Code-resetting device for a car-type transporter

In a conveyor installation wherein cars circulate along a track and each car is provided along a side thereof with at least one code-setting marker displaceable along a guide from a starting position at an end of said guide in the direction of travel of the car and stations are provided along the track with code readers responsive to the position of said code-setting marker and with means for transferring a car carrying the appropriate code representing a particular station to a siding from said track the improvement which comprises resetting means along said track including:

• a retaining abutment displaceable in a direction transverse to the direction of movement of said marker along said guide into a position wherein said retaining abutment can intercept said marker and into a position wherein said retaining abutment is retracted from interception of said marker;
• actuating means connected with said retaining abutment for shifting same from one of said positions into the other of said positions;
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• yieldable means acting upon said retaining abutment and effective with a force exceeding the resistance displacement of movement of said marker along said guide but less than the force with which said car travels along said track for yielding upon engagement by said retaining abutment with said marker and the shifting of said marker along said guide into said starting position by the movement of said car relative to said retaining abutment, whereby said marker thereafter clears said retaining abutment.