Patent ID: 7278530
Filing Date: 2007-10-09
Classification: B65G

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for singulating products which are substantially round and supplied in bulk, said apparatus comprising: an endless feed conveyor belt on which the products are unloaded and are then supplied in a conveying direction T, an endless singulator conveyor, which follows said feed conveyor belt downstream, and which consists of two sections, V1, V2, with endless belts forming, substantially, a V-channel, the sections being located in substantially two planes, each respective plane being at an angle to a horizontal plane and intersecting along an intersecting line parallel to the conveying direction T, and at least one additional endless belt B wherein the products, during conveying, are singulated and positioned substantially one behind the other in the direction of said intersecting line, and the products, thereupon, being transferred, one by one, from the V-channel to a processing apparatus.