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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1987
Irvan L Pazdernik, Alexandria, MN (US);
APV Douglas Machine Corporation, Alexandria, MN (US);
Abstract
A lane divider for automatically dividing a single row of objects into a plurality of rows is shown in its preferred form as including a diverting conveyor having an outfeed end movable between a plurality of lane positions. The diverting conveyor includes belts located on the faces of first and second elongated pivot bars to form an object passage channel. The elongated pivot bars are pivotally mounted in a parallelogram arrangement about fixed axes adjacent the infeed end and about axes adjacent the outfeed end which are reciproated. Opposite point deflection between the belts is minimized by changing the relative length of the drive chain between the drive shafts of the belts in response to the pivoting of the elongated pivot bars by pivotally interrelating the elongated pivot bars to a plate pivotally mounting idler sprockets on opposite sides of one of the drive shafts. Additionally, the pivot axes of the elongated pivot bars are located adjacent to the faces of the elongated pivot bars which are separate from and spaced inwardly of the drive and idler pulleys for the conveyor belts of the elongated pivot bars.