Apparatus for forming cleats on belting
OwnerSoren E. Petersoninventor
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Abstract
Apparatus and method for forming and fixing cleats to belting, for forming industrial conveyor belts and the like as a usable product. Various durometers can be chosen by selection of cure-cycle for the cleats, which may be different from that of the belting itself. No metal fasteners are employed; rather, in a preferred form of the invention, the cleat is both formed, cured, and pressed against the belting under raise-temperature conditions during the cure cycle. The cleat will be securely bonded or vulcanized to the belting. Rubber cement can be employed at cleat-securement surfaces. The invention also comprehends multiple cleats being simultaneously secured to the belting.
Claims4
Apparatus for affixing cleats to belting including, in combination:
- a bed;
- a press disposed over said bed and having a cleat-forming die;
- first and second, mutually spaced means for heating said die coupled thereto, said bed including a support disposed underneath said die;
- third means for heating said support, said first, second, and third means each including interior, fluid-containing cavities and electrical heating elements disposed within said cavities;
- and means for supplying electrical power to said electrical heating elements.
Apparatus for forming and affixing cleats to belting, including, in combination:
- first means for supporting belting;
- and second means for forming a cleat and for bonding said cleat to said belting, said second means including a fluid-containing cavity and an electrical heating element disposed in said cavity;
- and third means responsive to pressure within said cavity for supplying automatically controlled electrical energy to said electrical heating element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.