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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1986
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald E Abell, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Assignee:
Alvey Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198781 ; 198783 ; 198790 ;
Abstract
An article conveyor having live rollers forming an article conveying run and in which a continuous padded drive chain is operably mounted to have flexibility in a direction substantially parallel to the conveying run, and in which a first direction of article conveyance is provided with controllable pressure fluid lifters for zoning the first direction of conveyance to control the drive of articles approaching a standing article. In addition, controls are provided to render the conveyor reversible as to travel of articles.