Conveyance facility

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10464752-B2
Application number	US-201916268883-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 6, 2019
Priority date	Feb 9, 2018
Publication date	Nov 5, 2019
Grant date	Nov 5, 2019

Abstract

A conveyance facility for conveying a bag includes a carrier including a support supporting the bag, and traveling wheels. A conveyance path includes a straight section and a curve section. In the curve section, a pulley rotatable along the curve section and in frictional contact with the support; and a guide rail guiding the traveling wheels are provided. The guide rail includes a rotation guide rail guiding one traveling wheel of a pair of the traveling wheels, and rotating with the pulley; a fixed guide rail guiding another traveling wheel of the pair of traveling wheels, and being provided along the rotation guide rail; and an upper guide rail and a side guide rail guiding the support.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A conveyance facility for conveying an article along a conveyance path, comprising:
a conveyance unit comprising a pair of traveling bodies traveling on the conveyance path, and a support traveling with the pair of traveling bodies and supporting the article being suspended, the conveyance unit conveying the article along the conveyance path,
wherein the conveyance path includes a straight section, and a curve section extended from the straight section,
wherein the curve section comprises:
a rotating body rotatable along the curve section and in frictional contact with the support;
a traveling-body guide rail guiding the pair of traveling bodies so as to be travelable along the curve section; and
a support guide rail guiding the support along the curve section, and

wherein the traveling-body guide rail comprises:
a rotation guide rail guiding one traveling body of the pair of traveling bodies, and rotating with the rotating body; and
a fixed guide rail guiding another traveling body of the pair of traveling bodies, and being provided along the rotation guide rail.

2. The conveyance facility according to claim 1 , wherein the support guide rail comprises:
an upper guide rail guiding a head portion of the support; and
a side guide rail guiding a body portion of the support.

3. The conveyance facility according to claim 1 , wherein
the rotating body includes a meshing contact portion being meshed with the support.

4. The conveyance facility according to claim 1 , wherein the rotating body includes:
a frictional contact portion coming into frictional contact with the support; and
a meshing contact portion being meshed with the support, and
wherein the meshing contact portion is provided lower than a position where the frictional contact portion is provided in the rotating body.

5. The conveyance facility according to claim 1 , wherein
the conveyance path includes a first conveyance path including the curve section, and a second conveyance path provided independently from the first conveyance path and including the curve section;
wherein the conveyance facility comprises a switching device capable of switching the conveyance path of the conveyance unit traveling on the curve section of the first conveyance path, to the curve section of the second conveyance path, and capable of switching the conveyance path of the conveyance unit traveling on the curve section of the second conveyance path, to the curve section of the first conveyance path; and
wherein when the switching device switches the conveyance path of the conveyance unit, the switching device switches the guide for the traveling body guided by the rotation guide rail, to the guide by the fixed guide rail, and switches the guide for the traveling body guided by the fixed guide rail, to the guide by the rotation guide rail.

Assignees

• Daifuku Kk

Inventors

• Iwata Masashige
• Ikeuchi Hiromichi

Classifications

• B65G2201/0238

  Bags · CPC title

• B65G47/61

  for articles · CPC title

• B65G19/18

  Details · CPC title

• B65G19/025 Primary

  for suspended articles · CPC title

• B65G9/008

  Rails or switches · CPC title