Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Pusher conveyor and separate load support surface
Patent
1998-03-02
1999-08-17
Terrell, William E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Pusher conveyor and separate load support surface
198732, B65G 1926
Patent
active
059379995
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor for feeding push members along a path having at least one curved portion; each push member having a push appendix hinged to a flexible conveying member of the conveyor by a control device for keeping the appendix parallel to itself as the push member travels along at least part of the curved portion of the path; and the control device having a first lever supporting in rotary manner the appendix and connected to the flexible conveying member in rotary manner at one end and in rotary and axially-sliding manner at the other end; and a second lever, which rotates with respect to the first lever, is hinged to the appendix, and is inclined with respect to the first lever at an angle varying according to the curvature of the path.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2443010 (1948-06-01), Petskeyes
patent: 3876062 (1975-04-01), Honda
patent: 4890724 (1990-01-01), Loewenthal
Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche - A.C.M.A. - S.p.A.
Deuble Mark
Terrell William E.
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