Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor arrangement for selecting among plural sources or... – By passive material-diverting means placed across the flow path
Patent
1993-09-30
1995-01-17
Gastineau, Cheryl L.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor arrangement for selecting among plural sources or...
By passive material-diverting means placed across the flow path
198802, B65G 3700
Patent
active
053818822
ABSTRACT:
A tiltable tray apparatus of a sorting conveyor installation for depositing unit loads by a swiveling movement from a horizontal transporting position into a tilting position with a conveyor device, on which the tray is arranged by a supporting member which extends in a vertical direction in the transporting position. A ball joint is provided at the supporting member for swiveling movement of the tray, and two knee levers are arranged between the tray and the conveyor device adjacent to the supporting member at both sides thereof as seen in the conveying direction and connected with the conveyor device and the tray by a joint in each instance. The joints at the knee levers have one end constructed as ball joints and another end as hinge joints, each hinge joint having a swivel axis which is aligned parallel to an opposite tilting axis extending through an articulation point of the ball joint of the supporting member and an articulation point of the other knee lever. The articulation points of the ball joints, and center points of the hinge joints situated at the opposite ends of the knee levers and a fastening point of the supporting member each forming corners of an imaginary triangle.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3974909 (1976-08-01), Johnson
patent: 4004681 (1977-01-01), Clewett et al.
Gastineau Cheryl L.
Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft
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