公开(公告)号：US20090301357A1

公开(公告)日：2009-12-10

申请号：US12132748

申请日：2008-06-04

申请人： Matthew L. Fourney ,  Stephen Wargo

发明人： Matthew L. Fourney ,  Stephen Wargo

IPC分类号： A47F5/12

CPC分类号： B66F7/08 ,  B65G59/08 ,  B66F7/0666 ,  B66F7/0683

摘要： A tiltable lift and a method for using it to aid the unloading of a pallet. The tiltable lift comprises a lift mounted atop a tiltable platform. A pallet load of pallet load elements, such as containers, cartons, boxes, trays, or bundles, deposited on the lift is tilted. A wall extending upward from the platform receives a side of the tilted pallet load, which is urged against the wall by gravity. The lift lifts the pallet load along the wall to position the topmost layer of the pallet load at a top end of the wall for easy access and removal of pallet load elements from the pallet.

摘要翻译： 可倾斜升降机及其使用方法来帮助卸载托盘。 可倾斜升降机包括安装在可倾斜平台顶部的电梯。 沉积在升降机上的托盘装载元件（例如容器，纸箱，盒，托盘或捆）的托盘载荷被倾斜。 从平台向上延伸的壁容纳倾斜的托盘载荷的一侧，该侧面由于重力被推靠在壁上。 升降机沿着墙壁提升托盘载荷，将托盘载荷的最上层定位在壁的顶端，以方便从托盘上取出托盘载荷元件。

公开(公告)号：US09150394B2

公开(公告)日：2015-10-06

申请号：US12132748

申请日：2008-06-04

申请人： Matthew L. Fourney ,  Stephen Wargo

发明人： Matthew L. Fourney ,  Stephen Wargo

IPC分类号： B66F9/16 ,  B66F7/08 ,  B65G59/08 ,  B66F7/06

CPC分类号： B66F7/08 ,  B65G59/08 ,  B66F7/0666 ,  B66F7/0683

摘要： A tiltable lift and a method for using it to aid the unloading of a pallet. The tiltable lift comprises a lift mounted atop a tiltable platform. A pallet load of pallet load elements, such as containers, cartons, boxes, trays, or bundles, deposited on the lift is tilted. A wall extending upward from the platform receives a side of the tilted pallet load, which is urged against the wall by gravity. The lift lifts the pallet load along the wall to position the topmost layer of the pallet load at a top end of the wall for easy access and removal of pallet load elements from the pallet.

摘要翻译： 可倾斜升降机及其使用方法来帮助卸载托盘。 可倾斜升降机包括安装在可倾斜平台顶部的电梯。 沉积在升降机上的托盘装载元件（例如容器，纸箱，盒，托盘或捆）的托盘载荷被倾斜。 从平台向上延伸的壁容纳倾斜的托盘载荷的一侧，该侧面由于重力被推靠在壁上。 升降机沿着墙壁提升托盘载荷，将托盘载荷的最上层定位在壁的顶端，以方便从托盘上取出托盘载荷元件。

公开(公告)号：US08915353B2

公开(公告)日：2014-12-23

申请号：US13612286

申请日：2012-09-12

申请人： Matthew L. Fourney

发明人： Matthew L. Fourney

IPC分类号： B65G17/24

CPC分类号： B65G17/24 ,  B65G2207/34

摘要： A conveyor system having a roller-engagement mechanism and a method for conveying articles. The conveyor system includes an infeed conveyor feeding articles to a conveyor belt advancing in a direction of belt travel. The conveyor belt comprises obliquely rotatable rollers—single rollers or stacked sets of rollers—selectively activated by the roller-engagement mechanism. The roller-engagement mechanism has a rack supporting a plurality of flat belts. The flat belts advance in the direction of travel of the conveyor belt. The rack is movable between a first position in which the flat belts advancing with the conveyor belt contact the belt rollers to inhibit their rotation and carry articles atop the belt in the direction of belt travel and a second position in which the flat belts are out of contact with the belt rollers. In the second position, the roller-engagement mechanism can allow the belt rollers to rotate freely or can include a parallel set of elongated rollers between the flat belts put into rolling contact with the belt rollers to rotate them as the conveyor belt advances in the direction of belt travel.

摘要翻译： 一种具有辊接合机构和输送物品的方法的输送机系统。 输送机系统包括一个进料输送机，将物品输送到沿带运行方向前进的输送带。 传送带包括倾斜可旋转的辊 - 单个辊或层叠的辊组 - 由辊接合机构选择性地启动。 辊接合机构具有支撑多个扁平带的齿条。 扁平带沿传送带的行进方向前进。 齿条可在第一位置和第二位置之间移动，在该第一位置中，与传送带一起前进的平带与皮带辊接触以阻止其旋转，并且沿皮带行进方向携带带上的皮带， 与皮带辊接触。 在第二位置中，辊接合机构可以允许带辊自由旋转，或者可以包括平行带之间的平行组，所述平行带与带辊滚动接触，以便当传送带沿着方向前进时旋转它们 的皮带旅行。

公开(公告)号：US20120241292A1

公开(公告)日：2012-09-27

申请号：US13072469

申请日：2011-03-25

申请人： Matthew L. Fourney

发明人： Matthew L. Fourney

IPC分类号： B65G19/26

CPC分类号： B65G19/265 ,  B65G17/24 ,  B65G17/46

摘要： A belt conveyor having snagless retractable flights. The flights rotate from a retracted position generally parallel to a top conveying surface on the conveyor belt to an extended position standing up and away from the top surface. In one version of the flight, a distal edge of the flight is bent downward into a cavity in the top surface of the belt when the flight is retracted. In another version, rollers at the distal end of the flight extend upstream of the distal edge of the flight. The flight rollers are rotated when the flight is retraced to lift and propel conveyed articles over the edges of the flight. Thus, both flights avoid snagging articles with discontinuous bottoms.

摘要翻译： 带式输送机，具有无阻止伸缩的航行。 飞行器从大致平行于输送带上的顶部输送表面的缩回位置旋转到站立并远离顶表面的延伸位置。 在飞行的一个版本中，当飞行被缩回时，飞行的远端边缘向下弯曲到带的顶表面中的空腔中。 在另一个版本中，在飞行器远端的滚子延伸到飞行器的远端边缘的上游。 飞行滚轮在回程时旋转，以提升并推动传送的物品在飞行的边缘。 因此，两个航班避免了不连续的底部物品的绊倒。

公开(公告)号：US20110056807A1

公开(公告)日：2011-03-10

申请号：US12557092

申请日：2009-09-10

申请人： Matthew L. Fourney

发明人： Matthew L. Fourney

IPC分类号： B65G17/24

CPC分类号： B65G17/24

摘要： A conveyor, a conveyor belt used in the conveyor, and a belt module used to construct the conveyor belt, in which the module includes belt rollers that extend outward of a conveyor surface of the modules to support conveyed articles. The belt rollers are mounted in cavities in the modules that open onto the conveying surface and a recessed surface recessed inward of an outermost surface opposite the conveying surface through the thickness of the modules. Bearing surfaces, such as the peripheries of conveyor rollers underlying the conveyor belt along a carryway run, extend into the conveyor belt past the outer surface to contact the belt rollers. As the belt advances, the belt rollers rotate on the bearing surfaces to push conveyed articles along or across the belt.

摘要翻译： 输送机，用于输送机的输送带，以及用于构造输送带的皮带组件，其中模块包括从模块的输送机表面向外延伸以支撑输送的物品的皮带辊。 带轮安装在模块中的空腔中，该模块通过模块的厚度打开到输送表面上，并且凹进的表面凹陷在与输送表面相对的最外表面的内侧。 轴承表面，例如沿输送带运行的输送带下面的输送辊的周边，延伸到输送带中经过外表面以接触带辊。 随着皮带的前进，皮带辊在轴承表面上旋转，以沿或沿皮带推送输送的物品。

公开(公告)号：US07775345B2

公开(公告)日：2010-08-17

申请号：US12057126

申请日：2008-03-27

申请人： Matthew L. Fourney

发明人： Matthew L. Fourney

IPC分类号： B65G17/00

CPC分类号： B65G17/24 ,  B65G47/266 ,  B65G47/28

摘要： A belt conveyor having clutch-driven flights for extremely low-torque operation. The flights have pivot members that rotate about an axis over a limited range of angles. A clutch mechanism includes a spring pushing a clutch wheel against a pivot member. The clutch wheel is arranged to rotate as the conveyor belt advances. Frictional contact between the rotating wheel and the pivot member imparts a moment on the flight to raise it to an extended position. When the flight is encumbered even by a light load, the low-torque mechanism automatically slips to prevent the flight from rising to the extended position.

摘要翻译： 带式输送机具有用于极低扭矩运行的离合器驱动翼片。 飞行具有在有限的角度范围内围绕轴旋转的枢转构件。 离合器机构包括将离合器轮推靠在枢轴构件上的弹簧。 离合器轮布置成随着传送带前进而旋转。 旋转轮和枢转构件之间的摩擦接触在飞行上施加一个时刻以将其提升到延伸位置。 即使轻载时飞行装有挡风玻璃，低扭矩机构自动滑动，防止飞行升起到延伸位置。

公开(公告)号：US20100193329A1

公开(公告)日：2010-08-05

申请号：US12666408

申请日：2008-07-15

申请人： Stephen G. Wargo ,  Matthew L. Fourney

发明人： Stephen G. Wargo ,  Matthew L. Fourney

IPC分类号： B65G47/29

CPC分类号： B65G17/24 ,  B65G47/29

摘要： An accumulation-and-release conveyor using a roller belt with rollers arranged to rotate in the direction of belt travel. The rollers extend through the thickness of the belt. A movable stop is positioned along the carryway just downstream of a bearing surface that is movable into and out of contact with the rollers. When the bearing surface is out of contact with the rollers, they are freely rotatable; when the bearing surface contacts the rollers, they roll on the bearing surface to propel articles in the direction of belt travel. The stop is selectively moved between a blocking position preventing articles from passing and accumulating them with low back line pressure on the freely rotatable rollers and a release position allowing articles to pass to the accumulation zone where they are propelled forward and separated from each other by the rotation of the rollers rolling on the bearing surface.

摘要翻译： 一种具有辊子的滚筒带的堆积和释放输送机，其布置成沿着皮带行进方向旋转。 辊子延伸穿过皮带的厚度。 可移动止动件沿着可移动进入和离开辊的支承表面的下游的运送轨道定位。 当轴承表面与辊不接触时，它们可自由转动; 当轴承表面与辊接触时，它们在轴承表面上滚动以沿着带行进方向推进物品。 止动件选择性地在防止物品通过的阻挡位置和在可自由旋转的辊之间以低的背线压力积聚的阻挡位置之间移动，并且允许物品通过向前推动并且彼此分离的积聚区域的释放位置 滚子在轴承表面滚动的旋转。

公开(公告)号：US20100065403A1

公开(公告)日：2010-03-18

申请号：US12528635

申请日：2008-04-04

申请人： Matthew L. Fourney

发明人： Matthew L. Fourney

IPC分类号： B65G17/24

CPC分类号： B65G17/24 ,  B65G47/22

摘要： A split-level singulator for arranging and conveying articles in a single file. The singulator comprises a central conveyor and two flanking conveyors advancing in a conveying direction. Rollers in the conveyors protrude through the thickness of the conveyors and ride on underlying supporting bearing surfaces that cause the rollers to rotate as the conveyors advance in the conveying direction. The rollers in the central conveyor rotate in the conveying direction. The rollers in the flanking conveyors rotate in directions oblique to the conveying direction to direct articles conveyed atop the rollers downstream and toward the central conveyor. The tops of the rollers of the central conveyor are vertically offset above or below the tops of the flanking oblique rollers.

摘要翻译： 用于在单个文件中排列和传送文章的分层分割器。 分选机包括中心输送机和沿输送方向前进的两个侧向输送机。 输送机中的滚筒突出穿过输送机的厚度，并且骑在下面的支撑轴承表面上，导致滚筒在输送机沿输送方向前进时旋转。 中央输送机中的辊子沿输送方向旋转。 侧面输送机中的辊子沿与输送方向相反的方向旋转，以将在辊子上方传送的物品引导到中央输送机的下游。 中央输送机的辊的顶部垂直偏移在侧面倾斜辊的顶部上方或下方。

公开(公告)号：US20090242358A1

公开(公告)日：2009-10-01

申请号：US12057126

申请日：2008-03-27

申请人： Matthew L. Fourney

发明人： Matthew L. Fourney

IPC分类号： B65G19/00

CPC分类号： B65G17/24 ,  B65G47/266 ,  B65G47/28

摘要： A belt conveyor having clutch-driven flights for extremely low-torque operation. The flights have pivot members that rotate about an axis over a limited range of angles. A clutch mechanism includes a spring pushing a clutch wheel against a pivot member. The clutch wheel is arranged to rotate as the conveyor belt advances. Frictional contact between the rotating wheel and the pivot member imparts a moment on the flight to raise it to an extended position. When the flight is encumbered even by a light load, the low-torque mechanism automatically slips to prevent the flight from rising to the extended position.

摘要翻译： 带式输送机具有用于极低扭矩运行的离合器驱动翼片。 飞行具有在有限的角度范围内围绕轴旋转的枢转构件。 离合器机构包括将离合器轮推靠在枢轴构件上的弹簧。 离合器轮布置成随着传送带前进而旋转。 旋转轮和枢转构件之间的摩擦接触在飞行上施加一个时刻以将其提升到延伸位置。 即使轻载时飞行装有挡风玻璃，低扭矩机构自动滑动，防止飞行升起到延伸位置。

公开(公告)号：US07506751B2

公开(公告)日：2009-03-24

申请号：US12123931

申请日：2008-05-20

申请人： Matthew L. Fourney

发明人： Matthew L. Fourney

IPC分类号： B65G47/46 ,  B65G13/02

CPC分类号： B65G17/24 ,  B65G47/34

摘要： In one embodiment, a conveyor system includes a conveyor belt having a plurality of conveyor belt rollers configured to divert objects on the conveyor belt, and a drive mechanism that engages the conveyor belt rollers, the drive mechanism being configured to drive the conveyor belt rollers, the drive mechanism being adjustable such that the conveyor belt rollers can be selectively driven in a first angular direction and a second, opposite angular direction so that objects can be selectively diverted to either side of the conveyor belt at a desired diverting angle. One version of the drive mechanism has drive rollers mounted in cartridges and rack gears engaging pinion gears on the cartridges to adjust the orientation of the drive rollers relative to the belt rollers to drive them in selectively opposite angular directions.

摘要翻译： 在一个实施例中，输送系统包括具有多个输送带辊的输送带，该输送带辊配置成转移输送带上的物体，以及驱动机构，其与输送带辊接合，该驱动机构构造成驱动输送带辊， 驱动机构是可调节的，使得输送带辊可以在第一角度方向和第二相反的角度方向上被选择性地驱动，使得物体可以以期望的转向角度被选择性地转移到输送带的任一侧。 驱动机构的一个版本具有安装在盒中的驱动辊和与齿轮上的小齿轮啮合的齿条以调节驱动辊相对于带辊的定向，以将它们选择性地相反的角度方向驱动。