F. Jos. Lamb Company

Ralph E Beyer

Lungchuck Wong

Andrew J Waitkins

A workpiece elevator which includes an upright housing in which is arranged a vertically-extending endless conveyor chain having workpiece supports mounted thereon at regularly spaced intervals. The upwardly extending run of the chain is located along the outer face of the front wall of the housing. A guide rail assembly for ascending workpieces carried by the supports on the conveyor chain is constructed so that it can be mounted on or removed from the front wall of the elevator housing as an integral unit.

Workpiece elevator

A gravity conveyor of the chuting or rollerway type wherein workpieces of regular or irregular shape having easily damaged surfaces are supported within protective work carriers which roll or slide along the conveyor. The work carriers are of cylindrical shape and formed with a through co-axial bore.

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Fraser, MI, United States of America

Ralph E Beyer