Conveyor system for flat articles
AssigneeGAO Gesellschaft fur Automation und Organisation mbH
InventorsHarry Schirrmeister, Gerd VON Aschwege, Harald Helmrich, Herbert Bernardi
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Abstract
This disclosure is directed to a conveying system for transporting documents from the delivery end of one conveyor section to the spaced apart entry end of a receiving conveyor section in a manner wherein the document is stiffened by imparting undulating or corrugated folds therein as it is conveyed so as to facilitate the transfer of the document from one conveyor to the next and thereby permitting at least one or both sides of the document to be checked or read as it is being conveyed from one station to the next at the point of transfer.
Claims4
A conveying system for conveying documents comprising a first conveyor section and a second conveyor section, each of said sections including a pair of endless conveyors, said conveyors respectively being disposed in side by side relationship and having corresponding flight portions contiguously disposed so that a document is conveyed by said contiguous flight portions as said conveyors are driven, said conveyors of said first section having end rollers defining a delivery end, and said conveyors of said second section having end rollers defining an entry end, said delivery end being spaced from said entry end, and said conveyors including a series of belts threaded about the end rollers defining said delivery end and entry end respectively, said belts being threaded about their respective end rollers to project beyond the circumference of its respective end rollers, whereby said belts extending in said contiguous flight portions of said pair of endless conveyors are staggered to impress upon a document conveyed therebetween an undulating cross-section shape, and including guide belts, said guide belts being threaded about the end rollers defining said delivery end and said entry end of said sections respectively whereby said guide belts extend across the space between said sections.
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