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US 2003/0167101 A1Published application
Apparatus and method for transporting articles of the same type
OwnerKurt Philippinventor
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The apparatus serves for transporting articles of the same type, for example chocolate bars, and has a feed conveyor, a removal conveyor with a transverse conveyor running transversely to the end section of the feed conveyor, and a compensation device for arranging articles fed at regular or irregular time intervals by the feed conveyor at regular distances on the removal conveyor. The compensation device has two buffer stores and transfer means for transferring articles from the feed conveyor into the stores and from these onto the transverse conveyor. The two buffer stores are arranged together in a frame and have a plurality of intermittently movable storage units which are fastened by being suspended from a chain pair running vertically over a plurality of deflection rollers and each form a gondola train over at most half the length of the chain pair. The two chain pairs and hence also the storage units are arranged flush with one another and are each driven by means of a shaft, i.e. one drive is provided for the first, outer chain pair and one drive for the second, inner chain pair.
An apparatus for transporting articles of the same type comprising a feed conveyor for feeding articles to a compensation device and a removal conveyor for removing articles from the compensation device, wherein the compensation device has two buffer stores and transport means for transferring the articles arriving from the feed conveyor alternatively into one of the two buffer stores at a loading station and from these to the removal conveyor at an unloading station, wherein the two buffer stores are arranged together in a frame, wherein each buffer store has a plurality of intermittently movable storage units which are fastened by being suspended from a chain pair running vertically over a plurality of deflection rollers and each form a gondola train over at most half the length of the chain pair, wherein the two chain pairs and hence also the storage units are arranged flush with one another and are each driven by means of a shaft, i.e. one drive is provided for the first, outer chain pair and one drive for the second, inner chain pair.
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