Air assisted collator

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1997-06-27

1999-08-24

Valenza, Jospeh E.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...

With pressurized fluid causing change in attitude

198408, 1984622, 198493, 4147985, B65G 4724

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059413654

ABSTRACT:
A collator includes a first conveyor having a rotatable drum positioned at its discharge end. The rotatable drum is comprised of a plurality of disks. Two pairs of air nozzles are positioned between the rotating disks of the rotatable drum. A second receiving conveyor is positioned below the discharge end of the first conveyor. Bagged products move along the first conveyor and are discharged over the rotating drum of the first conveyor. As each product bag falls toward the second conveyor, an air blast assists in uprighting the bag. A sensor indicates that the product bag is properly positioned for uprighting by the air blast. A programmable logic controller ("PLC") which controls the operation of the collator in accordance with the size of the product bags.

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patent: 5029694 (1991-07-01), Gomez
patent: 5197584 (1993-03-01), Powell et al.
patent: 5460481 (1995-10-01), Prakken

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