Cleanable diverter

摘要

A cleanable shoe-type diverter belt having narrow translatable pushers forming article-diverting shoes. Cam followers on the shoes below the pushers follow guides under the belt along an upper carryway run to translate the shoes along one or more transverse tracks across the width of the belt. Monolithic diverters support the belt on the carryway run and direct the shoes along different paths. Pusher returns in a lower returnway run guide diverted pushers back to a home position.

主权项

1. A conveyor belt comprising:
a top surface and an opposite bottom surface; a first side and an opposite second side separated by the width of the conveyor belt; a first region extending inward from the first side toward the second side; a second region extending inward from the second side to the first region; a plurality of first tracks having first slots extending across the width of the conveyor belt in the first region from a first slot end nearer the first side to a second slot end in the first region; a plurality of second tracks having second slots extending across the width of the conveyor belt in the second region from a first slot end nearer the second side to a second slot end in the second region; a plurality of pushers arranged to move along the first and second tracks in the first and second slots.