RADIUS AND VARIABLE WIDTH CONVEYOR BELT
    3.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190127149A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US16166218

    申请日:2018-10-22

    IPC分类号: B65G15/30 B65G15/62

    摘要: A mesh-like conveyor belt is capable of varying in width and shape as it travels. The conveyor belt comprises a plurality of links, joints, and control elements. The joints connect the links to each other and allow the links to change their orientation within the conveying surface of the conveyor belt. The plurality of links and joints allow the conveyor belt to vary in width, shape, trajectory, and surface speed while in motion. The conveyor belt also includes control elements, built into the structure of the belt that are capable of engaging with external guides. When the conveyor belt is in motion, the control elements engage with and follow the paths determined by external guides thereby controlling the shape of the belt.

    CURVE CONVEYOR AND USE OF A CONVEYOR MODULE
    5.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240174448A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-30

    申请号:US18285055

    申请日:2022-03-30

    摘要: Curve conveyor (1), comprising a guiding track extending along a circular arc (2), which guides a conveying part (3) of an endless conveyor (4), the conveying part comprising a plurality of chain strands (5, 6, 7) which with a common center of curvature (C) are spaced apart at an equal radial pitch, and a drive (8) cooperating with the chain strands, which during operation leads the chain strands at a mutually equal angular speed through the guiding track, wherein the chain strands are each built up from a singular series of successive conveyor modules (9) which are each provided at their top with a substantially flat top surface, and wherein the radial pitch between the chain strands substantially corresponds to the radial width of the conveyor modules so that sides of the conveyor modules with enclosure of a narrow gap adjoin and the top surfaces in the conveying part form a substantially uninterrupted conveying surface.

    Article Transport Apparatus
    6.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230373732A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-23

    申请号:US18247531

    申请日:2021-10-22

    申请人: Daifuku Co., Ltd.

    摘要: An article transport apparatus includes a first belt conveyor (11), and a second belt conveyor (12) adjacent to the first belt conveyor (11) on a second side in the width direction (W2). The first belt conveyor (11) includes a first belt member (11B) forming a first transport surface (11F), and a second belt conveyor (12) includes a second belt member (12B) forming a second transport surface (12F). The first transport surface (11F) is configured to allow an article being transported to be placed thereon, and is inclined downward toward the second side in the width direction (W2), the second transport surface (12F) is configured to come into contact, from the second side in the width direction (W2), with the article placed on the first transport surface (11F), and a surface friction coefficient (μ1) of the first belt member (11B) and a surface friction coefficient (μ2) of the second belt member (12B) are different from each other.

    MULTI-DRIVE CONVEYOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20180222682A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-09

    申请号:US15890543

    申请日:2018-02-07

    申请人: FEDEX CORPORATION

    IPC分类号: B65G23/44 B65G15/28

    摘要: Disclosed is a conveyor system and method for advancing an item relative to a transport axis. The conveyor system includes a conveyor belt and a modular drive assembly having at least one drive module and at least one take-up module. Each drive module and each take-up module has a housing and a pulley assembly positioned within the housing. The respective positions of the housings of the at least one drive module and the at least one take-up module relative to the transport axis are selectively adjustable to modify the conveyor movement pathway. Moreover, the drive module can also include a drive pulley removal apparatus that is detachably secured within the housing for selective removal and replacement of a drive pulley.

    INSERT FOR WIRE MESH BELTS
    9.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180346251A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-06

    申请号:US15916870

    申请日:2018-03-09

    IPC分类号: B65G17/06 B65G15/54

    摘要: A wire mesh belt for use as a conveyor. The wire mesh belt has a plurality of links which are interlocked to form the wire mesh belt. First straight portions, second straight portions and bent portions of the links form passages which extend across the length of each link. A longitudinal axis of each link extends generally transversely to a longitudinal axis of the wire mesh belt. Support inserts are provided in the passages of respective links. The cooperation of the support inserts with the links provides support to the wire mesh belt to minimize the deformation of the wire mesh belt.

    Conveyor Belt
    10.
    发明申请
    Conveyor Belt 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20180194560A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-12

    申请号:US15742013

    申请日:2016-06-16

    IPC分类号: B65G15/34 B32B5/04

    摘要: A conveyor belt includes an upper cover rubber and a lower cover rubber disposed above and below a core layer; and a protective fiber layer made from high strength fiber disposed at least in a central portion of the upper cover rubber in a belt width direction and extending continuously in a belt longitudinal direction; an elastic modulus E of the protective fiber layer in the belt longitudinal direction being a low elastic modulus E1 equal to or less than a predetermined value when a tension in the belt longitudinal direction acting on the conveyor belt is equal to or less than a setting tension Ts, and being a high elastic modulus E2 higher than the low elastic modulus E1 when a predetermined high tension higher than the setting tension Ts is acting on the conveyor belt.