Mark T Garvey

US Patent:

41741048, Nov 13, 1979

Filed:

Jul 27, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/819465

Inventors:

Mark C. Garvey - Antioch IL

Assignee:

Garvey Corporation - Blue Anchor NJ

International Classification:

B65H 506

US Classification:

271272

Abstract:

A conveyor for moving successively a plurality of articles, typically cards, in flat horizontal position, longitudinally along a horizontal bed, comprises a plurality of chamfered rollers rotating at uniform speed on vertical axes, disposed in two laterally spaced lines extending along the bed, with the rollers of each line rotating in a direction opposite to that of the rollers of the other line, all the rollers making propelling contact with the edge margins of the cards, and all mounted in modules adapted to be spliced endwise to each other, and all geared together in groups individually driven directly by a single power source.