Patents Assigned to Liberty Glass Co.
  • Patent number: 5092449
    Abstract: Apparatus for transferring articles such as glass containers from a first conveyor, on which the containers are traveling generally horizontally in line one after another, on to a second conveyor extending generally at right angles to the first conveyor from one side of the first conveyor. The apparatus is operable in cycles to transfer on each cycle a group of articles from the first to the second conveyor with the articles in the group extending in a row transversely of the second conveyor. The apparatus includes a support, a first carriage on the support movable generally parallel to the second conveyor, a second carriage on the first carriage movable with respect to the first carriage generally parallel to the first conveyor, and a third carriage on the second carriage movable vertically with respect to the first and second carriages. The third carriage carries a pusher bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Liberty Glass Co.
    Inventors: James A. Bolin, Kevin W. Metcalf