Suspension conveyor system

摘要

PCT No. PCT/EP95/01305 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 1, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 1, 1996 PCT Filed Apr. 10, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/27674 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 19, 1995A suspension conveyor system with a multiplicity of rollers traveling on a rail network. A load attachment device with a hook designed to carry the hook of a clothes hanger is pivotally mounted on each roller in order to permit loading and unloading of the hook. The load attachment device also has an inclined slide ramp thereon opposite the opening of the hook which engages a leading ramp on a rail parallel to the path of conveyance at a loading/unloading station to pivot the load attachment device into a raised position in which the hook of the clothes hanger to drop through an opening between the slide ramp and onto the rail. When the slide ramp contacts one of a row of clothes hanger already deposited on the rail the load attachment device will pivot upward slightly to lift the end of the hook from the rail thereby releasing the hook of the clothes hanger. The load attachment device will pivot slightly downwards after the slide ramp has cleared the last clothes hanger in the row so that the end of the hook will engage the hook of the last clothes hanger in the row. The rail has a longitudinal recess is formed in its trailing edge which allows the hook to drop below the top surface of the rail and capture the hook the clothes hanger in the bottom of the hook of the load attachment device.