Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor arrangement for selecting among plural sources or... – One of a plurality of main line conveyors selectively moves...
Patent
1988-07-06
1989-07-18
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor arrangement for selecting among plural sources or...
One of a plurality of main line conveyors selectively moves...
198436, 198600, B65G 3700
Patent
active
048485586
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor apparatus comprises a plurality of side-by-side arranged first conveyors lying in a first plane. Each first conveyor has a pivotal first conveyor belt portion adapted to assume a first pivotal position in which articles continue to be advanced on the first conveyor and a second pivotal position in which articles are deviated from the first conveyor. The conveyor apparatus has a second conveyor which lies in a second plane spaced vertically from the first plane and which traverses each first conveyor at a location of crossing downstream of the downstream end of the first conveyor belt portions. The second conveyor includes a plurality of pivotal second conveyor belt portions adapted to assume a first pivotal position in which the upstream end of the respective second conveyor belt portion is in alignment with the second conveyor, and a second pivotal position in which the upstream end of the second conveyor belt portion is out of alignment with the second conveyor. There is further provided a separate third conveyor situated at each location of crossing and lying in a third plane between the first and second planes; each third conveyor having first and second ends. At any location of crossing, the third conveyor is in operative alignment with the first conveyor belt portion in the second pivotal position of the first conveyor belt portion and the third conveyor is in operative alignment with the second conveyor belt portion in the second pivotal position of the second conveyor belt portion.
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SIG - Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft
Valenza Joseph E.
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