公开(公告)号：US4273649A

公开(公告)日：1981-06-16

申请号：US963581

申请日：1978-11-24

Applicant: William H. Leverett

Inventor： William H. Leverett

IPC: B07C5/18 ,  B07C5/342 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B07C5/16

CPC classification number: B07C5/365 ,  B07C5/18 ,  B07C5/342 ,  B07C5/36 ,  B07C2501/009 ,  B65G2201/0211 ,  B65G2207/42 ,  Y10S209/912 ,  Y10S209/914 ,  Y10S209/924 ,  Y10S209/934

Abstract: An article weighing machine having a turntable with fixed rakes for directing articles, i.e., fruits or vegetables, on the turntable along prescribed paths into side-by-side metering assemblies where successive articles are placed in successive pockets formed by opposed fingers on continuous chains, the fingers moving in linear parallel paths above cooperating parallel feed belts. Brushes over the entrance and exit of each assembly engages each article as it enters and leaves the fingers. The parallel belts receive the successive, equally spaced articles thereon and transport them successively to weighing cells where such articles are individually weighed and analog signals corresponding to the weight of the individual article are fed to a control logic which then converts such signals to digital form and transfers the logic output to a computer. The speed of the feed belt is also fed to the computer which signals as a function of the weight the opening of a selected air nozzle, of a series of longitudinally spaced air nozzles, when the individual article has been transported to the vicinity of such air nozzle, whereby the air blows the article laterally off of the belt and onto a discharge belt, feeding to a container positioned by a container conveyor to receive the articles. When the computer totals the appropriate weight for a given container, the conveyor is indexed.

Abstract translation: 一种具有固定耙子的转台的物品称重机，其具有用于将物品（即水果或蔬菜）沿着规定的路径引导到并排计量组件的转台上，其中连续的物品被放置在由连续链上的相对的指状物形成的连续的袋中， 手指在协调的平行进给带上方的线性平行路径中移动。 每个组件的入口和出口上的刷子在进入并离开手指时与每个物品接合。 平行带在其上接收连续的等间隔的物品并将它们依次传送到称量单元，其中单独称重这样的物品，并且将对应于单独物品的重量的模拟信号馈送到控制逻辑，该控制逻辑将这些信号转换成数字形式， 将逻辑输出传送到计算机。 馈送带的速度也被馈送到计算机，该计算机作为一系列纵向间隔开的空气喷嘴的选定空气喷嘴的开口的重量的函数，当单个物品被运送到这样的空气附近时 喷嘴，由此空气将物品横向从带上吹出并排放到排放带上，供给到由集装箱输送机定位以容纳物品的容器。 当计算机为给定的容器计算适当的重量时，输送机被索引。

公开(公告)号：US4180151A

公开(公告)日：1979-12-25

申请号：US927582

申请日：1978-07-24

Applicant: LeRoy E. Goertz

Inventor： LeRoy E. Goertz

IPC: B65G47/76

CPC classification number: B65G47/766 ,  B65G2201/0211

Abstract: A flow control or flow diverging gate assembly for a conveyor having a sidewall interrupted by an opening along its length, a flow diverting gate or shear being pivotably mounted in the opening and extendable and retractable in length, the unpivoted end of the gate being guided by track means including a first guide portion parallel with the sidewall and second guide portion traversing the conveyor, movement of the gate along the first guide portion providing a variable opening in the side wall to relieve overflow on the belt, movement of the gate along the second guide portion intercepting a portion of the flow path along the conveyor to selectively reduce the flow of articles therealong.

Abstract translation: 用于输送机的流量控制或流量分流门组件，其具有由沿着其长度的开口中断的侧壁，可转动地安装在开口中并且可延伸和缩回长度的流动转向门或剪切器，门的无张力端部由 轨道装置包括平行于侧壁的第一引导部分和穿过输送机的第二引导部分，沿着第一引导部分的门的移动，在侧壁中提供可变开口以减轻皮带上的溢出， 引导部分拦截沿着输送机的流动路径的一部分，以选择性地减少物品在其上的流动。

公开(公告)号：US4169528A

公开(公告)日：1979-10-02

申请号：US859876

申请日：1977-12-12

Applicant: John H. Amstad

Inventor： John H. Amstad

IPC: A23N3/00 ,  B65G47/24

CPC classification number: B65G47/24 ,  A23N3/00 ,  B65G2201/0211

Abstract: This invention relates to an apple orienting device suited to orient apples particularly those known as the Red Delicious variety and which are generally relatively long as compared to their diameter. The present orientor includes a pair of eccentrically mounted wheels, and represents an improvement over presently known devices. The orienter uses two eccentrically mounted wheels to aid in orienting the apples.

Abstract translation: 本发明涉及一种适合于定向苹果的苹果定向装置，特别是那些被称为红美味品种的苹果定向装置，其通常与其直径相比较长。 目前的定向器包括一对偏心安装的轮子，并且代表了对目前已知的装置的改进。 定向器使用两个偏心安装的车轮来帮助定位苹果。

公开(公告)号：US4067432A

公开(公告)日：1978-01-10

申请号：US485320

申请日：1974-07-02

Applicant: Harry C. Powell, Sr.

Inventor： Harry C. Powell, Sr.

IPC: B65G21/14 ,  B65G65/32 ,  B65G69/16 ,  B65G41/00

CPC classification number: B65G21/14 ,  B65G65/32 ,  B65G69/165 ,  B65G2201/0211

Abstract: A bin filling mechanism comprising an inner frame mounted for oscillation about an intermediate frame and carrying a pivotally mounted product conveying means thereon. The intermediate frame is vertically adjustable with respect to a main frame to allow adaptation of the device to variously sized feed mechanisms. A sensing means of the bin end of the product conveying means initiates raising of the product conveying means as the bin is filled with product. A slotted disc and rod arrangement provides for oscillation of the whole inner frame structure to insure even distribution of product within the bin.

Abstract translation: 一种垃圾箱填充机构，包括安装成围绕中间框架摆动并在其上承载枢转安装的产品传送装置的内框架。 中间框架相对于主框架可垂直调节，以允许装置适应各种尺寸的进给机构。 产品输送装置的仓端的感测装置在料桶充满产品时启动产品输送装置的升起。 开槽的盘和杆布置提供整个内框架结构的振荡，以确保产品在箱内的均匀分布。

公开(公告)号：US4057137A

公开(公告)日：1977-11-08

申请号：US644501

申请日：1975-12-29

Applicant: Clarence M. Hansen ,  Richard L. Ledebuhr

Inventor： Clarence M. Hansen ,  Richard L. Ledebuhr

IPC: A23N3/00 ,  B65G47/14 ,  B65G29/00

CPC classification number: B65G47/1471 ,  A23N3/00 ,  B65G2201/0211

Abstract: A high capacity device for reliably sorting pieces of fruit from a bulk supply into individual cups for processing. The fruit is received in bulk in a hopper, a side of which is open to a center hub of a connected pair of feed wheels revolving coaxially in spaced horizontal relation. Each feed wheel carries a plurality of radially-extending through passages about its periphery. Each passage carries at least two individual pieces of said fruit simultaneously. An outward, exit end of each passage is normally blocked by cammable gate fingers. The feed wheels are rotatably synchronized with a pair of chains engaged with sprockets attached to the feed wheels and carrying therebetween a conveyor carrying the fruit cups. The speed of revolution of the feed wheels is sufficient to keep an outermost one of the fruit pieces lodged adjacent the gate fingers. Fixed camming surfaces open the gate fingers of each feed passage at a tangential engagement point between the wheel sprockets and the drive chain of the conveyor, thereby to place the outermost fruit from each passage gently into the receiving cup.

Abstract translation: 一种高容量设备，用于将大量供应的水果可靠地分选成单独的杯子进行处理。 水果被堆积在料斗中，其一侧开口于以相互间隔的水平关系同轴旋转的连接的一对进给轮的中心毂。 每个进给轮围绕其周边承载多个径向延伸的通道。 每个通道同时携带至少两个独立的所述水果。 每个通道的向外的出口端通常被可瞄准的手指挡住。 进给轮与一对链条可旋转同步，链条与连接在进料轮上的链轮接合，并在其间承载带有水果杯的输送带。 进料轮的转速足以使最外面的一个水果块保持在靠近门指的位置。 固定的凸轮表面在轮链轮和输送机的驱动链之间的切向接合点处打开每个进给通道的门指，从而将来自每个通道的最外面的果实轻轻地放入接收杯中。

公开(公告)号：US4005774A

公开(公告)日：1977-02-01

申请号：US592319

申请日：1975-07-01

Applicant: Jose Maria Casanova Valero

Inventor： Jose Maria Casanova Valero

IPC: A23N3/00 ,  B65G47/252 ,  B65G47/24

CPC classification number: A23N3/00 ,  B65G47/252 ,  B65G2201/0211

Abstract: A peduncled vegetable and fruit positioning device has an endless conveyorrain formed by pairs of rollers moving in the same direction, the rollers being axially parallelly arranged. One of the pairs of rollers has one or more peripheral canals and a radial blade while the other roller is hyperboloid or has a surface provided with one or various canals. The fruit coming from a feeder is deposited between each two rollers. A conveyor train has upper walls transverse to the displacement of the rollers, which walls separate each pair of rollers from the next, preventing the fruit from passing from one zone to the adjacent zone, so that the fruit deposited between two rollers turns due to contact therewith until the pedicle of the fruit is housed between the two rollers and extends in a vertical position between the rollers, so that the fruit finally rests on the outer surface of both rollers.

Abstract translation: 花梗蔬菜和水果定位装置具有由沿相同方向移动的成对辊形成的环形输送机列，辊子沿轴向平行布置。 成对的辊之一具有一个或多个周边运河和径向叶片，而另一个辊是双曲面的或具有设置有一个或多个运河的表面。 来自进料器的水果沉积在每两个辊子之间。 输送机列具有横向于辊的位移的上壁，该壁将每对辊与下一个辊隔开，防止果实从一个区域传递到相邻区域，使得由于接触而沉积在两个辊之间的水果转动 直到水果的椎弓根被容纳在两个辊之间并且在辊之间的垂直位置延伸，使得果实最终搁置在两个辊的外表面上。

公开(公告)号：US3934707A

公开(公告)日：1976-01-27

申请号：US463525

申请日：1974-04-24

Applicant: Clyde L. Bowman

Inventor： Clyde L. Bowman

IPC: B65G47/26

CPC classification number: B65G47/268 ,  B65G2201/0211 ,  B65G2203/042

Abstract: A continuously driven belt conveyor transports and accumulates articles supported thereon. Ways are positioned alongside the conveyor belt and are movable to vary the relative vertical position of the ways between an accumulation position wherein the support surface of the ways is above the conveyor belt causing the articles to accumulate and a drive position wherein the support surface of the ways is below the conveyor belt to permit movement of the articles therealong. Preferably, the ways are moved vertically by elongated inflatable tubes which lift the ways together with the articles above the moving conveyor surface.

Abstract translation: 连续驱动的带式输送机输送和堆积支撑在其上的物品。 方式位于传送带旁边并且可移动以改变其间的路径的支撑表面在输送带上方的堆积位置之间的方式的相对垂直位置，导致物品积聚，并且驱动位置，其中， 方式是在传送带下面，以允许物品沿着其移动。 优选地，这些方式通过细长的可充气管垂直移动，所述可充气管将道路与移动的输送机表面上方的物品提升在一起。

公开(公告)号：US3904023A

公开(公告)日：1975-09-09

申请号：US29591572

申请日：1972-10-10

Applicant: SUNKIST GROWERS INC

Inventor： PADDOCK PAUL F ,  CRAMER JERRY W

IPC: B65G47/53 ,  A23N3/00 ,  B65G47/06 ,  B65G47/08 ,  B65G47/74 ,  B65G37/00

CPC classification number: A23N3/00 ,  B65G47/74 ,  B65G2201/0211

Abstract: A continuously running single-row conveyor delivers N number of objects in a time period T. A shuttle reciprocating at the rate of one reciprocation per T, accelerates in the direction of travel of the conveyor to drop a row of N objects onto the conveyor. The shuttle is reciprocated by a continuously driven epicyclic train that causes the shuttle to pause at its starting position. A cyclic loader replenishes the shuttle at the starting position and, in turn, is replenished by supply means that organizes a bulk supply of the objects into N parallel travelling rows with the objects in the parallel longitudinal rows forming transverse rows of N objects each. The supply means operates step by step to deliver the successive transverse rows of N objects to the cyclic loader.

公开(公告)号：US3894627A

公开(公告)日：1975-07-15

申请号：US36594273

申请日：1973-06-01

Applicant: FMC CORP

Inventor： JABBUSCH ROBERT O ,  GERLACH CARL J

IPC: B65G13/071 ,  B65B35/44 ,  B65G17/24 ,  B65G39/20 ,  B65G47/28 ,  B65G47/30

CPC classification number: B65G17/24 ,  B65B35/44 ,  B65G2201/02 ,  B65G2201/0211

Abstract: A conveyor is disclosed which effects longitudinal separation of a single file of articles fed thereto in abutting relation. Separation is effected by providing conveyor sections comprising at least two non-powered rollers straddled by powered rollers rotating to retain the article on the non-powered rollers. The conveyor structure also lends itself to handle multiple files of articles, articles which vary in length, height and width, and articles which are fragile and easily damaged.

Abstract translation: 公开了一种输送机，其以相邻关系影响供给到其的单个物品的纵向分离。 分离是通过提供包括至少两个非动力辊的输送机部分实现的，所述至少两个非动力辊由旋转的动力辊跨接以将物品保持在非动力辊上。 输送机结构也适用于处理多个物品文件，长度，高度和宽度不同的物品，易碎易损坏的物品。

公开(公告)号：US3814270A

公开(公告)日：1974-06-04

申请号：US29130672

申请日：1972-09-22

Applicant: CORDUROY RUBBER CO

Inventor： MURPHY R

IPC: B65G65/00 ,  B65G69/14 ,  B65G65/04

CPC classification number: B65G69/14 ,  B65G65/00 ,  B65G2201/0211

Abstract: An unloading bin having an open top and front is rotatably supported about its center on a frame above an open topped hopper. The bin is rotatable about a horizontal axis centered with respect to the bin at selected rates from a ''''top-up'''' position to an inverted ''''bottom-up'''' position. An open-topped parts container is positionable in the bin through the open front and tilted rearwardly to empty the parts into the hopper by gradual rotation of the bin. Rods across the top of the bin prevent the container from falling out. In a preferred arrangement, the hopper is positioned above a conveyor which receives and removes the parts as they are fed through the hopper. A sensor associated with the conveyor controls the rate of tilt of the bin to control the rate of emptying.

Abstract translation: 具有开口顶部和前部的卸载仓围绕其中心可旋转地支撑在打开的顶部料斗上方的框架上。 仓可以围绕相对于仓的中心的水平轴以选定的速率从“向上”位置转动到倒置的“自下而上”位置。 敞开的零件容器可以通过敞开的前部定位在料仓中，并向后倾斜，通过料仓的逐渐旋转将零件清空到料斗中。 杆顶部的杆子可防止容器掉落。 在优选的布置中，料斗位于输送机上方，该输送机在进料通过料斗时接收和去除部件。 与传送器相关联的传感器控制箱的倾斜速度以控制排空速率。