Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system having auxiliary section for storing items... – Auxiliary section has the same entrance and exit
Patent
1986-02-18
1988-03-22
Spar, Robert J.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system having auxiliary section for storing items...
Auxiliary section has the same entrance and exit
198433, B65G 3700
Patent
active
047322560
ABSTRACT:
An improved storage unit for a conveyor system. Articles are conveyed on a main conveyor and a plurality of secondary conveyors extend laterally from a side edge of the main conveyor. When a slow-down occurs downstream in the conveyor system, successive rows of articles are stopped on the main conveyor and are transferred onto the secondary conveyors. When the secondary conveyors are filled with rows of articles, the rows are elevated to a storage location. Subsequently, when the slow-down ceases, the rows of articles are lowered onto the secondary conveyors, and are returned to the main conveyor. As each row is moved onto the main conveyor, an elongated positioning member is pivoted downwardly from an elevated storage location into engagement with a trailing surface on each of the articles in the row to urge the articles back onto the main conveyor. Under normal operation of the conveying system when the storage unit is not utilized, the positioning member is located along a side edge of the main conveyor and serves as a guide for conveying of articles on the main conveyor.
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Dorner Mfg. Corp.
Gastineau Cheryl L.
Spar Robert J.
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