Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed... – By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...
Patent
1980-10-24
1983-05-10
Smith, James G.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...
By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...
B65G 4724
Patent
active
043825010
ABSTRACT:
An egg orientation device is disclosed which is adapted to receive eggs previously arranged along the longitudinal axes thereof and to arrange those eggs with the pointed ends thereof directed as desired. The device includes a conveyor formed by a plurality of egg supports defining egg receiving recesses therebetween each having an open bottom area through which protrudes at selected locations an egg inverter device. The inverter device comprises an abutment member which includes a friction surface thereon wherein the abutment member extends upwardly into the egg receiving recess through the open bottom area thereof to contact the bottom of the shell of an egg located therein to exert a primarily tangentially force upon the shell of the egg for inversion thereof. The egg receiving recesses being preferably approximately one and one half times the length of an average egg. The egg supporting member of the conveyor preferably being continuously rotating in a common direction such that the eggs will gravitate toward the pointed end such that the pointed direction will be defined for selective inversion.
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Niederer Lee H.
Niederer Thomas O.
Kane John J.
Otto Niederer Sons, Inc.
Smith James G.
Sperry Albert
Watts Douglas D.
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