Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items – By shifting group of items simultaneously from stream...
Patent
1977-02-02
1979-08-21
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for establishing and moving a group of items
By shifting group of items simultaneously from stream...
198441, 198480, 198484, 198792, B65G 4726
Patent
active
041649974
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for receiving a single line of containers and grouping them so that a plurality of containers can be delivered to an exit line. The apparatus contains a starwheel arrangement wherein the starwheel is comprised of a plurality of sectors each moveable with respect to each other. Each sector transports a plurality of containers at a constant velocity around an arcuate extent. The sectors and their containers accelerate for a portion of their travel, then stop, whereupon the containers are moved in a radially outward direction to a delivery point upon an adjacent conveyor. The method of receiving containers on a starwheel arrangement and simultaneously ejecting a plurality of containers from the starwheel to an adjacent conveyor is set forth in detail. The containers enter the starwheel in usual singular line fashion and are delivered from the starwheel in groups.
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Birchall David R.
Click Myron E.
Owens--Illinois, Inc.
Valenza Joseph E.
Wilson David H.
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