SELF-CLEARING TRAY CONVEYOR
    4.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230227264A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-20

    申请号:US18011055

    申请日:2021-06-17

    申请人: Laitram, L.L.C.

    发明人: Bryant G. Ragan

    IPC分类号: B65G35/06 B65G54/02 B65G45/12

    摘要: A magnetic tray for a tray conveyor has a permanent-magnet array producing a magnetic field that interacts with an electromagnetic flux wave produced by a linear-motor stator to propel the tray in a conveying direction. The tray includes a top conveying platform supported on a mover housing the permanent-magnet array and a tray-clearing tool that removes conveyed articles or debris from the platform. The tray-clearing tool is powered by the stator.

    Ice-covered tray conveyor
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11565893B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-31

    申请号:US17266323

    申请日:2019-08-15

    申请人: Laitram, L.L.C.

    发明人: Bryant G. Ragan

    摘要: A tray conveyor comprising ice-coated magnetic trays driven by a linear-motor stator along a rail track. The ice coating is applied to the trays to provide a product-bearing ice surface. After the product is processed and transferred off the tray, the top layer of the contaminated ice coating is removed and the tray with the remaining ice coating reused.

    CONVEYOR SCRUBBING SYSTEM
    6.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230011655A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-12

    申请号:US17779665

    申请日:2020-12-14

    申请人: Laitram, L.L.C.

    发明人: Bryant G. Ragan

    摘要: A conveyor-rail cleaner for cleansing, scrubbing, and rinsing the rails of a cleanable conveyor system. The cleaner includes cleaning units pivotably connected to allow it to negotiate turns in the track. Position-adjustable scrub brushes accommodate transitions between one-rail conveyor segments and two-rail segments at switch segments between separate adjacent conveyor tracks. The conveyor system includes a filling station for filling the cleaning units with cleansing and rinsing agents and recharging batteries powering scrub-brush motors.

    Linear-motor conveyor system
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11198568B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-14

    申请号:US17069375

    申请日:2020-10-13

    申请人: Laitram, L.L.C.

    IPC分类号: B65G54/02 B65G35/06 B65G17/00

    摘要: A tray conveyor in which plastic trays with rows of embedded translators are driven by stators in multiple conveyor sections. Washing stations in cleaning zones in each conveyor section are provided to automatically clean empty trays in the conveyor's return path. Indicia on each tray identify the tray as belonging to a specific family of trays. Each of the conveyor sections conveys only conveyor trays that belong to a predetermined family assigned to that conveyor section.

    Air bearing conveyor
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10773892B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-15

    申请号:US16090836

    申请日:2017-04-06

    申请人: Laitram, L.L.C.

    发明人: Bryant G. Ragan

    摘要: A roller conveyor having a bed of rollers supported by air bearings and driven by a linear-motor stator. The rollers are made of electrically conductive or magnetic material to operate as rotors forming linear motors with the linear stator. Air bearings support the ends of the rollers. Intermediate air bearings support the middle of long rollers in wide conveyors.

    Radius conveyor with magnetic bearing

    公开(公告)号:US09988214B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-05

    申请号:US15512730

    申请日:2015-09-24

    申请人: Laitram, L.L.C.

    发明人: Bryant G. Ragan

    摘要: A radius conveyor comprising a sideflexing conveyor belt and a touchless magnetic bearing at the inside of a turn. The conveyor belt has electrically conductive elements in a side edge. An array of permanent magnets along the conveyor's side rail at the inside of the turn produces a permanent magnetic field. As the conveyor belt is driven through the turn, the permanent magnet field induces currents in the electrically conductive material. The currents produce reaction magnetic fields opposed to the permanent magnetic field that result in a radially outward force pushing the conveyor belt away from frictional contact with the side rail. Alternatively, permanent magnets in the side edge of the belt and electrically conductive elements in the conveyor's side rail likewise provide a magnetic bearing.