Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By distributing items from one stream into plural streams
Patent
1991-10-02
1992-08-04
Olszewski, Robert P.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By distributing items from one stream into plural streams
198372, B65G 4726
Patent
active
051351013
ABSTRACT:
A diverter changes the conveyor path of successive articles from a single succession to at least two successions of articles. The diverter includes a wheel mounted for rotation in a common plane with the path of the single succession of articles and being movable between one location adjacent the path and other location interposed within the path. The wheel has a top peripheral edge defining a series of radial vanes and pressurized air is directed towards the vanes upstream relative to the path of articles for spinning the wheel towards the succession of articles. The wheel has a resilient, shock-absorbing, peripheral surface for contacting articles and can be adjusted in elevation to contact articles at the same level as the articles center of mass. A flow control valve and conduit direct an air blast transversely of the single succession of articles path at a location slightly upstream of the wheel so as to accelerate articles after contact with the wheel to move along the path of articles guided from the wheel.
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Bidwell: James
Olszewski Robert P.
Peco Controls Corporation
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