Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system having auxiliary section for storing items... – Plural laterally spaced – same direction auxiliary paths
Patent
1999-05-17
2000-05-02
Bidwell, James R.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system having auxiliary section for storing items...
Plural laterally spaced, same direction auxiliary paths
1983471, 198443, 198580, B65G 100
Patent
active
060561076
ABSTRACT:
A compact article singulation conveyor includes a receiving portion which receives articles in random order including clusters of side-by-side articles and a discharge portion from which articles are discharged in a single file singulated stream. A first conveying surface transports articles longitudinally from the receiving portion to the discharge portion. A recirculating bed removes side-by-side articles from a downstream portion of the first conveying surface to an upstream portion of the first conveying surface. The recirculating bed may be made up of at least one peel-away conveyor having a second conveying surface adapted to move side-by-side articles laterally off the first conveying surface, at least one coupling conveyor having a third conveying surface adapted to move articles from the second conveying surface upstream and at least one return conveyor having a fourth conveying surface adapted to move articles from the third conveying surface to the first conveying surface. Each of the conveying surfaces may be defined by a plurality of powered rollers. Clusters of articles tend to recirculate around the recirculation bed and the first conveying surface as individual articles of the cluster are pulled away along the first conveying surface. A take-away conveyor at the discharge portion includes a flow controller controlling the flow of articles discharged from the discharge portion.
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A-1 Publicly disclosed system.
Commonly assigned co-pending application Serial No. 08/616,685, filed on Mar. 15, 1996, entitled Compact Article Singulation Conveyor.
Commonly assigned co-pending United States patent application Serial No. 09/131,817 filed on Aug. 10, 1998, entitled Compact Article Unscramlbler.
Commonly assigned co-pending United States patent application Serial No. 09/258,380, filed on Feb. 26, 1999, entitled Unscrambling and Aligning Conveyor.
De Vree Ronald J.
Schuitema Dennis J.
Bidwell James R.
Mannesmann Dematic Rapistan Corp.
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