Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for moving a specific load as a separate unit – System includes a rotating or endless carrier with a load...
Patent
1998-09-10
2000-12-19
Ellis, Christopher P.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for moving a specific load as a separate unit
System includes a rotating or endless carrier with a load...
1986891, 19845703, B65G 4790
Patent
active
06161677&
ABSTRACT:
A tube loading system includes an endless vacuum belt wrapped about two rollers; a servo motor for incrementally rotating at least one of the rollers so as to move the vacuum belt; a vacuum plenum in contact with an inner side of the belt and over which the belt rides for applying a vacuum to one side of a portion of the vacuum belt in order to hold a tube having an open end on an opposite side of the portion of the vacuum belt; a source of vacuum fluidly connected to the vacuum plenum; a pin chain having a plurality of pins spaced therealong for receiving the open ends of the tubes thereon, the pin chain being positioned adjacent the vacuum belt and the pins extending in a direction substantially parallel to the portion of the belt such that the open ends of the articles are positioned over the pins; and a conveyor for supplying the tubes in a line one at a time to the portion of the vacuum belt such that each tube is held by the vacuum thereat and as the belt moves, each tube is deposited on a respective pin of the pin chain.
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Ellis Christopher P.
Goldberg Richard M.
Polytype America Corporation
Sharma Rashmi
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