Device enabling a guide carriage travelling on a conveyor or on a circuit of conveyors to negotiate the concave and convex portions of the said conveyors

摘要

The device (7) is a flexible and deformable membrane which can be fitted on existing carriages (1), which are entrained by the belt (2) of a conveyor by way of a means (5) along a closed trajectory by means of positive guiding, in order to enable the said carriages to negotiate the convex inflections of the drums (8) of the said conveyor without becoming detached from the belt. The device according to the invention is intended specifically for installations comprising at least one belt conveyor entraining and guiding one or more carriages by way of a means specific to each carriage.