Guide rail supports for conveyors and the like
AssigneePhilip K. Fitzsimmons
InventorMorell L. Jorgensen
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Abstract
At each of spaced points therealong a conveyor guide rail is attached to one end of a support the opposite end which is mounted by a manually operable clamp for vertical adjustment on a first member that is mounted by a second clamp for lateral adjustment relative to the conveyor on the horizontal surface of a second member that in turn is mounted for vertical adjustment on one side of the conveyor frame. Confronting serrated surfaces interposed between the two members are releasably engaged to retain the first member in its laterally adjusted position. Graduated scales are provided to help locate the vertical position of the rail support on the first member and the lateral position of the first member on the second member. The rail support is rotationally adjustable about a vertical axis.
Claims17
In a conveyor mechanism having a frame and a conveyor mounted to travel generally horizontally adjacent a guide rail on the frame, improved means for adjustably supporting said guide rail on the frame, comprising
- a first member mounted for vertical adjustment on one side of said frame and having thereon a horizontal support surface extending laterally away from said conveyor and said one side of said frame,
- means mounting a second member on said horizontal surface of said first member for lateral adjustment relative to said first member, and respectively toward and away from said conveyor and said one side of said frame,
- said mounting means including a third member interposed between confronting surfaces on said first and second members, respectively, and having thereon a serrated surface extending parallel to said horizontal support surface on said first member, and being releasably engaged with a complimentary serrated surface formed on one of said confronting surfaces on said first and second members,
- said mounting means further including first clamping means movable manually between an inoperative position in which said serrated surfaces are disengagable to permit lateral adjustment of said second member on said first member, and an operative position in which said members and said serrated surfaces are releasably locked together, thereby releasably to secure said second member in a predetermined lateral position on said first member,
- a fourth member secured at one end to a said guide rail, and
- further clamping means adjustably mounting said fourth member at its opposite end on said second member for lateral adjustment therewith and for vertical adjustment thereon relative to said conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.