Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items – By shifting group from row conveyor onto row conveyor
Patent
1976-09-13
1979-01-02
Blunk, Evon C.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items
By shifting group from row conveyor onto row conveyor
198447, 198697, 198698, B65G 4726
Patent
active
041323041
ABSTRACT:
A counting and grouping apparatus for receiving articles such as fruit, marshalling the articles so as to fill up a number of parallel supply lines for presenting a number of the articles in line abreast in the leading positions in the supply lines, the number in the line abreast being equal to (or a fraction or multiple of) the number of articles to be counted into a group and a moving belt conveyor bearing at intervals along its length lines of fingers in line abreast across the belt, which fingers align with the leading position of the supply lines and shift the line of articles in said leading positions onto the conveyor belt as the fingers pass the exit ends of the supply lines. Gates are described for blocking one or more of the supply lines to control the number.
The fingers have an upright operating position for picking off the articles and a non-operating position folded down on to the belt. The number in the final group can thus be varied by adjusting the number of fingers in each line which are in an operating position. Each group is collated from line abreast into a serial sequence for presentation to subsequent handling equipment.
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Gent Ernest C.
Watson Stephen R.
A. E. Lenton (Wisbech) Limited
Blunk Evon C.
Watts Douglas D.
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