Template for marking conveyor belt splices
AssigneeFenner Dunlop Americas, Inc.
InventorBradley W. Bundy
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Abstract
An apparatus for marking conveyor belt ends to be bias angle finger spliced including a first rigid body marked with indicia including a centerline marking for alignment with a conveyor belt centerline and equally spaced measurement indicia marked outward from the centerline marking corresponding, respectively, to conveyor belt finger base points and a second rigid body marked with a centerline marking and equally spaced measurement indicia marked outward from the centerline marking corresponding, respectively, to conveyor belt fingertip points, wherein the measurement indicia between the first and second bodies is offset by half a spacing measurement from the centerline marking outward to differentiate the first and second bodies.
Claims14
An apparatus for marking conveyor belt ends to be bias angle finger spliced, comprising:
- a first elongate rigid body marked with indicia for finger splicing, the indicia including a centerline marking for alignment with a conveyor belt centerline and equally spaced measurement indicia marked outward from the centerline marking, the equally spaced measurement indicia corresponding, respectively, to conveyor belt finger base points;
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- a second elongate rigid body marked with indicia for finger splicing, the indicia including a centerline marking for alignment with the conveyor belt centerline and equally spaced measurement indicia marked outward from the centerline marking, the equally spaced measurement indicia corresponding, respectively, to conveyor belt fingertip points;
- wherein the equally spaced measurement indicia between the first and second rigid bodies is offset, respectively, by half of a spacing measurement from the centerline marking outward, thereby differentiating the first elongate rigid body from the second elongate rigid body.
An apparatus for marking conveyor belt ends to be bias angle finger spliced comprising an elongate rigid body having a top surface and a bottom surface, the top surface marked with indicia including a centerline marking for alignment with a conveyor belt centerline and equally spaced measurement indicia marked outward from the centerline marking, the equally spaced indicia corresponding, respectively, to conveyor belt finger base points, and the bottom surface marked with indicia including a centerline marking for alignment with the conveyor belt centerline and equally spaced measurement indicia marked outward from the centerline marking, the equally spaced indicia corresponding, respectively, to conveyor belt fingertip points, wherein the equally spaced measurement indicia marked on the top and bottom surfaces is offset, respectively, by half of a spacing measurement from the centerline markings outward, thereby differentiating the measurement indicia on the top surface from the bottom surface.
A method for marking conveyor belt ends for bias angle splicing, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing an apparatus for marking fingers on belt ends to be spliced including first and second flat, elongate rigid bodies having measurement indicia thereon, the top surface of the first rigid body marked with a centerline marking and equally spaced measurement indicia, each of which corresponds, respectively, to a conveyor belt finger base point, and the top surface of the second rigid body marked with a centerline marking and equally spaced measurement indicia, each of which corresponds, respectively, to a conveyor belt fingertip point;
- (b) marking a centerline on the belt ends to be spliced;
- (c) marking a square reference line on the belt ends to be spliced;
- (d) marking a bias angle on the belts ends to be spliced;
- (e) marking finger base points and fingertip points on the belt ends to be spliced using the apparatus of (a);
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- (f) drawing belt end fingers on the belt ends to be spliced by connecting the marked finger base points and fingertip points.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.