Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed... – By member adjacent conveyor for contacting successive...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-03-08
2005-03-08
Hess, Douglas A (Department: 3651)
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...
By member adjacent conveyor for contacting successive...
C198S456000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06863173
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for the reorientation of articles. According to one aspect of the invention, a conveyor having a support surface for an article to be reoriented displaces the support surface in a conveying direction. The article being conveyed by displacement of the support surface contacts an abutment, adjacent to the support surface, having an elongate abutment surface extending at an angle to the conveying direction. Continued displacement of the support surface turns the article as it slides in contact with the abutment surface. An orienting gate assembly, located downstream of the abutment surface in the conveying direction, has a pair of gates that are displaceable between two configurations. In a closed configuration, the gates define a channel that narrows in the conveying direction to trap the article. In an open configuration, the channel is widened at the downstream end to release the trapped article.
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Hess Douglas A
Ishida Co. Ltd.
Staas & Halsey , LLP
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