Securing element for securing a carriage on an endless conveyor, carriage, conveyor apparatus and securing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9957110-B2
Application number	US-201615501501-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 17, 2016
Priority date	Feb 20, 2015
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

A mounting element ( 1 ) for mounting a trolley ( 29 ) to a continuous conveyor ( 30 ) of a conveyor device has at least two articulated parts ( 2, 3 ) connected to one another for articulation. A first of the articulated parts ( 2 ) is set-up for articulation of the mounting element ( 1 ) to the continuous conveyor ( 30 ) and a second of the articulated parts ( 3 ) is set-up for connecting the mounting element ( 1 ) to the trolley ( 29 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mounting element ( 1 ) for mounting a trolley ( 29 ) to a continuous conveyor means ( 30 ) of a conveyor device, the mounting member ( 1 ) comprising:
at least two articulatedly connected articulated parts ( 2 , 3 ), wherein a first of the articulated parts ( 2 ) is set-up for articulation of the mounting element ( 1 ) to the continuous conveyor means ( 30 ) and a second of the articulated parts ( 3 ) is set-up for connecting the mounting element ( 1 ) with the trolley ( 29 );
at least one elongated bolt element ( 4 ) that has a center part ( 16 ), a threaded end portion ( 17 ) having a thread, and a bolt head ( 19 ) opposite the threaded end portion ( 17 ); and
at least first and second surface portions ( 6 , 7 ) parallel to one another, the first surface portion ( 6 ) being provided with a first through hole ( 10 ) and the second surface portion ( 7 ) being provided with a second through hole ( 11 ), a first bearing bushing ( 34 a ) being provided in the first through hole ( 10 ) and a second bearing bushing ( 34 b ) being provided in the second through hole ( 11 ), a spacer sleeve ( 36 ) being arranged in the first bearing bushing ( 34 a ) and, together with the first bearing bushing ( 34 a ), forming a first slide bearing, and the bolt head ( 19 ) being arranged in the second bearing bushing ( 34 b ) and, together with the second bearing bushing ( 34 b ), forming a second slide bearing.

2. The mounting element ( 1 ) of claim 1 , further comprising at least one damping means ( 5 ) for damping strokes of the mounting element ( 1 ) at the continuous conveyor means ( 30 ).

3. The mounting element ( 1 ) of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the articulated parts ( 2 , 3 ) is made of a sheet metal material.

4. The mounting element ( 1 ) of claim 1 , wherein at least part of the mounting element ( 1 ) has a U-shaped cross-section.

5. A trolley ( 29 ) having the mounting element ( 1 ) of claim 1 that can be mounted to a continuous conveyor means ( 30 ) of a conveyor device with the mounting element ( 1 ), wherein the second articulated part ( 3 ) is connected with a part ( 33 ) of the trolley ( 29 ).

6. The trolley ( 29 ) of claim 5 , further comprising a sorting device or a cross-sorting device ( 31 ).

7. A conveyor device having at least one continuous conveyor means ( 30 ) and at least one trolley ( 29 ) according to claim 5 that is mounted to the continuous conveyor means ( 30 ) by the mounting element ( 1 ), wherein the continuous conveyor means ( 30 ) is set-up to move the trolley ( 29 ) along a predetermined conveying path.

Assignees

• Interroll Holding Ag
• Interoll Holding Ag

Inventors

• Kaeser Uwe

Classifications

• B65G17/40

  Chains acting as load-carriers · CPC title

• B65G17/12 Primary

  comprising a series of individual load-carriers fixed, or normally fixed, relative to traction element · CPC title

• B65G23/32

  for effecting drive at two or more points spaced along the length of the conveyors · CPC title

• B65G17/42

  Attaching load carriers to traction elements · CPC title