Patent ID: 7086521

Claim:
A conveyor system comprising: A) a continuous conveyor having an upper surface; and B) an adjustable lane guide system mounted above the contiuous conveyor said adjustable lane guide system comprising: i) first and second generally parallel and spaced apart support bars; ii) a plurality of lane guides generally perpendicular to the support bars; and iii) a plurality of adjustable attachment mechanisms joining the lane guides to the first and second support bars; each of the adjustable attachment mechanisms comprising: a) a bearing block that engages the support bars via a bearing block aperture therein; c) a pair of opposing wings on either side of the bearing block engaging the support bars by virtue of wing apertures therein and each having first and second ends, the first ends hingeably attached to the bearing block and the second ends flared by a spring located between the pair of opposed wings so that the wing apertures frictionally engage the support bars in the flared position and such that opposing pressure applied to each of the second ends causes the wings to be drawn toward each other against the pressure of the spring thereby causing alignment of the wing apertures with the support bars and allowing the adjustment mechanisms to move laterally along the support bar so that the distance between adjacent lane guides can be changed along the first and second support bars.