Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Endless conveyor
Patent
1990-01-22
1991-02-12
Skaggs, H. Grant
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Endless conveyor
198819, B65G 1710
Patent
active
049917102
ABSTRACT:
An apron conveyor having a chain formed by a plurality of elongated links. Each link has a forward end pivotally connected to a rearward end of an adjacent link. An apron member is fixed to each link. Each apron member includes a base plate having a front end portion on one apron member overlapping a rear end portion of an adjacent apron member. The front end portion has a bottom concave surface generated about a pivot axis defined at the forward end of the respective link. The rear end portion includes a rear damlike wall which projects outwardly from the base wall and terminates in a free end adapted for sliding movement along the adjacent concave surface. The rear end portion also includes a front damlike wall projecting outwardly from the base all and terminating in a free end which is disposed for sliding movement along the same concave surface.
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patent: 1854334 (1932-04-01), Jensen et al.
patent: 3374880 (1968-03-01), Hohl
patent: 4840269 (1989-06-01), Anderson
Dixon Keith L.
Skaggs H. Grant
Tsubakimoto Bulk Systems Corporation
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