Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor section – Endless conveyor
Patent
1997-02-20
1999-09-14
Noland, Kenneth
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor section
Endless conveyor
198848, B65G 1706
Patent
active
059508078
ABSTRACT:
A wire belt having increased belt strength includes a plurality of wire links having alternating wide linking portions and narrow linking portions interlocked with respective linking portions of an adjacent wire link. The assembly of the wire belt includes interlocking the wire links, for example, by placing the wide linking portions into an engagement with wide linking portions of an adjacent wire link. The width of the wide linking portions is about equal to the minimum width that will allow the wire link to be interlocked with an adjacent wire link without bending the wire link in excess of the yield strength of the wire link. The width of the narrow linking portions is less than the width of the wide linking portions, and preferably, dimensioned to receive a sprocket for driving the wire belt. The wire links preferably have an undulating shape and include first and second end loops that interlock with adjacent wire links. The wire belt further includes one or more splice connectors that interlock with the narrow linking portions and/or a wide linking portions in adjacent wire links to splice the wire links together to form a wire belt.
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Noland Kenneth
Tran Khoi H.
Wire Belt Company of America
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