Patents Assigned to Conveyor Manufacturing Company Limited
  • Conveyor orientation unit
    Patent number: 4143756
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a conveyor in which an article to be transferred is turned through an angle by means of two pluralities of juxtaposed rollers in a single plane, the pluralities having the spin axes of their rollers parallel to each other within the plurality and the spin axis of each roller in one plurality inclined at an angle to the spin axis of each roller in the other plurality by approximately half the angle through which the article is to be turned during the transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1979
    Assignee: Conveyor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventor: Derek C. Chorlton