To carry and distribute several kinds of carried objects by changing a conveyor belt in a flat shape and then restoring the conveyor belt in a trough shape or a pipe shape by a plurality of carrier roll units and dropping a carried object by a cut gate.
A mixed loarding type conveyor 1 has a base table 2 provided with a carrier roll unit 10 whose slant angle can be adjusted. A conveyor belt 3 is supported by the carrier roll unit 10 and the first and second cut gates 20, 30 are disposed over the conveyor belt 3 and the first and second sub- conveyors 41, 42 are disposed under the cut gates 20, 30. For example, carried objects are placed on a main conveyor in a mixed state. When the carried objects come to a branch, the cut gates 20, 30 are waited or lowered to discharge the carried objects, whereby the three kinds of carried objects at the maximum can be distributed.
MASUMURA TORU
OHASHI NORIYUKI