A chip conveyor, which reduces the discharge amount of a cutting liquid by a simple structure, includes a storage tank in which chips and cutting liquid are stored; an endless conveyor main body which connects both end portions of a number of hinge plates in a front-back direction to each other by a hinge and circularly moves through a climbing portion from an inside of the storage tank by a driving mechanism; and a control device which controls driving of the driving mechanism, in which, in the conveyor main body, multiple scraping plates formed in a standing state with respect to the hinge plate are disposed with an interval in an advancing direction, and in which the scraping plates are formed along a width direction of the conveyor main body and have one or more through portions through which the cutting liquid passes within the width interval thereof.

A container feeding system for transporting a container along a transport path from a container source to a container receiver. The container feeding system includes a carrier for receiving and transporting the container, a pulling element connected to the carrier in such a way that the carrier can be moved along the transport path, a guide arranged along the transport path for guiding the carrier along the transport path. The carrier is arranged at the guide in such a way that the carrier can be moved by the pulling element in a sliding manner along a first surface of the guide.

A wheel roller for a chain conveyor of an automated carwash has a more robust configuration due to a direction connection of the wheels to the carrier link. The wheel roller contains a carrier link forging having a main body with a carrier link formed as an unitary component, pins secured to the main body in a fixed, non-pivotable manner, and wheels attached to the pins.

A container feed system for the transport of containers along a transport path includes a pulling element, first carriers, second carriers, the first and second carriers arranged distributed at fastening points of the pulling element such that the containers are received and transported along the transport path by the first and second carriers during movement of the pulling element. The fastening points for first and second carriers of the first carriers are arranged side by side on the pulling element and have a first fastening distance and the fastening points of a third carrier of the first carriers is arranged next to a first carrier of the second carriers on the pulling element and have a second fastening distance. The second carriers have a shape that is different the first carriers such that a transport distance between the containers guided side by side along the transport path is constant.

The present application discloses a robotic modular stack mover system, and a method and a computer system for controlling the robotic modular pusher system. The robotic modular stack mover system includes a first stack mover system configured to cause a vehicle to traverse a first path and a second stack mover system configured to cause the vehicle to traverse a second path. The first stack mover system moves the vehicle along the first path from a source location to a first end location. The vehicle is retrieved from the first end location and the second mover system moves the vehicle along the second path to a destination location.

A transport system and device and a running rail are provided. The transport system comprises a running rail having a running rail section and the movable transport device. A first running surface of the running rail section comprises a substantially rounded surface and includes a guide center. The guide center substantially forms a geometric circle center, the circular surface of which in each case approximately encloses the rounded surface of the first running surface. A first roller of the transport device rotatably abuts on the first running surface. The first roller is rotatably mounted on a movable element of the transport device. The first roller is configured to carry out a pivoting movement along the rounded surface of the first running surface. A rotational axis of the movable element and the guide center are arranged at substantially the same height.

A container feeding system for transporting a container along a transport path from a container source to a container receiver. The container feeding system includes a carrier for receiving and transporting the container, a pulling element connected to the carrier in such a way that the carrier can be moved along the transport path, a guide arranged along the transport path for guiding the carrier along the transport path. The carrier is arranged at the guide in such a way that the carrier can be moved by the pulling element in a sliding manner along a first surface of the guide.

A conveyor system for transporting items from a receiving section to an outlet section includes a plurality of assemblies for carrying and transporting the items and a driving system. The driving system is configured to move the plurality of support assemblies from the receiving section to the outlet section. The driving system includes an endless chain of concatenated riving rods that are mutually hingedly connected, and an actuator for moving the endless chain of driving rods. Each support assembly is connected to a respective rod to be moved thereby in the transport direction. The actuator has a frame with two wheels that engage with the endless chain of concatenated rods. One of the wheels is a driving wheel driven by a motor. The actuator with the frame and wheels is mounted to the conveyor system such that it is movable substantially transversely to the transport direction.