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Apron conveyor

  • US 5,833,047 A
  • Filed: 06/09/1997
  • Issued: 11/10/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/29/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apron conveyor whose elements--which consist of plates with perpendicularly adjoining lateral walls and which overlap one another--are arranged on ladder-chains and have a pitch which corresponds to the chain pitch, in the overlapping region of the plates the transverse edges of the latter being provided on the one hand with a leg directed upwards from the plate plane and on the other hand with a roof-shaped arch which spans the upwards-directed leg of the adjacent plate and from which there issues a leg which is directed downwards towards the plate plane and together with the roof-shaped arch and the upwards-directed leg of the adjacent plate forms a pocket which opens at the reversal of direction, the lower end of the downwards-directed leg lying in a sealing manner opposite the plate located thereunder--optionally while keeping at a slight distance therefrom--when the apron conveyor is in the extended state, characterised in that in extension of the lateral walls (3) there are provided flanges (5) which are connected to the lateral walls (3) or are formed by the lateral walls (3), the chain side bars (6a, 6i) being connected to the flanges (5) with lateral contact.

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