Tilting tray sorting conveyor

• US 3,269,520 A
• Filed: 12/02/1964
• Issued: 08/30/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leonard J. Bishop, Paul Klamp
• Original Assignee: Leonard J. Bishop, Paul Klamp
• Inventors: Bishop, Leonard J., PAUL KLAMP
• Application Number:
  US04/415,445
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• US Class Current: 198/352
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 17/38 Chains or like traction elements drive chains F16G13/00; Connections between traction elements and load-carriers
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 2201/02 Articles
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 47/962 tilting about an axis substantially parallel to the conveying direction

Claims

1. IN A TILTING TRAY SORTING CONVEYOR, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING A TRACK A PLURALITY OF CARRIERS ON TRACK, A CHAIN INTERCONNECTING SAID CARRIERS AND ADAPTED TO BE DRIVEN TO MOVE SAID CARRIERS ALONG SAID TRACK, EACH SAID CARRIER HAVING A TRAY PIVOTALLY MOUNTED THEREON ABOUT AN AXIS GENERALLY NORMAL TO THE DIRECTION EACH SAID CARRIER HAVING A TILTING YOKE PIVOTED THERETO ABOUT AN AXIS GENERALLY NORMAL TO THE DIRECTION MOVEMENT OF SAID CARRIER, MEANS CONNECTING SAID YOKE TO SAID TRAY WHEREBY WHEN SAID YOKE IS PIVOTED IN ONE DIRECTION SAID TRAY IS SWUNG TO ONE SIDE AND WHEN SAID YOKE IS PIVOTED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION SAID TRAY IS SWUNG TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE TRACK, A PAIR OF LATCH MEANS ON SAID CARRIER ENGAGING SAID TILTING YOKE, EACH SAID LATCH MEANS PREVENTING MOVEMENT OF SAID YOKE TO A SAID OF SAID TRACK, AND CAM MEANS MOUNTED ALONG EACH SIDE OF SAID TRACK AND ADAPTED TO ENGAGE ONE OF SAID LATCH MEANS FOR DISENGAGING SAID LATCH MEANS AND MOVING SAID TRAY AS THE CARRIER MOVES ALONG SAID TRACK TO TILT SAID TRAY TO ONE SIDE OF SAID TRACK.