Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
Patent
1976-07-29
1977-08-16
Blunk, Evon C.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
198836, B65G 4726
Patent
active
040421007
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for use with a conveying system for arranging articles which are positioned thereon in random locations into orderly rows to facilitate further processing through the conveyor system which comprises a plurality of channeling devices such as divider walls and the like positioned extending parallel to the direction of movement of the conveyor and adjacent the upper surface of the conveyor, a plurality of separator members or elongated members extended downwardly adjacent the front edges of the channeling devices being adapted for movement with respect to the conveyor to aid in separating groups of eggs or other articles into the areas or paths between the channeling dividers, the separator members being connected at the upper end thereof to a movable carriage plate extending transverse with respect to the conveyor, the carriage plate including a follower member thereon selectively engageable with a cam member for allowing movement of the carriage plate to cause movement of the downardly extending separator members, the cam members being operable to control positioning of the follower is mounted upon a rotatable gear member which is engaged with the surface of the conveyor to drive the gear member to rotate, also including a biasing member such as a spring or the like urging the follower into abutment with the cam member to maintain operational contact therebetween.
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Blunk Evon C.
Kane John J.
Otto Niederer Sons, Inc.
Sperry Albert
Thomson Richard K.
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