US6874615B2 - Conveyor chute - Google Patents
One approach that has been used to move articles from a vertical freefall to a cross conveyor is a curved chute such as is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.The curved chute can be effective to both break the fall of the product and suitably direct it to the horizontal conveyor belt, especially when the conditions yield substantially constant coefficients of friction between the products and the chute.