B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – G
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
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B65G 47/24 (2006.01) B27B 31/00 (2006.01) B65G 27/04 (2006.01) B65G 37/00 (2006.01) B65G 47/30 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2301357
A system of conveyors and conveyor units for moving and aligning articles in single file in one or more paths of travel as the articles are moved forward by the conveyors. The articles are blocks of wood of random length and of common thickness. The first conveyor in the system is a conventional vibrating conveyor and this is followed by a conveyor of the vibrating type provided with an undulating upper surface that defines parallel flow paths of a first article alignment section. Next is a combination vibrating and belt conveyor in which a first portion of the conveyor is a second alignment section provided by an undulating upper surface followed by a second section having deeper spaced apart parallel channels. The upper flight of an endless belt travels along the bottom of each of respective ones of the deeper channels. The articles, as they are moving forward, become aligned in single file in the respective flow paths of the alignment sections and the deeper channels. The last unit is a multi-lane article accumulator, cueing and gated dispensing unit in which there is the upper flight of an endless power driven belt in the bottom of each of a plurality of spaced apart channels. A 90 degree change of direction conveyor is used, as desired, in the conveyor system to change the path of travel with out materially affecting or disturbing the alignment of the articles.
Dunwell Gordon Raymond
Laidlaw Murray Barrett
Pritchard Jonathan Arthur Nicholas
Crestbrook Forest Industries Limited
Johnson Stanley E.
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