POSTURE MAINTENANCE MECHANISM FOR CONVEYED CONTAINER IN ENDLESS CONVEYER

• Main Authors: WASHIDA DAISUKE, TANENAKA TADASHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.10.2006
• Subjects: BLASTING; CONVEYING; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GEARING; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HEATING; LIGHTING; MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGINGARTICLES OR MATERIALS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING; UNPACKING; WEAPONS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain lengthening of a conveyer and speed-up of a conveyance chain and to realize safe conveyance of chicken eggs by securing a space for avoiding collision in a process of turning at a folded-back part with the sharp ends of the eggs directed downward even intervals for mounting conveyance egg seats are made to be tight at the time of horizontal movements in an endless conveyer for continuously conveying the chicken eggs. SOLUTION: In the posture maintenance mechanism, a supporting point of the conveyance egg seat 9 (a rotation axis of a satellite sprocket 7) is rotatably mounted to the outer peripheral side of the conveyance chain 4 via displacement plates 5, 13 mounted to the conveyance chain 4 when the conveyance egg seat 9 turns at the folded-back part, and a revolution sprocket 12 for maintaining the posture is rotatably mounted on the displacement plate 5. In order to maintain a posture of the revolution sprocket 12, the inner periphery of the conveyance chain 4 is provided with a posture chain 15 moving at the same speed of the conveyance chain 4, and the posture of the revolution sprocket 12 is reflected to a posture of the conveyance egg seat 9 by a set of separately-provided rotation transmission means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT