Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Traveling item turned to predetermined position
Patent
1982-04-15
1984-09-04
Reeves, Robert B.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Traveling item turned to predetermined position
193 46, 198417, 209668, B07C 502, B65G 4724, B65G 1110
Patent
active
044692293
ABSTRACT:
A track for conveying workpieces of predetermined size and shape is disclosed, in which a plurality of elongated filaments are aligned parallel to each other in a predetermined spatial relationship according to the size and shape of the workpieces, so that a passageway is created along the length of the track through which the workpieces may travel while they are captured by the filaments. The track includes a plurality of alignment frames spaced along the length of the filaments, the number of frames being dependent on the length of the filaments and the desired amount of curvature of the track along its length. Each alignment frame includes a plate with a plurality of arms adjustably mounted relative to the plate, each of the arms having at least one filament retaining channel on its periphery. The channel is shaped to slidably engage a corresponding one of the filaments along a portion of the filament's length while retaining the filament in the channel. Also disclosed is a variation of the above-described track, in which one of the filaments extends past the end of the track, for use as a stabilizing guide member for workpieces travelling along the rollers of a classifying machine fed by the track.
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Reeves Robert B.
Wacyra Edward M.
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