| 摘要 |
Apparatus for transferring trays, which contain prepared material such as food, and progress along a conveyor at a horizontal level to a transfer station, from that transfer station to a multi-level tray compartment of a transport van. The apparatus includes a multi-level tray magazine located adjacent intermediate the transfer station and transport van loading location and is shiftable vertically in steps equal in distance to the vertical distance between tray levels. A single horizontal reciprocating tranfer pusher shifts individual trays from the transfer station into the magazine as it vertically shifts in steps. Two laterally reciprocating loader units, one vertically above the other and on upper and lower side of the tray transfer pusher can engage and slide a plural number of trays from the magazine into the loader. The levels of magazine tray racks is one more than the plural number of trays which can be engaged and slid from the magazine by each of the loader units. The loader units can laterally reciprocate a selectively variable distance to accommodate shifting the trays a greater distance into the tray levels in a transport van.
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