Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Unit load conveying surface means moved about an endless or...
Patent
1999-02-16
2000-08-15
Bidwell, James R.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Unit load conveying surface means moved about an endless or...
19886713, 1984653, B65G 3508
Patent
active
061021946
ABSTRACT:
A pallet type transfer device utilized to transport parts or components along a conveyor-type assembly line is disclosed. The pallet type transfer device includes a body member having a rear bumper member with a pair of oppositely disposed idler wheels rotatably mounted thereto and having a front bumper member attached to the front surface thereof. The top surface of the rear bumper member is inclined upwardly towards the rear surface of the body member. Parallel, longitudinally extending, spaced-apart complementary grooves are provided on the bottom surface of the body member, each groove having a conveyor belt received therein. When a "moving" pallet type transfer device contacts a "stopped" transfer device along the assembly line, the front bumper of the "moving" transfer device contacts and moves laterally on the inclined top surface on the rear bumper member on the "stopped" transfer device causing the body member of the "moving" transfer device to move slightly upwardly resulting in the complementary grooves on the bottom surface thereof becoming disengaged from the conveyor belts, thus minimizing or eliminating wear to the belts and to the bottom surface of the "moving" transfer device. The conveyor belts continue to move within grooves provided within the idler wheels, however, the belts do not contact the complementary grooves provided in the bottom surface of the body member of the "moving" transfer device which has now been stopped.
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Belcan Corporation
Bidwell James R.
Hudak James A.
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