Device for moving products

Abstract

Device for moving products from a loading station to an unloading station. Carriers on which containers for the products are arranged move along a guide in the direction of transport. The drive is implemented with the aid of a toothed belt and each carrier is provided with a locking pawl that is hingeably fixed thereto and that can come into engagement with the toothed belt. The locking pawl is furthermore provided with a tab on which an operating element, such as a cylinder, firmly fixed to the transport device is able to engage. A second set of teeth constructed as a toothed belt is present and this is arranged in a stationary position. The carrier is provided with a wheel running in this toothed belt. This wheel is provided with a non-return clutch.

1 . Device ( 1 ) for moving products ( 35 ) from a loading station to an unloading station, comprising a multiplicity of carriers ( 2 ) for said containers for said products, as well as a transport device for moving said containers between said loading station and said unloading station and vice versa, which transport device comprises a frame, a drive ( 16 ), circulating therein, for said carriers, guide means ( 9 ,  10 ) for said carriers and engagement means ( 4 ) for bringing said carriers into engagement with said drive, wherein said drive is provided with recesses and said carrier is provided with an engagement member that extends into said recesses, operating means ( 28 ) being present in order to move said engagement member out of the recesses.  
     
     
         2 . Device according to  claim 1 , wherein said operating means are connected to the frame.  
     
     
         3 . Device according to  claim 1 , wherein said engagement member is hingeably fixed to said carrier.  
     
     
         4 . Device according to  claim 1 , wherein said drive comprises a toothed belt above which (in the transport position) said carrier is fitted.  
     
     
         5 . Device according to  claim 1 , wherein said carrier is provided with further operating means ( 24 ) for operating the engagement member of a following carrier in the direction of transport.  
     
     
         6 . Device according to  claim 1 , wherein said carrier is provided with a toothed wheel that can rotate in the direction of transport and locks in a direction opposed thereto, which toothed wheel ( 29 ) meshes with a set of teeth provided on the frame.  
     
     
         7 . Device according to  claim 6 , wherein said set of teeth comprises a stationary toothed belt ( 36 ).  
     
     
         8 . Device according to claims  4  and  7 , wherein the two toothed belts are arranged alongside one another.  
     
     
         9 . Device for moving products from a loading station to an unloading station, comprising a multiplicity of carriers for said containers for said products, as well as a transport device for moving said containers between said loading station and said unloading station and vice versa, which transport device comprises a frame, a drive, circulating therein, for said carriers, guide means for said carriers and engagement means for bringing said carriers into engagement with said drive, wherein said carrier is provided with a toothed wheel that can rotate in the direction of transport and locks in a direction opposed thereto, which toothed wheel meshes with a set of teeth provided on the frame.  
     
     
         10 . Device according to  claim 9 , wherein said operating means are connected to the frame.  
     
     
         11 . Device according to  claim 9 , wherein said engagement member is hingeably fixed to said carrier.  
     
     
         12 . Device according to  claim 9 , wherein said drive comprises a toothed belt above which (in the transport position) said carrier is fitted.  
     
     
         13 . Device according to  claim 9 , wherein said carrier is provided with further operating means for operating the engagement member of a following carrier in the direction of transport.  
     
     
         14 . Device according to  claim 9 , wherein said drive is provided with recesses and said carrier is provided with an engagement member that extends into said recesses, operating means being present in order to move said engagement member out of the recesses.  
     
     
         15 . Device according to  claim 9 , wherein said set of teeth comprises a stationary toothed belt.