Device for equally-spaced transportation of randomly arranged incoming products
AssigneeG. D. Societa per Azioni
InventorFiorenzo Draghetti
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Abstract
A device for equally-spaced transportation of randomly arranged incoming products, such as packets of cigarettes, whereby the products traveling successively and in randomly arranged manner along a first path and in a first given direction are brought into engagement with a braking device for forming an orderly line of products, which are removed successively from the first path by a transfer device and in a substantially transverse pickup direction in relation to the first traveling direction, and are fed, rotated 90.degree., on to a second path along which they are fed continuously and in equally-spaced manner in a second direction forming any angle in relation to the first traveling direction.
Claims14
A device for equally spaced transportation of randomly arranged incoming products, said device comprising a first conveyor for transporting products successively and in a randomly arranged manner along a first portion of a first path and with a first orientation;
- a second conveyor for transporting the products at a constant rate along a second path and with a second orientation rotated by 90.degree. relative to said first orientation;
- transfer means for removing the products at a predetermined rate from said first path;
- braking means located along a second portion of said first path, for receiving the products from said first conveyor and for forming an orderly line of products for supply, at a predetermined rate to said transfer means;
- said first and second paths being arranged in series at any predetermined angle to each other;
- and said transfer means being located between the output end of said first path and said second conveyor, for successively removing the products from said output end in a substantially transverse pickup direction in relation to said first traveling direction;
- first drive means being provided for operating both said transfer means and said second conveyor in time with each other;
- second drive means being provided for operating said brake means;
- and control sensor means being arranged at said output end of said first path to control said second drive means, whereby each product is fed by said brake means to said output end in time with said transfer means.
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