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US 12,415,684 B2Granted
Belt conveyor for conveying foodstuff products
AssigneeProvisur Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJürgen Bialy, Klaus Guggemos, Paul Goroll, Matthias Hindorff, Alexander May, Florian Mohr, Klaus Dieter Schroff
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Abstract
The invention relates to a belt conveyor (1) for conveying products to be conveyed (e.g. food products), with a deflection (8), in particular as a rotatable deflection pulley (8), and a conveyor belt (2) which is guided around the deflection (8). The invention provides that the deflection (8) comprises a central circumferential annular groove (11), and the conveyor belt (2) comprises a centre bar (12) on the inside which engages in the annular groove (11) of the deflection (8).
Claims23
A belt conveyor for conveying products to conveyed comprising:
- a rotatable first deflection pulley having an annular groove extending circumferentially therearound, and
- a first conveyor belt guided around the first deflection;
- pulley, the first conveyor belt defining an upper run above the first deflection pulley and a lower run below the first deflection pulley, the upper run defining a first support surface on which the products are conveyed, the first conveyor belt having a first centre bar which engages within the annular groove of the first deflection pulley;
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- a first support bar on which the first deflection pulley is mounted, the first support bar extending between the upper and lower runs of the first conveyor belt and extending into the annular groove of the first deflection pulley, the first support bar having a bearing point engaged with the first deflection pulley such that the first deflection pulley is rotatable relative to the first support bar.
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A food processing installation for processing food products comprising:
- a belt conveyor configured to convey products to conveyed including a rotatable first deflection pulley including a central circumferential annular groove, a first conveyor belt guided around the first deflection, the first conveyor belt including on an inside of a centre bar which engages in the annular groove of the first deflection pulley, and a second conveyor belt;
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- at least one conveyed-products carrier configured to discontinuously convey the products along a conveying path within a conveying surface, wherein the conveyed-products carrier comprises, on its upper side, a plurality of parallel and elongated recesses for insertion of the conveyor belts of the belt conveyor when the conveyed product is removed from the conveyed-products carrier, and wherein the recesses in the conveyed-products carrier are optionally wider than the individual conveyor belts of the belt conveyor so that the individual conveyor belts of the belt conveyor can dive into the individual recesses in the conveyed-products carrier;
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- wherein the belt conveyor is arranged above the conveying surface and is optionally vertically pivotable, wherein the belt conveyor can be lowered with its infeed-side end onto the conveyed-products carrier in order to pick up the food products from the conveyed-products carrier, and wherein the belt conveyor can optionally be swivelled up with its infeed-side end in order to allow the conveyed-products carrier to pass.
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A food processing installation for processing food products comprising:
- a belt conveyor configured to convey products including a rotatable first deflection pulley comprising a central circumferential annular groove, and a first conveyor belt which is guided around the first deflection, the first conveyor belt comprises on an inside of a centre bar which engages in the annular groove of the first deflection;
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- a conveyor system with at least one conveyed-products carrier for discontinuously conveying the food products along a conveying path within a conveying surface,
- wherein the belt conveyor is arranged above the conveying surface and is optionally vertically pivotable,
- wherein the belt conveyor can be lowered with its infeed-side end onto the conveyed-products carrier in order to pick up the food products from the conveyed-products carrier,
- wherein the belt conveyor can optionally be swivelled up with its infeed-side end in order to allow the conveyed-products carrier to pass,
- wherein the conveyor system comprises a contactless drive system for moving the conveyed-products carriers within the conveying surface,
- wherein the contactless drive system is optionally a magnetic levitation system, so that the conveyed-products carriers float contactlessly above the conveying surface,
- wherein the conveying path within the conveying surface is optionally freely programmable, so that the individual conveyed-products carriers are freely movable within the conveying surface without being bound to a fixed conveying path,
- wherein the conveyor system optionally comprises numerous modules which adjoin one another and together form the conveying surface, and
- wherein the individual modules of the conveyor system are optionally rectangular in order to be able to form the conveying surface without gaps.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.