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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1975
Anthony T Zappia, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Ball Brothers Service Corporation, Muncie, IN (US);
Abstract
A lehr loader for use with a conveyor for moving ware serially past the moving apron of a lehr, the loader comprising a frame adapted to be adjacent the conveyor, and a pusher bar mounted on the frame to be alongside the conveyor and opposite the lehr apron, the bar being movable transversely across the conveyor to sweep ranks of ware transversely from the conveyor onto the lehr apron for movement thereon through the lehr. The improvement comprises the mechanism by which the bar is mounted for such movement and the drive mechanism for the bar, the mounting mechanism including a pair of arm structures supporting the bar at longitudinally spaced apart points along its length, a pair of carriages, and guides supporting each carriage for reciprocation in the direction of such sweeping movement of the bar. Each arm structure is mounted upon its carriage for movement upwardly and downwardly. The drive mechanism includes a mechanism for reciprocating the carriages and raising and lowering the arm structures thereon.