Container handling system

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1994-09-23

1995-10-31

Bidwell, James R.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveying system having plural power-driven conveying sections

Including power-driven means for laterally shifting a...

1983472, B65G 4734

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054621534

ABSTRACT:
In a system comprising a reverse vending machine for empty liquid containers, such as e.g. empty beverage bottles, and a container collection table operatively connected with an outlet from the machine for collecting containers put into the machine by a customer and delivered out from the machine, a band extends between one longitudinal side region of the table and the other longitudinal region of the table. The band has an inherent rigidity enabling its faces to be substantially upright along the length thereof. The band is secured at one end thereof to one longitudinal side region. A roller is provided in an upright position at the other longitudinal side region for receiving the other end portion of an actuator operatively connected with the roller for winding or unwinding the end portion onto or from the roller, respectively. In the winding mode the containers are shifted substantially transversally of the table to one side thereof by virtue of the band being tensioned, and whereby in the unwinding mode the band is gradually pushed by containers delivered onto the table to lie substantially along the inner borderline of the table.

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