Material or article handling – Marine loading or unloading system – Marine vessel to marine vessel
Patent
1977-12-20
1979-09-18
Sheridan, Robert G.
Material or article handling
Marine loading or unloading system
Marine vessel to marine vessel
198357, 198448, B65G 4300
Patent
active
041681339
ABSTRACT:
A sorting conveyor for flat rectangular items has a guide surface extending in a conveying direction; a drive continuously moving along the guide surface in the conveying direction; a plurality of pusher fingers attached in a spaced relationship to the drive for individually engaging and serially conveying the items along the guide surface in the conveying direction; and at least one feeding station operatively coupled to the sorting conveyor for introducing items thereinto. Each feeding station comprises a feeding panel disposed laterally of the guide surface for receiving the items to be introduced into the sorting conveyor; a feeding conveyor arranged in the zone of the feeding panel for advancing each item onto the guide surface such that a lower, support edge of the advanced item forms an acute angle with the guide surface and a leading edge of the advanced item is substantially parallel to the guide surface and perpendicular to the conveying direction; and a control circuit connected to the feeding conveyor and including sensors and signaling arrangements generating output signals for initiating a feeding cycle of the feeding conveyor at such a moment as to effect the introduction of each item from the feeding panel into an unoccupied conveying compartment defined between any two pusher fingers.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3747781 (1973-07-01), Daigle et al.
patent: 3982625 (1976-09-01), Wentz et al.
LICENTIA Patent-Verwaltungs-G.m.b.H.
Sheridan Robert G.
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