- Patent Title: Chain conveyor with free-rotating rollers and retractable flights
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Application No.: US15578461Application Date: 2016-06-03
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Publication No.: US10221021B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Eric Koster , Bart Van Walderveen
- Applicant: MOBA GROUP B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Barneveld
- Assignee: MOBA GROUP B.V.
- Current Assignee: MOBA GROUP B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Barneveld
- Agency: Stites & Harbison PLLC
- Agent Marvin Petry
- Priority: EP15001674 20150605
- International Application: PCT/NL2016/050400 WO 20160603
- International Announcement: WO2016/195497 WO 20161208
- Main IPC: A01K43/00
- IPC: A01K43/00 ; B65G17/06 ; B65G17/24 ; B65G39/20 ; B65G47/84

Abstract:
The present invention relates to an endless conveyor for transporting products, for example packaging units, along a transport path in a transport direction T, wherein the conveyor comprises: ⋅freely rotating supporting rollers (2) which extend substantially perpendicular to the transport direction, which are connected at both ends to conveyor elements (3), and which form an endless transport surface, and ⋅flights (4), connected to the conveyor at well-defined positions, which with a control are movable to and away from a carrying position above the transport surface, wherein, after such carrying position has been taken up, a product present on the transport surface is carried along in the transport direction T, wherein the flights comprise strip-shaped thresholds (41) which, from a rest position below at least the transport surface, can be moved up between the rollers to the carrying position. Suitable to carry and buffer along products over an incline and thus transport them.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180162657A1 CHAIN CONVEYOR WITH FREE-ROTATING ROLLERS AND RETRACTABLE FLIGHTS Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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