Material or article handling – Device for emptying portable receptacle – Successive dumping from conveyed stack
Patent
1979-12-27
1982-10-26
Butler, Douglas C.
Material or article handling
Device for emptying portable receptacle
Successive dumping from conveyed stack
414 38, 414102, 414112, 198407, 198422, 198434, B65B 2102
Patent
active
043559395
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for automatically handling palletized poultry coops containing live birds to empty the birds from the coops for hanging. A pallet loaded with tiers of poultry coops after removal from the livehaul truck by a forklift is placed on a conveyor to move automatically to the input end of a coop infeed conveyor extending transverse to the pallet conveyor. Upon alignment of the pallet with the coop infeed conveyor, a limit switch stops the pallet conveyor and an extractor is actuated which pushes a tier of coops off the pallet and onto the coop infeed conveyor. The tier of coops is moved along to an unstacker comprising a lay-down unit having a rotor with coop support arms arranged in quadrature such that the coops are laid down on an inclined conveyor with each quarter of a revolution. The inclined conveyor moves each of the coops in succession to a dumping unit that empties the coop. Each empty coop is urged from the dumping unit onto a conveyor and taken thereby to an inverter which turns the coop topside-up. Inverted coops drop down a slide and are transported by a belt conveyor to a restack rotor. After several coops are in position, the coops are set upright by the rotor into a stacked tier on an outfeed coop conveyor. The tier of empty coops is moved out toward the pallet conveyor and are loaded onto a pallet. After the pallet is filled with empty coops, the pallet is returned to the livehaul truck by a forklift.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2161836 (1939-06-01), Stevenson
patent: 2707060 (1955-04-01), Nawman
patent: 3512625 (1970-05-01), Raynor et al.
patent: 4242029 (1980-12-01), Musgrave
Butler Douglas C.
Siemens Terrance L.
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