EP3532409A1 - Accumulating conveyor - Google Patents
Accumulating conveyorInfo
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- EP3532409A1 EP3532409A1 EP17794295.0A EP17794295A EP3532409A1 EP 3532409 A1 EP3532409 A1 EP 3532409A1 EP 17794295 A EP17794295 A EP 17794295A EP 3532409 A1 EP3532409 A1 EP 3532409A1
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- Prior art keywords
- stop element
- pallet
- stop
- conveyor according
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
- B65G17/00—Conveyors having an endless traction element, e.g. a chain, transmitting movement to a continuous or substantially-continuous load-carrying surface or to a series of individual load-carriers; Endless-chain conveyors in which the chains form the load-carrying surface
- B65G17/002—Conveyors having an endless traction element, e.g. a chain, transmitting movement to a continuous or substantially-continuous load-carrying surface or to a series of individual load-carriers; Endless-chain conveyors in which the chains form the load-carrying surface comprising load carriers resting on the traction element
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
- B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
- B60L13/00—Electric propulsion for monorail vehicles, suspension vehicles or rack railways; Magnetic suspension or levitation for vehicles
- B60L13/03—Electric propulsion by linear motors
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
- B65G35/00—Mechanical conveyors not otherwise provided for
- B65G35/06—Mechanical conveyors not otherwise provided for comprising a load-carrier moving along a path, e.g. a closed path, and adapted to be engaged by any one of a series of traction elements spaced along the path
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
- B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
- B65G47/22—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors
- B65G47/26—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles
- B65G47/28—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles during transit by a single conveyor
- B65G47/29—Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles during transit by a single conveyor by temporarily stopping movement
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
- B65G47/00—Article or material-handling devices associated with conveyors; Methods employing such devices
- B65G47/74—Feeding, transfer, or discharging devices of particular kinds or types
- B65G47/88—Separating or stopping elements, e.g. fingers
Definitions
- the invention relates to an accumulation conveyor according to the preamble of claim 1.
- Such accumulation conveyors have long been known, for example from DE 10 2014 106 956 A1.
- patched workpieces are transported from one place to another on the surrounding pallets - also called workpiece carriers.
- the workpieces are, for example, assembly parts for motor vehicle production, which are transported by means of the pallets to an assembly line. Arrived at the assembly line, the workpieces are e.g. taken from a robot and processed by production machines.
- accumulation conveyors are provided in a variety of places and for a variety of uses.
- the tension elements are usually designed as an endless transport chain or transport chains, which rotate in the said known accumulation conveyor in the two side sections.
- sprockets are provided, which are arranged in the two turnarounds, wherein at least one of the sprockets is driven directly or indirectly by a motor.
- a toothed wheel coupled to a hysteresis coupling or viscous coupling is present on each side of a pallet (seen in the transport transverse direction).
- the two gears engage in the respective transport chain in the corresponding side section.
- the gear wheel does not rotate when the pallet is transported unhindered, but acts like a rigid pin that takes the pallet with it.
- the pallet is driven by means of said gears.
- the transport chains in this known device are each formed in two rows or slaughter lot, these two rows are each rigidly coupled together. Both transport chains are each driven by a sprocket, but this sprocket engages only in a chain, so that a chain strand remains free. In this chain strand then runs off the respective gear of the pallet, so that they are constantly in engagement with this transport chain row.
- the known pallet also has on its underside in all four corners in each case a roller or an impeller, said rollers running in or on rails along the two runs, which forcibly guide the rollers and thus secure the pallet.
- a pawl is mounted centrally below each pallet, which forms a forming or frictional engagement in each return section with a centrally arranged in the respective turnaround, circulating chain, whereby a safe ride of the pallet is ensured in this turnaround section.
- each gear wheel of a pallet is coupled with a hysteresis coupling or viscous coupling.
- the invention provides that the at least one stop element when moving from the locking position to the release position on a curved or curved path is at least partially guided around the stop element around and releases the stop element and thus the range for further promotion.
- the embodiment according to the invention offers, for example, the advantage that the at least one stop element does not have to be pivoted from below into the travel path of the stop element.
- the stop element has to cover a relatively long path, so as not to be pushed away by the lever or the torque of the further in the transport direction of the force acting stop element unintentionally forward and down.
- relatively short paths of the at least one stop element namely a short lateral movement away around the stop element, are sufficient.
- the at least one stop element is driven in rotation about a rotation axis by means of a motor.
- the at least one stop element then moves around at least one circular path section or on an entire circle around the at least one stop element, at least so that a block and a release of the pallet are possible.
- small dimensions of the stop element and / or the stop element and short paths of the stop element suffice to block or release the corresponding pallet.
- the at least one stop element is guided circumferentially on an elliptical path, since in this case no reversible motors have to be used.
- the at least one stop element is circumferentially guided on a circular path around the said axis of rotation.
- Such a construction is easy to implement and offers the advantage of a fixed axis of rotation about which the at least one stop element is guided.
- the stop element after a release of the stop element, the stop element, while maintaining the same direction of rotation again drive to the locked position, so perform a 360 ° circulation. A reversal of the direction of rotation of the stopper is not required - in contrast to the pivoting mechanism according to the prior art.
- the rotation axis is inclined relative to a horizontal plane. If the angle of inclination lies between 0 ° and 90 °, for example in the range of 30 ° to 75 °, the area enclosed by the circular path (defined by the circular path surrounded by the tip of the stop element) is likewise inclined.
- a particularly preferred embodiment provides that the axis of rotation extends in the vertical direction.
- the at least one stop element circulates the at least one stop element on a horizontal circular path (in the manner of a carousel) in order to move from a blocking position to a release position (or vice versa).
- the axis of rotation extends in the horizontal direction, so that the at least one stop element, the at least one stop element on a vertical circular orbit to move from a locked position to a release position (or vice versa).
- the said axis of rotation preferably extends through the at least one stop element when it is stopped by the at least one stop element, that is to say when the pallet is in the blocking position.
- a particularly preferred special case here is when the axis of rotation coincides with a longitudinal axis of the stop element. This ensures that the at least one stop element is guided on a circular path with a constant distance to the longitudinal axis of the stop element around this. With a corresponding geometric, in particular circular cross-section, configuration of the stop element, the at least one stop element slides along the surface of the at least one stop element until it is released for further travel of the pallet. This movement of the stop element along the stop element is gentle, requires little engine power and allows rapid locking and releasing of the stop element and thus the pallet.
- the at least one stop element is preferably in the blocking position at at least two circumferentially spaced locations on the stop element, so that it is securely fixed at these two points in the transport direction of the pallet. If the stopper also has a convex, e.g. cylindrical surface, these two locations are distributed around the stop element around.
- the stop element is in this case so partially surrounded by the at least one stop element to ensure safe storage in this and to avoid transverse movements of the locked pallet.
- the at least one stop device two side by side, in the blocking position transverse to the track arranged, preferably elongated stop elements.
- Each of these two stop elements is in each case at at least one point on the stop element, these two locations are spaced apart.
- the two stop elements in this case form a bottleneck for the stop element, which can not happen in the blocking position of the stop elements. If the at least two stop elements are set in rotation, they orbit the stop element until at first the one stop element and then the other stop element rotate laterally past the stop element (against the transport direction), so that this stop is then released. With a continued rotation, the two stop elements return to the locked position.
- cross the track is here to be understood functionally, that is, the at least two juxtaposed stop elements are transverse to the track when they together stop the stop element and thus the pallet. The at least two juxtaposed stop elements are thus in their locked position in the driveway of the stop element.
- the at least two stop elements are cylindrical and preferably designed as rotatably mounted round bushes which roll when moving from the locking position to the release position on at least one stop element.
- the necessary power to be applied by the engine is extremely low, since only the rolling friction between the two round bushes and the stop element must be overcome.
- the sliding friction with the at least one stop element must be overcome, which is also possible according to the invention, but requires more power for these relative movements.
- the at least one stop element is cylindrical.
- an embodiment of two stop elements designed as round bushes, as described above, which are designed as round bushings and roll on the cylindrical surface of the stop element offers itself.
- the at least one stop element is designed as a round bush, which is thus designed to rotate about its longitudinal axis - with the same Abroll bin.
- the at least one stop element is plate-shaped, which in the blocking position envelops the stop element in plan view in sections.
- a stop element may be formed, for example, from three mutually perpendicular walls, which, when rotated by 180 ° from a locked position to a release position (and vice versa) for the stop element.
- the at least one stop element is arranged on a platform, wherein it protrudes from this, for example, upwards.
- the platform is rotationally driven by a motor.
- the platform is, for example, fitted in a circular disk or formed as a circular disk, which is set in rotation by means of a drive belt driven by the motor.
- the at least one stop element is preferably formed projecting from the underside of the pallet, preferably at an angle of 90 °. Particularly preferably, on the one hand, the at least one stop element projects vertically downwards when the pallet is locked and the at least one stop element projects pelement vertically upwards. Both elements can in this case abut each other with locked pallet over a correspondingly large height selected and thus provide a force distribution over this level.
- the at least one stop element is connected to the underside of the pallet and extends parallel to it, ie in the horizontal direction.
- the stop element may be attached for example via a spacer on the underside of the pallet.
- the at least one stop element is also aligned in such a configuration of the stop element in the horizontal direction and protrudes into the interior of the accumulation conveyor between upper and lower run.
- the at least one stop element then preferably circles the stop element on a vertical circular path in order to release it or to lock it.
- two stop devices are provided, which are spaced apart in the transport transverse direction, are arranged opposite one another and are mirror images of one another.
- These two stop devices are preferably of substantially the same design, one stopping device each one arranged on the underside of the pallet stop element and the other stopper another stop element, which is spaced from the first stop element in transport transverse direction on the underside of said pallet blocks or releases ,
- the pallet can continue their journey only with simultaneous release by both locking devices, the locking devices are preferably controlled simultaneously and in the same way by a central electronic control.
- the motor for driving the at least one stop element may be an electric motor, a pneumatic motor or a hydraulic motor. Depending on the working conditions and customer requirements, this can be the suitable engine to get voted. In particular, it has been found that a 24 volt electric motor is sufficient to move stop elements between lock and release position and most effectively lock the respective pallet.
- the entire processes to be coordinated such as the detection of the pallet position and the consequent engine control of the at least one locking device for locking and releasing the pallets, is preferably realized by basically known devices.
- corresponding sensors e.g. Photoelectric sensors, provided for detecting the pallet position, wherein the measured values are preferably evaluated in a central machine control for the accumulation conveyor and converted into corresponding motor control signals.
- the quick return transfer of the at least one moving in the release position Stoppelements in the locked position is caused by appropriate control of the respective motor means of the central machine control, so that this locking position is reached before a subsequent pallet can pass the stop element.
- Alternative measuring and control concepts are easily possible and easy to realize for the expert.
- FIG. 1 perspective partial view of a accumulation conveyor with a turnaround section
- Fig. 2 is a perspective bottom view of a pallet
- FIG. 3 shows a perspective top view of a first embodiment of the invention with two stop devices with a pallet indicated above in the blocking position;
- Fig. 4 is a plan view of a stop device according to Figures 2 and 3 in the locked position (bottom plate of the pallet not shown).
- Fig. 5 is a plan view of the stopper of Fig. 4 in the release position
- FIG. 6a, b, c, d different in plan view and shown schematically
- Embodiments of locking elements in the locked position (and dashed in a release position);
- FIG. 7 is a sectional partial front view of a second embodiment with horizontally extending stop element and horizontally extending stop elements in the locked position, and
- Fig. 8 shows the same view of the stop device of Fig. 7 in the release position.
- FIG. 1 shows a perspective view from above of a section of an accumulation conveyor 1 with an upper strand 2 and a lower strand 3, which together form an upper conveying path 4 and a lower conveying path 5 for successively running pallets 20.
- the upper run 2 and the lower run 3 are connected at their two end faces (only one is shown) via in each case substantially semicircular reversing sections 6.
- In the upper strand 2 run two mutually parallel and horizontally spaced rails 14, and run in the lower run 3 two mutually parallel and horizontally spaced rails 15.
- a running rail 14 of the upper run 2 is arranged above a running rail 15 of the lower run 3 wherein such a pair of rails 14, 15 is connected by means of struts of a frame 13.
- a running rail 14 of the upper run 2 is connected to a running rail 15 of the lower run 3 connected by a respective arranged in the turnaround 6 gate 18.
- the accumulation conveyor 1 thus has two side sections 17 in which the lateral sections are each guided a pallet 20 and thus an endless circulation of the pallets 20 is realized. It should also be noted that on the side facing away from the motor 8 of the reversing section 6, a cover 12 is mounted in front of the deflection element 7.
- deflecting elements 7 in the form of sprockets which are fastened on a common shaft 10 which defines an axis of rotation 16, are additionally arranged in each side section 17.
- the shaft 10 is driven by a motor 8 and an intermediate gear 1 1.
- Endless tension elements 9 in the form of presently three-row endless chains thus run in each side section 17 and take with them pallets 20, which circulate endlessly in the accumulation conveyor 1.
- the pallets 20 have gearwheels 25 which are mounted on side cheeks 24 in the region of the two transverse sides of each pallet 20.
- the gears 25 are each coupled to a hysteresis clutch 26, which are provided on the side facing away from the gears 25 of each side cheek 24.
- hysteresis clutches are described in more detail in WO 2004/000698 A1. If no extraordinary force is exerted on the gears 25, the gears do not rotate in the tension elements 9, but act as in the tension elements engaging rigid pawls and thus provide the propulsion of the pallet 20. Occurs an obstacle, such as a resting pallet 20 or a stopper, the gears 25 start to rotate, so that the pallet 20 is not moved while the gears 25 rotate in place.
- other conventional couplings such as friction clutches, may be used instead of hysteresis clutches 26.
- a first positive locking element 30 is provided for deflecting the pallets 20 in the turnaround sections 6 in the middle on the underside 22 of each pallet 20, which is connected to a second positive locking element 35 provided in both reversing sections 6 acts.
- the first form-fitting element 30 comprises a rigid component 31, which is elongated and extends in the transport direction of the pallet 20.
- the rigid component 31 has a toothed segment 32 with in the present case nine teeth, which form a concave envelope with a constant radius.
- the second positive-locking element 35 comprises a toothed wheel 36, which is arranged on the shaft 10 centrally between the two deflection elements 7 and is driven in synchronism therewith.
- a chain 37 is stretched, which preferably has little or no play.
- each pallet 20 On the underside 22 of each pallet 20, two spaced apart in the transverse direction of transport QR and arranged on both sides of the first positive-locking element 30 stop elements 40 are provided.
- the cylindrical stop elements 40 which are preferably made of a metal, are perpendicular from the bottom 22 of the pallet 20 down from (on the upper strand 2 running pallet 20). Furthermore, the abutment elements 40 are each centered in likewise cylindrical metallic base bodies 41 (see Fig. 3), which lie directly against the underside 22 of the pallet 20. In this case, each stop element 40 with a screw 42 or other fastening means with the bottom plate 21 of the pallet 20 can be firmly connected.
- stop elements 40 During their forward movement, the stop elements 40 abut against one or more stop elements 51 of a stop device 50 according to the invention, which will be explained in more detail below.
- the stoppers 50 By means of the stoppers 50, the pallet 20 is stopped, in which case the two gears 25 of the stationary pallet 20 start to rotate at continuing running tension elements 9.
- an upper plate 39 of a cross-sectionally substantially C-shaped transverse strut 38 is made of a sheet metal edging construction which extends between the two side sections 17 and between upper strand 2 and lower strand 3, two spaced in the transverse direction of transport QR stoppers 50 attached.
- Each stopper 50 comprises a motor 52 designed as an electric motor, which drives an endless drive belt 53.
- Each of these two drive belts 53 is in turn stretched around a driven pulley 54 in order to rotate them by means of a shaft (not shown) about a fixed, vertically oriented rotation axis 55.
- each of the two motors 52 is connected to a central machine control (not shown), which controls the two motors and thus to bring the stop members 51 into a locking or a release position for locking or releasing the stop member 40.
- a platform 56 is arranged, on each of which two spaced-apart stop elements 51 are attached and project vertically.
- the stop elements 51 are formed as cylindrical round bushes, so are rotatably mounted about their respective longitudinal axis.
- FIG. 4-FIGS. 4 and 5 each show only one stop device 50 in plan view without the bottom plate 21 and the base body 41-the two stop elements 51 are in the blocking position. They are arranged side by side at the same height, ie both are aligned in the transverse direction of transport QR each other. The distance between the two stop members 51 is less than the diameter of the stopper member 40, so that the stopper member 40 and thus the entire pallet 20 are stopped by the stopper members 51 in this locking position.
- the rotational axis 55 of the output disk 54 coincides with the longitudinal axis of the stop element 40 in the blocking position shown in FIG.
- the stop element 40 is thus encircled by the stop elements 51, without being displaced by the stop elements 51 in a transverse direction.
- the respective two stop elements 51 rotate together with the driven pulley 54, wherein they move about the rotation axis 55.
- the two stop elements 51 roll on the cylindrical outer surface of the stop element 40 and pass through a curved path formed as a circular path.
- the stop elements 51 move from the blocking position shown in FIG. 4 into a release position shown in FIG. 5.
- a first release position is already reached when both stop elements 51 have passed the stop element 40 against the transport direction TR.
- the motors 52 of both stoppers 50 must be operated in a similar manner (in synchronism or in reverse) to transfer the stop members 51 of both stoppers 50 from the lock position to the release position.
- each stop device 50 can be moved precisely into its respective blocking position by means of the associated motor 52 on the basis of signals from an inductive sensor 58 in each case.
- the inductive sensors 58 are arranged on the lower side of the upper plate 39 of the transverse strut 38 and register a respective sensor strip (not shown) for each of them.
- each of the two sensor tracks is likewise arranged on the underside of the upper plate 39 at the same height as the respective associated inductive sensor 58 and coupled to the respectively associated platform 56 via the above-mentioned shaft, through which the axis of rotation 55 extends, so that both platform 56 and associated sensor flag rotate about this axis of rotation 55.
- Each sensor tab is oriented to face the associated inductive sensor 58 just when the stopper 50 is in the locked position.
- the central machine controller issues a stop command to the respective motor 52.
- FIGS. 2-5 and in particular the configuration of mutually aligned or coincident rotation axis 55 and longitudinal axis of stop element 40 (when in the locked position or in the release position, but not continued) only require extremely low power consumption that it is sufficient if the motors 52 are designed as 24V electric motors.
- stop elements 51 are shown schematically and in plan view in FIGS. 6a-6d, wherein the stop elements 51 are shown in their respective blocking position in solid lines and in the release position in dashed lines.
- the embodiment according to FIG. 6a corresponds to that of FIGS. 3-5:
- the two cylindrical stop elements 51 are arranged at a distance from one another and block the stop element 40 (and thus the pallet 20) from continuing in the transport direction TR.
- the stop element 40 is released.
- the stop elements 51 roll on the cylindrical surface of the respective stop element 40.
- a further rotation in the same direction of rotation or in the opposite direction brings the stop members 51 back into a locked position.
- the embodiment according to FIG. 6b has only one stop element 51a, which is designed as a hollow cylinder section and abuts in the blocking position with two edges at different points S1, S2 along the circumference of the stop element 40. To achieve this, the inner radius of the HohlzylinderteilIESs is smaller than the radius of the stop member 40. Dashed lines again shown in a release position about the rotation axis 55 is rotated stop member 51 a.
- FIG. 6c shows a further embodiment of a stop element 50b, which in turn is designed as a hollow cylinder section, although in this case the inner radius of this hollow cylinder section corresponds to the radius of the stop element 40, which in turn is cylindrical. Therefore, the hollow cylinder section bears against the stopper element 40 with its entire inner convex surface on the outside. Upon rotation about the axis of rotation 55, the stop member 50b can be brought into the dashed release position - and also back to the locked position.
- Fig. 6d shows a top view of a stop element 51 c with three mutually perpendicular walls 59, the one kind form a cage open on one side for a stop element 40.
- the stop element 51 c comes into the release position and can then be rotated back into the locked position.
- FIG. 7 and 8 respectively show sectional partial front views of a second embodiment with horizontally extending or aligned stop element 40 and two horizontally extending or aligned stop elements 51 in the locked position or in the release position.
- the stop element 40 is in this case connected to the pallet 20 by means of a spacer 42, which is fastened to the underside 22 of the pallet 20 and protrudes downward from the latter, by means of an only indicated screw 42.
- fastening elements 57a a cross-sectionally C-shaped, the two rails 14, 15 bridging support member 57 is provided, on which the stopper 50 is fixed to the rotatable platform 56 and the two stop elements 51 thereon, in the path of the stop element 40 at Ride the pallet 20 are arranged.
- the platform 56 is rotatably supported in a bearing block 56a which is fixed to the support piece.
- the stop device 50 according to FIGS. 7 and 8 is in principle designed according to the first embodiment of FIGS. 2-5, except that now the two stop elements 51 are aligned or extend in a horizontal direction.
- the two stop members 51 are in their locked position, i. in front of the stop element 40, while they are in the release position according to FIG. 8 after circulating a circular path of 180 ° (see the direction of rotation indicated by the double arrow f1 in FIG ) can continue.
- FIGS. 7 and 8 only in the region of a transverse side of a pallet 20, a stop element 40 and an opposite stop device 50 fixedly mounted on the rails 14, 15 are provided. It is possible that in the region of the other transverse side of the pallet 20, a corresponding stop element 40 and a corresponding stop device 50 fastened fixedly to the opposite rails 14, 15 are also provided. Not shown in all figures advantageously provided sensors for determining the positions of the pallets 20 along their travel in the accumulation conveyor. 1 The sensors may provide signals to a central machine controller, which then activates the motors 52 to transfer the stoppers 51 from one or more stoppers 50 either from a locked to a released position or vice versa. It is of course possible that several stopping devices 50 are provided along the guideway to prevent pallets at different locations on the onward journey.
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