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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:
Nov. 19, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Arthur B Rhodes, Louisville, KY (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
104 88 ; 104 96 ; 1041722 ; 1984651 ;
Abstract
A conveyor system having at least two conveyor tracks for moving load carrying units to different locations within a facility in which the conveyor system as installed, includes a device for selectively engaging and disengaging the load carrying units to and from the conveyor tracks, and a device for selectively pushing the load carrying units out of alignment with one of the conveyor tracks and into alignment with the other one of the conveyor tracks.