CONVEYOR DEVICE FOR DELIVERING PRODUCTS, PARTICULARLY, FRUIT INTO SORTING INSTALLATION Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: food products handling facilities. SUBSTANCE: proposed conveyor device includes conveyor with great number or rollers installed for free rotation of each roller around cross axis of rotation resting on endless chain and directed square to chain. Said rollers are installed so that pair of rollers, following each other, form bed for product. Rollers consist of parallel disks arranged square to axis of rotation. Each roller includes two parallel disks of one diameter arranged at a distance from each other and installed on cross shaft for free rotation around axis of rotation. Two fixed side guides are provided which are arranged symmetrically from both sides of roller disks. Guides are tilted in direction of disks forming of tilting relative to plane passing through axis of rotation of rollers. Each guide is installed to form inner boards passing near neighbor disk and cross shaft of each roller forming bottomless cavity having cross section in form truncated V and depth exceeding radius of disks. EFFECT: improved reliability of device at delivering products into sorting installation. 10 cl, 5 dwg