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Tentering chain with guide rollers

US5101965A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Lindauer DORNIER Gesellschaft mbH · DE

Inventors

Andreas Rutz · Gettorf, DE
Rudolf Langer · Gettorf, DE
Hans-Juergen Maierhofer · Gettorf, DE
Adolf Mueller · Weißensberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 21, 1990
Grant date	Apr 7, 1992
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 21, 2010

Classification

Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
CPC primaryD06C3/023
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A tentering chain is guided between two guide rails extending in parallel to each other. One guide rail (19a) is an outer guide rail with regard to a course followed by the chain, while the other guide rail (19b) is an inner guide rail. The chain links are hinged to each other by a journal pin which carries a first guide roller on an inner pin section between chain link plates, and a second guide roller on a cranked outer pin section. Thus, the rotational axes of these two guide rollers extend in parallel to each other and spaced from each other, so that one guide roller can only contact one guide rail, but not the other and vice versa. This feature prevents the reversal of the rotation direction of the guide rollers as they travel along the parallel guide rails.

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