Transfer mechanism
US4043442A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 18, 1975 |
| Grant date | Aug 23, 1977 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 18, 1995 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65G47/648
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Apparatus for transferring pouches from a conveyor into product buckets of a cartoner. The pouches are deposited in shingled fashion in spaced groups on two slow moving parallel conveyors. Mounted on the same frame are two fast-moving conveyors which overlap the slower conveyors. At the junctions of the conveyors check and release mechanisms are provided which in the load engaging position raise the level of the slow conveyors above the fast ones and in the disengaged position raise the fast conveyors above the slow conveyors to facilitate the transfer. The pouches are transferred to the fast moving conveyors to increase the longitudinal separation between pouches. Two side-by-side groups of pouches are marshalled at the end of the fast moving conveyors by another check and release mechanism. The fast moving conveyors are swung alongside continuously moving product buckets, and during such swinging movement the pouches are deposited into the product buckets.
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