摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform reliable conveyance without any belt slips by eliminating slack in a conveyor belt when placing tokens, coins, and heavy small articles that weigh much on the conveyor belt and convey them.SOLUTION: An endless conveyor belt 3 composed by mutually overlapping front and rear ends of a number of short belts 3a and horizontally and foldably connecting them by a coupler 3d is stretched over a roller 4c provided at the front and rear ends of a conveyor frame 4, a tension device 8 that is mounted to a bearing frame 8a for freely moving at least one of front and rear rollers in an outer direction and energizes the bearing frame 8a in an outer direction is provided, and a drive unit 5 for rotating each of the front and rear rollers is provided.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 |