US1334453A

US1334453A - Conveyer

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Publication number: US1334453A
Application number: US256198A
Authority: US
Inventors: James L Hiatt
Original assignee: SCHRAM GLASS Manufacturing Co
Current assignee: SCHRAM GLASS MANUFACTURING Co
Priority date: 1918-09-30
Filing date: 1918-09-30
Publication date: 1920-03-23
Anticipated expiration: 1937-03-23

Description

L L. HIATT.

CDNVEYER,

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. an, 1918. namzwm we. 9. l9!

Pater ited Mar. 23,1920.

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APPLICATION LED SEPT. 1 ,334,4=53. Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

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J. L. HIATT.

CONVEYER.

APPLICAHON FILED swr. 30. I918. RENEWED AUG. 9. |9|9.

Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

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Jamal W W w J a UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES L. HIATT, OF SAPULPA, OIYLAHOMA. ASSIGNOR TO SCHRAM GLASS MANUFAC- TUBING COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

Specification of Letters Patent.

CONVEYER.

Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

Application filed September 30, 1918, Serial No. 256,198. Renewed August 9, 1919. Serial No. 816,489.

' of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, have invented goertain new and useful Improvements in (Jonveyers, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to conveyers and has for its object a conveyer by which molded articles of glass are conveyed from a molding machine into a leer or annealing fur.- nace. A further object is to provide a conveyor whereby the molded articles of glass are conveyed from the molding machine in i a single file, thence on to the revolving disk receiver and from there discharged on to the leer pans.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my device with parts broken away.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same with parts broken away.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged rear view of a portion of my device with parts in section, taken on line 3-13 of Fig. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrow.

Fig. 4 is a view of the same taken on the line 4'4 of Fig. 3 and viewed in the direction of the arrow.

Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the removing mechanism made use of, showing the revolving disk receiver in dotted lines, and taken on the line 55 of Fig. 3, and viewed in the direction of the arrow, and

Fig. 6 is a fragmental view showing the conveyor and the revolving disk receiver together with the guide bar, taken on the l ne 6-1-6 of Fig. 41 and viewed in the direction of the arrow.

In carrying out my invention, I provide a frame 6 which is located in front of the leeror annealing furnace 7. The frame 6 is composed of uprights 8 and guide bars 9 and 10. The portion of the upright 8 next the leer 7 is provided with an upwardly extending projection 11, and

cross bars

12 and 13. These

cross bars

12 and 13 are provided with

journals

14, 15, 16 and 1?. In the

journals

14 and 15 is located a vertical shaft 18, provided at its upper end with a set collar 19 and at its lower end. with a revolving disk receiver 20. This revolving disk receiver 20 is provided with. a flanged hub 21, which is secured to the plate by means of rivets or similar binding devices 22 and secured to the shaft 18 by means of a set screw 23. Immediately below the journal 15 and rigidly secured to the shaft 18 is a gear 24 and between the gear 24 and the flanged hub 21 is located a sleeve 25 on which a dischargcr 26 is rigidly secured. Meshing with the gear 24 a gear 27 which is located on the shaft. 28, this shaft being mounted in the journals 16 and 17 and is provided at its upper end with a bevel gear 29, which gear meshes with a similar gear 30. The gear 30 is mounted on the horizontal shaft 31 which is directly connected to a motor or other suitable source of energy 35, and this shaft is provided at its outer end with the pulley 32.

In the frame 8 is located a shaft 34 on which is mounted a pulley 36. A belt 37 transmits the power from the pulley 32 to the pulley 36, placing the conveyor in op eration. Attached to the shaft 34 is a pulley 41 around which a conveyer belt 42 is placed, this belt also passin around an idle pulley 13, which is locate at the rear or feeding end of my device.

The discharger 26 consists of an arm 44, having a rectangular block 45 at its one end, in which is formed the semi-circular depression 46, which fits around the sleeve 25. ,Another block 47 provided with a similar semi-circular depression 48 completes the circle and when these blocks are clamped together by means of the screws 49, the discharger is securely bound to the sleeve 25. The arm 44 of the discharger is provided with a bent bar 50, which is adapted to contact with the glass articles and discharge them from the disk 20 on to the leer pans 40.

The guide bar 9 is provided at its end nearest the leer with a curved portion 51, the object of which is to direct the glass articles upon the revolving disk receiver 20. The shaft 28 is provided at its lower end with a disk 52, to which is connected a lever 53, this link having its one end 54 pivotally secured to the portion 45 and its end 55 being slotted as indicated by the nurevolving dlSk receiver moral 56. Through this slotted portion 0X- tends the stud 57 so that when the disk 51L is revolving the discharge): is operating.

The operation of: my doviro 11 follows:

The glass articles having been molded are taken from the molding machine in the usual manner and placed upon the conveyor 42. In referring to Figs. I and 2 it will be seen that these articles are spaced quite a distance apart, traveling on the conveyor 42 until they come in contact with the curved portion 51 of the bar and which places them on to the revolving disk receiver 20. This revolving disk: receiver 20 revolving slower or at a less lineal speed than the convey-il- 42 will allow the glass articles to assemble closely thereon and when that portion of the )late 20 which corresponds to the width of t e leer pans filled, the disclnn-gcr at? is operated, pushing the glass articles oil on to the leer pans as shown in Fig. l,

The discharger thou l'llUWls hack to its original or starting position in advuniiof the new batch of glassware being fed on t the disk 20 and then the operation is repeated. By means of the slot 56, the discharger is halted temporarily at each point when the stud 57 is passing the dead center. By the use of my device I find that it is possible to save manpower and time in malt ing glass articles, as the same have to he aunealed after coming from the molding machine. The difl'erent glass articles are placed directly on the conveyor and from there mechanically fed into the leer or annealing furnace without first passing on a table or any leceptacles and then redischarging them in to the lccr to he an nealed.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the dischar or 26 is positively and periodically operate in opposition to the rotation of the 20, and by adjusting the stud 57 closer to the center of the disk 52, the sweep of the discharger 26 may beregulated. The holes 58 in the disk 52 bein provided for such an adjustment if desire By means of the longitudinal conveyor 42 and the revolving disk receiver 20, the glass articles may be conveyed direct from the mold or forming machine on to the leer pans.

The bent bar 50 is so constructed that it may be bent in or out corresponding to the size of articles to'be discharged, also to reg11- late its angle to the arm 44.

What I claim is:

1 A conveyor comprising a longitudinal conveyor, leer pans, a revolving disk receiver interposed between the conveyor and leer pans, means for removing thearticles from the revolvin disk receiver to'the leer pans, and means or operating the conveyor.

2. A conveyor comprising a frame, a longitudinal conveyor mounted in the frame, a revolving disk .receiver mounted in the frame. a discl'mrgcr mounted in the frame and above lllr revolving disk receiver, and moans for placing the conveyor in operation.

:5. A conveyor comprising a frame, a longitudinal conveyor mounted within the frame. leer puns mounted without the fra no, a rcvolvirm' disk receiver mounted within t 1e frame, its periphery running level with the longitudinal conveyor, 11- discharger located in the frame and above the revolving disk 5 receiver, means for operating the dischargcr, means for operatiiu;- the conveyor and gathering disk and means for operating the eer puns.

el. A conveyor cou'iprising a frame, a lon- -;itmlin.-il wuvcyer mounted in the frame, a revolving dish receiver mounted in the frame, a dim-[larger mounted in the frame and almie the revolving disk receiver, a leer hcd mounted next the discharge end of the revolving dish receiver and means for plac ing the ongitudinal conveyor and revolving; dish r Aciin operation simultaneously.

5. A. conveyor comprisin a frame, a longitudinal conveyor mounted in the frame, a revolving disk receiver mounted in the frame and having its periphery running level with the longitudinal conveyor, a discharger mounted in the frame and above the disk receiver for pushing the articles from the disk receiver, a leer extending beyond the discharge end of the disk receiver, leer pans extending under the disk receiver and adapted to receive articles discharged from the disk receiver, and means for placing the several movable parts of the con vcyer in operation.

6. A conveyor comprising a support, a longitudinal conveyor mounted on said support, a revolving disk receiver mounted at one end of the longitudinal conveyor and adapted to receive articles discharged from said longitudinal conveyor, a for directing the articles from the longitudinal conveyor to the receiver, a horizontally sweeping discharger mounted auow the revolving disk receiver and adapted to move in a direction op Josite to the rotation of the receiver for disc iarging articles therefrom.

7. A conveyor comprising a support, a longitudinal conveyor mounted on sald support, a revolving disk reqeiver mounted at one end of the longitudinal conveyor and adapted to receive articles dischar d from said longitudinal conveyor, a horizontally sweeping dischu-rger mounted shove the revolvmgr disk receiver and adapted to move in a direction opposite to the rotation of the receiver for discharging articles therefrom.

8. A conveyor comprising a support, a longitudinal conveyer mounted on said support, a revolvin disk receiver having a inear ,ieed less t an the linear speed of the longitu inal conveyer and mounted to one we side and near one end of the 10 'tudinal eonveyer and adapted to receive articles discharged from the longitudinal conveyor, 9, horizontally sweeping and intermittently moving discharge! mounted above the receiver and adapted to move 111 a direction opposite to the rotation of the receiver for discharging articles therefrom.

In testimony wheieof, I have signed my J AMES L. HIATT.

\Vitnesses:

J. E. Po'rmn, L. J. MOORE.