B - Operations – Transporting – 65 – G
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
65
G
B65G 35/06 (2006.01) B62D 65/18 (2006.01) B65G 47/52 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2167621
A carrier conveyor system wherein carriers are disengaged from the main conveyor in advance of a work station and re-engaged beyond the work station and a transfer conveyor is positioned such that it receives the carriers as they are disengaged, transfers them as required to the work station, removes them from the work station after the work is performed and returns them to the main conveyor. The transfer conveyor comprises a plurality of transfer assemblies arranged in succession in tandem array along the carrier travel path, and each consisting of right and left hand mirror imaged modules which are mechanically drivingly cross-connected by means of a gear belted underhung jack shaft. These right and left modules are positioned along each side of the path of the carriers from the area where the carriers are disengaged from the conveyor through the work station and to the area where the carriers are re-engaged with the conveyor. Each transfer module consists of a narrow longitudinally extending carrier transport belt, driven by a variable speed AC or DC motor coupled through a reducer to a belt head pulley, the upper carrier transport run being supported by either wheels, a slider bed or a combination of the two. The belts are driven continuously when it is desired such that the carrier is moved by each transfer assembly to the succeeding transfer assembly or position. The number of transfer assemblies is such that there will be sufficient time at the work station to perform the function desired and at the same time there will always be a carrier ready for re-engagement with the -42- conveyor thereby insuring that there will be a carrier at each job space on the main conveyor in the remainder of the conveyor system.
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