Method and apparatus for reducing noise and wear in a conveyor transition section

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5732814
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08759400

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A method and device in a conveyor for preventing the collision of guide pins on a transversely moving diverting shoe with the side of the conveyor in a conveyor having an endless conveying surface comprised of a plurality of surface members on which diverting shoes are slidably mounted to permit transverse movement thereon with respect to the direction of conveyance. The diverting shoes each have a downwardly depending guide pin which engages a rail network underlying the conveying surface. Magnets are positioned near the end of a diagonally oriented rail to attract the guide pins so as to prevent the transverse momentum of the guide pins and diverting shoes from carrying them into a collision with a stopping surface of the conveyor. The magnets are so positioned that non-diverted guide pins traveling adjacent the side of the conveyor are not substantially altered from their course of travel by the magnets.

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DEMATIC CORP507 PLYMOUTH AVENUE N E GRAND RAPIDS MI 49505

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bozarth, Charles W Holland, MI 5 137
Owczarzak, Thomas J Grand Rapids, MI 2 20
Veit, Frank W Spring Lake, MI 19 353

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