Method and device for conveying objects
AssigneeVanderlande Industries Nederland B.V.
InventorJacobus Marie Van Den Goor
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for operating a device and to a device for conveying loose objects from a supply station to a delivery station, wherein a conveyor is used by means of which trays containing objects can be moved. The conveyor includes at least one carrier for receiving said trays, which carrier can be moved in an intended direction of movement with the aid of driving means and which can be selectively pivoted about a pivot axis at at least one desired location. The object is either removed from the tray by pivoting the carrier about the respective pivot axis, whereby the object slides off the tray in a first direction, or the tray and the object are jointly removed from the carrier by moving the tray and the object in a second direction transversely to said first direction.
Claims15
A method for operating a device for conveying objects from a supply station to a delivery station, wherein a conveyor is used by means of which trays containing loose objects can be moved, wherein said conveyor includes at least one carrier for receiving said trays, which carrier can be moved in an intended direction of movement with the aid of driving means, characterized in that the object is removable from the tray by repositioning the carrier, wherein at least one of the tray and the carrier is provided with means for engaging the other of the tray and the carrier such that the object slides off the tray when the tray is positioned in a first direction and the means for engaging are engaged, and the tray and the object are jointly removed from the carrier when the tray is positioned in a second direction and the means for engaging are disengaged.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the tray is either supplied to the carrier in a first position, if it is intended to remove the tray from the carrier together with the object by pivoting the carrier about the pivot axis, or in a second position, in which it is turned in relation to said first position, if it is intended to remove only the object from the carrier at a specific location by pivoting the carrier about the pivot axis.
A device for conveying products from a supply station to a delivery station, which device includes a conveyor by means of which trays containing objects can be moved, wherein said conveyor includes at least one carrier for receiving trays containing loose objects, which carrier can be moved in an intended direction of movement with the aid of driving means and which can be selectively pivoted about a pivot axis at least one desired location, the device including a supply conveyor, which is fitted with means for delivering the tray to the carrier in one of two positions, and the device including means for engaging provided on one of the tray and the carrier, the means for engaging adapted to engage the other one of the tray and the carrier when the tray is positioned in a first position such that the object slides off the tray and adapted to disengage from the other one of the tray and the carrier when the tray is positioned in a second position such that the object slides off the tray.
A method for conveying an object from a supply station to a delivery station, comprising the steps of:
- moving a tray containing at least one loose object in a conveying direction on a conveyor;
- repositioning a carrier which receives the tray from the conveyor;
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- providing at least one of the carrier and the tray with a means for engaging the other one of the tray and the carrier such that only the at least one loose object is removed from the carrier when the tray is positioned in a first orientation and the means for engaging is engaged, and such that both the at least one loose object and the tray are removed from the carrier when the tray is positioned in a second orientation and the means for engaging is disengaged.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.