Patent ID: 7607530

Claim:
A conveyor for transferring and storing a number of works comprising a conveyor track, conveyor driving mechanism, a series of work supports adapted to move in a transfer path on said conveyor track, each support having a length shorter than the length of the works, and a collision-preventing mechanism which prevents collision between the work on the leading work support of said series and the work on a trailing work support of said series, characterized in that said collision-preventing mechanism includes a sensing roller, displaceable between an elevated contact position in said transfer path, where it is adapted to contact the work support of the leading work of said series on said conveyor track, and a deflected position into which the roller is deflected by said contact with the leading work support, a sensing lever rotatably mounting said sensing roller at one end and operable to displace the roller between said contact and deflected positions, a string of at least two connecting rods connected by at least one intermediate connecting lever, said string having one end connected to the other end of said sensing lever, and a stopper lever connected to the other end of said string of connecting rods and operable upon deflection of said roller to be displaced into the transfer path of said trailing work support of the series to limit travel of said trailing work support to maintain at least a predetermined conveying interval between said leading and trailing works.