Multizone unscrambler

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5240101
SERIAL NO

07877655

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A conveyor for unscrambling and discharging in single file articles received in random order and orientation from side-by-side sources, the conveyor having a plurality of rollers arranged in parallel relationship to each other, the central axes of the rollers being parallel and skewed to the side frame of the conveyor, a plurality of intermediate roller support frame members spaced from the side frame and extending lengthwise to the transport surface, aligned rollers on each side of each of the intermediate frame members being separate and independent from the rollers on the opposite side thereof, certain ones of the intermediate frame members being parallel to the side frame, the intermediate frame members dividing the article transport surface of the conveyor into a plurality of article transport zones with one of the transport zones at the article receiving end of the conveyor having a width which is a minor portion of the total width of the conveyor and means driving the rollers thereof at a higher peripheral speed than that of the rollers forming the remaining portions of article transport surface laterally thereof.

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MANNESMANN DEMATIC RAPISTAN CORP507 PLYMOUTH AVENUE N E GRAND RAPIDS MI 49505

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hergenrother, James F Rockford, MI 1 34
LeMay, Curtis E Shelbyville, MI 16 368

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