Rexnord Flattop Europe B.v.

Franciscus Maria Bal

Cornelis Hendrik Mijndert Menke

Rutger Jansen

Leonardus Adrianus Catharinus Cornelissen

A chain link for a conveyor chain includes a planar elongate sheet metal conveying body having four outer corners and sides that extend between adjacent outer corners, the sides include long sides and short sides that extend between the long sides, the sides further include side face portions that extend substantially transversely to a conveying plane of the conveying body, and at each of the outer corners, the conveying body may include a corner face portion that extends transversely to the conveying plane and that connects angularly to a side face portion of a short side.

Chain link and conveyor chain comprising chain links, blank for a chain link and method of manufacturing a blank for a chain link

Coupling of conveyor belt modules A module () for a modular conveyor chain, comprising a link portion () made of sheet metal that includes a substantially elongate conveying body (), the conveying body having a central hinge loop (A) on one longitudinal side thereof and a pair of offset hinge loops (B) on an opposite longitudinal side thereof that are interspaced to receive the central hinge loop of a link portion of a consecutive module therebetween. The central hinge loop and/or or the offset hinge loops are distanced with their free end(s) from a bottom face of the conveying body to form a through pass aperture () through which a hinge pin () held in the hinge receiving space(s) of the hinge loops of other module may pass transversely to its axis into or out of its hinge receiving space.

Conveyor chain module

A conveyor chain (), comprising a series of sheet metal chain links () which are each provided with a basically rectangular conveying body part () and with a hinge assembly (), which hinge assembly comprises a centrally located hinge loop () and comprises a pair of hinge loops () spaced apart with an intermediate distance () on the opposite longitudinal side of the chain link, wherein the central loop is located in the intermediate space of a successive module ('), wherein the hinge assembly () further comprises two auxiliary hinge loops (), wherein the cooperating hinge loops of successive modules are connected by means of hinge pins (), the thickness of the sheet metal of the conveying body part being between approximately 2.0 mm and approximately 2.8 mm, and wherein the diameter of the hinge pin is between approximately 3.0 and 5.0 mm.

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Vlaardingen, Netherlands

Franciscus Maria Bal