Patent ID: 7604448
Filing Date: 2009-10-20
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for transport and controlled discharge of a load, comprising: a frame with a guide for a series of displaceable transport containers, a drive means for carrying the transport containers in an endless path, and a resetting device for placing a transport container in a starting position and a discharge station for selectively receiving a load of a transport container, wherein the transport containers are provided with an at least partially movable carrying panel for receiving of the load thereon, the carrying panel comprising a tray that is operated selectively between an upwardly facing transporting position and a downwardly depending discharge position, wherein the guide includes on both sides of the transport containers a support surface on which free-running castor wheels of the transport containers are upwardly supported, and wherein on at least one of the sides of the transport containers the support surface comprises an upwardly protruding convexity in a direction transversely of a transport direction of the transport containers for receiving thereon a running surface of at least one of the wheels of the transport containers.