Lanham Machinery Company, Inc.

C. L. Frost & Son, Inc.

William E Lanham, Jr

William E Lanham

Gene C Miller

Gerald W Gurney

A method and apparatus for removing a bakery carrier screen, which is carrying a bakery product and traveling on a moving conveyor system, from underneath the carried bakery product and transferring the bakery product to an exit conveyor during substantially continuous forward motion of the bakery product is provided. The carrier screen upon which the bakery product is placed has a generally rectangular and planar surface with a plurality of parallel longitudinal slots extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge of the screen. A product entrance conveyor is provided which has a plurality of substantially parallel and spaced apart endless conveyor belts terminating in generally aligned pulleys, and a conventional full width endless conveyor for removing the products arranged at the forward end of the entrance conveyor belts. The spacing and arrangement of the entrance conveyor belts is such that when the carrier screen with the carried product reaches the forward end of the entrance conveyor, the carrier screen interdigitates around the ends of the entrance conveyor and downwardly, between the entrance and the exit conveyor, so that the bakery product is left still supported directly by the entrance conveyor belts. The product is then transported from the entrance conveyor onto the exit conveyor without the carrier screen.

Method and apparatus for removing bakery carrier screens from conveyor

The specification discloses a chain link assembly and chain incorporating said assembly, the chain being especially adapted for use in enclosed track-type conveyors. The assembly includes a pair of identical, elongated link members fitted together and mating with one another. Each link member has chain pin or fastener receiving openings at either end and a bridge member adapted to engage, support, and space the opposite link member. One end of each link member at the same end of the assembly includes a curved surface with elongated chain pin receiving openings to allow articulation of the assembly at that one end. The opposite ends are planar.

Chain link and chain assembly including same

In a method and apparatus for automatic handling of bread pans adapted for use in a baking process, individual empty pans are received and stacked at a first station and automatically moved to a predetermined storage station. When individual pans are required, the stacked pans are selectively removed from the storage station and transported to an automatically operable unstacking device. The method and apparatus includes a control system for detecting a demand for individual pans which operates the unstacking device and distributes individual pans in response to the demand.

Automatic bread pan control system

A pan retriever dolly transfers stacks to a stack conveyor. The dolly includes a retriever arm with a magnet and is mounted for reciprocating movement across the stack conveyor towards and away from the storage conveyor.

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Decatur, GA, United States of America

William E Lanham, Jr