Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items – By depositing items successively from one conveyor onto...
Patent
1987-04-27
1988-08-23
Spar, Robert J.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items
By depositing items successively from one conveyor onto...
198534, 198533, 198608, 19880316, 53534, 53247, 53248, B65G 4726
Patent
active
047654538
ABSTRACT:
A system for loading friable nuclear fuel pellets into sintering boats from a pellet press which ejects newly made pellets. A chute receives the ejected pellets and discharges them into an upright bowl at a location towards the top of the bowl near its inner surface with a tangential horizontal component of velocity. The bowl, which has an open smaller diameter bottom, is rotated such that the bowl near the pellet-discharge location has a velocity which generally matches the magnitude and direction of the horizontal component of the velocity of the pellets at the discharge location. A conveyor moves a line of adjacently positioned boats horizontally beneath the bottom of the bowl. A flexible strap which cushions the pellets as they enter a sintering boat also acts as a seal between boats.
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Dayoan D. Glenn
Spar Robert J.
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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