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AssigneeMATO Maschinen-und Metallwarenfabrik Curt Matthaei GmbH & Co. KG
InventorHermann Stolz
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An apparatus for attaching connectors to the ends of a conveyor belt, has a lamping head with upper and lower pressure applying jaws for first bending a connector element over and around the edge of the belt end, and then driving securing elements through the legs of the connector element and through the belt. Bending tools are arranged for bending over the free, protruding ends of the securing elements, preferably into grooves of the connector element. The upper jaw has centering projections which cooperate with centering recesses in the connector element. Catch pins ahead of the upper jaw provide a precentering. A measuring device permits checking the belt thickness for adjusting the jaw spacing. An apertured rail functions as a holder for the connector and securing elements and also as an abutment for the feed advance as well as for the stopping of the clamping head which is stepped from connector element to connector element along the edge of the conveyor belt end.
An apparatus for attaching connector means to the ends of a conveyor belt and for anchoring said connector means by securing elements, comprising frame means, clamping means including pressure applying upper and lower jaw means, a counter motion actuating lever mechanism supported on said frame means, said upper and lower jaw means being operatively connected to said counter motion lever mechanism for intermittently closing and opening said pressure applying upper and lower jaw means, said apparatus further comprising bending tool means, operatively connecting said bending tool means to said actuating lever mechanism for operating the bending tool means subsequently to the actuation of said upper and lower jaw means and in a direction extending perpendicularly to the direction of pressure application by said jaw means, said bending tool means being arranged on that side of said conveyor belt on which the free ends of said securing elements protrude from said conveyor belt whereby said free ends of the securing elements are bent over.
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