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A multi-sectioned conveyor for receiving serial products from a supply conveyor, inspecting and rejecting out-of-tolerance products and adjustably conveying the products so as to establish a predetermined spacing therebetween, before transferring the products from supporting belts to the individual

A multi-sectioned conveyor for receiving serial products from a supply conveyor, inspecting and rejecting out-of-tolerance products and adjustably conveying the products so as to establish a predetermined spacing therebetween, before transferring the products from supporting belts to the individual flights of a pusher member containing conveyor and from which the product flow is synchronized relative to an infeed conveyor to a wrapping station. The feeder comprises a microprocessor controlled, DC driven accumulation, transition and backlog conveyors, along with wrapper driven separation, transfer and infeed conveyors.

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In a conveyor system, apparatus for randomly receiving product from a longitudinally extending supply conveyor in rows and conveying the product to a selected one of a plurality of work stations by way of a plurality of transversely extending branch conveyor means, each branch conveyor means, compri

In a conveyor system, apparatus for randomly receiving product from a longitudinally extending supply conveyor in rows and conveying the product to a selected one of a plurality of work stations by way of a plurality of transversely extending branch conveyor means, each branch conveyor means, comprising: first conveyor means extending transverse to said longitudinally extending supply conveyor for simultaneously receiving a plurality of products from said supply conveyor, a row at a time, and conveying them in a predetermined orientation with respect to one another and with random spacing therebetween; second conveyor means disposed downstream from said first conveyor means and electronically feedback coupled to sense the speed of operation of said selected one of said plurality of work stations for accumulating and partially backlogging said products as they are conveyed along said second conveyor means; and third conveyor means disposed downstream from said second conveyor means and coupled to said selected one of said plurality of work stations for separating each of said products from one another by a predetermined spacing and correctively adjusting said spacing so as to synchronize the position of products spaced on said third conveyor means with a fourth conveyor means of the type having a plurality of spaced-apart pusher members mounted on an endless chain and with adjacent ones of said pusher members defining flights for synchronously receiving said products within said flights and conveying said product to said selected one of said plurality of said work stations.