Conveyor transfer guards
AssigneeFlexible Steel Lacing Company
InventorMark Steven Pettinga
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Abstract
In one aspect, a transfer guard member having a body for being positioned in a gap intermediate conveying surfaces, an upper portion of the body for spanning the gap and outer portions of the upper body for slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces, and a pair of spaced, resilient legs having distal end portions for resiliently and slidingly engaging the conveying surfaces. In another aspect, a transfer guard member having a body and at least one attachment member of the body configured for being detachably fixed to a mounting bar. The body has at least one recess adjacent the attachment member for receiving at least one attachment member of another transfer guard member fixed to the mounting bar so that upper transfer surfaces of the attachment members are adjacent one another.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A conveyor system comprising:
- a conveyor comprising:
- rotatable members;
- upstream and downstream conveying surfaces associated with the rotatable members;
- a gap between the upstream and downstream conveying surfaces;
- the rotatable members rotatable to move the upstream and downstream conveying surfaces and convey an object in a downstream longitudinal direction relative to the rotatable members and across the gap;
- the rotatable members being at predetermined longitudinal positions and remaining at the predetermined longitudinal positions as the rotatable members rotate and convey the object in the downstream longitudinal direction;
- an apparatus comprising:
- a body in the gap;
- an upper portion of the body in the gap configured to slidingly contact the upstream and downstream conveying surfaces and support the body in the gap, the upper portion slidingly contacting the upstream and downstream conveying surfaces above a narrowest portion of the gap in the downstream longitudinal direction between the upstream and downstream conveying surfaces;
- a lower portion of the body in the gap below the narrowest portion of the gap;
- an intermediate portion of the body connecting the upper and lower portions, the intermediate portion of the body being in clearance with the upstream and downstream conveying surfaces with the body in the gap;
- upstream and downstream outer surface portions of the intermediate portion of the body facing the upstream and downstream conveying surfaces and spaced longitudinally therefrom so that the upstream and downstream outer surface portions are spaced from the upstream and downstream conveying surfaces as the upstream and downstream conveying surfaces move with rotation of the rotatable members.
A system comprising:
- a roller conveyor system without a conveyor belt, the roller conveyor system comprising:
- upstream and downstream rollers rotatable to convey an object in a downstream, longitudinal direction;
- and
- a gap between the upstream and downstream rollers;
- an apparatus in the gap, the apparatus comprising:
- an upper portion configured to slidingly contact the upstream and downstream rollers and support the apparatus in the gap;
- a plurality of upstream legs to be positioned adjacent the upstream roller;
- and
- a plurality of downstream legs to be positioned adjacent the downstream roller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.