Discharge chute for parcel sorting equipment - has reinforced plastics body with noise absorbent lining ending in opening with flap for vertical discharge

Abstract

Abstract The parcels are fed through a sloping chute to fall through an opening at the bottom into a sack held manually or into a wheeled container on a platform below. The chute is made of glass fibre reinforced plastics, with a noise reducing plastics inner coating. The top part can incorporate a stepped surface inside. The cross section of the duct has sloping portions to improve the travel of the parcels. At the bottom, they strike an impact face, and the shape inside assists their alignment so as to fall vertically through the outlet opening. A flap at the outlet can be operated manually or by an actuator cylinder, and can be released by the action of the mouth of a sack against stop members projecting downwards at the discharge opening.

Inventors

• 👤 Claude Heendrickxen
• 👤 Alain Hannedouche

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