Belt-form body conveyor
AssigneeIHI Corporation
InventorsRui Oohashi, Kensuke Hirata, Tomoo Kusumi, Mareto Ishibashi, Noriaki Hasegawa
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Abstract
A belt-form body conveyor that conveys a belt-form body includes a plurality of non-contact guide portions over which portions of the belt-form body are wound, and that support the belt-form body in a non-contact manner, and a drive unit that, when viewed in a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of the belt-form body before the belt-form body is supplied to the plurality of non-contact guide portions, causes at least two non-contact guide portions out of the plurality of non-contact guide portions to rotate in the same direction and by the same angle.
Claims4
A belt-form body conveyor that conveys a belt-form body comprising:
- a plurality of non-contact guide portions over which portions of the belt-form body are wound, and that support the belt-form body in a non-contact manner;
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- a drive unit that causes at least two non-contact guide portions out of the plurality of non-contact guide portions to rotate
- wherein the plurality of non-contact guide portions include:
- an upstream-side turn bar that, of the plurality of non-contact guide portions, is disposed further on an upstream side in a travel direction of the belt-form body, and alters the travel direction of the belt-form body;
- a downstream-side turn bar that, of the plurality of non-contact guide portions, is disposed furthest on a downstream side in the travel direction of the belt-form body, and causes a position of the belt-form body in a thickness direction of the belt-form body to match the position of the belt-form body before the belt-form body is supplied to the upstream-side turn bar;
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- an inverter turn bar that reverses the travel direction of the belt-form body, which has been altered by the upstream-side turn bar, towards the downstream-side turn bar, and
- wherein the upstream-side turn bar, the downstream-side turn bar and the inverter turn bar are rotated in the same direction and by the same angle when viewed in a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of the belt-form body before the belt-form body is supplied to the plurality of non-contact guide portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.