Device for Adjusting Tracks on a Conveyor
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for adjustment of tracks, comprising a mechanism for moving the walls in order to simultaneously adjust the width of different tracks. The device also comprises means for transverse displacement of the tracks with relation to the medial longitudinal axis of said conveyor. The means comprise a carriage arranged between the support structure for the walls and the means for moving said walls, the carriage being transversely movable using appropriate means and guided by a system of slides arranged at the level of each support structure in order to carry out said transverse displacement of the set of tracks without altering the width thereof. The above arrangement permits the guiding as necessary of lines of bottles or other things, the number of which can vary going from an even number to an odd number.
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- 11. A device for adjusting lanes for guiding objects of the bottle type on a conveyor comprising a station, which device comprises a mechanism for moving walls which delimit said various lanes, which mechanism consists of a coordinated drive system which acts on said walls to adjust the width of said lanes simultaneously, which walls are guided on transverse slides which are secured to bearing structures positioned over said conveyor, the device comprising means for shifting said lanes transversely with respect to a median longitudinal axis of the conveyor, which shifting means consist, at each bearing structure, of a carriage-like support which is inserted between said bearing structure and said coordinated drive system for driving said walls, which carriage can move transversely under the effect of moving means and is guided by a slide system formed at said bearing structures in order to shift all of said lanes transversely without modifying the width of said lanes.
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