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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1981
Filed:
Feb. 15, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Norman B Brooks, Carlisle, MA (US);
Frank P Brooks, Winchester, MA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ; B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
414156 ; 198763 ; 198775 ; 414217 ;
Abstract
Compact, lightweight transport apparatus for use particularly in hostile environments employs a plurality of groups of rails flexurally mounted to a base and corresponding groups of slats flexurally mounted to the rails and forming a slat array. Corresponding groups of slats and rails are reciprocated out of phase so that the slat group orbits relative to the base along an orbital path. The different slat-rail groups are also reciprocated out of phase with one another so that an object placed on the slat array is advanced incrementally along the slat array in a very gentle fashion.