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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1997
Donald E Owens, Jr, Mason, OH (US);
OCS-IntelliTrak, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
An overhead conveyor is operated at a slower speed within the treatment area or buffer than the speed of a conveyor delivering products to the treatment area or buffer and the speed of a conveyor removing products from the treatment area or buffer. Elongated products are delivered to the treatment area or buffer so that the direction of product elongation corresponds with the conveying direction and are removed from the treatment area or buffer so that the direction of product elongation corresponds with the conveying direction, particularly by being suspended from two carriages of an overhead conveyor system. Within the treatment area or buffer, the two carriages that are serially located or in tandem while traveling on the delivery conveyor and the exit conveyor, are placed on separate parallel conveyors so that the orientation of the elongation direction of the products is perpendicular to the conveying direction within the treatment area or buffer. With guides or a transfer, only one carriage of the two carriages handling a single product need be driven, and the other carriage may simply by conveyed on a gravity or drag conveyor or rail.