Conveyors: fluid current – Having means for maintaining load in suspension along flow path – By load supporting jets
Patent
1983-09-19
1985-12-31
Kashnikow, Andres
Conveyors: fluid current
Having means for maintaining load in suspension along flow path
By load supporting jets
B65G 5100
Patent
active
045618062
ABSTRACT:
Air operated material handling equipment moves containers having elongated longitudinal axes from a mass in a bulk storage zone, wherein the longitudinal axes are disposed vertically and in side-by-side relation over a transport surface having a prearranged pattern of flotation air jet openings in the surface slanted in a downstream direction. The transport surface is divided into a plurality of zones including a bulk storage zone and a single file zone with one or more intermediate transport zones therebetween. The intermediate transfer zones have converging sides to move the containers from the bulk storage area into single file. Jets of air are delivered by angularly-disposed floatation air jet openings to lift, support and to move the articles forward. Additional acceleration jets of larger size accelerate the leading containers to separate them from the mass of containers in the intermediate transport zones to move them into single file. The converging sides bring the forward portion of the mass into an equilateral configuration and cooperate with the acceleration jets to move them subsequently into isosceles triangular configurations with an ever increasing base length and finally into single file.
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Jones Mary Beth O.
Kashnikow Andres
Precision Metal Fabricators, Inc.
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