Patent ID: 6135263
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
Apparatus for organizing similar elongate meat products from a random and scrambled accumulation thereof comprising; a storage conveyor including storage means and conveyor means collecting and conveying elongate meat products to a distant location; a flighted incline conveyor continuously receiving elongate products from the storage conveyor and moving them upwardly to a remote location; a channelizing conveyor receiving elongate products from the flighted incline conveyor and aligning the elongate products in a substantially parallel and end-to-end relationship; a canted flighted conveyor having a plurality of elongate product receiving receptacles receiving elongate products from the channelizing conveyor continuously and moving the received and aligned elongate products to a remote location for subsequent treatment, the canted flighted conveyor having a downward incline with respect to the channelizing conveyor so that elongate products will move off of the canted flighted conveyor back to the storage conveyor when the receptacles are filled with elongate products.