Knapp Ag

Knapp Logistic Automation Gmbh

Wilfried Waukmann

Karl Freudelsperger

Franz Mathi

Jörg Bergmann

A clutch/brake unit for an accumulating conveyor for driving and for braking at least one roller which is provided for transporting a unit load on a roller path of the accumulating conveyor. The clutch/brake unit is driven continuously during operation via an endless drive traction mechanism on a driving roller and is configured, in an engaged operating state, for transmitting the rotational movement of the driving roller about an axis to a driven roller and, in a braking operating state, for slowing down the driven roller on a housing of the clutch/brake unit. The driven roller is connected to the roller via the endless traction mechanism. A compression spring displaces the driven roller along the axis in the direction of the housing in order to shift the clutch/brake unit into its braking operating state. A piston/cylinder unit integrated in the clutch/brake unit displaces the driven roller along the axis in the direction of the driving roller in order to shift the clutch/brake unit into its engaged operating state.

Clutch/brake unit for an accumulating conveyor

A conveying device () with change of direction for conveying stock, preferably on pallets (), along a first conveying line () and along a second conveying line () oriented in a different direction, and with a transferring system for transferring the pallets from the first to the second conveying line. The transferring system is provided in the form of a driven linear conveying track () for receiving the pallet(s) () from the first conveying line (), for linearly advancing it/them on the linear conveying track and for transferring the pallet(s) to the second conveying line (). The linear conveying track can swivel around an essentially vertical axis () between the first and the second conveying line via a driven swivel device (). The vertical axis is located outside of the conveying track center (m) of the linear conveying track ().

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Raaba, Austria

Wilfried Waukmann