Patent ID: 11952220
Assignee: LAITRAM, L.L.C.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 9:
10. A conveyor system as claimed in claim 9 comprising first actuators first actuators operable to selectably change the orientations of each of the first arrays of freely rotatable rollers and second actuators operable to selectably change the orientations of each of the second arrays of freely rotatable rollers wherein each of the first and second arrays of freely rotatable rollers comprises:
roller cartridges arranged in rows and columns, each roller cartridge supporting one of the freely rotatable rollers and having a cartridge gear;
actuator gears engaged with the cartridge gears and actuated by one of the first actuators or one of the second actuators to rotate the roller cartridges and change the orientations of the freely rotatable rollers.