Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Endless conveyor
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-15
2006-08-15
Hess, Douglas (Department: 3651)
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Endless conveyor
Reexamination Certificate
active
07090071
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor system including a suppressing device which moves to a position below a driving sprocket to suppress hanging down of a chain moving in a direction opposite a conveying direction. The suppressing device includes: a pair of supporting plates respectively formed by a flat part and a curved part, and arranged to freely move vertically with a fixed point with a return-side guide as its supporting point; a pair of guiding rollers respectively provided at a diagonally lower position of the driving sprocket at a downstream end of the conveying direction to sandwich the curved part with a pair of right and left slat rollers turned downward from the sprocket; and a position adjusting member for suppressing the rotation of the guiding roller involved in the diagonally downward movement of the curved part which is caused by the slat roller, and adjusting the downward movement of the supporting plate.
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Daifuku Co. Ltd.
Hess Douglas
Kusner & Jaffe
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