Conveyors: power-driven – Conveying system having plural power-driven conveying sections – Forming a single conveying path
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-24
2006-10-24
Dillon, Jr., Joe (Department: 3651)
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveying system having plural power-driven conveying sections
Forming a single conveying path
C198S626100, C198S435000, C271S177000, C271S184000, C271S069000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07124877
ABSTRACT:
For converting a stream of flat articles from transverse conveyance to parallel conveyance, two continuously operated conveyors are provided, a transverse conveyor having a direction (FQ) of transverse conveyance and serving as supplying conveyor and a parallel conveyor having a direction (FP) of parallel conveyance and serving as removing conveyor. The direction (FQ) of transverse conveyance and the direction (FP) of parallel conveyance encompass an angle. The articles are pushed one after the other out of an outlet of the supplying conveyor towards an entrance of the removing conveyor. Before a trailing zone of the article has left the supplying conveyor, a leading zone of the article is grasped by an alignment device and is conveyed onwards with the speed of the parallel conveyor in the direction (FP) of parallel conveyance and is thereby aligned to the entrance of the removing conveyor, while the trailing zone is bent between the alignment device and the outlet of the supplying conveyor. The stream conversion can also be operated in the reverse sense and again with continuously operated conveyors and nonetheless the articles are at all times during conversion safely guided.
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Dillon, Jr. Joe
Ferag AG
Rankin, Hill Porter & Clark LLP
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