Platform conveyor

US4643297A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Eberhard Krieger · Waiblingen, DE
• Theo Moser · Steinenberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 25, 1985
• Grant date: Feb 17, 1987
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G2201/02
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A platform conveyor having an articulated chain and bearing elements secured thereon. In order to secure the retention of the bearing elements, which lock into place with claws on the linking bolts of the articulated chain, adjacent claws locking into place on the same linking bolt mesh form-fittingly with one another. To this end, the claws alternate in having protrusions and recesses.