Root crop harvester conveyor

• US 3,176,831 A
• Filed: 02/15/1962
• Issued: 04/06/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leon R. Mcrobert
• Original Assignee: Leon R. Mcrobert
• Inventors: Mcrobert, Leon R.
• Application Number:
  US04/173,546
• Time in Patent Office: 1,146 Days
• US Class Current: 198/848
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 17/10 with smooth conveyor belts, lath bands or rake bands
• CPC Class Codes: A01D 2017/103 Constructional details of conveyor belts

Claims

1. IN A CONVEYOR, A CHAIN HAVING A PLURALITY OF INTERCONNECTED LINKS EACH COMPRISING A BIGHT PORTION, OPPOSITE LEGS PROJECTING FROM SAID BIGHT PORTION, EACH LEG INCLUDING A STRAIGHT CENTRAL PORTION DISPOSED IN A FIRST PLANE EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF THE LEG AND A STOP PORTION ADJACENT SAID BIGHT PORTION AND HAVING A CONTACT AREA IN A SECOND PLANE SPACED FROM SAID FIRST PLANE AND GENERALLY PARALLEL THERETO, A RETURN BEND IN EACH LEG SPACED FROM THE TERMINAL END THEREOF AND PROVIDING THE ASSOCIATED LEG WITH A HOOK, THE HOOKS OF EACH LINK CONNECTING THE SAME TO THE BIGHT PORTION OF AN ADJACENT LINK OF THE CHAIN, EACH OF SAID HOOKS HAVING AN END PORTION EXTENDING IN SAID FIRST PLANE BETWEEN SAID RETURN BEND AND SAID TERMINAL END OF THE ASSOCAITED LEG, AND AN ABUTMENT ON EACH LEG SPACED FROM SAID BIGHT PORTION AND HAVING A CONTACT AREA DISPOSED IN SAID SECOND PLANE, THE CONTACT AREA OF AN ABUTMENT ON A LEG OF ONE LINK BEING ENGAGEABLE BY THE CONTACT AREA OF THE STOP PORTION OF THE ASSOCIATED LEG OF THE ADJACENT LINK DURING RELATIVE PIVOTAL MOVEMENT OF SAID LINKS IN ONE ANGULAR DIRECTION ABOUT AND AXIS DEFINED BY THE BIGHT PORTION OF SAID ASSOCIATED LINK.