Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Bucket
Patent
1987-06-11
1988-06-14
Spar, Robert J.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Bucket
B65G 4740
Patent
active
047506067
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for tipping a bucket carried by a conveyor chain around a circuit to empty the contents thereof at a predetermined location. The apparatus is characterized by providing a dwell time to the bucket in its inverted position as the bucket is rotated 360 degrees around a fixed pivot degrees to permit complete emptying of the buckets. The apparatus comprises a sprocket mounted concentric with the pivot about which the bucket rotates and fixed for rotation with the bucket. The sprocket has a plurality of radially outwardly-extending uniformly spaced-apart projections and at least one space on the sprocket defined by the absence of a projection. An elongate rack is positioned adjacent the chain at the bucket tipping position and has sprocket engaging portions thereon positioned in engaging alignment with the projections of the sprocket as the bucket passes, thereby to arrest rotation of the bucket while the bucket is in its inverted position to permit the contents to empty entirely.
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patent: 2107890 (1938-02-01), Frank
Adams, III W. Thad
Kimms Lyle A.
Spar Robert J.
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