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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul J Sokolovsky, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Huyhn W Tan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
414421 ; 414786 ;
Abstract
An unloading mechanism for unloading automatically a box, includes an endless conveyor belt with a conveyor beld extension for transporting a box to be unloaded. A cage device is used to receive the box to be unloaded from the conveyor belt. Air cylinder actuators are operatively connected to the belt extension for pivoting downwardly the belt extension in order to permit rotation of the cage device. Rotary air cylinders are operatively connected to the cage device for rotating the cage device through approximately 165.degree. in a first direction in order to unload the contents of the box into a hopper.