Direct drop transfer apparatus

Details Direct drop transfer apparatus Direct drop transfer apparatus

1995-04-11

1996-12-03

Merritt, Karen B.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items

By depositing items successively from one conveyor onto...

198549, 1986311, 4147904, B65G 5732

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055798942

ABSTRACT:
A product transfer apparatus for transferring individual product from a rotary feeding station to downstream apparatus such as a cartoner conveyor in preselected count stacks for subsequent discharge at a cartoner machine. Stacks of product are formed by dropping the product into stacks on a transfer conveyor and from there dropping the stacks directly into buckets of a cartoner conveyor. A transfer bucket conveyor is disposed beneath and transverse to an axis of the rotary feeding station and includes an upper fill run and a lower discharge run of product transfer buckets. The cartoner conveyor is disposed beneath and aligned with the transfer bucket conveyor and includes a series of cartoner product buckets operating in speed register with the lower run of product transfer buckets for receiving the preselected count stacks from the lower discharge run. The transfer bucket conveyor is capable of intermittent or decreased speed in the upper fill run for accommodating stack building, rejection of the product, varied product sizes, varying counts of the product in the upper fill run, a varied bucket pitch, while maintaining a constant speed in the lower discharge run for continuously feeding product stacks to the cartoner product buckets. Any combination of continuous and intermittent motion in the upper and lower transfer runs can be used for desired effect, including synchronization between varied upstream and downstream product handling stations.

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