Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
Patent
1994-03-09
1996-03-12
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
1984612, 198455, 198784, B65G 4712
Patent
active
054978718
ABSTRACT:
Singulation apparatus (10) for transforming a plurality of randomly oriented tires (T) in an inlet hopper to a linear alignment of tires reposing on their sidewalls including, a singulator assembly (20) having a plurality of stepped conveyor stages (21-24) with tire sidewall engaging surfaces (25-29) which are angularly upwardly inclined, mechanisms (35, 35', 36, 37, 38, 39) for driving the sidewall engaging surfaces of each of the conveyor surfaces at differing linear velocities for unscrambling and spacing tires passing through the singulator assembly, an unloading chute (70) for accumulating tires received from the singulator assembly in laterally aligned relation, a download conveyor (85) for intermittently receiving tires from the unloading chute and depositing the tires in linear alignment on a discharge conveyor (100).
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