A conveyor apparatus including dips to turn and tumble items placed on the conveyor. The conveyor apparatus has a conveyor belt configured in a series of dips arranged to insure the turning and tumbling of items placed on the conveyor belt.

A conveyor primarily useful for handling palletized loads comprising in combination a walking beam conveyor and a non-powered roller conveyor. The palletized load is normally supported on a static support and the roller conveyor, but when it is desired to shift the load longitudinally, the walking beam conveyor lifts the load only a distance sufficient to lift a portion of the load resting on the static support by taking advantage of the inherent flexibility in the pallet while the pallet still ...

A conveyor for feeding push members along a path having at least one curved portion; each push member having a push appendix hinged to a flexible conveying member of the conveyor by a control device for keeping the appendix parallel to itself as the push member travels along at least part of the curved portion of the path; and the control device having a first lever supporting in rotary manner the appendix and connected to the flexible conveying member in rotary manner at one end and in rotary a...

Discloses a conveyor, adapted to be driven by drive means, for continuous and positive conveying of material. The conveyor comprises driven chains, adapted to be driven by the drive means, spaced-apart, rigid bar flights carried cross-wise by and relative to the driven chains, and angularly arranged and disposed chains carried between the rigid bar flights. The rigid bar flights and angularly arranged chains between such rigid bar flights cooperate to effect continuous and positive conveying of ...

A work piece conveyor particularly suitable for moving piston connecting rods. The conveyor comprises at least two stands secured to base in a spaced apart relationship from each other. A pair of spaced and parallel rail members are secured to and between the stands in a generally horizontal elevation. A rough assembly having an elongated base portion is positioned beneath and parallel to the rail members so that the base of the trough assembly is spaced apart from the rail members at a predeter...

A chain conveyor includes a chain with hold down attachments, at least one elongated guide, supporting and guiding the chain in an upper portion, and secured at a lower portion to an elongated mounting element. The guide and mounting element include cooperating structure for connecting the two together. The mounting element is secured on a conveyor frame section in a standard position and the guide is slid into the element, producing accurate alignment between guides of each section. Curved sect...

An endless belt type of conveyor for small flat workpieces (chips) provides a series of pockets on a perforate belt, each pocket adapted to support a chip during conveyance through a zone wherein high velocity air jets are directed against the chip. The pockets are formed by facing pairs of series of "H" or "I" shaped crossbars connected between a spaced-apart pair of roller chains. The perforate belt is formed by a Teflon (polytetraflouroethylene) coated fiberglass screen (alternatively silicon...

A conveyor assembly is disclosed herein in which the conveyor is supported by a first set of rollers which will rotate on an underlying guide rail and a second set of rollers which will rotate on an overlying guide rail thereby restraining the conveyor against vertical movement. Laterally disposed guide tracks engage a third set of rollers and restrain the conveyor against lateral movement.

A conveyor comprises a driven conveyor reciprocably movable in a horizontal direction between two spaced driven supports. The supports move vertically, before and after the horizontal conveyor movement, to raise objects from the driven conveyor and to lower objects onto the driven conveyor. The driven conveyor and the supports have a common drive motor driving a mechanical driven train, the movements of the driven conveyor and the supports being synchronized with each other so that the driven co...

A conveyor system having first second and third stations and a return conveyor in communication with and linking the first and third stations: The first station has a device to selectively feed pallets, one at a time, from the return conveyor to a position underneath an unpackaged work piece disposed on the first station portion of the conveyor system and help position the pallet with the work piece on top of it on to another part of the first station portion of the conveyor system, which convey...