Direct drop transfer apparatus
US5579894A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 11, 1995 |
| Grant date | Dec 3, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 11, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65H2701/191
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A product transfer apparatus for transferring individual product from a rotary feeding station to downstream apparatus such as a cartoner conveyor in preselected count stacks for subsequent discharge at a cartoner machine. Stacks of product are formed by dropping the product into stacks on a transfer conveyor and from there dropping the stacks directly into buckets of a cartoner conveyor. A transfer bucket conveyor is disposed beneath and transverse to an axis of the rotary feeding station and includes an upper fill run and a lower discharge run of product transfer buckets. The cartoner conveyor is disposed beneath and aligned with the transfer bucket conveyor and includes a series of cartoner product buckets operating in speed register with the lower run of product transfer buckets for receiving the preselected count stacks from the lower discharge run. The transfer bucket conveyor is capable of intermittent or decreased speed in the upper fill run for accommodating stack building, rejection of the product, varied product sizes, varying counts of the product in the upper fill run, a varied bucket pitch, while maintaining a constant speed in the lower discharge run for continuously…
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