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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
Applicant:
Fuji Machinery Co., Ltd., Nagoya, Aichi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
FUJI MACHINERY CO., LTD., Nagoya, Aichi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 35/40 (2006.01); B65B 59/02 (2006.01); B65G 47/32 (2006.01); B65G 54/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/32 (2013.01); B65B 35/40 (2013.01); B65B 59/02 (2013.01); B65G 54/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A conveying apparatus includes a circulation track and a plurality of travelers movable along the circulation track under a control of a controller for conveying articles. If no preceding article-conveying traveler exists on the front side of one of the travelers planned for receiving and conveying the article detected by a detection section, the planned traveler serves as a no-article conveying traveler, and the other traveler located adjacent the planned traveler serves as an article conveying traveler.