Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items – By shifting group of items simultaneously from stream...
Patent
1995-06-07
1996-05-14
Simone, Timothy F.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items
By shifting group of items simultaneously from stream...
994504, 99484, 1984681, 198746, A21C 904, A21C 1500, B65G 2500, B65G 2900
Patent
active
055159621
ABSTRACT:
An ice cream sandwich collating apparatus comprising a substantially horizontal accumulator platform; conveying means for conveying the ice cream sandwiches along a first substantially horizontal axis onto the accumulator platform; detecting means for detecting when a predetermined number of the conveyed ice cream sandwiches have accumulated on the accumulator platform; an elevator assembly disposed adjacent the accumulator platform, the elevator assembly having a substantially horizontal elevator platform that is movable along a substantially vertical axis; mounting means disposed above the accumulator platform, the mounting means being movable along a second substantially horizontal axis between a beginning position and an ending position, the second horizontal axis being substantially transverse to the first horizontal axis; pushing means mounted to the mounting means so as to be freely pivotally movable between a vertical position and a horizontal position, the pushing means assuming the vertical position for pushing the predetermined number of conveyed ice cream sandwiches from the accumulator platform onto the elevator platform when the mounting means moves forward from the beginning position to the ending position, the pushing means assuming the horizontal position for either passing or sliding over any additionally accumulated ice cream sandwiches when the mounting means moves backward from the ending position to the beginning position; and control means for controlling the horizontal movement of the mounting means and the vertical movement of the elevator platform.
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Grubzak Yancey
Kennedy Cory R.
Interbake Foods Inc.
Simone Timothy F.
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