Answer to Question #95084 in Mechanics | Relativity for Sam

Question

Design a mechanism to handle brick transport.A mechanism to pick up bricks from a moving transport belt and deposit them onto anther one moving at 90 degree angle .Both belt are horizontal and the transport one pair of bricks per second.

Answer 1

The directions of motion of belts are shown with the blue arrows. The orange bricks are transported by these belts, and above line A there are two rotating discs with rubber borders. When the brick approaches the discs, they are moved down by the electric lifter. As soon as the brick is in between the discs, two electric pusher drives push the discs toward each other and they grab the brick. Right after that the electric lifter lifts the discs and the brick up. Since the discs are rotating, they deposit the brick (throw it) onto the conveyor belt B when the pushers no longer push the discs toward each other. When the discs release that brick, the procedure repeats again for the another one.

Of course, there is a simpler and cheaper solution with only one pusher pushing each brick toward the conveyor B.

And the simplest solution is to just place the belt A a bit above the vertical one (like in the airports). When A ends, bricks automatically fall onto B and continue moving at 90 degrees.