Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
Patent
1974-04-05
1976-10-19
Love, John J.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
93 93C, 198606, 271 34, 271121, 198622, 198461, 198503, B65G 4300
Patent
active
039865983
ABSTRACT:
The specification discloses an apparatus for separating and counting cloth piece items such as shop towels, diapers, napkins, massage towels, etc. The apparatus comprises a mechanical separator including steeply inclined conveyor means having a plurality of lanes of pegs for separating the piece items from a batch or load into a plurality of different lanes or channels; a sensor or detector for each lane for sensing individual piece items in the lanes; and a counter for counting the total number of piece items sensed by all of the sensors.
In the preferred embodiment, the separator comprises a forward and rearward steeply inclined conveyor, each including endless belt means having a plurality of lanes of spaced pegs driven upward and an oppositely driven finned roller located above each conveyor. The sensors are located at the crest of the rearward conveyor for detecting individual piece items in each of its lanes. The forward conveyor picks up piece items from a batch load with its lanes of pegs and separates the piece items in each lane. It then deposits the individual piece items on the rearward conveyor which operates to insure complete separation and conveys the separated piece items in each of its lanes past the sensors for detection.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2602535 (1952-07-01), Bird
patent: 2615556 (1952-10-01), Hoopes et al.
patent: 3703952 (1972-11-01), Kuhn
Love John J.
Watts Douglas D.
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