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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2017
Applicant:
Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kazuyuki Kurosawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B67C 3/24 (2006.01); B67C 7/00 (2006.01); B65G 47/84 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 47/846 (2013.01); B67C 3/24 (2013.01); B67C 7/004 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0235 (2013.01);
Abstract
In transferring and conveying an article between rotation conveyance bodies, the rotation conveyance bodies () are placed so as to have a prescribed gap between pitch circles thereof, and the article is conveyed along a transition curve whose curvature continuously varies from the pitch circle curvature of a rotation conveyance body () before the transfer to the pitch circle curvature of a rotation conveyance body () after the transfer between both the pitch circles, whereby the article is transferred and conveyed with acceleration smoothly varying and without a change in the distance between the axes of the rotation conveyance bodies.