Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
198844200 | Connection means joins ends of sheet-like belt | 23 |
20090057105 | Wire-hook connector and conveyor or belt end provided therewith - Wire-hook connectors with a series of individual wire hooks that are not connected to one another, are arranged spaced apart by pair and parallel to one another, and are held only on strip-like carrier material, which is a film, fabric or shaped plastic part, in corresponding openings. The wire hooks are fabricated of, for example, round or flat steel wire, each of which has two hook legs that are unequal in length and that run at an angle to one another on either side of the buckling area formed thereby. The hook legs have hook tips at ends thereof that are bent towards one another, whereby a wire hook is arranged centrally between a mutually adjacent pair of mutually parallel wire hooks, with mirror symmetry with respect to the plane formed by the angle bisectors thereof. | 03-05-2009 |
20090107810 | APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR INSTALLING RIVETS IN BELT FASTENERS - A system for splicing a conveyor belt with belt fasteners is disclosed. A base assembly aligns the belt, belt fasteners and rivet holes thereof with swage structures for securing the rivets. A guide assembly has a rigid guide block with cylindrical pilot holes, and a guide membrane of resilient material. Guide pins are receivable by guide bores for aligning the base and guide assemblies with the pilot holes, rivet holes, and swage structures in registry. The guide membrane including openings aligned with the pilot holes. The openings have a pair of slits defining flaps deflectable to permit the rivet to pass therethrough, and a central hole or cut-out. The flaps and the cut-out assist in centering the rivet with the belt fastener rivet holes. The system uses a single-rivet driver, a multi-rivet driver, a pneumatic driver, or an electric hammer. | 04-30-2009 |
20090194392 | HYBRID DRAPER BELT SPLICE - A connector assembly for a draper belt in a harvesting machine having first and second connecting bars on opposite first and second sides of belt end flanges and a flat belt splice along the leading or trailing edge of the draper belt. By providing a flat belt splice along the leading edge, the draper belt can be located underneath a belt cover to prevent grain from leaking out onto the ground. | 08-06-2009 |
20090266686 | Connector Arrangement, Connector Element and Method of Producing the Same - A connector arrangement for connecting web ends ( | 10-29-2009 |
20090283387 | COUPLING ARRANGEMENT AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS HAULAGE CONVEYOR - A connector, and coupling system, for portions of a belt for a conveyor system. A connector ( | 11-19-2009 |
20090301845 | THERMOPLASTIC BELT CONNECTOR WITH FINGERS - A toothed belt connector for making an endless belt has two leaves, adapted to be connected to each other by knuckles along one or more teeth. Each knuckle has at least one hole extending through tooth portions so that when the holes are in registry, a pin can be extended through the holes to connect the leaves at the teeth. The leaves can be adjoined to the ends of a belt to make the belt endless. The tip end of each knuckle can be beveled or it can have a stepped finger that fits into a cutout on the opposite leaf to keep the end of the knuckle from protruding as the belt wraps around a sprocket. | 12-10-2009 |
20100078296 | LIVING-HINGE CONVEYOR BELT - A conveyor belt having rodless, living hinges and a method for making such a belt. One version of the belt has spaced apart belt modules joined by tension members spanning the gaps between consecutive modules. The tension members bend in the gaps to allow the belt to articulate. Resilient fillers encapsulate the tension members and, together with top surfaces of the modules, form a generally continuous article-contacting belt surface. The belt may be made by molding the rigid belt modules and the resilient fillers onto an arrangement of elongated tension members. | 04-01-2010 |
20100200374 | CLIPS FOR ATTACHING STAPLES FOR JOINING CONVEYOR BELT ENDS AND CLIP-STAPLE ASSEMBLIES - Disclosed is a multi-claw clip made of metal sheet comprising a top portion forming the back consisting of a metal sheet part, claws forming extensions of the top portion forming the back that are bent perpendicularly to the top portion, the bends comprising re-entrant ribs and the claws comprising spikes, may be used with a joining staple of a corresponding conveyor belt, the said staple comprising a top plate furnished with holes designed to allow the claws of the clip to pass through. The clip may be snap-fitted by means of grooves of its claws into the edges of the holes of the upper plate of the staple. | 08-12-2010 |
20110168529 | Belt Piece For The Transport Of Articles And/Or For Power Transmission And Method For Obtaining A Closed Loop Belt Starting From Said Belt Piece - Belt piece, of the type which can be closed as a loop and usable for the transport of articles and/or for power transmissions, which comprises a central body ( | 07-14-2011 |
20120018285 | Conveyor Belt Connector - A conveyor belt connector has a plurality of wire hooks arranged in a pre-defined relationship. A strip shaped substrate has slots in which the loops of the wire hooks are received. The strip is shaped to completely cover the shanks of the wire hooks, and includes an adhesive layer on the interior side thereof in which the shanks of the wire hooks are imbedded prior to assembly on a conveyor belt to retain the same in their predefined relationship. | 01-26-2012 |
20120090965 | JUNCTION DEVICE FOR CONVEYOR BELTS - The proposed device comprises chain links alternately connected to upper fastening plates and to lower fastening plates. These plates comprise fastening claws of which some are arranged on the front and/or rear edges of the plates and others inside the surface of the plates. Stops are provided for blocking the chain links along the edge of the end of a conveyor belt. Another series of similar chain links are placed against the other end of the conveyor belt. The two series of chain links and plates are braced against the upper and lower sides of the respective conveyor belt ends, the claws fastening them to these ends. A connecting rod is then fitted into the chain links of the two pre-interleaved series, bringing together the conveyor belt ends in the process. | 04-19-2012 |
20120103764 | CONVEYOR BELT CONNECTOR - A conveyor belt connector, adapted to connect first and second ends of an elongate flexible belt having a top and a bottom and operated substantially constantly under tension, includes a plurality of hooks, disposed at the first end of the belt, and a plurality of slots, disposed at the second end of the belt, configured to longitudinally pivotally attach to the plurality of hooks and connect the belt in a continuous loop. | 05-03-2012 |
20120205223 | STEEL CORD CONVEYER BELT WITH A CONNECTING HINGE FOR COUPLING TWO BELT ENDS - A conveyor belt with a reinforcement support layer consisting of steel cords running in parallel has, at each end, the hinge-like configuration for coupling to another belt end. In order also to provide a hinge connection for steel cord conveyor belts having relative large cord diameters, each belt end ( | 08-16-2012 |
20120211334 | CONVEYOR OVEN AND METHOD WITH IMPROVED DESIGN FOR INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL OF CONVEYOR ASSEMBLY - A conveyor oven is provided that includes a conveyor assembly having an inlet section, and inner section and an outlet section. The conveyor assembly facilitates ease of removal by an enduser by allowing a single person to perform removal in a confined space. | 08-23-2012 |
20120217139 | CONVEYOR LOCKING CLIP AND METHOD OF RELEASABLY INTERLOCKING CONVEYOR LOOP FASTENERS - The conveyor locking clip is used for releasably interlocking first and second conveyor loop fasteners and comprises first and second rigid arms for respective engagement in corresponding intermeshed loops of the first and second conveyor fasteners that are located at registering extremities of the first and second conveyor loop fasteners. A bridge rigidly linking the first and second arms. | 08-30-2012 |
20130062168 | LOOPED MATERIAL BAND PROVIDED WITH A SPLICE - A looped material band ( | 03-14-2013 |
20130081928 | FASTENING SYSTEM FOR A CONVEYOR BELT - A fastening system for joining two ends of a conveyor belt segment includes an inhibiting surface for controlling movement of the ends relative to each other. The inhibiting surface is offset from an inner surface of a conveyor belt segment employing the fastening system and engages a surface of a corresponding conveyor belt segment to reduce tenting of the conveyor belt segment ends. | 04-04-2013 |
20130213774 | STEEL CORD CONVEYOR BELT HAVING A CONNECTING HINGE FOR COUPLING TWO BELT ENDS - A conveyor belt includes first and second conveyor belt portions and each one of the conveyor bait portions includes top and bottom layers made of elastomer material, A reinforcement layer is sandwiched between the top and bottom layers and includes mutually parallel steel cords. Each conveyor belt portion further includes an end section whereat the top and bottom layers are removed to expose the steel cords. First and second part hinges are assigned to respective ones of the end sections and each includes a hinge plate having bores to accommodate the exposed steel cords. The hinge plates are pressed to fix the cords securely in position. The part hinges each include a plurality of crenellated projections at a free end thereof. The part hinges are asserableable to conjointly define a hinge connecting the first and second connecting belt portions to each other. | 08-22-2013 |
20130256100 | CONVEYOR BELT REPAIR TOOL - A repair tool for a conveyor belt includes a pair of clamps and a clamp coupling member extending between the pair of clamps. At least one clamp includes a first leg, a second leg, and a coupling member extending between the first and second legs. Each leg includes a clamping end portion for clamping the conveyor belt, and the clamping end portions define a belt-clamping channel therebetween. The coupling member urges the clamping end portions together. | 10-03-2013 |
20140183010 | ENDLESS FABRIC BELT - The invention relates to a fabric belt for producing a corrugated cardboard web in a corrugated cardboard machine. The belt ( | 07-03-2014 |
20150075951 | BELT END BODY OR BELT SEGMENT END BODY - A belt end body includes an arrangement for coupling together with a further corresponding belt end body. The belt end body further includes a plurality of clamping openings and clamping recesses for accommodating reinforcement members of a belt in a clamped manner. The coupling arrangement and the clamping openings lie substantially opposite each other when viewed in the longitudinal direction of the belt end body. The belt end body is configured in such a way that the unclamped segments of the clamped reinforcement members are always in the neutral phase during operation. | 03-19-2015 |
20150345588 | SPLICING DEVICE FOR CLOSING A LOOPED MATERIAL BAND AND MATERIAL BAND PROVIDED WITH SUCH SPLICING DEVICE - A splicing device ( | 12-03-2015 |
20160047438 | Conveyor Belt Fastener and Method of Manufacture - In one aspect, a conveyor belt fastener is provided having a rigid body made from a strip of cold-rolled or cold-drawn material such as steel. The body has an upper plate portion, a lower plate portion, and loop portions connecting the upper and lower plate portions. The upper and lower plate portions each have a variable cross-sectional thickness laterally thereacross including raised walls projecting outwardly and ribs projecting inwardly. The fastener has at least one attachment member, such as a staple, for connecting the plate portions to a conveyor belt end and the raised walls protect the staple once driven into the conveyor belt end. A method of manufacturing a fastener is also provided including longitudinally advancing a strip of material having a variable cross-sectional thickness laterally thereacross through processing equipment and forming apertures through thinner material of the strip with the processing equipment for attachment member(s) of the fastener. | 02-18-2016 |