Conveyors: power-driven – Conveying system having plural power-driven conveying sections – With condition responsive control of a section
Patent
1973-01-30
1976-09-28
Blunk, Evon C.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveying system having plural power-driven conveying sections
With condition responsive control of a section
198578, 198577, 198587, B65g 3700
Patent
active
039826252
ABSTRACT:
A sorter system for articles such as baggage, mail bags, cartons, and the like is provided which combines a high speed main or sorting conveyor and a feed or induction conveyor, or a plurality of such induction conveyors along the length of the main conveyor. The induction conveyors are for the purpose of loading the main conveyor by depositing articles thereon with a velocity imparted to the articles in the direction of movement of the main conveyor which is substantially equal to the high rate of main conveyor velocity thereby avoiding shock. The arrangement is such that articles having length and width are deposited on an induction conveyor to travel in the direction of their length and be deposited on the main conveyor transversely of the motion thereof and thus oriented widthwise on the main conveyor to reduce the area required per article on the main conveyor. As articles enter an induction conveyor an operator at a keyboard codes a computer memory in accordance with destination tags or other information on specific articles and such coding controls the discharge of articles at predetermined points along the main conveyor in accordance with conventional practice.
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Pyles Wayne Douglas
Wentz Edward A.
American Chain & Cable Company, Inc.
Blunk Evon C.
Valenza Joseph E.
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