Conveyors: power-driven – With means to facilitate working – treating – or inspecting... – Means engaging conveyor or load on a conveyor to align load...
Patent
1981-09-04
1983-11-08
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
With means to facilitate working, treating, or inspecting...
Means engaging conveyor or load on a conveyor to align load...
198433, 198451, B65G 4700
Patent
active
044137206
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for handling quantities of articles, such as containers, including an input conveyor having guides for channeling the articles into rows or files longitudinally of the conveyor, a gating station operable to open the channels for passing a transverse row or rank of articles and close the channels for stopping input feed of the articles, a transverse row or rank of articles being adapted to be operated upon when stopped, and an exiting or removal station downstream of the gating station for receiving from the latter a rank of articles when the gating station is open and removing the received rank of articles when the gating station is closed.
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Holmes Jonathan D.
Valenza Joseph E.
Youtie Robert K.
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