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Conveyor for orienting and feeding small parts

US7815033B2 · kind B2 · utility

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17Claims

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Assignee

NEWFREY LLC · US

Inventors

Markus Feierabend · Heuchelheim, DE
Stefan Lippert · Stuttgart, DE
Hugo Walldorf · Neu-Ulm, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 9, 2007
Grant date	Oct 19, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 10, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB65G47/1478
WIPO fieldHandling
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A conveyor for orienting and feeding small parts has a platform elevator conveying mechanism on one side of an inclined collecting surface that feeds small parts to a conveying trough at a higher elevation. The conveying trough has a horizontal stationary storage platform and a movable pivoting platform that can pivot about an axis located at a delivery end of the conveying trough, between a position parallel to the storage platform and a position inclined to the horizontal. The storage platform is adjacent to the platform elevator conveying mechanism and has a storage surface inclined downward toward the pivoting platform, and the pivoting platform has a hollow throat adjacent to the edge of the storage platform.

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