Plural cable container conveyor and turn therefor

A conveyor for a plural cable conveyor system comprising horizontal straight runs providing horizontally coplanar support surfaces for cans deposited therein and an interconnecting turn,

• said turn comprising two superposed pulleys including an upper pulley and a lower pulley, each independently rotatable on a common vertical axis;
• the upper pulley being of smaller diameter than the lower pulley and having an upper can-supporting surface;
• a first conveying cable having a length extending from one of said runs about said upper pulley and into the other straight run and having a sector in the plane of its straight runs projecting above the top surface of the upper pulley for supporting with said top surface of the upper pulley the bottom of a container and carrying it around said turn;
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• a second cable trained about the lower pulley and coplanar with said first cable in the first run and descending at an acute angle with respect to the plane of the first cable into the turn below the upper pulley and emerging beyond the turn at an acute angle into the plane of said first cable and thereat advancing under the containers exiting from the turn and with said first cable supporting and carrying said containers in the other straight run;
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• guide means disposed in offcenter relation with respect to said first cable for shifting the containers radially inwardly into said upper pulley in said turn to a position for entire support of the containers solely by the upper pulley and first cable in said turn, said first cable in said turn being disposed radially outwardly of the vertical central axis of said containers, and said first cable protruding slightly above said top surface of the first pulley and supporting said containers in the turn radially outwardly of the central vertical axes of such containers with reference to said axis of rotation of the pulley thereby slightly tilting the containers in the turn toward the axis of rotation of the pulleys, whereby centrifugal forces acting on the containers so tilted tend to bias said containers to upright positions in the turn thereby minimizing the pressure of the contact of the containers with said guide means and thus minimizing or precluding scuffing of any decorative art work or coating on the containers.