Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Endless conveyor
Reexamination Certificate
2005-10-28
2008-09-02
Crawford, Gene O. (Department: 3651)
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Endless conveyor
C198S850000, C198S852000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07419051
ABSTRACT:
An endless side-flexing conveyor is described comprising a conveyor belt made from a number of rows of hinged interconnected belt links, where each row comprises at least one link, where each link has a front end, a back end, a top surface, a bottom surface and two sides, where hinge parts separated by apertures are arranged along the front end and the back end such that front hinge parts on the front end will fit inside apertures on the back end of an adjacent belt link, and where the front end and back end are substantially parallel to a first axis parallel to the width direction of the link, wherein the hinge parts of each link are defined by a top and bottom which are substantially flush with the top and bottom surfaces respectively, and two side surfaces and a free front surface, and that the front hinge parts on one end of each link are provided with a protrusion on each side surface, where the protrusions fit inside elongated apertures provided in the side surfaces of the rear hinge parts on the opposite end of the link; and further that the protrusions on more than one of the front hinge parts arranged centrally on the link are arranged on an axis parallel to the first axis, and that at least the protrusions on one or more of the outermost front hinge parts on one side of each link are arranged parallel to an axis angled +x° in relation to the first axis and that one or more protrusions on the opposite side of each link are arranged parallel to an axis angled −x° in relation to the first axis.
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Crawford Gene O.
PED Invest A/S
Singh Kavel P
Woodcock & Washburn LLP
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