Transfer device

US5996992A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Josef Raschke · Pliening, DE
• Rudolf Schuster · Heimstetten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 3, 1997
• Grant date: Dec 7, 1999
• Expiry date: Nov 3, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B07C1/025
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A transfer apparatus for transferring items from a first conveying device to moving assigned item carriers carried on a second conveying device is disclosed. The item carriers and the second conveying device move in a second transporting direction which is opposite to a first transporting direction of the first conveying device. The transfer apparatus includes a transfer member which includes a continuous circulating conveying belt and a continuous circulating pressure-exerting belt. The transfer member receives items from the first conveying device between the two belts and discharges them through a discharge region to the moving item carriers. The discharge region of the transfer member pivots along the second transporting direction of the item carriers. The transfer member is aligned with the second conveying device so that items are discharged through the discharge region to the assigned item carriers without movement of the discharge region in a direction which would be out of alignment with the second transporting direction.