Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items – By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
Patent
1980-01-28
1981-07-21
Marbert, James B.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items
By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...
133 3A, 198803, B65G 4714
Patent
active
042793360
ABSTRACT:
A singulator for separating a discrete object from a mass of such objects has a rotary, horizontal table on the central top portion of which the mass of objects is randomly arrayed. There are radial pockets at the top periphery of the table. The pockets are alternately opened and closed at their inner ends as the table rotates, preferably by triangular gates at the entry ends of the radial pocket walls. The gates are operated by levers actuated by a stationary cam as the table rotates with respect thereto. As they open and shut, the gates let one object at a time move from the central top portion of the table into a receiving pocket. A driving belt disengages from the wall ends to open the pockets to discharge at their outer ends for part of the table rotation. The belt reengages the pocket walls to close the pockets against discharge for the rest of the table rotation.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3042183 (1962-07-01), Ackley
patent: 3601041 (1971-08-01), Perra
Henderson Jerald M.
Yong Yuen-Cjen
Marbert James B.
The Regents of the University of California
Watts Douglas D.
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