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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2018
Applicant:
Sst Systems, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, WI (US);
Inventors:
Chad M. Andreae, Sturgeon Bay, WI (US);
Jeffrey Alan Wienke, Marengo, IL (US);
Assignee:
SST Systems, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 43/00 (2006.01); B65G 19/02 (2006.01); B05C 3/09 (2006.01); C23G 5/00 (2006.01); B08B 3/08 (2006.01); B65G 49/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 43/00 (2013.01); B05C 3/09 (2013.01); B08B 3/08 (2013.01); B65G 19/025 (2013.01); B65G 49/04 (2013.01); B65G 49/0436 (2013.01); C23G 5/00 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0233 (2013.01);
Abstract
An indexing conveyor system including a work station skipping device. The conveyor system has a rail situated above a plurality of same-length work stations along a path of conveyance. The work station skipping device is operable to engage a load and transfer the load from a first conveyor carriage to a second, further downstream carriage for advancing more than one work station length so that the load skips over a predetermined one of the plurality of work stations.