Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By longitudinally respacing successive articles in stream
Patent
1986-06-13
1988-02-02
Kundrat, Andrew V.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By longitudinally respacing successive articles in stream
198779, B65G 4726
Patent
active
047224312
ABSTRACT:
A loader mechanism for loading articles into receptacles which are mounted at spaced intervals on a conveyor which is continuously driven through a loading station comprises a platform located above the conveyor and load aligning rollers on each receptacle. The platform has a support surface extending parallel to the loading path. A feeder is provided in the loading station which is operable to feed articles one at a time onto the input end of the support surface of the platform from above said platform. The load aligning roller is arranged to extend above the support surface as its associated receptacle passes below said platform while moving through the loading station. The load aligning roller is rotatably driven so as to effectively roll along said platform to cause any article which is fed onto the platform into a position partially supported by the top of the roller and partially supported by the platform to be advanced by engagement with the roller or retarded by engagement with the platform to assume a position between successive rollers to be thereafter pushed by one of the rollers along the platform in alignment with its associated receptacle to fall over the discharge end of the platform into its associated receptacle.
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Guttinger Peter
Langen Marinus J. M.
H. J. Langen & Sons Limited
Kundrat Andrew V.
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