Pintle-type industrial conveyor chain
OwnerThomas I'Ansoninventor
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Abstract
Industrial conveyor chains of pintle-connected types featuring stub journals removably interengageable with socket bearings through access leads which provide increased bearing surface area and shear strength in the pivoted connections relieving the connecting pins of all or a major role in the bearing and load carrying functions of the link couplings.
Claims5
A chain for industrial conveyors and the like comprising a succession of links pivotally interconnected including a first link and an adjoining second link having mutually adjacent ends each with transversely opposite side portions overlappingly confronting and pivotally joined to the respective side portions of the other by sets of pivotally engaged connecting elements formed integrally with the respective link side portions, said sets of connecting elements each comprising a stub journal porjecting transversely from one such side portion and a socket bearing, conformed to and pivotally receiving said stub jorunal, said projecting stub journals being of conically divergent form and the socket bearings being of complemental conically convergent form.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.