Power-driven conveyor for loading a wheeled vehicle
Patent
1979-10-31
1981-08-04
Paperner, Leslie J.
Material or article handling
Load-transporting type vehicle and external means...
Power-driven conveyor for loading a wheeled vehicle
414265, 198311, 198303, B65G 6500, B65G 6700, B65G 1500
Patent
active
042819555
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for unloading bulk mail vans in accordance with which the conventional roll-in or piggyback unloading dock conveyors of bulk mail handling centers, such as are operated by the United States Postal Service, are equipped with an auxiliary load receiving conveyor that serves as an implement which provides for largely mechanical transfer of the individual bags and cartons of the bulk mail from their positions of rest in the vehicle to the roll-in conveyor. The auxiliary conveyor is located at the load receiving end of the roll-in conveyor and comprises a positionable conveyor head in the form of a cantilever mounted belt conveyor apparatus having an upright two wheeled chassis that has a draft type connection to the roll-in conveyor frame for movement part and parcel with the roll-in conveyor to bring the conveyor in through the vehicle end opening into close adjacency with the stacked bags and cartons that form the bulk mail to be handled. The conveyor head is mounted for adjusting its projecting load receiving end vertically and horizontally for aiming the head in the general direction of the bags and cartons exposed at the end of the van to operationally position the conveyor head for consecutively transferring the bags and cartons making up the stack being processed onto the head and thence to the roll-in conveyor.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2971631 (1961-02-01), Gray
patent: 3416674 (1968-12-01), Gualandris et al.
patent: 3837510 (1974-09-01), McWilliams
Paperner Leslie J.
Williams L. E.
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