Article alignment and conveying apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4485912
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06383752

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An article alignment and conveying apparatus 10 is described for aligning elongated articles 12 in single file in a plurality of transversely spaced lanes and moving the articles while in the lanes past a work station 13. The apparatus 10 includes an article feed bed in the form of a series of stepped conveyor beds 20 for receiving the articles and subdividing the articles into a number of channels 32 corresponding with the lanes. The articles fall from the channels 32 onto a belt conveyor 40 having a plurality of parallel narrow belts extending from the channels 32 past the work station. The belt conveyor 40 has a grooved bed section for corrugating the surface formed by the belts to transversely space and longitudinally align the articles. The belt conveyor 40 has a second bed section that is flat to flatten the supporting surface of the belt as the aligned articles moved past the work station 13.

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KEY TECHNOLOGY INC A CORP OF OREGON517 NORTH ELIZABETH P O BOX 8 MILTON-FREEWATER OR 97862

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Carmichael, D Murphy Milton-Freewater, OR 2 25
Davis, Walter L Milton-Freewater, OR 74 3011
Perry, Vernon L Walla Walla, WA 1 17

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