TRANSFER DEVICE BETWEEN CONVEYING MEMBERS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a transfer device between conveying members of a conveying system, capable of reversing a conveying direction and operating at a high speed. ;SOLUTION: This device is installed between the first conveying member 2 and the second conveying member 1 laid on a fixed support respectively in the upstream and downstream, and formed to have flat support surface for carrying articles along the longitudinal direction x-x'. The support surfaces of the conveying members 2 and 1 are kept at the same height, and transfer members T and 6 are provided between the conveying members 2 and 1. Furthermore, support surface for articles positioned for carriage approximately along the common extension line of the support surfaces of the first and the second conveying members 1 and 2 is formed out of the transfer members T and 6. Reciprocating motion generators 14 to 19 capable of generating alternate vertical motions having a high frequency and a small amplitude, or non-linear reciprocating motions having an approximately horizontal amplitude remarkably smaller than the amplitude than the linear motions, are installed, and the articles are transferred from the first conveying member 2 to the second conveying member 1 or vice versa in a condition almost free from friction.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO