Abstract:
A chain link for a product capturing chain, including a pair of opposed retaining lips integral with the link for retaining the resilient gripping member.
Abstract:
A spacer and conveyor mechanism for a packaging machine in which articles can be conveyed along a feed path and grouped together for subsequent packaging of each group into a discrete unit. The mechanism has a series of spacer and conveyor elements (94) constrained cyclically to execute a working and return motion such that the elements move along a working path in the feed direction of the articles during which the elements interfere with the articles in the feed path so as to form and convey said groups along the feed path and move along a return path opposite to the feed direction of the articles during which said elements are remote from said articles. The working and return paths are substantially parallel to the feed path, and the spacer and conveyor elements each have an operative face adapted to convey said articles in spaced relationship. The elements are mounted so that they are held throughout their cyclic movement with their operative faces facing towards the feed path.
Abstract:
An arrangement for adjusting the compressive force of drive rolls used for advancing a tree along a feed line for lopping. Drive rolls are arranged on opposite sides of the tree trunk and driven by hydraulic motors. Each drive wheel is pivotably mounted on its own arm and a cylinder-piston is connected between the arms and is used to adjust the distance between the drive rolls and to produce a compression force between them. A hydraulic circuit is provided which includes a drive motor, a pressure reducing valve and the cylinder-piston. The tank connection of the control pressure of the pressure-reduction valve is connected to the working pressure of the hydraulic motor so that when the rolls require a low rotating force the compression pressure created by the cylinder-piston is low and when the rolls require a high rotating force the working pressure required by the hydraulic motor increases and this working pressure increases the compression forces exerted by the cylinder-piston.
Abstract:
A supply of logs are successively transferred from an endless deck conveyor to a sawmill carriage by a log transfer rotor and log positioning cradles. The rotor includes a shaft supporting a plurality of axially spaced transfer elements each having diametrically opposed recesses for receiving logs. The log positioning cradles are arranged in parallel relation to the rotor and are supported for vertical movement by corresponding fluid cylinders. The log transfer rotor and deck conveyor are independently driven by corresponding motors which are operated in timed relation by an automatic control system.
Abstract:
Elongated members, such as bars of metal, are removed from a runout table, and one or more bars are transferred to star wheel means which lift the bars, one at a time, and deposit them on inclined slide means, the bars slide down the slide means and are stacked on a vertically movable support in rows. The slide means has telescoping sections to compensate for disposition of the bars in rows and the support lowers automatically to deposit the stacked bars, in rows, on car means on which they are banded and delivered to a station for removal.
Abstract:
A cable stacker comprising a belt conveyor (21) for conveying the cable along a conveying direction, a discharge device for dropping a cable into a collection tub (241), and a guide element (50) for damping a meandering movement of the cable that is to be put down.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus wherein a flow of elongated product, such as wooden boards, oriented transverse to the direction of travel; having abutted stacks or piles with numerous layers in a variously misaligned fashion, is received onto the first and uppermost of a series of generally horizontal conveyors arranged in a single vertical array one above the other with each subsequent level operating in a direction opposite of the level above it. The flow of product is transferred off the end of each conveyor into and through a gap between the conveyor and a declined reversal ramp system wherein gravity acts with the product's momentum to move it across and past a series of adjacent, planar surfaces angled relative to one another in the general direction of product travel such that the product is aligned more perpendicular to its travel, dispersed more into a single layer, and reversed in its direction of travel with each successive transition to the next lower conveyor resulting in a singulated, aligned array of pieces flowing onto the last and lower-most conveyor from which they are presented to a subsequent process or machine.