Storing installation for carrying a number of piled helically extending turns of an endless conveyor belt
AssigneeFrigoscandia Contracting AB
InventorsLennart Olsson, Gerald Heber
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Abstract
A storing installation for carrying a number of helically extending turns of an endless conveyor belt laid upon one another in a pile, where the various belt turns in the pile are supported by one another, comprises two endless chains which are arranged under the belt pile, support the two edge portions of the belt and are carried by supports, said chains being each adapted, after the ingoing or outgoing lower part of the conveyor belt, to follow the belt in its rise throughout a complete revolution, whereupon it travels in a direction opposite to the rise of the conveyor belt in a path beside said revolution so as to form the endless chain.
Claims7
Supporting installation for carrying a number of helically extending turns of an endless, sidewise collapsible conveyor belt, laid upon one another in a pile, where the various belt turns in the pile are supported by one another especially by means of spacing members arranged adjacent the belt edges, said installation comprising an endless conveyor unit which both carries and drives the pile of helically extending conveyor belt turns, wherein the conveyor unit comprises:
- (A) two endless chains which are arranged under the belt pile and support the two edge portions of the belt throughout at least one complete revolution,
- (B) a support under each of said endless chains and having an upwardly directed rolling race, and
- (C) at least one endless rolling element series arranged between each chain and the rolling race of its support, and
- wherein each of said chains comprises links forming with its support a channel enclosing rolling elements in one of said rolling element series and extending at least through the support length of the belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.