Mounting arrangement
OwnerRene Wegkampinventor
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Abstract
A method of mounting a floor slat (14) of a reciprocating floor to an associated drive beam (18.1) of the floor slat includes mounting an elongate clamp member (200) to the drive beam (18.1). The clamp member (200) has opposed side walls defining a longitudinally extending clamping slot between them. The floor slat (14) is located on the clamp member (200). The floor slat (14) has a downwardly depending longitudinally extending mounting member (208) which is received in the clamping slot. The mounting member (208) is clamped in the clamping slot thereby to attach the floor slat (14) to the clamp member (200) and thus to the drive beam (18.1).
Claims13
A method of mounting a floor slat of a reciprocating floor to an associated drive beam of the floor slat, the method including
- mounting an elongate clamp member to the drive beam, the clamp member having a continuous base and opposed side walls defining a longitudinally extending clamping slot between them, the side walls defining a side wall bending region of horizontally narrower side wall transverse cross-section in a lower region of the side walls, thereby to assist the forcing closer together of the side walls in upper regions thereof;
- locating the floor slat on the clamp member, the floor slat having a downwardly depending longitudinally extending mounting member which is received in the clamping slot;
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- clamping the mounting member in the clamping slot thereby to attach the floor slat to the clamp member and thus to the drive beam, clamping the mounting member in the clamping slot including forcing at least parts of the opposed side walls of the clamp member closer together by bearing against the side walls in upper regions thereof above the bending regions in the side walls thereby to narrow the clamping slot in at least one region by bending the opposed side walls closer together.
A reciprocating floor which includes at least one drive beam, a plurality of floor slats, and a plurality of elongate clamp members, wherein the at least one drive beam is configured to move in a reciprocating fashion with the plurality of floor slats mounted to the drive beam by means of associated elongate clamp members, at least some of the clamp members having a continuous base and opposed side walls defining a longitudinally extending clamping slot between them and at least some of the floor slats having downwardly depending longitudinally extending mounting members that are clamped inside the clamping slots of their associated clamp members, the side walls defining a side wall bending region of horizontally narrower side wall transverse cross-section in a lower region of the side walls, thereby to assist the bending closer together of the side walls in upper regions thereof by bearing against the side walls in upper regions thereof above the bending regions in the side walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.