Aim control arrangement for conveyor installations

• US 3,949,192 A
• Filed: 09/30/1974
• Issued: 04/06/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pfalzstahlbau GmbH
• Original Assignee: Pfalzstahlbau GmbH
• Inventors: Kuwertz, Erich, Krauth, Andre
• Primary Examiner(s): Cook, Daryl W.
• Application Number:
  US05/510,151
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 235/61.11 E, 235/61.11 D, 235/61.11 A, 235/61.11 C, 235/61.12 M, 235/61.12 N, 198/38
• US Class Current: 235/486
• CPC Class Codes: B61B 10/02 with suspended vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 47/493 by use of light responsive means
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 30/00 Transportation of goods or passengers via railways, e.g. energy recovery or reducing air resistance

Abstract

Aim control arrangement for conveyor installations of the type having coding cards coordinated to individual carriages that work together with address questioning stations of the conveyor installation comprising a chain guiding rail, a running rail for said carriages, a pulling chain guided by said chain guiding rail, an address carrier frame for each carriage in which the coding card is received, an adjusting insert in said frame operative to adjust the height of the coding card in the proximity of the address questioning stations for cooperation with corresponding means.

Claims

1. Aim control arrangement for conveyor installations of the type having coding cards coordinated to individual carriages that work together with address questioning stations of the conveyor installation comprising a chain guiding rail, a running rail for said carriages, a pulling chain guided by said chain guiding rail, an address carrier frame for each carriage in which the coding card is received, an adjusting insert in said frame operative to adjust the height of the coding card in the proximity of the address questioning stations for cooperation with corresponding means.

2. Aim control arrangement in accordance with claim 1 where said adjusting insert is provided at its horizontal upper edge with an upwardly open groove of V-shaped cross section.

3. Aim control arrangement in accordance with claim 2 where said adjusting insert presents laterally projecting pins sliding on the one hand in vertical guide slots in the frame of the address carrier and guided on the other hand in horizontal guiding grooves in the area of the address questioning station.

4. Aim control arrangement in accordance with claim 3 where said guiding grooves in the address questioning stations are widened in funnel fashion at their entrance side.

5. Aim control arrangement in accordance with claim 4 where the address questioning stations are mounted for rocking movement about a horizontal axis defined by the running rail.

6. Aim control arrangement in accordance with claim 5 where said carriages comprise a guide member operative to adjust the rocking movement of the address questioning station.

7. Aim control arrangement in accordance with claim 6 comprising an angular console for journalling said address questioning stations on a rail portion of the running rail and pins extending into the neighboring rail portions and are rockably supported about said pins.

8. Aim control arrangements in accordance with claim 7 comprising resetting springs on said address questioning stations secured on the one hand to the address questioning station and on the other hand on a fixed reference point such as a buck on the chain guiding rail.