Conveyors – chutes – skids – guides – and ways – Chutes – Flexible wall
Patent
1987-02-19
1988-06-14
Barefoot, Galen
Conveyors, chutes, skids, guides, and ways
Chutes
Flexible wall
193 7, 193 25S, 193 25C, 193 32, B65G 1110
Patent
active
047506024
ABSTRACT:
A guide chute for dropping articles has four shock absorbable members arranged in a vertical direction at regular intervals, and four ropes for connecting the shock absorbable members to one another. Each of the shock absorbable members is composed of a frame member, a plurality of elastic trapezoidal plates which are secured to the frame member, and coil springs for retaining the trapezoidal plates in a throttled condition. The width of each of the trapezoidal plates is increased towards its free tip end. The free tip end of each of each of the trapezoidal plates extends downward and toward the axial center of the frame member and is overlapped with adjacent free tip ends of adjacent trapezoidal plates to form a conic cylindrical body by virtue of the coil springs. And the free tip ends of the trapezoidal plates define an opening of a diameter smaller than that of articles to be dropped. When the dropping articles drop, they enlarge the opening of each of the shock absorbing members. At this time, the dropping articles receive friction force from the trapezoidal plates and elastic reaction force of the coil springs and accordingly dropping energy of the dropping articles is reduced.
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Barefoot Galen
Kannofsky James M.
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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