LOUIS H MEYER
Engineers in Prospect, KY
License number
Pennsylvania PE005792E
Category
Engineers
Type
Professional Engineer
Address
Address
2
Prospect, KY 40059
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Professional information
Accumulating Roller Conveyor
US Patent:
4266659, May 12, 1981
Filed:
Apr 16, 1979
Appl. No.:
6/030160
Inventors:
Louis H. Meyer - Prospect KY
Ellsworth H. Collins - Louisville KY
Ellsworth H. Collins - Louisville KY
Assignee:
Interlake, Inc. - Oak Brook IL
International Classification:
B65G 1306
US Classification:
198781
Abstract:
An accumulating roller conveyor for conveying articles including a frame and a plurality of conveyor rollers, means rotatably supporting each conveyor roller on the frame and movable upwardly and rearwardly with respect thereto, each conveyor roller normally being positioned downwardly and forwardly with respect to the frame, a drive belt frictionally engaging the conveyor rollers for driving the same, the drive belt having a projection thereon of limited longitudinal extent disposed toward the conveyor rollers, stopping the movement of an article along the conveyor rollers causing the projection to move the conveyor rollers upwardly and rearwardly and out of contact with the remaining portions of the drive belt, and one-way clutch mechanism holding out of contact with the drive belt the conveyor rollers in contact with a stopped article in the upward and rearward positions thereof so long as the contacted article is stopped.