Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor arrangement for selecting among plural sources or... – By passive material-diverting means placed across the flow path
Patent
1987-02-04
1988-09-20
Spar, Robert J.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor arrangement for selecting among plural sources or...
By passive material-diverting means placed across the flow path
198442, 193 31A, B65G 3700
Patent
active
047718765
ABSTRACT:
A re-routing apparatus for selectively channelling articles conveyed in at least two side-by-side arranged rows to one of a first and a second article advancing mechanism has an inclined chute arranged for simultaneously receiving articles belonging to different rows; a base plate extending from below the chute for receiving the articles sliding off the chute; and a plurality of parallel, generally vertically oriented, mutually spaced separating walls arranged above the base plate and defining therewith a plurality of side-by-side arranged, alternating first and second channels. Each channel has an upstream end corresponding to the receiving end of the base plate and a downstream end corresponding to the discharge end of the base plate. The first and the second channels are arranged to supply articles to the first and the second article advancing mechanism, respectively. A pivot arrangement supports each separating wall at a location remote from the upstream end of the channels for allowing a swinging motion of each separating wall in a plane generally parallel to the base plate and an actuating mechanism connected to each separating wall for moving them in unison into a first position in which articles are received solely by the first channels from the chute and into a second position in which articles are received solely by the second channels from the chute.
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Gastineau Cheryl
SIG - Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft
Spar Robert J.
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