Loading machine, particularly for sheet-drying installations
AssigneeBillhoefer Maschinenfabrik GmbH
InventorJuergen Ferdinand Franz Muenker
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Abstract
A loading machine, particularly for drying installations for coated sheets or sheet metal plates, with circulating chain conveyors with two roller chains, which are at a distance from one another and the links of which in each case are connected by bars, which bridge the distance between roller chains, stand up at an angle to the chains and which in the inlet region form chambers, which open up in wedge-shaped fashion from deflection gears at the ends for inserting sheets or sheet metal plates essentially horizontally, the roller chains, leaving the deflection gears, being guided on a convex and particularly on a parabolic path.
Claims12
Apparatus for loading and conveying sheets comprising two roller chains spaced from one another, each of said roller chains having links connected by bars, said bars extending between said two roller chains, deflection gear means about which said roller chains pass, said deflection gear means being operable to dispose said bars in a spaced wedge-shaped disposition in which spaced juxtaposed bars converge as said deflection gear means is approached, the space between said bars in a wedge-shaped disposition defining a receiving area for receiving said sheets which are fed substantially horizontally to said receiving area, and roller chain guide means being disposed downstream of said deflection gear means and being operable to guide said two roller chains over a non-circular and non-linear path of travel and to progressively change said bars from said wedge-shaped disposition to a substantially parallel disposition as said two roller chains are guided by said roller chain guide means.
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