Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for moving a specific load as a separate unit – System includes gate means
Patent
1995-06-06
1997-09-16
Dayoan, D. Glenn
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for moving a specific load as a separate unit
System includes gate means
1984654, B65G 4734
Patent
active
056670567
ABSTRACT:
A system for transporting a plurality of hangers on which a plurality of garments may be hung, having a hook transport system with at least a hook conveyor and a plurality of hooks disposed along the hook conveyor, the hooks being moved by the hook conveyor along a conveyance direction at a first rate, a hanger supply member on which the plurality of hangers may be disposed, and a hanger feed apparatus adapted to periodically feed one of the hangers from the hanger supply member to a hanger pickup position. The hanger feed apparatus is adapted to cause a plurality of physical contacts to be made between the hook transport system and the hanger feed apparatus, the physical contacts occurring at a second rate substantially equal to the first rate. Each of the physical contacts causes one of the hangers to be fed from the hanger supply member to the hanger pickup position, and the hooks of the hook transport system periodically pick up the hangers from the hanger pickup position. The hanger feed apparatus has a hanger holding member coupled to the hanger supply member, a pivotable feed member coupled to the hanger holding member, and an actuator mechanically coupled to the feed member and disposed to periodically make contact with the hooks, the actuator causing the feed member to transfer one of the hangers from the hanger supply member to the hanger pickup position when one of the hooks makes contact with the actuator.
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Videotape received from W&H Systems, Inc. (No Date).
Dayoan D. Glenn
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
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