| 摘要 |
An article conveying system is provided herein, which is of the type having a conveying surface in a conveying system having a longitudinally-moving conveying surface which is defined by the uppermost ones of a plurality of elongated support members which are connected in spaced relation with each other in an endless web, a plurality of diverter, shoes each movably mounted on one of said support members for lateral movement with respect to said conveying surface, and actuating means engaging said diverter shoes for imparting a lateral force to move said diverter shoes laterally to displaces articles positioned on said conveying surface. In this invention, the actuating means include means for independently selectively moving at least one of the diverter shoes laterally while maintaining lengthwise alignment of all selected shoes in order to displace articles of varying lengths supported on the conveying surface transversely without rotation of said diverted article. Control means is provided for selecting particular diverter shoes to divert a particular article. This control means includes means for measuring relative position between shoes and articles, and for determining which diverter shoe or diverter shoes should be, assigned to an article by the relative position between the shoe or the shoes and that article.
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