Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items – Subdivides continuous item stream into longitudinally spaced...
Patent
1976-07-02
1977-08-30
Blunk, Evon C.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items
Subdivides continuous item stream into longitudinally spaced...
53159, 198424, B65G 4726
Patent
active
040448851
ABSTRACT:
In accordance with the present invention, cookies are counted and grouped and are guided and ride along support rails of a drop gate. The support rails are moved to one side during a dwell in the travel of a transfer conveyor, in a manner such that a group of cookies from one row and another group of cookies from another row drop through drop chutes of a drop chute assembly into an accumulator at the lower portion of the drop chute assembly, in longitudinal alignment along the centerline of the machine. There are actually two such drop chute assemblies, and the remaining group of cookies from each of the two rows drop in the same manner into the accumulator at the lower portion of the second drop chute assembly. After the groups of cookies have dropped into the accumulators of the drop chute assemblies, the accumulators operate respectively to longitudinally advance the one group of cookies into substantially abutting longitudinal relationship with the other group of cookies. Accordingly, at this time, there is effectively one group of cookies in each of the respective accumulators, consisting of a combined group of cookies which may be, for example, a combined group of chocolate and vanilla flavor or colored cookies. After the four groups of cookies have been accumulated into two groups of cookies, as described above, each group is dropped out of the accumulators of the drop chute assemblies, into a drop chute of a discharge apparatus. Each of the two groups of cookies then are pushed from the discharge apparatus, in timed relationship, into the flights of a wrapping machine associated with the cookie machine, preparatory for wrapping in cellophane or similar wrapping film.
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patent: 3290859 (1966-12-01), Talbot
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Rose Edward
Roth Robert A.
Blunk Evon C.
Nase Jeffrey V.
Peters Machinery Company
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