Chain drive

Details Chain drive Chain drive

1996-04-08

1998-03-03

Bidwell, James R.

Conveyors: power-driven

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Unit load conveying surface means moved about an endless or...

1988039, 198817, 271277, B65G 4786

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057225303

ABSTRACT:
Chain drive with an endless chain formed by sideplate pairs and by articulated joints having mutually parallel joint axes and connecting the sideplate pairs, each of the joints having a chain roller concentric with the respective joint axis and having a cylindrical chain-roller contact surface, includes a supporting roller disposed at a longitudinal center of a chain link and having a rotational axis parallel to the joint axes, and a cylindrical supporting-roller contact surface tangential to a first tangential plane extending parallel to the joint axes of a first and a second joint, the first tangential plane being disposed opposite to and spaced from a second tangential plane likewise tangential to the supporting-roller contact surface, the first and the second tangential planes being disposed on one and the same side of a reference plane at respective first and second distances therefrom.

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