Turning block alignment
AssigneeFoodmate B.V.
InventorJacobus Eliza Hazenbroek
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Abstract
Conveyor for moving and positioning objects along a conveyor path, the conveyor including: a conveyor rail extending through a predefined conveying path; at least one carriage having a rotatable article support; and a turning block associated with the rotatable article support, to allow rotatable movement of the article support relative to the at least one carriage, wherein the conveyor further includes an aligning station for rotating the article support into a predetermined position, wherein the turning block has first disk with a first perimeter contour and a second disk with a second perimeter contour, and wherein the alignment station has means for engaging the second disk for rotatingly aligning the article support into the predetermined position.
Claims14
A conveyor for moving and positioning objects along a conveyor path, the conveyor including:
- a conveyor rail extending through a predefined conveying path;
- at least one carriage movable along the conveyor rail and including a carriage block;
- a rotatable article support associated with the at least one carriage;
- a turning block associated with the rotatable article support, to allow rotatable movement of the article support relative to the carriage block;
- a yieldable indexing means operatively arranged between the carriage block and the turning block to define at least a first and a second incremental rotational position for the article support, the yieldable indexing means being biased into engagement by magnetic forces;
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- an aligning station for rotating the article support into a predetermined position,
- wherein the turning block has first disk with a first perimeter contour and a second disk with a second perimeter contour, and
- wherein the alignment station has means for selectively engaging at least the second disk in response to movement of the turning block through the aligning station to rotatably align the article support into the predetermined position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.