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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1986
Rene Fluck, Schleitheim, CH;
Paul Graf, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH;
Sig Schweizerische-Industrie Gesellschaft, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH;
Abstract
A vibratory conveyor for advancing stacked wafer-like articles in an edgewise upstanding orientation includes a vibratory trough having a vibratory base portion of a width which is less than the width of the entire vibratory trough. The conveyor further has a non-vibratory, elongated base component situated adjacent the vibratory base portion and having a width which, together with the width of the vibratory base portion constitutes substantially the width of the entire vibratory trough. In response to an operational parameter of the vibratory conveyor, the articles are caused to be disengaged from the vibratory base portion and engaged solely by the non-vibratory base component, whereby conveyance of the articles is interrupted.