Cantilevered belted bag loading apparatus and method
AssigneeUnion Carbide Corporation
InventorVytautas Kupcikevicius
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Abstract
A multiplicity of relatively narrow spaced apart parallel arrayed endless conveyor belts cantilevered from a support frame in the direction of product movement at a bagging station moves individual product articles, one at a time, towards the cantilevered ends of the conveyor belt array. At a predetermined point adjacent the belt cantilevered ends, the moving product article engages and depresses a sensing trigger which stops the belts forward movement to permit sliding a bag of suitable size over the article, with the bag side walls slipped under and between same or all of the cantilevered belts supporting the article. Conveyor belt movement is resumed upon a control signal by the bagging station operator and the bagged article is conveyed from the station.
Claims6
Apparatus for conveying and supporting during bagging individual articles in a series of articles being continually bagged comprising, in combination;
- an apparatus frame having a proximal end and a distal end;
- a multiplicity of unconnectedly spaced apart parallel arrayed article conveyor means disposed substantially horizontally in alignment with the direction of article progression;
- a multiplicity of spaced apart parallel arrayed article support means disposed substantially horizontally in alignment with the direction of article progression, each individually subtending one respectively of said multiplicity of conveyor means and each cantilevered towards the distal end of the frame from a fixed support adjacent the proximal end of the frame;
- motive means operably connected to said conveyor means arranged to advance said conveyor means continuously from the proximal end towards the distal end of the apparatus frame;
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- control means operably connected to and arranged and disposed to selectably continually activate said motive means.
Apparatus for conveying and supporting during bagging individual articles in a series of articles being continually bagged comprising, in combination;
- an apparatus frame having a proximal end and a distal end;
- and a multiplicity of spaced apart parallel arrayed article conveyor means disposed in alignment with the direction of article progression each cantilevered towards the distal end of the frame from a fixed support attached to and adjacent the proximal end of the frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.