Conveyor belt module with portions for overlapping
AssigneesMarel Poultry B.V., Ammeraal Beltech Modular A/S
InventorsHarry Van Der Eerden, Germ Buter, Kenneth Westergaard Andersen
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Abstract
There is presented a conveyor belt module (10) with first and second sets of eye parts for allowing connecting the conveyor belt module to a like conveyor belt module (10II) via a rod (41), said conveyor belt module being suitable for a side flexing modular conveyor belt (100), wherein in a cross-sectional plane intersecting an outermost eye part and being orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the conveyor belt module the conveyor belt module comprises portions of material having positions which on both sides of a plane comprising the longitudinal axis and intersecting both first and second eye parts are present on both sides of axis through both of the first and second eye parts.
Claims14
A conveyor belt module for a side flexing modular conveyor belt, said conveyor belt module comprising:
- a first set of eye parts defining a first axis, and
- a second set of eye parts defining a second axis,
- wherein:
- in a cross-sectional plane, being a primary cross-sectional plane, intersecting a primary outermost eye part and being orthogonal to the first axis and/or the second axis, wherein the primary outermost eye part is an eye part being placed outermost in a primary end of the conveyor belt module in a dimension defined by the first axis and/or the second axis, and/or
- in a cross-sectional plane, being a secondary cross-sectional plane, intersecting a secondary outermost eye part and being orthogonal to the first axis and/or the second axis, wherein the secondary outermost eye part is an eye part being placed outermost in a secondary end of the conveyor belt module in a dimension defined by the first axis and/or the second axis, wherein the secondary end of the conveyor belt module is opposite the primary end of the conveyor belt module,
- the conveyor belt module comprises portions of material having positions, which, on both sides of a center plane spanned by:
- an axis being parallel with the first axis and/or the second axis, and
- an axis in one or more of the cross-sectional planes and intersecting the first axis and the second axis,
- with respect to the axis in the one or more of the cross-sectional planes, have portions on both sides of each of:
- a first plane that is orthogonal to the center plane and comprising a first intersection between a line, such as a straight line, through the first eye parts and the cross-sectional plane, and
- a second plane, different from the first plane, that is orthogonal to the center plane and comprising a second intersection between a line, such as a straight line, through the second eye parts and the cross-sectional plane;
- wherein the conveyor belt module has rotational symmetry of second order around one or more of:
- an axis being orthogonal to the first axis and/or the second axis and intersecting both of the first axis and the second axis, and
- an axis being orthogonal to each of:
- the axis being parallel with the first axis and/or the second axis, and
- the axis being orthogonal to the first axis and/or the second axis and intersecting both of the first axis and the second axis.
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