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Mark C Garvey

William Jason Fox

William J Fox

A product conveying and accumulation system and method employs a primary product transporting conveyor with accumulation and re-circulating sections. The conveyor is configured to receive products from an upstream destination and discharge products to a downstream destination. A second conveyor, operable at a considerable slower speed than the first conveyor, is located in the same transverse plane as and is aligned adjacent to the first conveyor. Both conveyors travel in the same direction at the adjacent alignment. As products are discharged from the system, a wall of product is formed on the slower moving conveyor. As a result, products on the inner lane of the faster moving conveyor which would otherwise tend to move inward towards the discharge point, causing product turbulence and disruption, are urged back onto the inner lane by the product wall and then smoothly discharged from the system to the downstream destination. The use of this slower conveyor increases product stability by substantially eliminating product turbulence caused by the product bunching and nesting which normally occurs at the product discharge point. A substantially increased rate of product outfeed results.

Differential speed conveyor accumulation system and method

A product conveying and accumulation system employs at least one product delivery conveyor which transports products from an upstream location and another conveyor which delivers products to a downstream location. Dual U-shaped accumulator conveyors in the system are positioned to accept upstream products from the delivery conveyors and to transport the products to the downstream conveyor. The dual conveyors each have straightaway conveyor sections which are aligned parallel to each other. Accumulator sections are formed at these parallel alignments. In one configuration, the two straightaway sections of one of the dual conveyors are parallel to and in adjacent alignment with the straightaway sections of the other of the dual conveyors. In another configuration, the straightaway section of one of the dual conveyors is parallel to and in adjacent alignment with one straightaway section of the other conveyor, and the other straightaway sections of the two conveyors are parallel to and in spaced relation to each other. This permits adjustment of the spacing and angle between an accumulator section of these conveyors.

Dual conveyor product conveying and accumulation system

A continuous product conveyor system of loop configuration is provided to receive products from an upstream destination in a given product delivery path arrangement and to deliver those products to a downstream destination in a different product delivery path arrangement. The system is adapted, for example, to deliver a single file product path from an upstream destination and deliver multiple delivery paths downstream. The system also can be used to receive multiple product delivery paths from an upstream destination and deliver a single file product path or a different number of product paths downstream. The system can further be used for receiving mass product flow and delivering one or more product delivery paths downstream.

Product path splitting and merging conveyor system

A conveyor system which has a continuous path conveyor is to be used for transporting and accumulating excessive loads. The conveyor may be formed of a continuous loop of chain elements. The conveyor path consists of two or more product carrying sections and corresponding offset return path sections. A product carrying section of the conveyor wraps around power driven sprockets where it is fed into and becomes a return path section. From there the path is guided over and aligned with free turning tail sprockets, where it is returned as a product carrying section. This section is then fed onto second drive sprockets, powered by another power means, where it again becomes a return path section, guided over tail sprockets and returned as a product carrying section. In this manner, the load of the conveyor chain is relieved at each drive sprocket assembly, thereby increasing the available working distance of the system.

Multiple drive conveyor system

A product conveying and accumulation system is provided for use with products of various sizes, shapes, and stability characteristics. The system comprises multiple moving conveyors, including a first conveyor which transports product from an upstream location to the inner path of an accumulator conveyor. The accumulator conveyor, traveling at a substantially similar speed or a designated variable speed as the first conveyor or conveyors, is aligned in the same plane as, is adjacent to, and may mate with the first conveyor at a predetermined location at the inner path of the accumulator conveyor for contiguous movement in the same direction as the first conveyor at this predetermined location. As product from upstream is delivered to the inner path of the accumulator conveyor, it eventually travels to the outer path and then accumulates inwardly, such that the earlier delivered product remains substantially at the outer path, where a product guide generally directs product on the outermost paths to the downstream destination. In this manner, the first products which are delivered to the accumulator conveyor are generally the first products transported downstream.

Product conveying and accumulation system and method

A product conveying and accumulation system is provided for use with products of various sizes, shapes, and stability characteristics. The system comprises multiple moving conveyors, including a first conveyor which transports product from an upstream location. This same conveyor or another conveyor delivers product to a downstream location. An accumulator conveyor, traveling at a substantially similar speed or a designated variable speed as the first conveyor or conveyors, is aligned in the same plane as, is adjacent to, and may mate with the first conveyor at a predetermined location for contiguous movement in the same direction as the first conveyor at this predetermined location. A product guide is provided which allows for the movement of product from the upstream to downstream locations during normal operation and directs product to the accumulator section of the second conveyor when there is a disruption or malfunction downstream. Any product which cannot be accepted downstream is thus accumulated in a designated area and such products are re-circulated to that area and ultimately to the downstream location when the downstream disruption or malfunction is remedied.

A cover for an article conveyor or accumulator having a table-like support surface includes a substantially planar and transparent member mounted above the support surface. The distance between the cover and the support surface is adjusted to be slightly greater than the height of the articles being carried on the conveyor or accumulator. The cover maintains the articles in their upright position by preventing them from tipping over.

Accumulator cover

A conveyor for moving successively a plurality of articles, typically cards, in flat horizontal position, longitudinally along a horizontal bed, comprises a plurality of chamfered rollers rotating at uniform speed on vertical axes, disposed in two laterally spaced lines extending along the bed, with the rollers of each line rotating in a direction opposite to that of the rollers of the other line, all the rollers making propelling contact with the edge margins of the cards, and all mounted in modules adapted to be spliced endwise to each other, and all geared together in groups individually driven directly by a single power source.

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Mark C Garvey