Junction device for conveyor belts
AssigneeAser
InventorHorst Jakob
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Abstract
The proposed device comprises chain links alternately connected to upper fastening plates and to lower fastening plates. These plates comprise fastening claws of which some are arranged on the front and/or rear edges of the plates and others inside the surface of the plates. Stops are provided for blocking the chain links along the edge of the end of a conveyor belt. Another series of similar chain links are placed against the other end of the conveyor belt. The two series of chain links and plates are braced against the upper and lower sides of the respective conveyor belt ends, the claws fastening them to these ends. A connecting rod is then fitted into the chain links of the two pre-interleaved series, bringing together the conveyor belt ends in the process.
Claims6
A junction device for conveyor belts comprising:
- first chain links fastened on one end of a conveyor belt;
- second chain links fastened on the other end of the conveyor belt, with the chain links being fastened to the respective ends of the conveyor belt so as to protrude with respect to such ends, the chain links being able to be brought together in an articulated way using a connecting and articulation rod successively engaged in a chain link of the first chain links, then in a chain link of the second chain links and so on, with the first and second chain links fastened to the respective ends of the conveyor belt having been pre-interleaved by bringing together the two conveyor belt ends;
- a third chain link;
- fastening plates;
- claws;
- in each one of the first and second chain links, the chain links are connected to the fastening plates, with an upper branch of at least one of the first chain links being connected to an upper one of the plates and an upper branch of at least one of the second chain links, adjacent to the at least one of the first chain links, being connected to the upper plate;
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- a lower branch of the at least one of the second chain links being connected to a lower one of the plates, the lower branch of the third chain link, adjacent to the second chain link, being connected to the lower plate and so on, forming a meander-like disposition liable to receive between the upper and lower plates one end of the conveyor belt, with the upper and respective lower plates being provided with the claws, the tips of which are globally oriented downwards as regards the upper plates and globally upwards as regards the lower plates, such claws being positioned on at least one edge of the plates, and/or inside the surface of the plates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.