TRANSPORTATION AND SORTING PLANT Russian patent published in 2022 - IPC B65G21/20 B65G43/08 B65G47/46 B65G47/94 

FIELD: transportation.

SUBSTANCE: plant for transportation and sorting of, for example, luggage in the airport contains multiple modules of inclined conveyors arranged in a row in the direction of transportation. Each inclined conveyor module rests with possibility of swinging to the left and to the right around the support shaft, parallel to the transportation direction of the transported objects between the horizontal orientation for transportation and the inclined orientation for release of transported objects by means of gravity in direction transverse to direction of transportation of transported objects. Both lateral edges in the left and right swinging direction are provided with lateral guides 25a, which limit the width of the transportation path, when the inclined conveyor modules are in the horizontal orientation, and at least lateral guide 25a on the side into which the conveyor module swings in the inclined orientation, is made with possibility of opening in direction of swinging to orientation at inclination with respect to structure 23 of inclined conveyor module and is held in orientation while standing by means of orientation retention 51, while some certain load or more is applied in the said side guide 25a in the opening direction.

EFFECT: higher reliability.

8 cl, 15 dwg