Gerber Garment Technology, Inc.

Roald P Nymark

Harold L Osthus

David R Pearl

Lawrence S Wolfson

David Vickers

Richard P Ray

A hanger for use with a conveyor in a garment making plant or the like for holding limp sheet material includes a hanger rod for attachment to a conveyor trolley and a hanger body carrying, and forming in part, a plurality of grippers, each capable of holding a workpiece unit to the body. Each gripper is made up of a stationary gripping face on part of the hanger body and a grip elememnt supported for movement along a path giving it a wedging action on a work unit inserted in the gripper when the grip element is urged downwardly by the weight of the work unit and its engagement therewith.

Conveyor hanger with a plurality of movable grip elements

In an automated transport system which includes a rail, a plurality of free traveling trolleys riding on the rail, and chain driven pushers for propelling the trolleys along the rail, a bracket is provided on the chain for each pusher which allows a trolley located far in advance of the pusher to move into engagement with the pusher and thereafter limits the distance it can move ahead of the pusher, as for example when the trolley rides on a downwardly sloping portion of the rail. The brackets are made of plastic and are releasably connectable with the chain, with a snap fit action, so that they can be easily added to or removed from the chain as required to adapt the chain to a given application.

Restricting bracket for automatic transport system

A conveyorized transport system which can be used to transport workpieces to a series of subsidiary loops, comprises a main rail, workpiece carrying trolleys movable on the main rail, a subsidiary loop adjacent to the main rail which leads to a work station, a special switch to transfer a trolley between the main rail and the subsidiary loop, and a computer to track and control the movement of the workpieces. The main rail and the subsidiary loop each have a gap laterally spaced from one another, and each switch includes a transfer rail section which can be moved laterally between the gap in the main rail and the gap in the subsidiary loop to transfer a trolley between the main rail and the subsidiary loop. One specific embodiment of the transport system also includes a chain-driven pusher extending downward from an overhead track which drives said trolley while it is being transferred between the main rail and the subsidiary loop.

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Simsbury, CT, United States of America

Roald P Nymark