Conveyor to Heaven (Pt: 2)

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This design ties into my original design called “the conveyor to heaven”. This is for the 2nd half of the conveyor belt.

So the mechanism that will extend the 2nd half of the conveyor belt is what I call an “adjustable inclined plane”. I got the idea from a math concept (how you find the hypotenuse of a right triangle). The way it would work is that there are two sliding rails. One is level with the top of the robot, the other is connected to the conveyor belt. As the truck on the bottom moves closer to the 2nd rail, the truck on that 2nd rail is lifted up. I can’t explain it clearly, but hopefully the pictures show you what I mean.

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So is the inclined plane raising or lowering while lifting the star? How would you attack the star to the rope and detach it and reset everything? Would the gateway fire the star, dump the star, or just move the star to another mechanism? This Looks cool

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This is the top half of the conveyor. The first half is already in position. This mechanism is to angle the belt so that it reaches over the fence and aligns with the first half. (the conveyor belt has half of it resting at the 18" mark)