摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a container spacing adjusting device corresponding to various sizes of containers for accurately adjusting spacing of the containers to be carried on a carrying conveyor. SOLUTION: This device includes a rotation supporting shaft 12 erected on a base 8, a plurality of link arms 5 wherein an upper arm lever 27 and a lower arm lever 28 having almost equal length are pivotally supported at their base ends in a vertically spaced on a bearing ring 26 provided at the upper side of the rotation supporting shaft and a contact piece are pivotally supported between the ends of the upper and lower arm levers, formed in a parallelogram link structure and equally spaced in the radial direction, a shaft cylinder 34 fitted relative to the rotation supporting shaft so as to be slidable in the axial direction, a supporting lever 36 for connecting the bearing portion of the shaft cylinder and the link arms, a link arm support bed 38 provided on the base at the opposite side of a carrying conveyor so that the lower faces at the ends of the link arms have slide contact therewith and an elevation driving means for elevating the rotation supporting shaft. A space between the contact pieces 31 at the ends of the link arms is changed by the elevation of the rotation supporting shaft and the selection of the vertical oscillation positions of the link arms, so that it can be fitted to a space between containers to be carried.
|