Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor arrangement for selecting among plural sources or... – By passive material-diverting means placed across the flow path
Patent
1989-08-28
1990-07-17
Spar, Robert J.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor arrangement for selecting among plural sources or...
By passive material-diverting means placed across the flow path
198370, 198372, 198802, B65G 4746
Patent
active
049415611
ABSTRACT:
In an article sorting device equipped with a pair of endless chains that are arranged facing with each other, and are constructed so as to be driven to rotate in the same direction; a plurality of article conveying boards that are mounted on the endless chains in a condition slidable in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the pair of endless chains are driven, with sorting pins attached to the bottom surface of each of the boards; and a pair of sorting members that enter the moving paths of the sorting pins, and guide the subsequent sorting pins in predetermined directions; the article sorting device characterized in that a downward slanted part is provided at each end part that traverses the moving path of the sorting pin of the sorting members, the upper edges of the slanted parts are formed in a wedge shape, and the lower end parts of the sorting pins that correspond to the slanted parts of the sorting members are formed in a conical form.
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Yamabe Keiji
Yoshinaga Masao
Dayoan D. Glenn
Nihon Cement Co. Ltd.
Spar Robert J.
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