Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
Patent
1978-05-22
1980-03-18
Reeves, Robert B.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
198471, 221289, B65G 4704
Patent
active
041934903
ABSTRACT:
Collating apparatus for inserting cubes (C) into a moving row of cylindrical articles (A) for subsequent packaging of groups of the collated articles comprises a screw conveyor (1) having a thread pitch arranged to increase the spacing of cylindrical articles in the direction of movement, an auxiliary conveyor (5) arranged to feed a continuous supply of cubes to the screw conveyor so as to insert the cubes sequentially into the spaces (S) formed between predetermined cylindrical articles together with a rotatable cam (8) having a clearance passage (15) through which cubes from the auxiliary conveyor (5) may move into the line of cylindrical articles, the cam (8) being constructed with a holding portion (12) for preventing movement of a succeeding cube along the auxiliary conveyor during passage of a preceding article through the clearance passage (15) in the cam together with a guide portion (13) for guiding an article from the auxiliary conveyor into a space (S) formed between articles on the screw conveyor (1).
REFERENCES:
patent: 3176821 (1965-04-01), Eldred
patent: 3856131 (1974-12-01), Flamand
Reeves Robert B.
Rodgers Walter A.
Rodgers Walter M.
The Mead Corporation
Watts Douglas D.
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