Padded chain live roller conveyor
AssigneeAlvey, Inc.
InventorDonald E. Abell
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Abstract
An article conveyor having live rollers forming an article conveying run and in which a continuous padded drive chain is operably mounted to have flexibility in a direction substantially parallel to the conveying run, and in which a first direction of article conveyance is provided with controllable pressure fluid lifters for zoning the first direction of conveyance to control the drive of articles approaching a standing article. In addition, controls are provided to render the conveyor reversible as to travel of articles.
Claims9
In an article conveyor having live rollers supporting the articles, the improvement of means for rotating the live rollers comprising:
- (a) a roller chain made up of rollers mounted on axles and interconnected by links engaged at said axles of the rollers, said roller axles being oriented generally vertical and said links lying in generally horizontal planes such that the roller chain has flexibility in the horizontal plane and is able to traverse curves in such plane;
- (b) a high friction pad means having a friction surface for presentation to the live rollers, and said pad having a base presented to said links at one side of said rollers and formed with a series of holes aligned on the axis of said pad and penetrating said base;
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- (c) means for attaching said pad to said roller chains, said attaching means being extensions on said roller axles adapted to be received in said holes in said pad base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.