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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2002
Wouter Balk, Baarn, NL;
Jozef Walter Maria Hopman, Weesp, NL;
Wouter Balk, Baarn, NL;
Jozef Walter Maria Hopman, Weesp, NL;
EuroSort B.V., Weesp, NL;
Abstract
An apparatus for transport and controlled discharge of a load has a frame with a guide for a series of displaceable transport containers, a drive unit for carrying the containers in an endless track, a resetting device for placing a container in a starting position and discharge station for selectively relieving a container of a load. The containers have an at least partially movable carrying panel for receiving the load thereon, including a tray which can be operated selectively between a transporting and discharge positions. The guide provides on either side of the containers a support surface on which the containers support with free-running wheels. On at least one side of the containers the support surface displays a convexity in a direction transversely of the transport direction with an apex on which a running surface of at least one wheel is received.