Abstract: An integrated system for delivering food and other products from a central processing station to one or more remote delivery stations, the products being transported in carriers which travel both vertically and horizontally in an upright position on conveyors having reversible paths of travel which include optional delivery positions. The system is expandable to include order stations in advance of the delivery stations from which orders are sent to the central processing station, the order stations optionally including currency conveyors in communication with the central processing station to permit payment for the items purchased at the time they are ordered.

Abstract: There is provided a conveyor system for conveying items and including a carrier for such items to be moved between at least two spaced-apart stations and a first guide track extending between the spaced apart stations. A flexible drive tape having a leading edge and a trailing edge is reciprocably mounted within the first guide track for moving the carrier between the spaced-apart stations, wherein the flexible drive tape is attached to the carrier adjacent the leading edge by a plurality of connectors. At least one of the connectors allows controlled relative movement between the tape and the carrier. A toothed cog wheel is preferably provided around a substantial portion of the periphery of which the drive tape is wound within a cog surround which at least partly encloses the cog wheel and the wound drive tape. The surround further includes a pair of tape peeler tips oppositely disposed adjacent the cog wheel to peel the tape away from the cog wheel as the wheel is rotated in use.

Abstract: A carrier basket is suspended between an opposing pair of drive members which define a path of travel between a processing station and a remote delivery station, the path of travel having vertical flights at each station interconnected by a horizontal flight. To prevent rocking movement of the suspended carrier basket, it is provided at its opposite ends with diametrically opposite cam rollers which are sequentially engaged in cam tracks extending along the path of travel of the carrier basket, a first cam track lying at one end of the carrier basket and extending between the processing station and a point intermediate the horizontal flight of the conveyor, the other of the cam tracks lying at the opposite end of the carrier basket and extending between the intermediate point and the delivery station.

Abstract: A system for conveying a transfer box between a first station and a remote second station wherein a pair of vertical modules are interconnected at their upper ends by a horizontal module. The modules each comprising a tubular housing, such as a cylindrical tube. The vertical modules each contain a conveyor composed of an opposing pair of conveyor belts arranged to convey a deposit box therebetween in a sinuous path of travel. The horizontal module contains a slide plate along which a horizontal conveyor belt is adapted to travel. The vertical modules have transfer belts at their uppermost ends to transfer a deposit box between the vertical and horizontal modules. The conveyor belts in the vertical and horizontal modules are interconnected for joint movement and driven by a single power source.

Abstract: An integrated conveyor system for use in drive-in banks and the like for conveying a deposit box or similar receptacle from a remote customer station to a teller station, the system comprising a pair of self-contained vertical modules, one at the customer station and the other at the teller station, interconnected by a self-contained horizontal module, the vertical modules each incorporating opposing sets of conveyor belts arranged to convey the deposit box therebetween in a vertical path of travel, the sets of belts being guided by staggered sets of idler rolls positioned to cause the sets of belts and the box conveyed therebetween to move in a sinuous path of travel in such fashion that the box is securely engaged at all times by the sets of belts, the horizontal module having translation members at its opposite ends to move the box from vertical to horizontal, or from horizontal to vertical position, together with a belt conveyor for moving the box horizontally from one end of the module to the other, of a