Material handling apparatus

Details Material handling apparatus Material handling apparatus

1976-09-20

1978-03-14

Oresky, Lawrence J.

B65G 6504

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040786838

ABSTRACT:
In a material handling apparatus for removing fruit from rolled penetrable trays wherein the apparatus has a conveyor assembly receiving the rolled trays at one end and discharging the fruit at the opposite end, a mechanism mounted on the apparatus above the conveyor assembly and having tines moving in an orbital path to penetrate the rolled trays and carry them upwardly from the conveyor assembly gravitationally to discharge the fruit onto the conveyor assembly, and a mechanism for removing the emptied trays from the tines, an improvement having the tine mechanism mounted for movement from the conveyor assembly upon the tines contacting an impenetrable object on the conveyor so as to protect the tines; and an air conducting assembly borne by the apparatus to prevent the escape of emptied trays from the apparatus at the discharge end of the conveyor.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1642287 (1927-09-01), Zuckerman
patent: 2627159 (1953-02-01), Russell
patent: 3795335 (1974-03-01), Hansen, Jr.

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