Rubber tire individual separation transport apparatus

• US 5,307,922 A
• Filed: 03/31/1993
• Issued: 05/03/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Company
• Original Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain Company
• Inventors: Ohta, Yasuhiro, Kashiwagi, Kenryo, Umemoto, Masaru
• Primary Examiner(s): Gastineau, Cheryl L.
• Application Number:
  US08/040,405
• Time in Patent Office: 398 Days
• Field of Search: 198/443, 198/449, 198/453, 198/690.2, 198/698, 198/699
• US Class Current: 198/443
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/0016 Handling tyres or parts thereof, e.g. supplying, storing, conveying B29D30/2607 takes precedence; loading and unloading vulcanizing presses B29D30/0603
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 47/1471 Movement in one direction, substantially outwards

Abstract

A rubber tire individual separation transport apparatus including a rubber tire individual conveyor surface section and a rubber tire sliding surface section separately formed on a slat conveyor surface, with the conveyor having a horizontal charge zone, a sharply inclined individual transport zone, and a horizontal discharge zone. Also included is an upright plate erected for contact with the peripheral surface of a rubber tire at one end of each slat in the individual conveyor surface section. A support plate of such a size as to support only one rubber tire laid flat on said individual conveyor surface is mounted at a larger pitch in the direction of transport than the maximum diameter of the rubber tire being conveyed. A stationary side wall is erected along the side edge of the other end of the slat of the sliding surface section. Cooperative action between the selected tire and the side wall causes frictional force on unwanted tires to cause them to fall back to the supply of tires.

Claims

1. A rubber tire individual separation transport apparatus including a rubber tire individual conveyor surface section and a rubber tire sliding surface section separately formed on a conveyor surface consisting of a plurality of slats having a horizontal charge zone, a sharply inclined individual transport zone, and a horizontal discharge zone;

an upright plate mounted in contact with the peripheral surface of a rubber tire at one end part of each slat in said individual conveyor surface section;

a plurality of support plates each of such a size as to support only one rubber tire laid flat on said individual conveyor surface section, mounted at a larger pitch in the direction of transport than the maximum diameter of the rubber tire being conveyed; and

a stationary side wall erected along the side edge of the other end part of each slat of said sliding surface section.

2. A rubber tire individual separation transport apparatus including a rubber tire individual conveyor surface section and a rubber tire sliding surface section dividedly formed on the slat conveyor surface of a slat conveyor surface consisting of a plurality of slats having a horizontal charge zone, a sharply inclined individual transport zone, and a horizontal discharge zone;

an upright plate mounted in contact with the peripheral surface of the rubber tire, at the end of each slat at one side edge of said individual conveyor surface section;

a support plate supporting only one rubber tire laid flat on said individual conveyor surface section, mounted at a larger pitch in the direction of transport than the maximum diameter of the rubber tire being conveyed; and

a guide member fixedly mounted for scooping an accompanying tire jutting out into said sliding surface section, on the other side edge of said sharply inclined sliding surface section.