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
1979-03-05
1985-02-19
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for moving a specific load as a separate unit
System includes a rotating or endless carrier with a load...
198722, 198781, 104166, B65G 3700
Patent
active
044999917
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor system for conveying work pallets with workpieces from one machine tool to another in a machine tool line that has the capability of permitting work pallets to collect at any machine so that the machine tools throughout the system can operate at their own speed without waiting for the completion of an operation at another work station. This is accomplished by a plurality of individually controllable conveyor sections that drive the pallets with a plurality of resilient rollers arranged in a spiral fashion that engage a semi-cylindrical undersurface on the pallets in a non-positive drive fashion that prevents binding as the pallets move from one conveyor section to another. A control system is provided to selectively slow and stop each of the conveyor sections so that as the work pieces approach a machining station, they will automatically slow down and stop.
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