Device for conveying eggs
AssigneeMoba Holding Barneveld B.V.
InventorJacob Hendrik Mosterd
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Abstract
The invention provides a device for transporting eggs from a broad conveyor belt, on which the eggs may be positioned randomly, towards a discharge device having a number of juxtapositioned discharge locations, each adapted to discharge one egg at a time, said device for transporting eggs containing a number of juxtapositioned gutters each having slightly tilting sidewalls and a central slot, yielding push members protruding upwardly through said slots, said members being moved in the longitudinal direction of said slots.
Claims9
A device for conveying eggs, comprising a broad conveyor on which a number of eggs can be randomly positioned, a discharge device having a number of juxtapositioned discharge locations, and a number of generally horizontal mutually parallel gutters located between the broad conveyor and the discharge device, each gutter having slightly tilting sidewalls and a slot in the central portion between the sidewalls, push members protruding only slightly through said slots, and means for moving said push members longitudinally through said slots relative to the gutter sidewalls in the direction from the broad conveyor towards the discharge device, said push members comprising freely rotatable circular members for passing beneath an obstructed egg in said gutters without injuring the egg, but pushing unobstructed eggs along said gutters, whereby obstructed eggs caused by irregular feed to or discharge from said gutters may be temporarily stowed along any of said gutters without breakage.
A device for conveying eggs, comprising a broad conveyor on which a number of eggs can be randomly positioned, a discharge device having a number of juxtapositioned discharge locations, and a number of generally horizontal mutually parallel gutters located between the broad conveyor and the discharge device, each gutter having slightly tilting sidewalls and a slot in the central portion between the sidewalls, push members protruding only slightly through said slots, and means for moving said push members longitudinally through said slots relative to the gutter sidewalls in the direction from the broad conveyor toward the discharge device, said push members comprising yieldably mounted members mounted for movement between an egg pushing position and an egg clearing position, and means yieldably biasing said members generally upwardly into their slightly protruding, egg pushing position, such that said push members pass beneath an obstructed egg in said gutters without injuring the egg, but push unobstructed eggs along said gutters, whereby obstructed eggs may be temporarily stowed along any of said gutters without breakage.
A device for conveying eggs, comprising a broad conveyor on which a number of eggs can be randomly positioned, a discharge device having a number of juxtapositioned discharge locations, and a number of mutually parallel gutters located between the broad conveyor and the discharge device, each gutter having slightly tilting sidewalls and a slot in the central portion between the sidewalls, push members protruding through said slots, and means for moving said push members longitudinally through said slots relative to the gutter sidewalls in the direction from the broad conveyor toward the discharge device, said push members comprising brushes so constructed and arranged as to pass beneath an obstructed egg in said gutters without injuring the egg, but to push unobstructed eggs along said gutters, at least the pushing surfaces of the brush push members being continually yieldable relative to obstructed eggs.
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