Conveyor apparatus having a twice-twisted belt and a floating-tension pulley
AssigneeSolystic
InventorsFabrice Eyraud, Jean Rieu, Raymond Chifflet
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Abstract
A conveyor apparatus including a main conveyor by which mail items are routed by being nipped between a transport belt and a main belt, and a secondary conveyor towards which the mail items are routed, after switching, along a secondary belt. The main and secondary belts performing the main conveying and the secondary conveying functions are constituted by a single, common belt that is twisted twice. The twice-twisted belt is engaged over a tensioner pulley that is a floating pulley.
Claims3
A conveyor apparatus (D) comprising a main conveyor (2) by which mail items are routed by being nipped between a transport belt (6) and a main belt (7), and a secondary conveyor (4) towards which the mail items are routed, after switching, along a secondary belt (8), said main and said secondary belts performing the main conveying and the secondary conveying functions being constituted by a single, common belt (9) that is twisted twice, wherein said twice-twisted belt (9) is engaged over a floating pulley (Pf) which has a rotary shaft (16) whose floating ends are connected to respective ones of two tensioner ends, other tensioner ends being connected to a base (18), and wherein said twice-twisted belt (9) is arranged between said base and said floating pulley (Pf), and wherein the tensioners are helical springs, each of which is mounted in a respective support tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.