Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Endless conveyor
Patent
1992-08-17
1994-09-13
Gastineau, Cheryl L.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Endless conveyor
198831, B65G 1706
Patent
active
053460596
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor belt which traverses a belt transport course that can include course turns wherein the belt traverses an arcuate path comprises a succession of link members formed as individual modules having a center body part and unitary forwardly and rearwardly facing finger sets at each of two opposite sides of the center body part. In traversing a turn, the belt shortens at a first side and lengthens at an opposite side. During a turn, tractive drive transmission for pulling a link member with a next preceding link member by way of a connecting rod passing through the two link members, the connecting rod being in tractive relationship with the rearwardly facing fingers of the preceding link member at only two locations, viz., at the rearwardly facing finger thereof most proximal the belt opposite edge, and at the rearwardly facing finger first alongside the preceding link member center body part at the side of the conveyor belt first edge. In this way, shear locations on the rod during drive are minimized and moved away from the center of the belt.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4981208 (1991-01-01), Jones
patent: 5131526 (1992-07-01), Kaak
patent: 5133449 (1992-07-01), Spangler
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Brandt Jr. George J.
Gastineau Cheryl L.
Morrison Thomas R.
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