Conveyor tracking roller having helical guides with variable pit

Details Conveyor tracking roller having helical guides with variable pit Conveyor tracking roller having helical guides with variable pit

1988-04-18

1989-05-23

Spar, Robert J.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor section

Endless conveyor

198806, 474122, 291214, B65G 1564

Patent

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048321869

ABSTRACT:
A conveyor belt system having an improved pulley is disclosed in which the improved pulley includes a roller having grooves of varying width machined into the cylindrical surface of the roller to form raised guides or lands of equal width therebetween which spiral outward relative to the center of the roller with decreasing pitch. The contacting surface of the guides is operative to engage a conveyor belt or webbing passing over the pulley and the varying pitch of the guides allows for the quick centering of unaligned belts or webs. The roller may be machined to have more than one helical guide spiralling outward from the center of the cylindrical surface of the roller at one time. The guides may be squared, chamfered or rounded and may optionally contain serrations. The roller may additionally be machined to taper slightly from its center to the respective ends thereof. Alternatively, helical grooves of equal width may be formed in place of the guides in the surface of the roller and inlaid with conveyor web engaging ribbing material which will contact the conveyor web and center it with respect to the roller and pulley.

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