Patent ID: 9038812
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: B65B,B65G

Abstract:
1. Egg transfer device comprising: multiple parallel egg chains provided with grippers for engaging eggs and for carrying the eggs along the lower run of the egg chains at a transport speed in a transport direction; a transfer buffer for receiving multiple rows of eggs from a supply conveyor, which transfer buffer is located below the egg chains and comprises movable egg supports for supporting eggs while moving them at a supply speed in a supply direction; and a transfer unit for lifting multiple rows of eggs from the transfer buffer into a transfer location above the transfer buffer and directly below the egg chains for feeding the eggs into the grippers, and which transfer unit is supported by a driven support for moving the transfer unit along an endless transfer trajectory extending in a vertical plane parallel to the supply direction such that the transfer unit can be moved from a start location, via a lift up location for engaging the eggs, into the transfer location and back down into the start location, and wherein the driven support is designed such that in the lift up location the transfer unit moves in the supply direction, preferably with the supply speed, as well as in the upward direction through the transfer buffer for picking up the eggs during transport by the transfer buffer in the supply direction, and the direction of movement of the transfer unit in the transfer location is inverted from an essentially upward direction into an essentially downward direction such that an egg is transferred in to an essentially vertical direction into a gripper.