Article feeding system

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1973-07-16

1976-02-17

Blunk, Evon C.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items

By laterally or vertically moving successive items in...

198 31AC, B65G 4726

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039386473

ABSTRACT:
A high speed article feeding system for forming a single lane input of articles into a multiple lane output delivered in a controlled sequence regardless of occasional missisng articles in the input lane. The apparatus includes an endless conveyor with a continuous series of laterally movable article support plates or bars, a plurality of which form one group supporting a single article. Alternate groups of support plates are mechanically separated to follow to the left and right sides of the longitudinal centerline of the conveyor. Then, the separated left and right side groups are each diverted to one or the other of two output lanes by electro-mechanical means including two switching gates. By mechanically separating the input of articles into two groups, followed by an electro-mechanical diversion to further separate each of the two groups into one or the other of two output lanes, high speed, four lane discharge is achieved without the usual response-time limitations of the conventional single-gate type of diverter.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3277995 (1966-10-01), Seed
patent: 3500983 (1970-03-01), Watkins
patent: 3580379 (1971-05-01), Shuster
patent: 3731782 (1973-05-01), Rosso

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