B65G 47/68
Adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor lane
Official title: adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor {lane} and to transfer them in individual layers to more than one conveyor {lane or to one broader conveyor lane}, or vice versa, e.g. combining the flows of articles conveyed by more than one conveyor
B65G47/68 (Adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor lane) appears on 942 US grants and 722 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65G- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65G 47/71The articles being discharged or distributed to several distinct separate conveyors or501
- B65G 47/682From a single conveyor lane consisting of one conveyor or several adjacent255
- B65G 47/681From distinct, separate conveyor lanes149
- B65G 2047/685Devices for preventing jamming in converging flowsIndexing code67
- B65G 47/69The articles being accumulated temporarily25
- B65G 47/70With precedence controls among incoming article flows25
Recent patents
- Apparatus and method for storing articles6 Oct 2026US 12,753,024 B2G. D S.p.A.
- Container discharge apparatus for discharging containers from a mass-flow conveyor and for separating the containers, and method for operating the container discharge apparatus1 Sep 2026US 12,722,906 B2Krones AG
- Robot informed dynamic parcel inflow gating25 Aug 2026US 12,715,714 B2Dexterity, Inc.
- Vertical sequencer for product order fulfillment18 Aug 2026US 12,709,489 B2Symbotic LLC
- Handling device and method for dividing a main product flow, in particular into at least two product partial flows9 Jun 2026US 12,649,631 B2Syntegon Packaging Systems AG
- Optimizing the provision of cargo at an order-picking workstation of an intralogistics system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307903 A1TGW Logistics Group GmbH
- Device for Transporting and Needs-Based Buffering of Containers1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296800 A1
- Method and system for receiving and manipulating articles1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296801 A1Krones AG
- Apparatus and method for sorting randomly fed closing elements of different types or formats30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216754 A1Ronchi Mario S.P.A.
- Method and apparatus for sorting closing elements with a transport system having movable holding elements30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217477 A1Ronchi Mario S.P.A.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Divert apparatus for conveyor system199US 6,401,936 B1Siemens ElectroCom, L.P. · 2002
- Conveyor sorting and orienting system85US 4,044,897 ARapistan, Incorporated · 1977
- Hold and release singulator80US 6,471,044 B1Siemens ElectroCom, L.P. · 2002
- Feeder reader subsystem74US 6,484,886 B1Siemens Dematic Postal Automation, L.P. · 2002
- Controlled spacing induction68US 5,341,916 ARapistan, Incorporated · 1994