B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – G
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
G
B65G 67/04 (2006.01) B62B 3/00 (2006.01) B65G 57/24 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2063898
In an automatic loading system and method, wheeled carts receive, e.g., five or six layers of newspaper bundles of, e.g., four to six bundles per layer. Conveyors move bundles to a platform of independently-operated sec- tions selectively halted upon receipt of a bundle. Struc- ture is provided for selectively advancing bundles along the sections, the structure including elements to halt the advancing of bundles on each section responsive to detec- tion of a bundle on the section. Pusher elements are responsive to the presence of bundles upon predetermined ones of the sections for pushing the bundles in a trans- verse direction onto a split platform. The split platform comprises first and second platform sections which are movable between a closed position, wherein adjacent edges of the platform sections are in close proximity, and an open position wherein the sections are moved apart to define a gap region between the split platform sections, the gap region being positioned immediately above the open end of the cart. Structure is responsive to delivery of bundles by the pusher elements upon the split platform assembly for moving the split platform sections apart, whereupon the bundles resting thereon are dropped through the gap region toward the cart.
Cote Kevin
Sjogren Christer A.
Borden Ladner Gervais Llp
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
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