Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for moving a specific load as a separate unit – System includes a rotating or endless carrier with a load...
Patent
1981-12-15
1984-12-18
Spar, Robert J.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for moving a specific load as a separate unit
System includes a rotating or endless carrier with a load...
198341, 198345, 198580, B65G 3700
Patent
active
044886330
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for transporting elongated sample holders in a sample holder storage compartment past an operating station at which sample tubes contained in the sample holders may be removed and then returned to the sample holders. First and second parallel conveyors on opposite sides of the operating station drive the holders toward and away from the operating station. A lateral drive system engages the holders in longitudinal stop positions at opposite ends of the conveyors and drives them laterally between the conveyors to lateral stop positions, one of the holders during lateral movement being driven into and away from an operative position at the operating station. Encoded labels are displayed on each sample holder for indicating the incremental spacing between the sample tubes carried in the sample holder. Detectors are provided for reading the encoded labels and convey a signal in accordance with the labels to a control system which controls the operation of the first and second conveyors and of the lateral drive system.
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Alexander Daniel R.
Beckman Instruments Inc.
Canzoneri A. A.
May W. H.
Meads R. R.
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