Conveyor

摘要

A conveyor of the articulated chain type for transporting products, includes a mounting frame for elements for supporting and guiding a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt includes a plurality of links forming elements for supporting the product and articulated connected to each other, each link having a first and a second plurality of longitudinal protrusions which extend in opposite longitudinal directions and which are transversally spaced from each other so as to form respective spaces for receiving the longitudinal protrusions of an adjacent link. The link includes a perpendicular protuberance forming elements for engaging and sliding against a transversal centering surface of guide elements in a curved stretch of the belt and a transversal protuberance extending laterally of the link and forming elements for engagement and sliding relative to a perpendicular longitudinal retaining surface of the guide elements, retaining elements for keeping a connecting pin inserted between adjacent links.

主权项

1. An articulated-chain conveyor (10) for transporting products, comprising:
a mounting frame (12); a conveyor belt (16) supported and guided by said mounting frame (12), said mounting frame (12) comprising
lateral guides (14) that perpendicularly retain the conveyor belt and prevent the belt from being lifted, anda transversal centering guide (15) that transversally centers the conveyor belt (16) in a feed plane in a longitudinal stretch (10a) of said conveyor belt (16), said conveyor belt (16) comprising
a plurality of links (18) configured to support the products, said links (18) connected to each other in articulated fashion,each link (18) comprising opposite pluralities of longitudinal protrusions (181, 182), respective longitudinal protrusions being transversally spaced from each other in such a way as to form respective spaces (183, 184) for receiving longitudinal protrusions of adjacent links;each link further comprising a perpendicular protuberance (26) made in a single piece with a body of the link (18) and defining a structure (26a) that engages and slides against a transversal centering surface of said transversal centering guide (15) in a curved stretch (10b) of the conveyor belt such that the belt is kept spaced from said lateral guides (14) on an inside of the curved stretch (10b), said transversal centering surface being in the form of a curved element positioned transversally between the lateral guides (14) of the conveyor belt, wherein, for each link, the perpendicular protuberance (26) extends from a longitudinal protrusion (182) of said link that is adjacent to a lateral end protrusion (186) of said link, and wherein the transversal centering guide (15) in the curved stretch (10b) is placed in a proximity of an outside of the curved stretch (10b).