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
1975-09-22
1976-10-12
Blunk, Evon C.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for moving a specific load as a separate unit
System includes a rotating or endless carrier with a load...
198696, 214 1BA, 425 93, 198377, 198406, B65G 1742
Patent
active
039852237
ABSTRACT:
A series of articulated product gripper mechanisms are mounted on a continuously operating pickup conveyor having a reach adjacent the product transfer zone of a continuously operating transport conveyor that has cold plates running through a freezing tunnel. The gripper mechanisms are employed to transfer frozen confections such as ice cream bars, ice cream cones, ice cream cups, and stickless or stick novelties from the transport conveyor cold plates to the pickup conveyor. Each gripper mechanism includes replaceable gripping tongs or fingers appropriate to the particular type of confection being handled, and is operable to pick up the moving confection, invert and dip the confection in a coating bath and in a dry confection applicator, and release the coated confection in predetermined orientation onto the inlet conveyor of an associated wrapping machine. The pickup conveyor is elevationally adjustable for accurately positioning the gripper mechanisms relative to the cold plates; this adjustment capability is related to the universal adaptability of the gripper mechanisms to different types of products such as ice cream or bars, and also to different thickness bar type products, both stick type and stickless.
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Forcella Peter W.
French Gary D.
Meek Donald S.
Blunk Evon C.
Catto R. B.
FMC Corporation
Thomson R. K.
Tripp C. E.
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