Conveyor transfer guards
AssigneeFlexible Steel Lacing Company
InventorMark Steven Pettinga
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Abstract
In one aspect, a transfer guard member having a body for being positioned in a gap intermediate conveying surfaces, an upper portion of the body for spanning the gap and outer portions of the upper body for slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces, and a pair of spaced, resilient legs having distal end portions for resiliently and slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces. In another aspect, a transfer guard member having a body and at least one attachment member of the body configured for being detachably fixed to a mounting bar. The body has at least one recess adjacent the attachment member for receiving at least one attachment member of another transfer guard member fixed to the mounting bar so that upper transfer surfaces of the attachment members are adjacent one another.
Claims17
A transfer system for transferring objects in a longitudinal direction across a gap between conveying surfaces, the transfer system including:
- a mounting member;
- a plurality of transfer members adapted to be connected to the mounting member;
- at least one mount configured to be secured to a mounting surface adjacent the conveying surfaces for supporting the mounting member;
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- the mounting member and the at least one mount are configured to form a snap-fit connection therebetween when moved in a first predetermined direction relative to each other, the snap-fit connection being in vertical alignment with the gap.
A method of installing a transfer system for transferring objects in a longitudinal direction across a gap between conveying surfaces, the method including:
- securing at least one mount to a mounting surface adjacent the conveying surfaces;
- engaging at least one detent and at least one recess of a mounting member and the at least one mount to connect the mounting member to the at least one mount, the mounting member being associated with a plurality of transfer members adapted to transfer an object across the gap,
- wherein the engaging the at least one detent and the at least one recess includes moving the mounting member and the at least one mount in a predetermined direction relative to each other to form a snap-fit connection therebetween with the snap-fit connection being in vertical alignment with the gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.