# US 2014/0151196 A1 · Conveying device with a planar conveying element > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0151196 A1 - Document ID: US20140151196A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/235,204 - Filed: 2012-07-19 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2011-07-29 - Assignees: Wrh Walter Reist Holding AG - Inventors: Jurgen Wehner - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140151196A1 ## CPC - B65G 15/28: Conveyors with a load-conveying surface formed by a single flat belt, not otherwise provided for - B60P 1/38: forming the main load-transporting element or part thereof {(B60P1/365 takes precedence)} - B65G 15/12: with two or more endless belts - B65G 15/20: arranged side by side, e.g. for conveyance of flat articles in vertical position - B65G 15/60: Arrangements for supporting or guiding belts, e.g. by fluid jets - B65G 23/06: with projections engaging abutments on belts or chains, e.g. sprocket wheels - B65G 23/08: with self-contained driving mechanisms, e.g. motors and associated gearing - B65G 23/22: Arrangements or mountings of driving motors {(B65G23/08 takes precedence)} - B65G 23/12: Arrangements of co-operating drums or rollers to augment tractive effort applied to the belts - B65G 2207/30: Modular constructions - B65G: TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS (packaging B65B; handling thin or filamentary materials, e.g. paper sheets or thread, B65H; cranes B66C; portable mobile or lifting or hauling appliances, e.g. hoists, B66D; devices for lifting or lowering goods for loading or unloading purposes, e.g. fork-lift trucks, B66F9/00; emptying bottles, jars, casks, barrels or similar containers, not otherwise provided for, B67C9/00; delivering or transferring liquids B67D; filling or discharging vessels for liquefied, solidified or compressed gases F17C; pipe-line systems for fluids F17D) - B60P: VEHICLES ADAPTED FOR LOAD TRANSPORTATION OR TO TRANSPORT, TO CARRY, OR TO COMPRISE SPECIAL LOADS OR OBJECTS (vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G3/00) ## Abstract A conveying device with a revolving, extensively extended conveying member with an upper run section and with a lower run section, wherein the conveying member is deflected in two head-end regions that lie opposite one another. The conveying device includes a drive device arranged in a head-end region and having an electric drive motor and a drive shaft coupled thereto. The drive shaft has at least one drive member for driving the conveying member at least partly wrapping the drive member. The drive motor includes a motor shaft that is connected to drive shafts arranged on both sides of the motor, wherein the motor shaft and the drive shafts are arranged coaxially. The drive device is arranged within the conveying device between side limitation devices and between the upper and lower run sections and, in the conveying direction, is arranged between the two head-ends of the conveying member. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A conveying device, comprising: two side limitation devices that are distanced from one another and run parallel to one another in a conveying direction, at least one extensively extended conveying member with an upper run section and a lower run section, said conveying member being arranged in a revolving manner between the side limitation devices and being deflected in two head-end regions distanced from one another, a support device with at least one support unit, said support device being arranged between the side limitation devices, at least one drive device with at least one electrical drive motor and with at least one drive shaft coupled to the at least drive motor and having at least one drive member for the direct drive of the conveying member at least partly wrapping the drive member, wherein the drive device forms a deflection location for the conveying member, wherein: the conveying device comprises rollers for the rolling support of the conveying member, and the at least one drive device within the conveying device is arranged in a head-end region: between a conveying plane formed by the upper run section and a return plane formed by the lower run section, and along the conveying direction between the two head-ends as well as between the side limitation devices. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the drive device comprises at least two drive motors. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the geometric rotation axes of the motor shaft and of the drive shaft are arranged in a common plane and preferably congruently to one another. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one drive shaft is arranged and rotatably mounted centrically in the geometric rotation axis of the drive device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one drive motor is designed for picking up a torque from two locations on the drive motor that lie opposite one another and lie in a common axis, and the drive motor is coupled to drive shafts arranged on both sides. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one drive motor comprises motor shaft sections that lead away from this on both sides and that are coupled directly or indirectly to drive shafts arranged on both sides. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one drive motor is fastened on a transverse component, and the transverse component preferably on both sides is fastened directly or indirectly on the side limitation device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one drive motor is a drum motor and the at least one drive shaft is a hollow shaft rotatably mounted about a motor shaft-like pivot which is arranged in a rotationally fixed manner and centrically in the geometric rotation axis of the drive device. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein, in each case, a gear unit is attached on the drive motor on both sides of at the least one drive motor and takes the torque from the motor shaft, and the gear shafts of the gear units are connected directly or indirectly to the drive shafts, wherein the gear shafts, the drive shafts and the motor shaft are arranged coaxially. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the rotation axis of the motor shaft lies at an angle to the rotation axis of the drive shaft and the torque is transmitted via a gear unit designed as an angular gear, from the motor shaft onto the drive shaft. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein, in each case, a rotationally elastic and/or flexurally elastic shaft coupling is attached between the at least one drive motor and the at least one drive shaft, in particular between a gear unit and the drive shaft. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the drive member is a drive roller or drive cog which is attached on the drive shaft in a rotationally fixed manner. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the drive shafts are rotatably mounted and axially secured on both sides of the drive device on the respective side limitation device or on mounting elements connected thereto. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the drive device has a mirror-symmetric construction, wherein a drive motor is arranged centrally. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the conveying device comprises a transformer for feeding the drive motor with an electric voltage, wherein the transformer within the conveying device is arranged: between side limitation devices as well as between a conveying plane formed by the upper run section and a return plane formed by the lower run section, and along the conveying direction between the two head-ends. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the conveying device comprises a control unit for controlling the drive device, wherein the control unit within the conveying device is arranged: between side limitation devices as well as between a conveying plane formed by the upper run section and a return plane formed by the lower run section, and along the conveying direction between the two head-ends. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The conveying device according to claim 16, wherein the conveying device comprises a mains apparatus for feeding the control unit for the drive device, wherein the mains apparatus within the conveying device is arranged: between side limitation devices as well as between a conveying plane formed by the at least the upper run section and a return plane formed by the at least one lower run section, and along the conveying direction between the two head-ends. ### Claim 18 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein: a. the support device or support unit comprises one or more stationarily axially rotatably mounted rollers or b. the support unit comprises a support body and a rolling body with a multitude of rollers which are revolvingly arranged in a closed circuit around the support body, or c. the conveying member at its flat side which faces the support device comprises rollers that are stationarily and axially rotatably mounted on the conveying member. ### Claim 19 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the conveying member is designed in a single-part or multi-part manner. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the conveying device comprises a deflection member that is assigned to the drive device and that deflects the conveying member, in the region of the lower run section, to the drive member, so that the wrapping angle of the conveying member around the at least one drive member is more than 180°. ### Claim 21 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the first as well as the second head-end region is provided with a drive device. ### Claim 22 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one drive motor is arranged laterally on the side limitation device, and the at least one drive motor is coupled on a side which is away from the side limitation device, to a drive shaft. ### Claim 23 (depends on 22) The conveying device according to claim 22, wherein a drive motor is arranged in each case on both sides on the side limitation device, and the two drive motors on a side that is away from the respective side limitation device, are coupled to a drive shaft. ### Claim 24 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein means are provided that permit the drive members arranged along the rotation axis to be operated at different angular speeds. ### Claim 25 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, comprising: at least one revolving, extensively extended conveying member with an upper run section and a lower run section and that is deflected in two head-end region that are distanced to one another, a support device arranged between the two head-end regions, a drive device, in particular arranged in a head-end region, wherein: the support device is designed for the rolling support of the upper run section and comprises an extensively extended support body comprising two surface elements that are held together and distanced to one another by way of connection profiles arranged between the surface elements, and receiver bodies are attached on the surface elements and receive support rollers or rolling bodies for the support of the upper run section. ### Claim 26 (depends on 1) The conveying device according to claim 1, wherein the conveying device, seen in the conveying direction, comprises several conveying members that are arranged parallel next to one another, and the conveying members are driven and deflected via at least one common drive device. ### Claim 27 (canceled)