Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Flight means in conduit for lifting flowable solid material
Patent
1992-08-28
1994-01-18
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Flight means in conduit for lifting flowable solid material
1987351, 62344, B65G 1914
Patent
active
052794083
ABSTRACT:
An ice lift apparatus receives prismatic ice cubes having a substantially uniform predetermined rectangular or prism shape of which the longest side has a length D and which transports the prismatic ice cubes upwardly along a vertical ice transporting section. The ice lift apparatus comprises an endless transporting member provided with a number of transverse bars at a predetermined space therebetween that mounted so as to be capable of running circulatively along the vertical ice transporting section, and a supporting guide plate disposed along a climbing path of the transverse bars with a predetermined distance L therefrom, wherein the predetermined distance L between the climbing path of the transverse bars and the supporting guide plate is so selected as to fall within a range of 1/2 to 2/3 of the length D of the longest side of the ice cube or exceed the range. Ice chips of a size short of the lower limit of the above range are sorted out.
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Hoshizaki Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
Valenza Joseph E.
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