Rolling conveyor with a separate drive assembly

Abstract

A rolling conveyor has a frame on which a plurality of feed rollers that define a conveyor surface are rotatably supported, at least some of the feed rollers each have a first drive wheel, which is in rotary drive communication with a second drive wheel, the second drive wheels are located on a rotatable drive shaft with which they are each in rotary drive communication via a respective slip clutch, at least one and preferably all the second drive wheels and the associated slip clutch are combined each into a separate drive assembly that can be installed as a unit, the drive assembly is supported rotatably on the frame, and the drive shaft is received in the drive assembly in a manner fixed against relative rotation and preferably longitudinally displaceably.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.