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A conveyor system for delivering work pieces to a predetermined area comprising a first conveyor, a second conveyor disposed at an angle to the first conveyor, a mechanical brain, and a transfer apparatus (arm) at the juncture of the first and second conveyors. The mechanical brain has a shim, a rot

A conveyor system for delivering work pieces to a predetermined area comprising a first conveyor, a second conveyor disposed at an angle to the first conveyor, a mechanical brain, and a transfer apparatus (arm) at the juncture of the first and second conveyors. The mechanical brain has a shim, a rotating disk and sliding plates on the disc that are temporarily moveable to form a protrusion that rotates with the disc. The disc rotates at a speed that is a function of the speed of the first conveyor and the protrusion activates a device to create a light path transverse to the first conveyor near the first and secured conveyor juncture just prior to a workpiece entering such juncture. The protrusion is returned to its normal state, subsequent to the creation of the light path, by the coaction of the rotating disk and the shim. The workpiece interrupts the light path causing the transfer apparatus (an arm) to divert the workpiece to the second conveyor and upon the reestablishment of the light path, the arm is caused to retract.

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A conveyor system composed of: (a) first and second conveyors, each having a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis of the second conveyor disposed at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the first conveyor; (b) a first arm pivotally attached to the first conveyor movable from a first position to

A conveyor system composed of: (a) first and second conveyors, each having a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis of the second conveyor disposed at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the first conveyor; (b) a first arm pivotally attached to the first conveyor movable from a first position to a second position and from said second position to said first position, said first position being essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the first conveyor and said second position being transverse to the longitudinal axis of the first conveyor so that items conveyed by the first conveyor are shunted onto the second conveyor when the first arm is in said second position; (c) a first photoelectric device in electrical communication with the first arm for creating a first light path across the first conveyor; (d) a mechanical brain, in electrical communicatin with the first photoeletric device, and a control, having a first control on-off switch in communication with the mechanical brain, whereby upon activation of the first control on-off switch, a part of the mechanical brain is temporarily physically deformed to form a protrusion and the protrusion activates the first photoelectric device; and, (e) a first time delay switch and a first conveyor motor, the first time delay switch and the first conveyor motor being in electrical communication with one another and the first conveyor motor connected to the second conveyor to power same, the first time delay switch activatable when the first arm is in its second position and deactivatable after the passage of a predetermined length of time after the first arm is moved to said first position.