Mechanical conveyor belt fastener

Abstract

A mechanical belt fastener for joining the open ends of a conveyor belt has a first row and a second row of legs arranged parallel to one another with a distance between the rows on both sides of a folding area. The legs are bendable in the folding area to form loops and have bent tips that penetrate material of the belt. Legs of the two rows extending lengthwise on both sides of the folding area and the legs in the first row in a first section extend up to a continuous first strip that extends transversely with respect to lengths of the legs. The legs of the first section are attached to the first strip, and the legs adjacent to one another in each row are of different lengths relative to the folding area. Each two legs of the second row are connected through a second strip with one another to form leg pairs and the second strip is interrupted in a direction of immediately adjacent leg pairs of the second row. The bent tips of the legs of different lengths in the first and second rows are arranged in four different planes to provide a staggered arrangement of the tips penetrating the material of the belt.

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