Conveyors – chutes – skids – guides – and ways – Rollerways – Submerging and rising
Reissue Patent
2003-06-27
2009-06-23
Hess, Douglas A (Department: 3651)
Conveyors, chutes, skids, guides, and ways
Rollerways
Submerging and rising
C193S037000, C193S0350SS
Reissue Patent
active
RE040766
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor idler includes a sleeve having an outer surface and an inner surface, a shaft about which the sleeve can rotate in a forward direction, a locking mechanism for preventing the sleeve from rotating in a reverse direction, but which locking mechanism permits rotation of the sleeve in the forward direction, the locking mechanism being located within the sleeve and having a shaft member fixed to the shaft, with at least one locking member which can move between an unlocked position in which the sleeve can rotate in the forward direction and a locked position in which the locking member locks the sleeve to the shaft member to prevent rotation of the sleeve in the reverse direction.
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Hess Douglas A
Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
Rollerbrake (Proprietary) Limited
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