Conveying apparatus for crackers and related objects
US4607742A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 24, 1985 |
| Grant date | Aug 26, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 24, 2005 |
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- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65B23/12
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A horizontal trough for conveying polygonal objects, such as crackers, positioned in vertical planes having a trough opening in the trough bottom for culling out and exiting disoriented objects, the trough bottom opening and adjacent trough bottom support areas including a ramp are configured so that vertically oriented objects pass over the opening while horizontally oriented (disoriented) objects drop through the opening.
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