Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Live roll
Patent
1996-06-25
1999-04-06
Valenza, Joseph E.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Live roll
193 35MD, 198787, 198789, 1983713, B65G 1306
Patent
active
058905820
ABSTRACT:
An improved ball deck having a plurality of driven balls arranged in rows, with each driven ball supported on a freely rotatable ball and a pair of drive wheels secured to parallel shafts positioned on either side of the driven balls in each row, and a tray for each row of driven balls having bearings in the end plates thereof. Chain drive sprockets attached to each of the shafts with adjustment means for adjusting the trays to control the tension in the chains.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4036345 (1977-07-01), Webb
patent: 4706793 (1987-11-01), Masciarelli
patent: 5160017 (1992-11-01), Goodman et al.
Leon Michael A.
McKinnon Laura Lynn
Yuan Chunguang
Deuble Mark
FMC Corporation
Kamp Ronald C.
Valenza Joseph E.
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