US 2023/0096050 A1 · PLATE CONVEYOR BELT FOR TRANSPORTING A MATERIAL WEB WHICH IS TO BE CONTINUOUSLY THERMALLY TREATED USING A GASEOUS TEMPERING MEDIUM, AND FURNACE COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE PLATE CONVEYOR BELT

Abstract

A plate conveyor belt, and a furnace with such a conveyor belt, for transporting a material web which is to be continuously thermally treated using a gaseous tempering medium. The plate conveyor belt includes conveyor belt segments connected together in an articulated manner and each of which has a flat cover plate with a contact surface for the material web to be treated. The cover plate has openings for conducting the gaseous tempering medium, which can be conducted through the material web. The openings in the cover plate are arranged corresponding to the transport of the material web which is as wide as possible, and edge-side openings of the cover plate at least along a longitudinal face of the plate conveyor belt can be blocked from conducting the tempering medium via a wall-shaped blocking element in order to thermally treat a narrower material web.

Claims18

Dependent claims

1-15. (canceled)

A plate conveyor belt for transporting a material web to be thermally treated in a continuous flow by a gaseous tempering medium, the plate conveyor belt comprising:

conveyor belt segments that are connected to one another in articulated fashion, each segment having a flat cover plate having a surface that forms a contact surface to the material web to be treated, and the cover plate having openings for conducting through the gaseous tempering medium that can be conducted through the material web,
wherein the openings in the cover plate are provided in a configuration corresponding to a transport of a widest possible material web, and
wherein, for a thermal treatment of a narrower material web, at least along one longitudinal side of the plate conveyor belt edge-side openings in the cover plates can be blocked by a wall-shaped blocking element with respect to the conducting through of the gaseous tempering medium.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/798,400Filed 9 Feb 2021

Priority

DE 10 2020 103 449.011 Feb 2020

Published

30 Mar 2023

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

F27B 9/243
Being carried by a conveyor: endless-strand conveyor
B65G 17/065
Having a load-carrying surface formed by a series of interconnected, e.g. longitudinal, links, plates, or platforms: the load carrying surface…
B65G 17/34
Individual load-carriers: having flat surfaces, e.g. platforms, grids, forks
F27B 9/10
Heated without contact between combustion gases and charge; electrically heated: heated by hot air or gas

Plate conveyor belt for transporting a material web which is to be continuously thermally treated using a gaseous tempering medium, and furnace comprising at least one plate conveyor belt

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Plate conveyor belt for transporting a material web which is to be continuously thermally treated using a gaseous tempering medium, and furnace comprising at least one plate conveyor belt

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Abstract

Claims18