Conveyors: fluid current – Having means for maintaining load in suspension along flow path – By load supporting jets
Patent
1987-08-31
1989-05-09
Basinger, Sherman D.
Conveyors: fluid current
Having means for maintaining load in suspension along flow path
By load supporting jets
406 87, B65G 5304
Patent
active
048284343
ABSTRACT:
A device, apparatus and method for distribution at a utilization area of fluid maintained adjacent thereto under pressure to thereby effect movement of articles at the utilization area are disclosed. The device includes a thin plate having a plurality of spaced passageways extending therethrough, which passageways extend substantially normal and open to the opposite surfaces of the plate, with at least a portion of the passageways opening into one of the surfaces at different ones of a plurality of spaced displacement therein, whereby the configuration of the displacements and the size and position of the openings therein determine the volume and direction of fluid distributed in the utilization area. The device is particularly useful in an apparatus wherein the device forms the upper surface of an air containment chamber for containment of air under pressure, and wherein articles are moved thereby adjacent to the upper surface, for example in an air table, air conveyor, article single filer, or the like.
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Fairman F. Eugene
Jones William D.
Basinger Sherman D.
Goldco Industries, Inc.
Harris Robert E.
Salmon Paul E.
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