Patent ID: 6907983

Claim:
A conveying device for conveying material or product with a change of direction, the conveying device comprising: a first conveying track; a second differently directed conveying track; a transfer arrangement for transferring the material or product from said first conveying track to said second conveying track, said transfer arrangement comprising a driven pivoting means with a pivoting drive and a driven linear conveyor track with a linear drive for taking over the material or product from said first conveying track and for linear forward movement on said linear conveyor track and for releasing the material or product onto said second conveying track, said linear conveyor track being pivotable between said first and second conveying tracks by means of said driven pivoting means around an essentially vertical axis extending outside a middle of said linear conveyor track; a common control means for actuating said linear drive of said linear conveyor track and said pivoting drive of said pivoting means such that the material or product are transferred and moved continuously in said transfer arrangement, wherein said linear drive of said linear conveyor track and said pivoting drive of said pivoting means are actuated by said control means such that the linear conveying movement of said linear conveyor track is braked or decelerated during the take-over of the material or product from said first conveying track in a certain initial section up to the middle of the pivoting movement and the pivoting movement of said linear conveyor track is at the same time accelerated from the stop, while the linear conveying movement of said linear conveyor track is subsequently accelerated from the middle of the pivoting movement or in a certain end section until the release of the material or product onto said second conveying track and the pivoting movement of said linear conveyor track is decelerated the same time to a stop.