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Apparatus for transporting cylindrical articles

  • US 3,279,580 A
  • Filed: 06/23/1965
  • Issued: 10/18/1966
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1965
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING CYLINDRICAL ARTICLES COMPRISING INFEED CONVEYOR MEANS FOR CONVEYING CYLINDRICAL ARTICLES TO A PREDETERMINED ROW-DECREASING ZONE, LATERALLY OFFSET DISCHARGE CONVEYOR MEANS FOR CONVEYING CYLINDRICAL ARTICLES AWAY FROM SAID ROW-DECREASING ZONE, PLURAL INFEED GUIDES LOCATED OVER AND EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID INFEED CONVEYOR MEANS FOR GUIDING CYLINDRICAL ARTICLES IN A PLURALITY OF STRAIGHT ROWS IN SIDE-BY-SIDE RELATION LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID INFEED CONVEYOR MEANS WHILE THEY ARE TRANSPORTED THEREBY OT SAID ROW-DECREASING ZONE, DISCHARGE GUIDES LOCATED OVER SAID DISCHARGE CONVEYOR MEANS FOR GUIDING THE CYLINDRICAL ARTICLES IN AT LEAST ONE ROW EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID DISCHARGE CONVEYOR MEANS, SAID DISCHARGE GUIDES BEING LATERALLY OFFSET FROM SAID INFEED GUIDES, DEFLECTING MEANS AT SAID ROW-DECREASING ZONE INCLUDING TRANSFER GUIDES, ONE OF WHICH IS AT AN ANGLE OF APPROXIMATELY 30 DEGREES TO SAID PLURALITY OF STRAIGHT ROWS FOR DEFLECTING ARTICLES FROM SAID INFEED GUIDE MEANS TO SAID DISCHARGE GUIDE MEANS WHILE CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF THE ARTICLES BY APPROXIMATELY 30 DEGREES AND INTERMEDIATE CONVEYOR MEANS SITUATED BETWEEN SAID INFEED AND DISCHARGE CONVEYOR MEANS AND EXTENDING ALONG SAID ROW-DECREASING ZONE FOR GRADUALLY INCREASING THE SPEED OF MOVEMENT OF THE ARTICLES AS THEY ARE DEFLECTED FROM SAID INFEED CONVEYOR MEANS TO SAID DISCHARGE CONVEYOR MEANS.

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