Railway draft appliances – Couplings – Counterpart
Patent
1989-04-17
1991-05-14
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Railway draft appliances
Couplings
Counterpart
213101, 213159, 105 3, 105150, 104 93, B65G 900
Patent
active
050148648
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor system, in particular a suspension conveyor system, comprising at least two transport units adapted to be moved on rollers and interconnected by a disconnectable coupling, the coupling including two identically formed hooks which are each provided with a hook opening, one of said hooks being arranged by an associated base member on one of the transport units to be coupled and the other hook being arranged by an associated base member on the other transport unit to be coupled in such a way that their hook openings face each other, each hook being loaded by a spring and being connected to its associated base member by means of a hub for rotation about an axis coinciding with a centerline of the hub, each hub forming a locking member by, in a coupled condition, being adapted to be engaged by the hook opening of the hook not associated with said transport unit while the hooks, in an uncoupled condition, being adapted to engage each other, and to be rotated by this engagement under tensioning of the spring, when the two transport units being moved towards each other, until each hook opening faces on hub in order to allow the spring to rotate the hook opening into a locking engagement with the hub.
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Hafner Josef
Richter Peter
Schonenberger Rolf
Le Mark T.
Oberleitner Robert J.
Veit Transpo GmbH
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