Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Endless conveyor
Patent
1992-06-16
1993-05-25
Olszewski, Robert P.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Endless conveyor
198834, B65G 1706
Patent
active
052132030
ABSTRACT:
Improved engagement is achieved between a sprocket having a plurality of flat-topped teeth and an endless conveyor belt. The belt is formed from a plurality of generally flat load-bearing tabular rectangular modules disposed in transverse rows along the belt with the longer sides of each module positioned transverse to the direction of motion of the endless belt, the modules being hingedly connected to and extending between spaced rods, which pass through co-axial, equally-spaced eye portions projecting from the longer sides of the modules, the endless belt having a first load-bearing surface and an opposing sprocket-engaging surface. The improvement comprises placing at least two outwardly extending bosses on each module, one boss on each of at least one pair of adjacent eye portions on one longer side; a flange extending outwardly from the sprocket-engaging surface along each longer side of each module; an outwardly open arcuate valley between each tooth on each sprocket; and a transverse channel at the top of each of the two faces of each tooth of each sprocket, effectively providing each tooth with a pair of shoulder portions separated by a head portion.
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Kinney D. Brooke
Kinney Douglas S.
Bidwell James R.
Olszewski Robert P.
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