Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system having auxiliary section for storing items... – Auxiliary section has the same entrance and exit
Patent
1984-10-03
1987-01-13
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system having auxiliary section for storing items...
Auxiliary section has the same entrance and exit
198429, B65G 100
Patent
active
046357840
ABSTRACT:
An accumulating magazine is provided for use with a conveyor system including an accumulation area for use alongside a conveyor system. There is a magazine including a plurality of channels generally aligned with and suspended above the conveyor system and accumulation area; the magazine is moved laterally of the conveyor system one channel at a time to move a channel from over the conveyor system to over the accumulation area and to move a channel from over the accumulation area to over the conveyor system. A gate controls the flow of product in and out of the conveyor system next to the accumulation area. Indication is provided when the magazine is full and when it is empty and the number of articles on the conveyor system next to the accumulation area is counted. There is a controller responsive to the count of product exceeding one predetermined number and the magazine not being full for actuating the gate to stop flow of product out of the conveyor system and indexing the magazine and shifting the channel full of product from over the conveyor system to over the accumulation area. The controller further responds to the count of product being beneath another predetermined number and the magazine not being empty for actuating the gate to stop flow of product into the conveyor system and indexing the magazine and shifting the channel full of product from over the accumulation area to over the conveyor system.
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Holmes Jonathan D.
Iandiorio Joseph S.
Noonan William E.
Valenza Joseph E.
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