| 摘要 |
A conveyor system (100) includes a conveyor belt (102) having belt rollers (118) configured to divert articles on the belt (102) and a drive mechanism that engages the belt rollers (118). The drive mechanism is configured to drive the belt rollers (118) and is adjustable to selectively drive the belt rollers (118) in a first angular direction and, optionally, a second, opposite angular direction so that articles can be selectively diverted to either side of the belt at a desired angle. One version of the drive mechanism has drive rollers (308) mounted in cartridges (334) and rack gears (342) engaging pinion gears on the cartridges to adjust the orientation of the drive rollers (308) relative to the belt rollers. Such a conveyor system with a series of sequential roller actuation zones (430) driven by separately actuated drive mechanisms is arranged diagonally to an infeed conveyor (418) and a multi-lane outbound conveyor (424) to realize a switch conveyor. |
