A conveyor is of a low power consumption type and has a decreased amount of gas generation. The conveyor is provided with a floating member having a conveying rod on which a workpiece is laid; a conveying body magnetically coupled with the floating member through a sleeve-like partition wall; sensor portions for detecting positions of the floating member; electromagnets for generating magnetic forces for supporting the floating member; targets provided on the floating member so as to face the el...

A conveyor for transferring products has a belt looped about two pulleys; a first and a second conveying branch extending between the pulleys in a given direction; and an actuating device for activating the pulleys and defined by gear trains to impart to the pulleys a concordant reciprocating motion in the aforementioned direction according to a first law of motion; the belt being fed about the pulleys according to a second law of motion; and the first and second law of motion being so determine...

A conveyor for conveying piece goods and the like through a helical path in a vertical direction has a frame and an endless conveyor belt supported by the frame having a conveying part guided in the helical path and a return path. The conveyor belt includes substantially rigid slats movably coupled near their axis and having an upper transport face. The slats are relatively pivotable around both of two axes. The frame has a helical support face for slidably supporting the slats in the conveying ...

A conveying apparatus for workpieces during a manufacturing procedure has a fixed guide track and a guide track having a variable geometry. The variable guide track includes a plurality of sections movable relative to the fixed guide track. The displacement of the movable sections of the variable guide track alters the distance between carriers arranged on a continuous conveyor chain in the region in which workpieces are transferred from a feed belt to a discharge belt.

A conveyor assembly (15) which receives bags (13) from a packaging machine (10). The assembly (15) includes a first conveyor (16) which delivers the bags (13) to a second conveyor (17). The conveyors (16 and 17) employ plenum members (18 and 30) which apply an area of reduced air pressure to the bags (13) to urge the bags (13) into contact with conveyor belts (21 and 35). The packages (13) are located below the conveyors (16 and 17) so as to depend therefrom. The relative speed of the conveyors ...

A displaceable conveyor is used to convey selected printed products to different destination points. A reversing device is positioned intermediate the different destination points and a rigid guide track. A partial guide path connects the reversing device with the rigid guide track.

The invention relates to a conveyor comprising a frame and a drivable endless conveying element, which is provided with carriers extending transversely to the intended direction of movement of the conveying element during operation, which carriers are coupled to at least one endless flexible coupling member, while at least a few carriers support pusher elements. The pusher elements are connected to guide means, which are capable of cooperation with guide rails supported by the frame, all this in...

A conveyor has a rotary encoder for measuring the amount of rotation of a driven sprocket having an intermittently drivable chain reeved therearound, and a processor for processing the measurement obtained by the encoder as operation support operating data corresponding to the amount of rotation of the driven sprocket. The processor determines a reference position of the chain in time series when the chain is moved a distance at a time by intermitting driving, computes the actual position of the...

A conveyor has hangers with article-carrying racks which automatically turn transversely to the direction of movement when the hangers are below angled portions of the conveyor. The conveyor is of the overhead monorail type which moves hangers along a predetermined path having a generally horizontal portion and an angled portion. The hangers carry receptacles which receive upper portions of rack hooks which carry the racks. The receptacles and upper portions of the hooks are angled in a manner t...

A conveyor including a drivable endless conveying device having a plurality of carriers extending parallel to each other and transversely to an intended direction of movement of the derivable endless conveying device, a pusher device provided on at least one of the plurality of carriers and configured to move along the at least one of the plurality of carriers, a guide device connected to the pusher device, two guide rails extending to the intended direction of movement of the plurality of carri...