Contact protection apparatus for covering a pinching gap adjacent to a roller
AssigneeWipotec GmbH
InventorsKay-Eric Schmidt, Markus Jochen Walter
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Abstract
A contact protection structure can be positioned on a belt body to prevent a pinching gap, where the belt body presents a conveyor belt deflected by a roller, and where a roller holder supporting the roller and attachable to the belt body also supports the contact protection structure.
Claims13
A contact protection apparatus for covering a pinching gap formed adjacent to a conveyor belt of a belt conveyor, the conveyor belt extend along a conveying direction and a transverse direction running orthogonally to the conveying direction and with a vertical direction running orthogonally to both the conveying direction and the transverse direction, the conveyor belt being deflected by a roller which is supported by a belt body of the belt conveyor and which rotates around a roller axis running in the transverse direction, the contact protection apparatus including:
- (a) a roller holder adapted to be placed in a roller holder operating position on the belt body to fix the roller to the belt body;
- (b) a contact protection structure formed in one piece with the roller holder, the contact protection structure covering the pinching gap when the roller holder is placed in the roller holder operating position on the belt body;
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- (c) connection means for fixing the roller holder to the belt body in any one of multiple different locations along the conveying direction to facilitate adjustment of the tension of the conveyor belt.
An apparatus including:
- (a) a belt body;
- (b) a roller holder connected in a roller holder operating position on the belt body;
- (c) a contact protection structure formed in one piece with the roller holder, the contact protection structure covering a pinching gap associated with a roller supported on the belt body by the roller holder;
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- (d) connection means for fixing the roller holder to the belt body in any one of multiple different locations along a conveying direction of the belt body to facilitate adjustment of the tension of a conveyor belt mounted on the belt body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.