US PATENT SUBCLASS 198 / 453
.~.~ Via throat for restricting flow of massed items

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198 /   HD   CONVEYORS: POWER-DRIVEN

434  DF  CONVEYOR SYSTEM FOR ARRANGING OR REARRANGING STREAM(S) OF ITEMS {5}
443  DF  .~ By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream(s) of items {4}
453.~.~ Via throat for restricting flow of massed items {1}
454  DF  .~.~.~> With supplementary moving surfaces that form throat {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 198/453

(under subclass 443) Apparatus wherein the supply of articles is a random or haphazard arrangement, and the apparatus is provided with a passageway between the supply and the succession of articles to be formed, which passageway permits the passage of only one article at a time, and the apparatus includes means for moving articles successively through the passageway.

(1) Note. The article-moving means may be one of the conveyor sections needed to form a conveyor system, or may be

a conveyor section additional thereto.