US 12,240,707 B2
Device for transferring items to be conveyed between two conveyor devices and a conveyor system and a transfer method
Markus Bretz, Herrliberg (CH); and Marcel Schneider, Cham (CH)
Assigned to FERAG AG, Hinwil (CH)
Filed by Ferag AG, Hinwil (CH)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/959,393.
Claims priority of application No. 070354/2021 (CH), filed on Oct. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0114128 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 47/64 (2006.01); B65G 57/06 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 47/64 (2013.01) 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A conveyor system containing a feed conveyor, an onward conveyor having a plurality of conveyor spaces that can be displaced along a conveyor track and containing a transfer device for transferring items to be conveyed from the feed conveyor to conveyor spaces of the onward conveyor,
wherein
above the conveyor track of the onward conveyor the transfer device forms a stationary receiving space for at least one item to be conveyed, the receiving space being delimited at a bottom by a movable support element, and the support element being movable by a displacing device between a support position, in which the at least one item to be conveyed can lie flat on the support element, and a delivery position, in which the item to be conveyed can fall down unguided and in free fall by gravity through a released transfer opening downwards onto a conveyor space of the onward conveyor that has been displaced past below the receiving space.