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US 11,111,082 B2Granted
Product detector
AssigneeSidel (Canada) Inc.
InventorStéphane Goyette
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Abstract
Disclosed is a detector for detecting a product flow on a conveyor, including a base, to be fixed at a side of the conveyor, a pendulum, fixed to the based with a rotation to an axis, the pendulum rotating when products are pushed against it, a sensor, for detecting the position of the pendulum. The pendulum includes at an end thereof a contact unit having a flat plate shape, with a non-metallic surface for contacting the products.
Claims10
Detector (1) for detecting a product flow on a conveyor (2), comprising
- a base (3), to be fixed at a side of said conveyor (2),
- a pendulum (4), fixed to the base (3) with a rotation to an axis (5), said pendulum (4) rotating when products are pushed against said pendulum (4),
- a sensor (6), for detecting the position of the pendulum (4)
- wherein the pendulum (4) comprises:
- at an end thereof, a contact means (7) having a flat plate shape, with a non metallic surface for contacting the products and an outer surface of the contact means (7) being made of an elongated plastic part (10), and
- a support structure (9) for supporting the contact means (7), said support structure (9) having a bottom end that extends parallel to the axis (5), and
- wherein the plastic part (10) has a flat plate shape and has formed therein a cavity (11) for receiving a corresponding end of the support structure (9),
- the cavity (11) and the corresponding end of the support structure (9) having complementary elongated shapes and the cavity (11) configured to position the end of the support structure parallel to elongated plastic part (10).
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