Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By longitudinally respacing successive articles in stream
Patent
1974-06-06
1978-04-18
Blunk, Evon C.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By longitudinally respacing successive articles in stream
198505, 198524, 198624, 131 22A, 214 17CA, B65G 1900, B65G 4308
Patent
active
040846857
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for handling and transporting rod-like articles between production machines, for example articles such as cigarette filters between filter rod makers and cigarette filter tippers. Rods transported end to end along a longitudinal stream having the leading rods axially separated from the next adjacent rod by separator rollers which engage the rods of the stream, at least one of these rollers being a floating roller resiliently urged against the rod stream. The leading rods are successively deflected downwardly by engagement with and between the peripheries of a pair of rollers, the peripheral portions adjacent the stream of which rollers are inclined upwardly in the direction of travel and when the rollers rotate in the opposite direction such that both peripheries move downwardly adjacent the stream, they receive the leading separated rod, arrest its longitudinal movement and move it downwardly after which the rod is dropped onto a conveyor. The downwardly deflected rods move side by side on a conveyor to an infeed station where they are frictionally gripped and forced through a throat into the lower side of a storage hopper with a force sufficient for the rod-like articles to push upwardly further up into the storage hopper other rods already located therein.
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Hollenton Frank
Ingalls John L.
Blunk Evon C.
Valenza Joseph E.
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