US PATENT SUBCLASS 198 / 427
.~.~ And distributing items of group into plural streams

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198 /   HD   CONVEYORS: POWER-DRIVEN

418  DF  CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR ESTABLISHING AND MOVING A GROUP OF ITEMS {8}
426  DF  .~ By shifting group of items simultaneously from stream conveyor to form a group {3}
427.~.~ And distributing items of group into plural streams

DEFINITION

Classification: 198/427

(under subclass 426) Apparatus wherein the second conveyor is divided into a plurality of conveyor sections substantially corresponding in number to the number of articles in the transferred group, whereby the articles transferred as a group are subsequently divided so that each article is one of a subsequent succession of articles on the second conveyor, and the number of such successions corresponds to the number of articles in the transferred group.

(1) Note. In the subclass (427), the items from one stream are arrayed in a group before being distributed into plural streams. For a mechanism wherein items from a stream are distributed into plural streams without the intermediate transfer as a group, see subclasses 436+.

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436, and see (1) Note above.