| 摘要 |
<p>A product transfer apparatus (34) for transferring individual product from a rotary feeding station to downstream apparatus such as a cartoner conveyor (46) in preselected count stacks (44) for subsequent discharge at a cartoner machine (36). Stacks of product are formed by dropping the product into stacks on a transfer conveyor (38) and from there dropping the stacks (44) directly into buckets (144) of a cartoner conveyor (46). A transfer bucket conveyor (38) is disposed beneath and transverse to an axis of the rotary feeding station (40) and includes an upper fill run (48) and a lower discharge run (50) of product transfer buckets (52). The cartoner conveyor (46) is disposed beneath and aligned with the transfer bucket conveyor (38) and includes a serie of cartoner product buckets (144) operating in speed register with the lower run (50) of product transfer buckets (52) for receiving the preselected count stacks (44) from the lower discharge run (50). The transfer bucket conveyor (38) is capable of intermittent or decreased speed in the upper fill run (48) for accommodating stack building, rejection of the product, varied product sizes, varying counts of the product in the upper fill run (48), a varied bucket pitch, while maintaining a constant speed in the lower discharge run (50) for continuously feeding product stacks (44) to the cartoner product buckets (144).</p> |
