Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items – By shifting group of items simultaneously from stream...
Patent
1979-07-16
1980-12-09
Reeves, Robert B.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items
By shifting group of items simultaneously from stream...
198423, 271189, 271203, B65G 4726, B65H 524
Patent
active
042380243
ABSTRACT:
A continuously moving supply conveyor delivers articles to be separated or batched to a sorting conveyor. The sorting conveyor includes a first conveyor and a second conveyor arranged to move about common spaced axes. The first conveyor includes an endless belt mounted on rollers and arranged to follow a first path. The second conveyor includes sprockets mounted on shafts of the rollers and having a diameter greater than that of the rollers. Chains engage the sprockets and support a belt for movement along a path outside that of the first conveyor. The first conveyor comprises a continuous belt extending the full length thereof. The second conveyor includes a belt extending through only a portion of the total length of the second conveyor. Means are provided for driving the first and second conveyors in the same direction but at different speeds. When it is desired to separate a second batch from a preceding first batch the belt portion of the second conveyor is caused to move into a position above the first conveyor thereby separating articles or sheets being delivered from the supply conveyor into a batch separate from the batch delivered by the first conveyor to the transport conveyor.
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patent: 3403772 (1968-10-01), Vadas
patent: 3688890 (1972-09-01), Brockmuller
patent: 3807553 (1974-04-01), Billet et al.
patent: 3851748 (1974-12-01), Garton
patent: 3911800 (1975-10-01), Feldkamper
Hirakawa Tadashi
Kusubayashi Toshiaki
Yoshikawa Kiyomitsu
Bond Brian
Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Reeves Robert B.
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