Conveyors: Power-driven Patents (Class 198)
- Condition responsive control means for vehicle or conveyor (Class 198/301)
- Retractable ground wheel (Class 198/302)
- Including three relatively movable interconnected wheel or track equipped vehicles (Class 198/303)
- Dirigible vehicle (Class 198/304)
- Ground wheel lockable in transverse or longitudinal position on vehicle (Class 198/306)
- Bucket conveyor (Class 198/307.1)
- Shovel or tine pushable under load (Class 198/308.1)
- Support slidable on ground (Class 198/309)
- Conveyor driven by motion of ground-engaging element (Class 198/310)
- Including gravity conveyor section or bin with driven conveyor (Class 198/311)
- Conveyor shiftably mounted on vehicle (Class 198/312)
- With means to control the operation of the section (Class 198/322)
- With means to facilitate passenger entry or exit (Class 198/324)
- By stairway having steps forming an endless member (Class 198/326)
- By support means having a zone of varying speed (Class 198/334)
- Moving hand-support structure (Class 198/335)
- Having signalling or load identifying means (Class 198/340)
- Condition responsive control of conveyor or station apparatus (Class 198/341.01)
- Load supporting conveyor portion is retarded or stopped with load at station without being disconnected from remainder of continuously moving conveyor (Class 198/343.1)
- Means engaging conveyor or load on a conveyor to align load for working (Class 198/345.1)
- Static means for supporting load or workman adjacent conveyor for operation on load (Class 198/346)
- Means to convey a palleted load back and forth between an initial location and the work station (Class 198/346.1)
- Means to transfer a load back and forth between the mainline conveyor and the work station (Class 198/346.2)
- Conveyor(s) lowers the load to at least one of a plurality of fixed work stations (Class 198/346.3)
- Condition responsive control means to prevent collision on merging conveyors (Class 198/357)
- Condition responsive control means including sensing condition of source or destination (Class 198/358)
- With selection responsive to means containing or introducing changeable operating instructions (Class 198/349)
- With gravity-conveying means (Class 198/359)
- By proportioning the feed from multiple sources (Class 198/363)
- By moving a load directing means along the length of the section (Class 198/364)
- Plural laterally spaced locations fed to or received from a conveyor having laterally movable article supports or pushers (Class 198/890)
- By passive material-diverting means placed across the flow path (Class 198/367)
- By a selectively movable stop means (Class 198/368)
- One of a plurality of main line conveyors selectively moves to connect with a spaced path (Class 198/369.1)
- By loading or unloading section at selected one of a plurality of pre-established locations along the length thereof (Class 198/370.01)
- By optionally facing successive items according to a predetermined recurring cycle (Class 198/374)
- By actuating item-holder relative to holder-carrying conveyor (Class 198/375)
- By gripping item and turning item about fixed axis (Class 198/379)
- With pressurized fluid causing change in attitude (Class 198/380)
- With magnetism causing change in attitude (Class 198/381)
- By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to uniform facing (Class 198/382)
- With control means for attitude-changer responsive to sensing of item (Class 198/401)
- For inverting successive items (Class 198/402)
- For changing both the elevation and the posture of successive items (Class 198/406)
- By plural distinct occurrences of turning each successive item (Class 198/410)
- By conveyor and means driven for turning successive conveyed items (Class 198/411)
- By member adjacent conveyor for contacting successive conveyed items (Class 198/416)
- Having items discharged from plural distinct outlets into group (Class 198/418.1)
- Having plural successive groups discharged by single conveyor into larger group (Class 198/418.5)
- Having conveyor drop grouped items simultaneously onto another conveyor (Class 198/418.6)
- Subdivides continuous item stream into longitudinally spaced groups (Class 198/418.7)
- By shifting group of items simultaneously from stream conveyor to form a group (Class 198/426)
- By depositing items successively from one conveyor onto group conveyor (Class 198/431)
- By shifting group from row conveyor onto row conveyor (Class 198/432)
- By shifting group from row conveyor onto stream conveyor (Class 198/433)
- By distributing items onto vertically tiered conveyor/receiver (Class 198/435)
- By distributing items from one stream into plural streams (Class 198/436)
- By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream(s) of items (Class 198/443)
- By laterally or vertically moving successive items in longitudinally moving stream (Class 198/456)
- By longitudinally respacing successive articles in stream (Class 198/459.1)
- System includes a linear conveyor or portion thereof which bodily shifts transversely to move a load in synchronization with a transverse, continously operating conveyor section (Class 198/463.2)
- System includes linear conveyor or portion thereof which shifts to lift or lower load before or after linearly conveying load relative to adjacent conveyor section (Class 198/463.3)
- System includes gate means (Class 198/463.4)
- System includes control means responsive to sensing means (Class 198/464.1)
- System includes a load supported by a conveyor portion which is separable from the conveyor drive (Class 198/465.1)
- System includes a T-shaped or headed load suspended between parallel conveyors directly (Class 198/466.1)
- System includes a rotating screw (Class 198/467.1)
- System includes an oscillating or reciprocating load engaging element (Class 198/468.01)
- System includes a rotating or endless carrier with a load engaging element (Class 198/469.1)
- Having control means responsive to load condition or unsafe operating condition (Class 198/507)
- Having means to form a pile on a static support (Class 198/508)
- Having buckets specialized to gather load batches (Class 198/509)
- Power-driven feed means (Class 198/510.1)
- Having means mounting conveyor for pile surface attack (Class 198/519)
- Self-gathering pusher (Class 198/520)
- By vibratory trough entrance means (Class 198/521)
- Having passive material collecting means (Class 198/522)
- Condition responsive (Class 198/524)
- With means to affect flow (Class 198/525)
- With means to handle portion of load which becomes separated from main flow path (Class 198/537)
- Conveyor section(s) adjustable for nonoperative purpose (e.g., storage, transport, etc.) (Class 198/538)
- Including a load-supporting bridging element (e.g., horizontal surface) between conveyor sections (Class 198/539)
- Gravity discharge material holder is source of supply, discharging by gravity to power-driven section (Class 198/540)
- Bin having a power-driven conveyor section for discharging or feeding discharge to a gravity or power-driven section (Class 198/550.01)
- Power-driven conveyor section feeding to gravity section (i.e., gravity discharge material holder, or gravity flow path) feeding in turn to another power-driven section (Class 198/560)
- Gravity conveyor section is gravity flow path feeding to power-driven section (Class 198/562)
- Plural power-driven conveyor sections feeding to gravity section (i.e., gravity discharge material holder, or gravity flow path) (Class 198/568)
- Power-driven conveyor section feeding to plural gravity sections (i.e., gravity discharge material holder, or gravity flow path) (Class 198/569)
- With condition responsive control of a section (Class 198/571)
- Conveyor carried by load-engaging conveyor (Class 198/574)
- With means controlling the interrelated operation of plural sections (Class 198/575)
- With means operating successive sections in timed relation (Class 198/576)
- With means for altering the speed (e.g., accelerating, decelerating, stopping, reversing, etc.) of a section (Class 198/577)
- Having a cyclically swingable section (Class 198/578)
- With means operating successive sections at different speeds (Class 198/579)
- Recycling load in a closed path (Class 198/580)
- With means allowing a section to fold upon itself (Class 198/581)
- With supply chamber for system (Class 198/582)
- With means connecting sections for quick assembly of disassembly (Class 198/583)
- Including tripper (Class 198/585)
- With relatively adjustable sections (Class 198/586)
- Including power-driven means for laterally shifting a conveyor-engaged load (Class 198/597)
- Including non-driven means for moving load relative to conveyor (Class 198/599)
- Including rest for transient load (Class 198/600)
- Forming plural conveying paths feeding to single conveying path or vice versa (Class 198/601)
- Forming a single conveying path (Class 198/602)
- Load propelled as the reactive means in a linear motor or moving magnetic field (Class 198/619)
- Load simultaneously engaged between and moved by a plurality of driven conveyor members (Class 198/620)
- Diverse (Class 198/629)
- Moving wave type (Class 198/630)
- Conveyor portion only cyclically rotates, shifts, or oscillates for extra-conveying function (Class 198/631.1)
- Conveyor section folds to facilitate transportation or storage of section (Class 198/632)
- Movement of load changed relative to conveyor movement on contact of load with passive means (Class 198/633)
- Thrower (Class 198/638)
- Endless belt strand or chain-like member to lift viscous fluid (Class 198/643)
- Conveyor for signatures (Class 198/644)
- Screw (Class 198/657)
- Endless conveyor having means for suspending load (Class 198/678.1)
- Having means to enhance the friction or adherence between the conveyor and load at random locations on conveyor (Class 198/688.1)
- Single suspended loop (Class 198/700)
- Bucket (Class 198/701)
- Flexible pocket (Class 198/715)
- Flight means in conduit for lifting flowable solid material (Class 198/716)
- Pusher conveyor and separate load support surface (Class 198/717)
- Reciprocating conveying surface (Class 198/750.1)
- Spiral (Class 198/778)
- Load-supporting rolls moved about endless path (Class 198/779)
- Live roll (Class 198/780)
- Conveyor having a zone of varying speed (Class 198/792)
- Unit load conveying surface means moved about an endless or rotating path (Class 198/793)
- Rotary conveyor without specific locations for supporting randomly placed articles or bulk material (Class 198/803.16)
- Endless conveyor (Class 198/804)