Horizontal motion conveyors for moving material are disclosed. The horizontal motion conveyor includes multiple drives. The second drive may float relative to the first drive. The conveyor may be made successively longer by including additional floating drives. Each drive may include a motor such as a servomotor that is connected to the driveshaft that drives the horizontal motion of the conveyor. A control system may control the rotation and positioning of the shafts.

Horizontal motion conveyors for moving material are disclosed. The horizontal motion conveyor includes multiple drives. The second drive may float relative to the first drive. The conveyor may be made successively longer by including additional floating drives. Each drive may include a motor such as a servomotor that is connected to the driveshaft that drives the horizontal motion of the conveyor. A control system may control the rotation and positioning of the shafts.

An article dispensing system and method that has a first and a second vibratory feeder; a rotary trough dispenser having one or more receiving troughs in which counted or weighed articles are dispensed for packaging; while the next trough within the rotary trough dispenser is indexed in a rotational step-wise fashion.

A system for assembly of components, including a vibrating device wherein the components are placed in bulk, which is provided with first and second compartments connected together at their ends by first and second passage zones to form a closed circuit wherein the components can flow, and an articulated gripping arm provided to distribute the components to an automatic assembly installation, the vibrating device including first and second planes inclined in opposite directions included, respectively, in the first and second compartments, the components being able to progress along the first and second inclined planes towards a supply platform on which at least one component can be arranged in advance of its seizure by the articulated gripping arm, the supply platform being located in the second compartment at an exit of the second inclined plane.

A vibratory conveyor with a base frame, a vibrating frame mounted on the base frame and is vibrated relative to the base frame by a vibratory drive, and a conveyor trough made of a continuous flexible mat. The flexible mat is alternately connected to the base frame and the vibrating frame at connection points which are mutually spaced when seen in the longitudinal direction of the conveyor trough. A respective mat portion lies between each pair of connection points adjoining each other in the longitudinal direction of the conveyor trough. The vibrating frame can be vibrated relative to the base frame by means of the vibratory drive, and mat portions adjoining one another in the longitudinal direction of the conveyor trough are thus alternately stretched and slackened in a push-pull mode.

A system for assembly of components, including a vibrating device wherein the components are placed in bulk, which is provided with first and second compartments connected together at their ends by first and second passage zones to form a closed circuit wherein the components can flow, and an articulated gripping arm provided to distribute the components to an automatic assembly installation, the vibrating device including first and second planes inclined in opposite directions included, respectively, in the first and second compartments, the components being able to progress along the first and second inclined planes towards a supply platform on which at least one component can be arranged in advance of its seizure by the articulated gripping arm, the supply platform being located in the second compartment at an exit of the second inclined plane.

A vibratory conveyor with a base frame, a vibrating frame mounted on the base frame and is vibrated relative to the base frame by a vibratory drive, and a conveyor trough made of a continuous flexible mat. The flexible mat is alternately connected to the base frame and the vibrating frame at connection points which are mutually spaced when seen in the longitudinal direction of the conveyor trough. A respective mat portion lies between each pair of connection points adjoining each other in the longitudinal direction of the conveyor trough. The vibrating frame can be vibrated relative to the base frame by means of the vibratory drive, and mat portions adjoining one another in the longitudinal direction of the conveyor trough are thus alternately stretched and slackened in a push-pull mode.