[go: up one dir, main page]

WO2011096798A1 - Transporteur à courroies d'acheminement de produits sur tapis de tri - Google Patents

Transporteur à courroies d'acheminement de produits sur tapis de tri Download PDF

Info

Publication number
WO2011096798A1
WO2011096798A1 PCT/NL2011/050065 NL2011050065W WO2011096798A1 WO 2011096798 A1 WO2011096798 A1 WO 2011096798A1 NL 2011050065 W NL2011050065 W NL 2011050065W WO 2011096798 A1 WO2011096798 A1 WO 2011096798A1
Authority
WO
WIPO (PCT)
Prior art keywords
conveyor
belts
flat
sorting
conveying
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Ceased
Application number
PCT/NL2011/050065
Other languages
English (en)
Inventor
Wouter Van Den Berg
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
FPS Food Processing Systems BV
Original Assignee
FPS Food Processing Systems BV
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by FPS Food Processing Systems BV filed Critical FPS Food Processing Systems BV
Publication of WO2011096798A1 publication Critical patent/WO2011096798A1/fr
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Ceased legal-status Critical Current

Links

Classifications

    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G15/00—Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration
    • B65G15/60—Arrangements for supporting or guiding belts, e.g. by fluid jets
    • B65G15/62—Guides for sliding belts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G15/00—Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration
    • B65G15/10—Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or a multiplicity of parallel elements, e.g. ropes defining an endless surface
    • B65G15/12—Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or a multiplicity of parallel elements, e.g. ropes defining an endless surface with two or more endless belts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G21/00—Supporting or protective framework or housings for endless load-carriers or traction elements of belt or chain conveyors
    • B65G21/16—Supporting or protective framework or housings for endless load-carriers or traction elements of belt or chain conveyors for conveyors having endless load-carriers movable in curved paths
    • B65G21/18—Supporting or protective framework or housings for endless load-carriers or traction elements of belt or chain conveyors for conveyors having endless load-carriers movable in curved paths in three-dimensionally curved paths
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
    • B65G47/52—Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors i.e. discharging or feeding devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
    • B65G2201/02—Articles
    • B65G2201/0202—Agricultural and processed food products
    • B65G2201/0211—Fruits and vegetables

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to a conveyor for feeding products to, and gradually transferring the products onto a sorting conveyor, for instance for gradually transferring each successive product onto a corresponding successive conveying location (of the sorting conveyor).
  • the invention relates to a conveyor according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such a conveyor is known from EP1538114.
  • a so-called V-channel for conveying products such as fruit is described.
  • This V-channel is provided with two endless belts which jointly constitute a V, which proceed in a substantially horizontal conveying direction, which convey products lying between them in this direction, and which at some point transfer the products onto a sorting conveyor. More particularly, it is described in this document how the products are transferred at the location where the belts diverge, while different possibilities of diverging are mentioned in detail.
  • the conveyor according to the invention is characterized in that the at least one diverging flat conveyor belt is guided over a diverging path which gradually diverges substantially sideways.
  • the conveyor is characterized in that the diverging path also diverges downwards.
  • the products when following such a diverging path, appear to be transferred onto the sorting conveyor in a smooth movement precisely because a very gradual substantially sideward, and sometimes also downward, guidance is enabled. What is thereby achieved, more particularly, is that an initial and continued rolling movement of a product is prevented.
  • products ending up wide of the sorting conveyor in other words, slipping between the fiat belt and the sorting conveyor to fall to the ground, is virtually completely prevented, nor is it possible anymore for two products to roll over and against each other, possibly ending up on the sorting conveyor as 'doubles', i.e., two products in one conveying location.
  • a further exemplary embodiment of the conveyor according to the invention is characterized in that the at least one conveyor belt is provided at the underside with an at least rail-shaped (and, for instance, a row forming) strip part, which is guided in a matching groove.
  • the groove is provided in particular in a piece of material which, for instance, gradually diverges and which defines the diverging path.
  • this exemplary embodiment provides an inexpensive and easy to construct apparatus.
  • belts are very well known in the field of technology of conveyor belts, as can be read in, for instance, product catalogues of businesses that manufacture such flat belts, such as the catalogue according to ⁇ 2008 - Narviflex.
  • driving such belts can be carried out in a known manner with a pulley system with pulley wheels.
  • the one or more rail-shaped strip parts each form an endless, continuous rail; the conveyor belt and the rail-shaped strip part form one whole of plastic material;
  • the at least one endless conveyor belt is guided by one or more at least rail- shaped strip parts over circumferential grooves in return wheels;
  • the sorting conveyor comprises an endless roller belt, with at least one row of successive rollers with a fixed intermediate distance or pitch, with conveying locations between each successive pair of rollers;
  • rollers are hour-glass shaped. It is further noted that sorting conveyors of the above-mentioned type, with rollers, more particularly hour-glass shaped rollers, are generally known in this field of technology, as shown, for instance, in EP 1689536.
  • FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a part of a conveyor according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a first perspective view of the conveyor according to FIG. 1
  • FIG. 3 is a second perspective view of the conveyor according to FIG. 1.
  • FIGS. 1— 3 show a non-limiting example of a conveying apparatus provided with a feed conveyor 1 and a sorting conveyor 2, while the feed conveyor 1, in a conveying direction T located in a substantially horizontal plane and, seen in this conveying direction T, in particular before the sorting conveyor 2, is provided with two flat endless conveying belts 4a, 4b, positioned obliquely relative to a vertical plane, proceeding in conveying direction, functioning as a V-channel, while at least one of these flat conveyor belts 4a, 4b, diverges from the conveying direction T at the location of transfer of the products in a transfer section S.
  • the conveyor 1 for feeding comprises two flat belts 4a, 4b, which jointly, in cross section, constitute a V, also called V-channel.
  • V also called V-channel.
  • the flat belts 4a, 4b substantially diverge there, and further down the path, they gradually bend downward so that, especially when diverging, a very gradual transfer of products onto the sorting conveyor 2 is obtained.
  • the sorting conveyor 2 shown is of the type as described in detail in EP 1689536, with conveying locations 3 situated between two pairs of successive rollers.
  • the flat belts 4a, 4b are both provided with an endless, continuous rail-shaped strip 5a, 5b by which they are guided through grooves 7a, 7b, which are provided in the material segments 6a, 6b.
  • Such rail-shaped strips 5a, 5b are also called “tracking strips" in this field of technology.
  • FIG. 3 in the view direction, only the right half is represented, i.e. the groove 7 a and the material segment 6a.
  • the rail- shaped strips 5a, 5b are endless, as is the flat belt.
  • the material segments 6a, 6b are located at the location of the transfer section S because precisely there, the belts 4a, 4b have to be guided. Precisely there, the belts will have to be guided along the intended path while the further guidance and drive is carried out with wheels of a pulley system.
  • the cross sectional profile of the strips 5a, 5b is finely tuned to that of the grooves 7a, 7b. It will, for that matter, be clear to those skilled in the art that when suitable materials are selected, frictional coefficients and additional wear phenomena will be taken into account.
  • the belts 4a, 4b and the strips 5a, 5b are formed from the same material.
  • suitable plastics can be selected to that purpose, with advantageous properties such as bendability, durability and roughness.
  • grooves 7a, 7b it holds that they can be reahsed in many different manners.
  • plastic castings can be manufactured, or also, on flat plate pieces, for instance of metal, strips of plastic or metal can be provided with a recess or groove therebetween.

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Structure Of Belt Conveyors (AREA)

Abstract

La présente invention concerne un transporteur qui permet d'acheminer des produits, tels que des fruits, vers un tapis de tri et à les transférer sur celui-ci, avec des emplacements de transport disposés à des distances intermédiaires fixes dans au moins une rangée, par exemple une bande de rouleau, le transporteur étant équipé de deux courroies transporteuses sans fin, plates, positionnées de manière oblique par rapport à un plan vertical, avançant dans une direction de transport T, fonctionnant tel un canal en V, au moins une de ces courroies transporteuses, plates, divergeant de ladite direction de transport T, ladite ou lesdites courroies transporteuses, plates et divergentes, étant guidées sur une voie divergente qui diverge sensiblement latéralement de manière progressive.
PCT/NL2011/050065 2010-02-02 2011-02-01 Transporteur à courroies d'acheminement de produits sur tapis de tri Ceased WO2011096798A1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
EP10001032 2010-02-02
EP10001032.1 2010-02-02

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
WO2011096798A1 true WO2011096798A1 (fr) 2011-08-11

Family

ID=43875261

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
PCT/NL2011/050065 Ceased WO2011096798A1 (fr) 2010-02-02 2011-02-01 Transporteur à courroies d'acheminement de produits sur tapis de tri

Country Status (1)

Country Link
WO (1) WO2011096798A1 (fr)

Citations (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
NL83086C (fr) *
GB416688A (en) * 1933-04-21 1934-09-19 William Henry Snow Improvements in apparatus for separating solid materials
ES2010264A6 (es) * 1988-05-04 1989-11-01 Gomez Rodriguez Hermanos Clasificadora de pescado.
US6321914B1 (en) * 1997-04-28 2001-11-27 Style-R. M. Magnusson Apparatus for grading objects such as fish
EP1538114A1 (fr) 2003-12-01 2005-06-08 FPS Food Processing Systems B.V. Appareil d'alimentation pour produits tels que des fruits
EP1689536A1 (fr) 2003-10-09 2006-08-16 FPS Food Processing Systems B.V. Support pour appareil de tri

Patent Citations (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
NL83086C (fr) *
GB416688A (en) * 1933-04-21 1934-09-19 William Henry Snow Improvements in apparatus for separating solid materials
ES2010264A6 (es) * 1988-05-04 1989-11-01 Gomez Rodriguez Hermanos Clasificadora de pescado.
US6321914B1 (en) * 1997-04-28 2001-11-27 Style-R. M. Magnusson Apparatus for grading objects such as fish
EP1689536A1 (fr) 2003-10-09 2006-08-16 FPS Food Processing Systems B.V. Support pour appareil de tri
EP1538114A1 (fr) 2003-12-01 2005-06-08 FPS Food Processing Systems B.V. Appareil d'alimentation pour produits tels que des fruits

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
EP2509895B1 (fr) Système de transfert par convoyeur doté d'une plate-forme de transfert flottante
US9409727B2 (en) Conveyor merge assembly
JP5695026B2 (ja) 高摩擦ローラを備える合流コンベア
US11661283B2 (en) Roller conveyor gap blocker
CN102548874B (zh) 具有动力分配器的带驱动传送机
US10988314B2 (en) Drive system for conveyors
EP3114058B1 (fr) Dispositif de transfert, système de transporteur comprenant un dispositif de transfert et procédé de transfert de produits transportés
CN103502118B (zh) 低背侧压力式积累系统
CA2571352A1 (fr) Systeme de convoyage et d'accumulation de produits a convoyeur double
MX336712B (es) Un transportador con guias laterales ajustables.
US12365549B2 (en) Conveyor transfer guards
US7628267B2 (en) Installation for conveying goods
US6415905B1 (en) Transport device
US9327915B1 (en) Low profile transfer conveyor for bridging gaps in multi segment conveyors
CN106163950B (zh) 用于沿着竖直方向输送产品的输送机
EP2911956B1 (fr) Dispositif d'entraînement d'extrémité pour transporteur, et transporteur doté d'un dispositif entraînement d'extrémité
CN113631494A (zh) 板式输送带
CN113173373B (zh) 输送机及输送系统
WO2011096798A1 (fr) Transporteur à courroies d'acheminement de produits sur tapis de tri
US10273088B2 (en) Conveyor belt with longitudinal rails
US20220119198A1 (en) Two-axis modular belt and conveyor
DE502004001014D1 (de) Staufördersystem mit Transportwagen
TW200942471A (en) Pivoted type conveyer

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
121 Ep: the epo has been informed by wipo that ep was designated in this application

Ref document number: 11703507

Country of ref document: EP

Kind code of ref document: A1

NENP Non-entry into the national phase

Ref country code: DE

122 Ep: pct application non-entry in european phase

Ref document number: 11703507

Country of ref document: EP

Kind code of ref document: A1