Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By distributing items from one stream into plural streams
Patent
1987-10-07
1988-10-25
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By distributing items from one stream into plural streams
198627, B65G 4768
Patent
active
047797150
ABSTRACT:
A lane divider for automatically dividing a single row of objects into a plurality of rows is shown in its preferred form as including a diverting conveyor having an outfeed end movable between a plurality of lane positions. The diverting conveyor includes belts located on the faces of first and second elongated pivot bars to form an object passage channel. The elongated pivot bars are pivotally mounted in a parallelogram arrangement about fixed axes adjacent the infeed end and about axes adjacent the outfeed end which are reciproated. Opposite point deflection between the belts is minimized by changing the relative length of the drive chain between the drive shafts of the belts in response to the pivoting of the elongated pivot bars by pivotally interrelating the elongated pivot bars to a plate pivotally mounting idler sprockets on opposite sides of one of the drive shafts. Additionally, the pivot axes of the elongated pivot bars are located adjacent to the faces of the elongated pivot bars which are separate from and spaced inwardly of the drive and idler pulleys for the conveyor belts of the elongated pivot bars.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1741616 (1929-12-01), Crady
patent: 1824413 (1931-09-01), Stein
patent: 1871832 (1932-08-01), Absmeier
patent: 2334384 (1943-11-01), Cohen
patent: 2374429 (1945-04-01), Hayes et al.
patent: 2569711 (1951-10-01), Foster
patent: 2602534 (1952-07-01), Hartmann
patent: 2795312 (1957-06-01), Howdle
patent: 2940580 (1960-06-01), Francois
patent: 2991893 (1961-07-01), Kirsch et al.
patent: 3838763 (1974-10-01), Rooke et al.
patent: 3921786 (1975-11-01), Hejmanowski
patent: 4498576 (1985-02-01), Anderson
APV Douglas Machine Corporation
Valenza Joseph E.
LandOfFree
Lane divider does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Lane divider, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Lane divider will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2264242