US PATENT SUBCLASS 198 / 443
.~ By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream(s) of items

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198 /   HD   CONVEYORS: POWER-DRIVEN

434  DF  CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR ARRANGING OR REARRANGING STREAM(S) OF ITEMS {5}
443.~ By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream(s) of items {4}
444  DF  .~.~> With control means responsive to sensing means
445  DF  .~.~> Forming plural streams {2}
448  DF  .~.~> Merging plural streams (i.e., source) into one stream {3}
453  DF  .~.~> Via throat for restricting flow of massed items {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 198/443

(under subclass 434) Apparatus wherein the purpose of the system is to change a supply of articles into at least one succession of articles.

(1) Note. The term "quantity source of items" has been used to refer to a supply consisting of many articles. Thus it includes a mass of articles having a haphazard or random arrangement, as well as a supply of plural streams of items as in subclass 448 below. The term does not refer to a single stream from which only one article can be taken at a time; for disclosure of such a function, see subclasses 463.1+ below.

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463.1+, and see (1) Note above.