Transfer apparatus for poultry processing conveyor
AssigneeStork-Gamco, Inc.
InventorMichael E. Simonds
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Abstract
Suspended birds traveling in one direction on a linear delivery conveyor are transferred to a parallel oppositely moving receiver linear conveyor by an intervening rotary transfer conveyor and coacting stationary bird camming bars which nudge the birds from shackles on the delivery conveyor to shackles on the rotary transfer conveyor and from the latter shackles to shackles on the receiving conveyor. Simplicity of construction and positive reliable operation are featured.
Claims10
A transfer apparatus comprising spaced oppositely moving conveyors each having a line of spaced article carriers, an intervening rotary transfer conveyor having spaced article carriers arranged to coact in succession with article carriers on the oppositely moving conveyors, and relatively stationary cam means adjacent to article transfer points between the oppositely moving and rotary transfer conveyors and engageable with articles at the transfer points to force them from the article carriers of one first-named conveyor to the article carriers of the rotary transfer conveyor and from the article carriers of the latter to the article carriers of the other of said first-named oppositely moving conveyors, and said oppositely moving conveyors comprising a pair of substantially parallel linear conveyors disposed at different elevations relative to said rotary transfer conveyor, and said line of spaced article carriers on each oppositely moving linear conveyor including a plurality of equidistantly spaced article suspension shackles, said rotary transfer conveyor having plural circumferentially equidistantly spaced article suspension shackles adapted to register in succession with the shackles of the linear conveyors at two diametrically opposite article transfer points on said apparatus.
A transfer apparatus comprising spaced oppositely moving substantially parallel linear conveyors disposed at two different elevations, equidistantly spaced article suspension shackles on each oppositely moving linear conveyor and also being at different elevations on the two linear conveyors but at one elevation on each such conveyor, an intervening rotary transfer conveyor substantially midway between the linear conveyors and having circumferentially equidistantly spaced article suspsension shackles at a common elevation and between the two elevations of the shackles of said oppositely moving linear conveyors, the shackles of the rotary transfer conveyor adapted to register in succession with shackles of the linear conveyors at two diametrically opposite article transfer points, and relatively stationary camming means on the apparatus at said transfer points and engaging articles at the transfer points to lift the articles from the shackles of one linear conveyor so that the articles may drop into supportive engagement with the shackles of the rotary transfer conveyor and to also lift the articles from the shackles of the rotary transfer conveyor so that the articles may drop into supportive engagement with the shackles of the other linear conveyor.
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