US 8,789,252 B2 · Apparatus for installing belt fasteners on conveyor belts

Abstract

An apparatus and method for applying staple belt fasteners to conveyor belts are provided that allow staple belt fasteners to be installed on an end of the belt with the use of a single applicator tool and such that all of the staples of the fasteners in the tool are first initially set and then are finally set. In one form, the apparatus has a base with an anvil mounted thereto with the anvil having both initial and final set portions. The belt fastener applicator tool provides for relative shifting of the anvil and a guide device having through openings to align either the initial or final set portions of the anvil with the guide device through openings. The guide device through openings are preferably configured to receive a staple drive member therein.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus for applying staple belt fasteners to conveyor belts, the apparatus comprising:

an elongate base;
an anvil mounted to the base having initial set portions and final set portions thereof that are each arranged in respective rows lengthwise along the base;
a guide device having through openings for being aligned with either the row of initial set portions or the row of final set portions of the anvil;
and
an actuator operable to shift the anvil and the guide device relative to each other in a fore-and-aft direction widthwise across the base.

2 more elements

An apparatus for applying staple belt fasteners to conveyor belts, the apparatus comprising:

a base;
an anvil mounted to the base including spaced initial set portions and final set portions spaced from each other on the base;
a guide device mounted to the base having guide through openings each configured to receive a staple drive member therein;
and
an actuator operable to shift the anvil and the guide device relative to each other on the base, the actuator having an initial set position in which all of the through openings of the guide device are aligned with corresponding ones of the anvil initial set portions, and a final set position in which all of the through openings of the guide device are aligned with corresponding ones of the anvil final set portions.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/191,128Filed 26 Jul 2011

Published

US 2013/0025108 A131 Jan 2013

Granted

29 Jul 2014

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

F16G 3/003
Belt fastenings, e.g. for conveyor belts: apparatus or tools for joining belts
F16G 3/04
With series of eyes or the like, interposed and linked by a pin to form a hinge: in which the ends of separate U-shaped or like eyes are attached…
F16G 3/16
Belt fastenings, e.g. for conveyor belts: devices or machines for connecting driving-belts or the like
Y10T 29/49833
Assembling or joining: punching, piercing or reaming part by surface of second part

Apparatus for installing belt fasteners on conveyor belts

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Apparatus for installing belt fasteners on conveyor belts

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Abstract

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