Patent ID: 8733538

Claim:
A closed loop mult-flex chain link vacuum conveyor, compromising: (a) a conveying frame, said conveying frame including a pair of side walls being connected in an opposite spaced relationship by a top wall, said side walls and said top wall being a central vacuum plenum, said top wall further including of clear openings so that said top wall is capable of evacuated communication with said central vacuum plenum, and whereby said wall further defines a vacuum track conveying path, said conveying path having a running direction, said running direction including entry segment, an exit segment, and a laterally offset closed loop segment disposed therebetween; (b) a link chain drive assembly including a drive motor in driven communication with a drive and a tail pulley assemblies; (c) a multi-flex link chain conveyor being driven said drive assembly, said conveyor capable of running on an incline, a decline, and a side flexing, said conveyor further including a flat top-surface portion having a through void for evacuated communication of said top-surface portion with said top wall and said vacuum plenum while said conveyor is running in trained contact with said top wall so that an article to be conveyed thereon is capable of conveyance in an upright inverted position while running through said closed loop segment; and (d) a suction generator in ducted communication with said central vacuum plenum.