Conveyor system with movable partitions
OwnerAkira Ueharainventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a conveyor system with movable partitions, which is so designed that powdery goods, grainy goods or other shapeless goods, or loose stuff, such as molded resin articles, can surely and safely be conveyed, when excessive resistance is applied to the lower end portion of a partition moving within a load-receiving tray, the partition swings rearward to run free of the load, when goods to be conveyed get stuck at the lower end portion of the partition, the partition moves in that state in the tray dragging the goods along, and when the partition reaches the front sprocket in the running direction and the partition-attached portion of an endless caterpillar engages with the sprocket and rotates about a quarter, the partition is flipped over, permitting the goods to be set free or removed.
Claims15
A conveyor system with movable partitions comprising:
- guide rails for receiving chain belts, each guide rail being provided between a pair of front and rear sprockets, each chain belt being located around said front and rear sprockets to thereby form an endless caterpillar;
- main bars for securely holding the guide rails apart sideward from each other at a predetermined interval;
- a load-receiving tray having a recessed groove shape, provided between right and left endless caterpillars;
- multiple partitions movable in said load-receiving tray and attached approximately equidistant to said right and left endless caterpillars;
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- brackets being provided at right and left ends of each partition, so that front portions of said brackets which are located apart by a predetermined distance from an associated partition in a running direction, are rotatably coupled to said respective endless caterpillars by shafts, whereby said partitions are flipped over by means of said endless caterpillars where said front portions of said bracket are coupled thereto, in accordance with rotation of said front sprockets in said running direction, so that lower end portions of said partitions are greatly separated from an inner bottom of said load-receiving tray and are hung from said endless caterpillars during a return motion. said endless caterpillars in return motion.
A conveyor system with movable partitions comprising:
- guide rails for receiving chain belts, each guide rail being provided between a pair of front and rear sprockets, each chain belt being located around said front and rear sprockets to thereby form an endless caterpillar;
- main bars for securely holding the guide rails apart sideward from each other at a predetermined interval;
- a load-receiving tray having a recessed groove shape, provided between right and left endless caterpillars;
- multiple partitions movable in said load-receiving tray and attached approximately equidistant to said right and left endless caterpillars;
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- a pipe for preventing goods to be conveyed from contacting sprocket shafts being supported by front sprocket shafts between at least front right and left sprockets of said pair of front sprockets.
A conveyor system with movable partitions comprising:
- guide rails for receiving chain belts, each guide rail being provided between a pair of front and rear sprockets, each chain belt being located around said front and rear sprockets to thereby form an endless caterpillar;
- main bars for securely holding the guide rails apart sideward from each other at a predetermined interval;
- a load-receiving tray having a recessed groove shape, provided between right and left endless caterpillars;
- multiple partitions movable in said load-receiving tray and attached approximately equidistant to said right and left endless caterpillars;
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- a fall-off preventing plate being provided on said load-receiving tray and a rear portion of a side cover in such a manner as to be rotatable in a running direction of said endless caterpillar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.