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Transport system for mutually independent caddies

US5337882A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

W. Schlafhorst AG & Co. · DE

Inventors

Helmut Kohlen · Erkelenz, DE
Helmuth Hensen · Mönchengladbach, DE
Karl-Heinz Floh · Mönchengladbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 1, 1993
Grant date	Aug 16, 1994
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 1, 2013

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB65G2201/02
WIPO fieldHandling
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A transport system for mutually independent caddies carrying bobbins or bobbin tubes and having base plates, includes one transport path and another transport path entering the one transport path at a converging point. Moving surfaces, in particular surfaces of conveyor belts, carry the caddies along the transport paths by frictional engagement, with the caddies standing on the base plates. At least one additional contact surface is disposed at the converging point for touching a caddy passing through the converging point and imposing an additional motion component upon the caddy.

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