Conveyor apparatus, in particular for use in packaging plants

US4558779A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• ROVEMA-Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Reinhold Schmitt · Munich, DE
• Manfred Herbert · Biebertal, DE
• Walter Baur · Zöblitz, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 12, 1983
• Grant date: Dec 17, 1985
• Expiry date: Oct 12, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S414/114
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A conveyor apparatus includes first and second elongate conveyor belts which are parallel and adjacent, which have support surfaces which are approximately flush, and which each have a plurality of compartment walls secured on and projecting outwardly from the support surface. Each compartment wall has a portion which extends laterally over the support surface of the other conveyor belt and each compartment wall is associated with a respective one of the compartment walls on the other conveyor belt. The conveyor belts are normally driven synchronously, but can be moved relative to each other in order to change the spacing between respective pairs of the compartment walls. Each conveyor belt preferably includes at least one elongate chain having a plurality of support elements supported thereon, each of the compartment walls being supported on a respective one of the support elements.