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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2016
Applicant:
Laitram, L.l.c., Harahan, LA (US);
Inventors:
Stephen G. Wargo, Laurel, MD (US);
David F. McNew, III, Glen Burnie, MD (US);
Assignee:
Laitram, L.L.C., Harahan, LA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 11/20 (2006.01); B65G 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 13/00 (2013.01); B65G 11/203 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0285 (2013.01);
Abstract
A divert chute and a sorting conveyor system having divert chutes that include an array of high-friction rollers in a landing zone to resist the cross-chute momentum of parcels diverted off the sorting conveyor at high speeds. The rollers, which protrude above a flat slide region of the chute, rotate only in a direction down the chute. Parcels sliding axially along the high-friction rollers across the chute are slowed or stopped in the cross-chute direction while being redirected down the chute.