Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
Patent
1984-08-10
1986-09-16
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
1986902, B65G 4712
Patent
active
046117067
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus are disclosed for efficiently loading articles. In the preferred embodiment, the invention is useful for processing fruit and loading individual pieces of fruit into bags to contain a predetermined weight of the fruit. The apparatus includes a conveyor having cleats which are angled with respect to the direction of movement of the conveyor. This causes the fruit, or other articles, to be aligned along each cleat. As the cleat passes over an upper end of the conveyor, the fruit is individually discharged into a collecting device, such as a bag. The bag is preferably resting on a scale for indicating the weight of added fruit. In accordance with the disclosed method, a conveyor is operated for a predetermined period of time which automatically loads fruit into the bag to a total weight equal to or less than the desired weight for the bag. A timer then terminates operation of the conveyor, and an operator manually activates the conveyor to add single pieces of fruit until the minimum weight is reached.
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Holmes Jonathan D.
Valenza Joseph E.
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