Power-and-free conveyor

Details Power-and-free conveyor Power-and-free conveyor

1988-07-13

1989-12-12

Cherry, Johnny D.

Railways

Traction

Chain

B61B 1300

Patent

active

048859974

ABSTRACT:
A power-and-free conveyor comprising a power line, a free line coextensive with the power line thereabove, a multiplicity of pivotally movable pushers adapted to travel with a drive chain for the power line, and free trolleys attached to carriers on the free line, each of the pushers being generally T-shaped when seen from front and including an attaching member and a horizontal engaging member provided at the forward end of the attching member, each of the free trolleys having an engaging dog comprising a pair of opposed vertical engaging portions which are spaced apart from each other transversely of the free line at a distance, the engaging pusher member being engageable with at least one of the engaging portions of the engaging dog. The free trolley comprises a main body and a slider mounted thereon and slidable longitudinally of the trolley, the slider being provided with an engaging dog and an anticoasting dog, the slider being connected to the main body by a shock absorber.

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patent: 3944270 (1976-03-01), Kreuzer
patent: 4004680 (1977-01-01), Warmann
patent: 4483252 (1984-11-01), Pierson

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