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US 2026/0217470 A1Published application
Snap lock conveyor component
AssigneeLaitram, L.L.C.
InventorsRyan Hale, Jonathan J. Bishop
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Abstract
A conveyor component for use in a conveyor includes a flexible bore hole for mounting the conveyor component on a shaft. The flexible bore hole includes clearance regions for allowing the component to slide over an associated shaft in a first orientation and retaining features for locking the component onto a mounting region of the shaft in a second orientation.
Claims19
A combination of a shaft and a roller mounted on the shaft for a conveyor system, comprising:
- a shaft extending along a longitudinal axis and having n flat surfaces intersecting at n corners and a plurality of mounting regions, each mounting region comprising an angled surface in each corner of the shaft;
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- a roller mounted on the shaft, the roller comprising a body having a flexible bore hole, the bore hole defined by n shaped sections, each shaped section comprising a first portion forming a clearance region for a corresponding corner, the first portion transitioning to a first flexible tab for containing the shaft by contacting a first edge of an angled surface, the first flexible tab transitioning to a retaining recess, the retaining recess transitioning to a second flexible tab for contacting a second edge of the angled surface.
A conveyor component, comprising:
- a body;
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- a flexible bore hole for mounting the body to a shaft, the flexible bore hole defined by n shaped sections, each shaped section comprising a first clearance portion, the first clearance portion transitioning to a first flexible tab, the first flexible tab transitioning to a retaining recess, the retaining recess transitioning to a second flexible tab and a second clearance portion identical to the first clearance portion extending from the second flexible tab and terminating at the beginning of a successive shaped section.
A method of mounting a roller on a shaft in a conveyor system, comprising the steps of:
- aligning corners on the shaft with clearance regions in a bore hole on the roller;
- sliding the roller along the shaft until a mounting region of the shaft is within the bore hole;
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- rotating the roller about the shaft so that angled surfaces in the mounting region on the shaft snap into retaining features in the bore hole.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.