Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Pusher conveyor and separate load support surface
Patent
1995-05-01
1997-09-16
Terrell, William E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Pusher conveyor and separate load support surface
1984681, B65G 2500
Patent
active
056670575
ABSTRACT:
An automated assembly that can be retroactively added to a bank of machines in order to advance an object across the bank of machines in an automated fashion. The automation assembly includes a plurality of elongated elements that can be rotated from a first orientation, capable of engaging an object to be moved across the bank of machines, to a second orientation that is clear of the object to be moved. Each of the elongated elements are equidistantly spaced on a common support along a line matching the linear path along which the object on the bank of machines will be moved.
A reciprocating device joins the common support of the elongated elements to a stationary point. As a result, the reciprocating device causes the common support and the various elongated elements to reciprocate back and forth between a first position and a second position. As the reciprocating device moves from the first position to the second position, the elongated elements are in the first orientation wherein one of the elongated elements contacts the object and pushes it from the first position to the second position. When the reciprocating device returns the elongated elements back to the first position, the elongated elements first retract into the second orientation so as not to push the object backward from its newly advanced position. Once back at the first position, the elongated elements return to the first orientation, wherein a next subsequent elongated element engages the object and moves the object further along its linear path as the reciprocating device again moves the elongated element forward to the second position. This cycle is repeated until the object is advanced by each of elongated element present on the automation device.
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Randall Frederick
Raven, III Alfred J.
Randall Manufacturing Co.
Terrell William E.
Tran Khoi H.
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