摘要 |
A tipping conveyor element for a package conveyor, whose driven conveyor line includes a plurality of conveyor elements flexibly connected to one another. When the conveyor is in an untipped conveying condition, a package is placed on an essentially horizontal carrying surface. By tipping of the carrying surface, the package is delivered, as desired, to one of several delivery stations provided laterally to the conveyor direction along the conveyor track. The conveyor element includes a carrying element having a carrying surface, the carrying element being supported by a support device above a support part which is movable along a guide. The carrying element is mounted to be rotatable around a first swivel axis by means of a first shaft extending obliquely downward from the underside of the carrying element. The first swivel axis lies in a common vertical plane with a plane of symmetry of the carrying element when the carrying element is disposed in the conveying condition. It forms an acute angle with the carrying surface, whereby the first swivel axis, in tipping of the carrying element, is made to rotate in a controlled manner around a second swivel axis that is disposed at an angle with respect to the first swivel axis.
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