Conveyors: fluid current – Intake to fluid current conveyor – Combined intake and discharge
Patent
1982-06-16
1984-08-14
Nase, Jeffrey V.
Conveyors: fluid current
Intake to fluid current conveyor
Combined intake and discharge
406186, B65G 5132
Patent
active
044654103
ABSTRACT:
A pneumatically-propelled carrier system including a pneumatic system tube of generally circular cross section interconnecting a first terminal constructed to permit the carrier to be removed, that is, a "free carrier" terminal, and a second terminal constructed to prevent removal of the carrier, while providing access to it through a terminal access opening, this latter terminal being a "captive carrier" terminal. Since the system tube interconnecting the captive and free terminals has a generally circular cross section, the carrier, regardless of its cross section, is free to assume any rotational orientation about its longitudinal axis. To align a carrier access opening provided in the carrier and the terminal access opening of the captive carrier terminal when a carrier is received, to permit access to the carrier interior, a carrier rotating assembly is provided at the captive carrier terminal for rotating the carrier upon arrival to a predetermined rotational orientation wherein the carrier access opening aligns with the terminal access opening. Several additional features of the system are also disclosed, such as a cover and latching mechanism for the carrier which requires that both the latch mechanism and the cover be depressed to facilitate opening; a mechanism for automatically opening the carrier cover when it has been rotated to the predetermined orientation, aligning its opening with that of the terminal; and a sill and associated automatic operating mechanism which bridges the lower edges of the carrier and terminal access openings to prevent articles from falling into the space between them in the course of insertion or removal of an article relative to the interior of the carrier as an incident to a transaction at the captive carrier terminal.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3189297 (1965-06-01), Ellithorpe
patent: 3689010 (1972-09-01), Alexandrov et al.
Morano Robert E.
Vogel Victor J.
American Standard Inc.
Edelbrock Daniel R.
Nase Jeffrey V.
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