Conveyor for a water jet cutting machine
AssigneeHydroprocess
InventorPhilippe Dereims
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Abstract
A conveyor for moving products P to be cut by a jet of high-pressure liquid exiting a nozzle of a cutting machine in a vertical direction, including a plurality of continuous loops arranged parallel to one another and stretched between two drive rollers so that each determines an upper run and a lower run, each loop including at least two longitudinal walls; and two guide members associated with at least each of the loops and arranged between the two drive rollers, and enabling the upper run of the at least one associated loop to be twisted so that its longitudinal walls are, between the two guide members, parallel to the direction D.
Claims11
A cutting machine comprising at least a nozzle from which a jet of high-pressure liquid comes out according to a vertical direction D, and a conveyor for moving products P to be cut under said jet of high-pressure liquid, said conveyor comprising at least:
- a plurality of continuous loops with a width L and with a thickness E arranged parallel to one another and stretched between two drive rolls so that each determines an upper run and a lower run, each loop comprising at least two longitudinal walls and being arranged so that the longitudinal walls of at least one portion of the upper and lower runs are perpendicular to the direction D, and
- two guide members associated with at least each of the loops and arranged between the two drive rolls, these two guide members allow twisting the upper run of the at least one associated loop so that its longitudinal walls are, between said two guide members, parallel to said direction D.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.