Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
Patent
1975-07-30
1977-01-25
Blunk, Evon C.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
198461, 198728, B65G 4726
Patent
active
040046770
ABSTRACT:
The invention discloses a line-combiner apparatus for receiving two lines of packages in a production line, such as six or eight packs of containers filled with a beer or beverage product, and combining them into a single line of packages without interference and at rates on the order of 200 pieces per minute. The packs delivered from two wrap machines are carried by separate infeed conveyors in the initial section of the apparatus driven at a speed to randomly space packages in each of the lines. The second section of the apparatus includes individual chains engaging the bottom of packages of each line and the chains each have spring-loaded fingers spaced therealong which protrude in the plane of the packages at predetermined spacings. The finger-carrying chains running at the same speed have their fingers 180.degree. out of phase with each other so that the fingers are alternately spaced (staggered). The two finger chains engage the packages and feed them to a third section, a single belt traveling faster than the chains, and the staggered position of the packages results in single lines thereof at regular staggered intervals on the two belts. The increased speed of each of the belts pulls the packages from the two chains eliminating finger interference at transfer. The two lines of packages are fed onto a single conveyor and guided divergently into a single line of packages. The spring-loaded finger lugs will depress below the chain surface should the lug happen to come up under a package.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2829757 (1958-04-01), Breeback
patent: 3901375 (1975-08-01), Rague
Heier Robert J.
Pettibone Wayne E.
Blunk Evon C.
Nelson John R.
Owens--Illinois, Inc.
Watts Douglas D.
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