Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By distributing items from one stream into plural streams
Patent
1986-07-21
1988-02-09
Spar, Robert J.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By distributing items from one stream into plural streams
B65G 4726
Patent
active
047236493
ABSTRACT:
The invention disclosed is an apparatus for automatically aligning and feeding articles on an article loading machine between dividers to form lanes of articles. The apparatus includes a pivoting guide chute which swings back and forth across a conveyor to discharge a predetermined number of articles intermittently into parallel lanes through actuation of jaws and/or a presser bar clamp assembly. An indexing assembly for the guide chute is provided which includes a double acting pneumatic cylinder and a connecting block which is slidably mounted and connected to the piston of the double acting cylinder. The connecting block has a plurality of interconnected guide slots in its upper surface with a stop position at each end of each slot. A second pneumatic cylinder having a cam follower which slides within the guide slots, blocks and releases the cam follower at each stop and thereby frees the first cylinder to move the chute to the next lane. A full charge of compressed air is kept on the drive cylinder at all times so that quick and positive lane indexing takes place. A pivotal guide bar assembly is provided which guides an article discharged from the chute towards a lane entrance.
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Hartness Thomas S.
Hopkins E. Leon
Dayoan D. Glenn
Hartness International
Spar Robert J.
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