An apparatus for alignment and straightening of goods on any pallets comprising a baseplate (fig. 1) acting as a housing, a spring 20 at the rear of the baseplate, ramps 19 hinged 25 are located at the front of the baseplate, a running gear (8 fig. 1) and toothed rail (14 fig. 1) located between the ramps 19 and spring 20. A gearwheel and lobe assembly 18 comprising lobe 18a attached to the top of the gearwheel 24, the gearwheel is meshed with the toothed rail where forward and backward motion of the rail rotates the gearwheel. Moving wall frame 21 including a pair of opposed walls (31 fig. 3) and supporting posts (33 fig. 3) that are urged by the lobe assembly 18 to align the articles. The weight of a forklift on the hinged ramps lowers the ramps at the front of the apparatus, moving the running gear assembly to compress the springs at the rear. The movement of the toothed rail turns the meshed gearwheels and lobes, pushing the moving wall frame and misaligned goods into alignment. The weight of the vehicle upon the ramps to urges the walls together and the articles into alignment.


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    Title :

    Apparatus for manipulation and transfer between pallets of packaged goods


    Publication date :

    2020-09-30


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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