GB803496A - An improved conveyor - Google Patents

Abstract

803,496. Endless-chain conveyers. MASHEDER, P. R. June 13, 1957 [June 13, 1956], No. 18197/56. Class 78 (1). In a conveyer system for delivering articles, e.g. garments carried on hangers 29, to any predetermined one of a series of stations 1 ... 48, each transverse member 15 has a vertical limb 15b having spaces marked 1 ... 48, on the appropriate one of which each hanger is placed between fingers 31a depending from an endless chain 31 which moves through a distance corresponding to one space as the conveyer travels from one station to the next. The shaft 23 of one sprocket, around which the chain 31 passes, is connected by bevel gearing to a spindle 26 having fingers 27a extending therefrom. These fingers are engaged in succession by a series of fixed projections 28, one of which is situated between each pair of stations. The rotation of the sprocket caused by each engagement is sufficient to cause displacement of the chain 31 through one space with consequent movement of each hanger one space to the left. At each movement the hanger in space 1 falls on to the horizontal limb 15c in which position it is engaged and removed from the conveyer by an inclined pick-up rail 30. Each transverse member may support two endless chains 31 arranged end-to-end and driven in opposite directions. The articles may be placed directly on the chains or bands instead of on the uprights 15b.