Ingenuity: Intelligent Conveyor

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

170

Date Released

1975

Length of issue (in feet)

523

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Solutions to some everyday problems that didn’t need high technology to be resolved, but just a bit of ingenuity. A conveyor that prevents things rolling into pile-ups - by staying still. Instead of a moving belt, a series of rockers gently pass the object from one arm to the next. If the last arm is already full, then nothing moves until it’s free!

Keywords

Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/170

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Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Cutter: Peter Day

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