move the package in a direction generally parallel to the direction of movement of the main conveyor and out of alignment with the articles traveling therealong and subsequently rotate the article so that when discharged to a branch conveyor the leading end of the article is more nearly orthogonal to the direction of motion of the branch conveyor application_number US 60661000 A description referring specifically to the drawings and the illustrative embodiments therein a conveying system 10 includes a main conveyor 9 and a plurality of branch conveyors 5 of which only one is shown although the invention is illustrated for use with a unidirectional divert conveyor it should be understood that its principles may also be used with bi directional divert conveyors branch conveyor 5 is positioned adjacent to main conveyor 9 and at an angle as is conventional the arrows illustrate the direction of conveyance for both main conveyor 9 and branch conveyor 5 a conveying surface 1 of main conveyor 9 is defined by a series of surface members 13 which define a product conveying surface the lengthwise direction of surface members 13 is oriented perpendicular to the direction of movement of main conveyor 9 surface members 13 are supported on either side by side members 2 and 3 the details of the interconnections of the surface members with each.