Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor arrangement for selecting among plural sources or... – By passive material-diverting means placed across the flow path
Patent
1985-07-17
1986-02-11
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor arrangement for selecting among plural sources or...
By passive material-diverting means placed across the flow path
198802, B65G 4746
Patent
active
045694346
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor system of a unique configuration is designed for conveying relatively small, light weight articles, such as agricultural products particularly fruits and the like, by feeding them in alignment in the travelling direction of the conveyor and at random spacing. A sorting zone is provided for sorting these articles during the conveying process. An information read-out device which is provided either at a feeding device before the entrance point of the conveyor or at a point before the sorting zone produces sorting signals in synchronism with the travel of the articles. The articles are sorted and discharged in response to the signals by dropping them to lower side places. The conveying upper surface of the conveyor consists of slat-like receiving plates spaced at a small pitch measuring only a quarter or fifth or thereabout of the size of articles to be processed. Each of the slat-like receiving plates is horizontally carried by an engaging mechanism, which disengages from the slat-like receiving plate to drop and discharge the article thereon by tilting the plate downward close to a perpendicular posture at a predetermined sorting point.
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Automation vol. 25 No. 14 pp. 80-93--Dec. 1980.
Horii Taichi
Ohbuchi Yasutsugu
Holmes Jonathan D.
Kabushiki Kaisha Maki Seisakusho
Valenza Joseph E.
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