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Replaceable sprocket wheel assembly for modular link belt systems

  • US 5,279,526 A
  • Filed: 11/19/1992
  • Issued: 01/18/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A part for a sprocket wheel assembly for mounting upon a drive shaft for a modular link belt, wherein the assembly has separable sprocket wheel parts removably positioned about the drive shaft in a configuration permitting removal of the sprocket wheel parts from an in-situ drive shaft in a direction perpendicular to the shaft comprising in combination:

  • a sprocket wheel sectorial part for mating with a drive shaft to interfit with a further sprocket wheel sectorial part to thereby constitute a unitary sprocket drive wheel assembly of substantially cylindrical peripheral shape having sprocket teeth disposed circumferentially thereabout for driving said belt,said sprocket wheel part having interfittable flanges thinner than said wheel extending near the wheel circumference from two interfitting sector extremities disposed substantially radially inwardly toward the shaft, said flanges being adapted to meet mating flanges on said further sprocket wheel part in an overlapping mated joint to form a complete sprocket wheel disposed about an axis.

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