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
1994-11-18
1997-03-25
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...
198377, 198384, B65G 2900
Patent
active
056135939
ABSTRACT:
A starwheel (10) for serially moving a circumferentially spaced apart series of containers (C) in an arcuate pattern with respect to a stationary container supporting member (12). The starwheel has a turret (58), which is driven about its circumferential axis in an indexing manner by a motor and speed reducer combination (8). Each container is positively restrained during its movement with the supporting member by engagement of the container against a pair of idler rollers (14, 16) by a flight of an endless belt (24), which engages the container at a location generally opposed to the locations of its engagement by the idler rollers. The belt is moved through an endless path during the indexing of the starwheel, and during the intervals between its indexing steps, to thereby rotate the container during indexing and during its inspection or other processing steps, by training the belt around a driven roller (34). The driven roller is driven by the engagement of a driven gear (36), to which the driven roller is attached by a shaft (38), with a driving gear (40) that is rotatably driven by a motor (60). The belt is also trained around a second set of roller idler rollers (26, 28) that are mounted at the free ends of lever arms (30, 32). The lever arms are pivotally connected to each other at an axis away from the locations of the second set of idler rollers. The belt is moved toward the first set of idler rollers to engage a container thereagainst, and away from the first set of idler rollers to permit disengagement of a container therefrom, by the engagement of a cam follower (44) with a cam surface of a stationary circumferential fixed cam (46). The motion imparted to the cam follower is transmitted to one of the lever arms to which the second set of idler rollers is attached by a rod (42), an end of which is attached to the lever arm and the opposed end of which carries the cam follower.
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Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
Valenza Joseph E.
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