Wire-hook connector and conveyor or belt end provided therewith
AssigneeWilhelm Suelzle E.K.
InventorWalther Suelzle
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Abstract
Wire-hook connectors with a series of individual wire hooks that are not connected to one another, are arranged spaced apart by pair and parallel to one another, and are held only on strip-like carrier material, which is a film, fabric or shaped plastic part, in corresponding openings. The wire hooks are fabricated of, for example, round or flat steel wire, each of which has two hook legs that are unequal in length and that run at an angle to one another on either side of the buckling area formed thereby. The hook legs have hook tips at ends thereof that are bent towards one another, whereby a wire hook is arranged centrally between a mutually adjacent pair of mutually parallel wire hooks, with mirror symmetry with respect to the plane formed by the angle bisectors thereof.
Claims15
1-7. (canceled)
A wire-hook connector, comprising:
- individual wire hooks that are not connected to one another and that are arranged in series and which are spaced apart by pair and parallel to one another, each of said wire hooks including a buckling area and two hook legs that are unequal in length and that run at an angle to one another on either side of said buckling area, said hook legs including hook tips at ends thereof that are bent towards one another, a one of the wire hooks being arranged centrally between a mutually adjacent pair of mutually parallel other ones of said wire hooks, with mirror symmetry with respect to a plane formed by angle bisectors thereof;
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- a carrier material comprised of a film, a fabric or a shaped plastic part, said wire hooks being held only on said carrier material in corresponding openings provided therein.
A wire-hook connector according to claim 1, wherein said carrier material includes a plastic selected from the group consisting of polyurethane, polyvinyl chloride and other thermoplastics.
A conveyor splice connecting facing ends of belt segments which collectively form a conveyor, comprising:
- a wire-hook connector including individual wire hooks that are not connected to one another and that are arranged in series and which are spaced apart by pair and parallel to one another, each of wire hooks including a buckling area and two hook legs that are unequal in length and that run at an angle to one another on either side of said buckling area, said hook legs including hook tips at ends thereof that are bent towards one another, a one of the wire hooks being arranged centrally between a mutually adjacent pair of mutually parallel other ones of said wire hooks, with mirror symmetry with respect to a plane formed by angle bisectors thereof, said wire hook connector further including a carrier material comprised of a film, a fabric or a shaped plastic part, said wire hooks being held only on said carrier material in corresponding openings provided therein;
- said wire-hook connector being attached to each of the ends of the belt segments, said carrier material being matched to a conveyor material of said belt segments in terms of adhesive or fusing properties, and said carrier material being securely physically joined to said conveyor material by adhesive and/or fusing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.