CONVEYOR DEVICE FOR TRANSPORTING AND ROTATING BOX-SHAPED PRODUCTS

Fecha de publicación: 05/01/2023
Fuente: Wipo Milk or dairy products
Described is conveyor system for transporting and rotating products (1a, 1b) comprising a conveyor device (100) having: a first (8) and a second (9) belt closed in a loop, side by side to form a respective surface defined by a respective active transport branch (8a, 9a) movable in a shared advancement direction(A); the first (8) and second (9) belt have an inlet end and an outlet end, at least the first belt (8) having at least a part of the active transport branch (8a) inclined towards the active branch (9a) of the second (9) belt; a fixed vertical abutment plate (12) interposed between the active branches (8a, 9a) for transporting the first (8) and second (9) belt, wherein the inclined active transport branch (8a) of the first belt (8) and the abutment plate (12) are configured and sized in such a way as to allow the products (1b) entering, positioned at the inlet end according to a predetermined ordered orientation, to maintain the predetermined ordered orientation, that is to say, not to rotate, up to the outlet end, whilst the products (1a) which are positioned at the inlet end according to an orientation different from the predetermined ordered orientation rotate whilst advancing and resting both on the inclined active transport branch (8a) of the first belt (8) and on the other active transport branch (9a) of the second belt (9), advancing past the abutment plate (12) until reaching the predetermined ordered orientation.