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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1997
Jacques Meier, Baretswil, CH;
Ferag AG, Hinwill, CH;
Abstract
An apparatus has a main conveyor and feed conveyors. The main conveyor is provided with elongate receiving elements that are arranged transversely with respect to their movement path. At feed locations, the circulatory paths of the feed conveyors run over the main conveyor. The feed conveyors have clamps that are spaced apart one behind the other and are driven in circulation in a feed direction. The clamps are adapted to feed the products to the receiving elements and to discharge them to these receiving elements at the feed locations. The clamps are arranged obliquely with respect to their circulatory path. As a result, a straight line running parallel to a clamp-mouth plane and a receiving-element plane, and perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the clamp mouth, forms an acute angle with the circulatory path.