Patent ID: 7637366

Claim:
A system for conveying objects on a conveyor along a first path and in a first direction, comprising: a plurality of articulatable diverting members moving along a second path in a second direction, the second path being above the first path, the second direction being nonparallel and nonperpendicular to the first direction, said diverting members being articulatable between a first non-diverting position above the first path and a second diverting position; an actuator for changing said diverting member from one of the first position or the second position to the other of the first position or the second position; wherein the included angle between the first path and the second path is more than about 20 degrees and less than about 70 degrees, the first path moves at a first speed, the second path moves at a second speed, and the second speed is less than the first speed divided by the cosine of the included angle.